Note 10 — Commitments and Contingencies

Leases

The Company entered into a short-term lease in Palm Beach, Florida with an unrelated party, with a commencement date of May 1, 2022, for approximately $14,000 per month. The lease, which was personally guaranteed by the Company’s former CEO, ended on April 30, 2023. During the year ended December 31, 2023, the Company incurred rent expense on this lease of approximately $51,000, and variable lease expense of approximately $4,000.

Proteomedix leases office and lab space in Zurich Switzerland. On April 1, 2024, the original lease was amended to add additional office and laboratory space. The lease amendment was accounted for as a separate lease, resulting in an additional right-of-use asset and lease liability of approximately $88,000. The lease, as amended, requires payments of approximately $129,000 for the year ended December 31, 2025. 

Litigation

From time to time, the Company may be subject to various legal proceedings and claims that arise in the ordinary course of its business activities. As of December 31, 2024, the Company is not a party to any material legal proceedings and is not aware of any pending or threatened claims. However, as discussed in Note 5, on December 21, 2023, the Company filed a notice with the Bankruptcy Court terminating the WraSer APA and the WraSer MSA, after having determined that a Material Adverse Effect had occurred. WraSer has advised the Company that it does not believe that a Material Adverse Effect occurred, and they recently filed a plan of reorganization that indicates it may seek damages from the Company due to the termination of the WraSer APA and WraSer MSA.

Registration Rights Agreements

In connection with private placements consummated in April 2022 and August 2022, the Company entered into Registration Rights Agreements with the purchasers. Upon the occurrence of any Event (as defined in each Registration Rights Agreement), which, among others, prohibits the purchasers from reselling the securities for more than ten consecutive calendar days or more than an aggregate of fifteen calendar days during any 12-month period, and should the registration statement cease to remain continuously effective, the Company would be obligated to pay to each purchaser, on each monthly anniversary of each such Event, an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to the product of 2.0% multiplied by the aggregate subscription amount paid by such purchaser in the private placements. As of December 31, 2024, and as a result of the consummation of the remaining warrants associated with the April 2022 and August 2022 private placements, the Company has no further obligations pertaining to the Registration Rights Agreements.

Indemnification

In the normal course of business, the Company enters into contracts and agreements that contain a variety of representations and warranties and provide for general indemnifications. The Company’s exposure under these agreements is unknown because it involves claims that may be made against the Company in the future but have not yet been made. To date, the Company has not been required to defend any action related to its indemnification obligations. However, during the third quarter of 2023, the Company received a claim from its former CEO and a former accounting employee requesting advancement of certain expenses. The Company recorded approximately $209,000 in related expenses during the year ended December 31, 2023, of which approximately $159,000 was paid through reduction of the outstanding related party receivable due from the former CEO (see Note 11). The Company recorded a related accrual of approximately $50,000, which was included in accrued expenses at December 31, 2023, and which was paid during 2024, and accordingly there is no related accrual as of December 31, 2024. The maximum potential amount of future payments the Company could be required to make under these indemnification agreements is not estimable at this time.