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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on [●]

 

Registration No.[]

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

 

FORM S-1

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER  

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC.  

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

Nevada   3669   88-0225807
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
  (Primary Standard Industrial
Classification Code Number)
  (I.R.S. Employer
Identification Number)

7400 Beaufont Springs Dr, Suite 300 

Richmond, Virginia 23225  

(804) 554-3500 

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

 

 

Mr. Sidney Chan  

President, Chief Executive Officer, Chairman 

ALR Technologies Inc.  

7400 Beaufont Springs Dr, Suite 300 

Richmond, Virginia 23225 

(804) 554-3500 

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

 

 

Copy to:

 

Macdonald Tuskey Corporate & Securities Lawyers

409 – 221 W. Esplanade

North Vancouver BC V7M 3J3

(604) 973-0579 

 

 

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: As soon as practicable after the effective date of this Registration Statement.

 

If any of the securities being registered on this form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, check the following box.  ☒

 

If this form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.  ☐

 

If this form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.  ☐

 

If this form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(d) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.  ☐

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act: 

         
Large accelerated filer   Accelerated filer
       
Non-accelerated filer   ☐  (Do not check if a smaller reporting company) Smaller reporting company
       
      Emerging growth company

 

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act.  ☐

 

 

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE  

Title Of Each Class Of
Securities To Be Registered(1)
  Amount
to be
Registered
  Proposed
Maximum
Offering Price
Per Share
  Proposed
Maximum
Aggregate
Offering Price
  Amount of
Registration Fee
Rights to purchase Common Stock        
Common Stock, $0.001 par value per share   127,522,227   $0.05   $ 6,376,111.35 (2)   $872.62(3)(4)

(1) This registration statement relates to shares of our common stock issuable upon the exercise of subscription rights.
(2) Represents the aggregate gross proceeds from the issuance of the maximum number of shares of common stock that may be issued pursuant to the exercise of rights.
(3) Calculated pursuant to Rule 457(o) of the rules and regulations under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, based on an estimate of the proposed maximum aggregate offering price.
(4) Submitted herewith

 

 

The registrant hereby amends this Registration Statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this Registration Statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 or until the Registration Statement shall become effective on such date as the Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.

 

 

 

 

 

The information in this preliminary prospectus is not complete and may be changed. We may not sell these securities until the registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is effective. This preliminary prospectus is not an offer to sell these securities and is not soliciting an offer to buy these securities in any jurisdiction where the offer or sale is not permitted.

 

SUBJECT TO COMPLETION, DATED October 30, 2020 

PRELIMINARY PROSPECTUS

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC.

 

Up to 127,522,227 Shares of Common Stock 

Issuable Upon the Exercise of Rights to Subscribe for such Shares at $0.05 per Share

 

 

We are distributing, at no charge to our stockholders, non-transferable subscription rights to purchase up to an aggregate of 127,522,227 shares of our common stock, $0.001 par value per share. In the rights offering, you will receive one (1) subscription right for each share of common stock you hold as of 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, October 30, 2020, the record date of the rights offering.

Each whole subscription right will entitle you to purchase one share of our common stock, which we refer to as the “basic subscription right,” at a subscription price of $0.05 per share (a price that is an 19.4% discount to the closing price of our common stock of $0.062 as reported on the OTCQB on the record date) subject to certain limitations. There is no over-subscription privilege: management may, at its discretion, allocate unexercised subscription rights to non-shareholders within 90 days following the expiration date of the offering. Subscription rights may only be exercised in whole numbers; we will not issue fractional shares and will round all of the subscription rights down to the nearest whole number.

Our Chairman Sidney Chan, who, together with his affiliates, owns an aggregate of 383,498,482 shares of our common stock, or approximately 75% of the shares outstanding, and our Directors Peter Stafford, Kenneth Robulak, Alfonso Salas, and Ronald Cheng, who collectively own an aggregate of 4,473,538 shares of our common stock, or approximately 0.9% of the shares outstanding, have each agreed with us not to exercise their respective basic subscription rights. None of basic subscription rights attached to the shares of common stock owned by Mr. Chan or his affiliates are being registered pursuant to this offering, and may not, accordingly, be allocated to any non-shareholder subscribers. The subscription rights attached to the 4,473,538 shares of common stock held by our Directors are being registered pursuant to this offering, and will be available for allocation by management to non-shareholders within 90 days following the expiration date of the offering. .

 

We will not issue fractional shares. If the number of subscription rights you receive would otherwise permit you to purchase a fraction of a share, the number of shares that you may purchase will be rounded down to the nearest whole share.

 

The subscription rights will expire if they are not exercised before 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on December 15, 2020. We reserve the right to extend the expiration date one or more times. Our Board may in its sole discretion cancel the rights offering at any time and for any reason. Our Board is not making any recommendation regarding your exercise of the subscription rights. You should carefully consider whether to exercise your subscription rights before the expiration of the rights offering.

 

All exercises of subscription rights are irrevocable. If our Board cancels this offering, the subscription agent will return all subscription payments it has received for the cancelled rights offering without interest or penalty. The subscription agent will hold the funds we receive from subscribers until completion or cancellation of the rights offering. The subscription rights may not be sold, transferred or assigned. There is no minimum subscription amount required for consummation of the rights offering.

 

 

 

 

Our common stock is quoted on the OTCQB electronic quotation service operated by OTC Markets Group under the symbol “ALRT.” The shares of common stock issued in the rights offering will also be quoted on the OTCQB under the same symbol. The subscription rights will not be listed for trading on the NASDAQ or on any other stock exchange or market. On October 30, 2020, the closing price for our common stock, as quoted on the OTCQB, was $0.062 per share. As of the close of business on October 30, 2020, there were 511,020,709 shares of common stock issued and outstanding.

 

 

Investing in our common stock involves certain risks. See “Risk Factors” beginning on page 7 to read about factors you should consider before exercising your subscription rights.

 

This is not an underwritten offering. The subscription rights are being offered directly by us without the services of an underwriter or selling agent.

 

Upon completion of the rights offering, stockholders who do not fully exercise their subscription rights will own a smaller proportional interest in the Company than if they had timely and fully exercised their subscription rights.

 

Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of these securities or passed upon the adequacy or accuracy of this prospectus. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

 

The date of this prospectus is                     , 2020.

 

 

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

         
    Page  
ABOUT THIS PROSPECTUS     i  
CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS     i  
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RELATING TO THE RIGHTS OFFERING     ii  
SUMMARY     1  
OFFERING SUMMARY      2  
RISK FACTORS     7  
USE OF PROCEEDS     18  
CAPITALIZATION     18  
PRICE RANGE OF COMMON STOCK AND DIVIDEND POLICY     19  
THE RIGHTS OFFERING      19  
DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS     28  
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS     41  
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS     41  
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL POSITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS     43  
SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT     64  
DESCRIPTION OF CAPITAL STOCK     65  
PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION      68  
MATERIAL U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSEQUENCES      68  
LEGAL MATTERS     72  
EXPERTS      72  
WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION      72  
INFORMATION INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE      72  

 

 

 

 

 

 

ABOUT THIS PROSPECTUS

 

This prospectus is part of a registration statement that we have filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). The exhibits to the registration statement contain the full text of certain contracts and other important documents we have summarized in this prospectus. Since these summaries may not contain all the information that you may find important in deciding whether to purchase our common stock, you should review the full text of these documents. The registration statement and the exhibits can be obtained from the SEC as indicated under the sections entitled “Information Incorporated by Reference” and “Where You Can Find More Information.”

 

You should rely only on the information contained in this prospectus. We have not authorized anyone to provide you with additional or different information from that contained in this prospectus. The information contained in this prospectus is accurate only as of the date on the front cover of this prospectus regardless of the time of delivery of this prospectus or any exercise of the rights. Our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects may have changed since those dates. You should read carefully the entirety of this prospectus and any applicable prospectus supplement, as well as the documents incorporated by reference in this prospectus and any applicable prospectus supplement, before making an investment decision.

 

The distribution of this prospectus and the rights offering and the sale of shares of our common stock in certain jurisdictions may be restricted by law. This prospectus does not constitute an offer of, or a solicitation of an offer to buy any shares of common stock in any jurisdiction in which such offer or solicitation is not permitted. No action is being taken in any jurisdiction outside the United States to permit an offering of the common stock or possession or distribution of this prospectus in that jurisdiction. Persons who come into possession of this prospectus in jurisdictions outside the United States are required to inform themselves about and to observe any restrictions as to this offering and the distribution of this prospectus applicable to those jurisdictions.

 

References in this prospectus to “ALR”, “the Company”, “we”, “us”, or “our”, unless the context otherwise requires, refer to ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC., a Nevada corporation, together with its consolidated subsidiaries.

 

CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

 

This prospectus includes “forward-looking statements”, as such term is used within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These “forward-looking statements” are not based on historical fact and involve assessments of certain risks, developments, and uncertainties in our business looking to the future. Such forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of terminology such as “may”, “will”, “should”, “expect”, “anticipate”, “estimate”, “intend”, “continue”, or “believe”, or the negatives or other variations of these terms or comparable terminology. Forward-looking statements may include projections, forecasts, or estimates of future performance and developments. Forward-looking statements contained in this prospectus are based upon assumptions and assessments that we believe to be reasonable as of the date of this prospectus. Whether those assumptions and assessments will be realized will be determined by future factors, developments, and events, which are difficult to predict and may be beyond our control. Actual results, factors, developments, and events may differ materially from those we assumed and assessed. Risks, uncertainties, contingencies, and developments, including those identified in the “Risk Factors” section of this prospectus and in our most recent annual report on Form 10-K, subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and other filings we make with the SEC pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), incorporated by reference herein, could cause our future operating results to differ materially from those set forth in any forward-looking statement. There can be no assurance that any such forward-looking statement, projection, forecast or estimate contained can be realized or that actual returns, results, or business prospects will not differ materially from those set forth in any forward-looking statement. Given these uncertainties, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements. We disclaim any obligation to update any such factors or to publicly announce the results of any revisions to any of the forward-looking statements contained herein to reflect future results, events or developments.

 

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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RELATING TO THE RIGHTS OFFERING

 

The following are examples of what we anticipate will be common questions about the rights offering. The answers are based on selected information included elsewhere in this prospectus. The following questions and answers do not contain all of the information that may be important to you and may not address all of the questions that you may have about the rights offering. This prospectus and the documents incorporated by reference contain more detailed descriptions of the terms and conditions of the rights offering and provide additional information about us and about our business, including potential risks related to the rights offering, our common stock, and our business.

 

Exercising the subscription rights and investing in our securities involve a high degree of risk. We urge you to carefully read the section entitled “Risk Factors” beginning on page 7 of this prospectus and all other information included in, or incorporated by reference into, this prospectus in its entirety before you decide whether to exercise your subscription rights.

 

What is the rights offering?

 

We are distributing to holders of shares of our common stock as of 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on October 30, 2020, which is the record date for the rights offering, at no charge, non-transferable subscription rights to purchase shares of our common stock. You will receive 1 subscription right for each share of common stock you owned as of 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on the record date. Each whole subscription right entitles the holder to a basic subscription right, which is described below. The common stock to be issued in the rights offering, like our existing shares of common stock, will be quoted on the OTCQB electronic quotation service under the symbol “ALRT”

 

Why are we conducting the rights offering?

 

We are conducting the rights offering to provide for our general working capital needs. For a detailed discussion, see “Use of Proceeds.”

 

Based on the information and analyses regarding the rights offering prepared by management, and the recommendation of management that the rights offering is in the best interests of the Company in light of the information available to management, and the additional information and documentation reviewed by our Board of Directors (our “Board”), our Board approved the rights offering and determined that the rights offering is in the best interests of the Company and its stockholders. However, our Board is not making any recommendation regarding your exercise of the subscription rights.

 

How was the subscription price determined?

 

The Board has determined the subscription price based on a variety of factors, including historical and current trading prices for our common stock, recent share based transactions involving our affiliates, the price of most recently issued outstanding stock options held by our affiliates, general business conditions, our need for capital, alternatives available to us for raising capital, potential market conditions, and our desire to provide an opportunity to our stockholders to participate in the rights offering on a pro rata basis. In particular, our board determined the subscription price based our September 21, 2020 issuance of 240,000,000 common shares to our affiliates, Mr. Sidney Chan and Ms. Christine Kan, at a price of $0.05 per share to retire outstanding debt in the aggregate amount of $12,000,000. In conjunction with its review of these factors, the Board also reviewed our history and prospects, including our past and present earnings, our prospects for future earnings, and the outlook for our industry, and our current financial condition.

 

The subscription price is not necessarily related to our book value, tangible book value, multiple of earnings or any other established criteria of value and may or may not be considered the fair value of our common stock to be offered in the rights offering. You should not consider the subscription price as an indication of value of the Company or our common stock. You should not assume or expect that, after the rights offering, our shares of common stock will trade at or above the subscription price in any given time period. The market price of our common stock may decline during or after the rights offering and you may not be able to sell the shares of our common stock purchased during the rights offering at a price equal to or greater than the subscription price. You should obtain a current quote for our common stock before exercising your subscription rights and make your own assessment of our business and financial condition, our prospects for the future, and the terms of the rights offering.

 

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What is the basic subscription right?

Each basic subscription right gives our stockholders the opportunity to purchase one share of our common stock at a subscription price of $0.05 per share a price that is equal to a 19.4% discount to the closing price of our common stock as reported on the OTCQB on the record date), subject to the limits described below. We have granted to you, as a stockholder of record as of 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on the record date, one subscription right for each share of our common stock you owned at that time. For example, if you owned 100 shares of our common stock as of 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on the record date, you would have received 100 subscription rights and would have the right to purchase one hundred shares of common stock for $0.05 per share subject to certain limitations. You may exercise all or a portion of your basic subscription rights or you may choose not to exercise any subscription rights at all. Subscription rights may only be exercised in whole numbers; we will not issue fractional shares and will round all of the subscription rights down to the nearest whole number.

 

If you hold an ALRT stock certificate, the number of basic subscription rights you may exercise is indicated on the enclosed rights certificate. If you hold your shares in the name of a custodian bank, broker, dealer or other nominee, you will not receive a rights certificate. Instead, the Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) will issue one subscription right to the nominee record holder for each share of our common stock that you own at the record date. If you are not contacted by your custodian bank, broker, dealer or other nominee, you should contact your nominee as soon as possible.

 

Is there an over-subscription privilege?

No. We do not expect all of our stockholders to exercise all of such stockholder’s basic subscription rights. To the extent that our stockholders do not exercise their basic subscription rights, management may, at its discretion and within 90 days following the expiration date of the offering, allocate any or all of those unexercised subscription rights to non-shareholders of the Company.

 

If I am a holder of stock options, may I participate in the rights offering?

 

No. Holders of stock options on the record date will not be entitled to participate in the rights offering, except to the extent they hold shares of our common stock on the record date. Following the consummation of the rights offering, the Company anticipates making an equitable adjustment to unexercised stock options to reflect the issuance of shares in the rights offering.

 

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Am I required to exercise all of the subscription rights I receive in the rights offering?

No. You may exercise any number of your subscription rights, or you may choose not to exercise any subscription rights. If you do not exercise any subscription rights, the number of shares of our common stock you own will not change; however, you will own a smaller proportional interest in the Company than if you had timely exercised all or a portion of your subscription rights. If you choose not to exercise your subscription rights or if you exercise fewer than all of your subscription rights and other stockholders fully exercise their subscription rights or exercise a greater proportion of their subscription rights than you exercise, or if management places unexercised subscription rights with non-shareholder purchasers, the percentage of our common stock owned by these other stockholders will increase relative to your ownership percentage, and your voting and other rights in the Company will likewise be diluted.

 

How soon must I act to exercise my subscription rights?

 

If you received a rights certificate and elect to exercise any or all of your subscription rights, the subscription agent must receive your completed and signed rights certificate and payment (and your payment must clear) prior to the expiration of the rights offering, which is December 15, 2020, at 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, unless you have used the guaranteed delivery procedures described under “The Rights Offering—Notice of Guaranteed Delivery.” If you hold your shares in the name of a custodian bank, broker, dealer or other nominee, your nominee may establish a deadline prior to 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on December 15, 2020 by which you must provide it with your instructions to exercise your subscription rights and payment for your shares. Our Board may, in its discretion, extend the rights offering one or more times. Our Board may cancel or amend the rights offering at any time before its expiration. In the event that the rights offering is cancelled, all subscription payments received will be returned promptly, without interest or penalty.

 

Although we will make reasonable attempts to provide this prospectus to holders of subscription rights, the rights offering and all subscription rights will expire at 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on December 15, 2020 (unless extended), whether or not we have been able to locate each person entitled to subscription rights.

 

May I transfer my subscription rights?

 

No. You may not sell, transfer or assign your subscription rights to anyone. Subscription rights will not be listed for trading on the OTCQB or on any stock exchange or market. Rights certificates may only be completed by the stockholder who receives them.

 

Are we requiring a minimum subscription to complete the rights offering?

 

There is no aggregate minimum we must receive to complete the rights offering.

 

Has our Board made a recommendation to our stockholders regarding the rights offering?

 

No. Our Board is not making a recommendation regarding your exercise of the subscription rights. Stockholders who exercise subscription rights risk investment loss on new money invested. We cannot predict the price at which our shares of common stock will trade, and therefore, we cannot assure you that the market price for our common stock will be above the subscription price or that anyone purchasing shares at the subscription price will be able to sell those shares in the future at the same price or a higher price. You are urged to make your decision based on your own assessment of our business and the rights offering. Please see “Risk Factors” in this prospectus and all other information included in, or incorporated by reference into, this prospectus for a discussion of some of the risks involved in investing in our common stock.

 

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How do I exercise my subscription rights if I own shares in certificate form?

 

If you hold an ALRT stock certificate and you wish to participate in the rights offering, you must take the following steps:

 

deliver a properly completed and signed rights certificate, and related subscription documents, to the subscription agent before 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on December 15, 2020; and

 

deliver payment to the subscription agent (as described below) before 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on December 15, 2020.

 

In certain cases, you may be required to provide additional documentation or signature guarantees.

Please follow the delivery instructions on the rights certificate. Do not deliver documents to the Company. You are solely responsible for completing delivery to the subscription agent of your subscription documents, rights certificate and payment. We urge you to allow sufficient time for delivery of your subscription materials to the subscription agent so that the subscription agent receives the materials before 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on December 15, 2020.

 

If you cannot deliver your rights certificate to the subscription agent prior to the expiration of the Rights Offering, you may follow the guaranteed delivery procedures described under “The Rights Offering—Notice of Guaranteed Delivery.

 

If you send a payment that is insufficient to purchase the number of shares you requested, or if the number of shares you requested is not specified in the forms, the payment received will be applied to exercise your subscription rights to the fullest extent possible based on the amount of the payment received, subject to the availability of shares in the rights offering and the elimination of fractional shares. Any excess subscription payments received by the subscription agent will be returned promptly, without interest, following the expiration of the rights offering.

 

What form of payment is required to purchase the shares of our common stock?

 

As described in the instructions accompanying the rights certificate, payments submitted to the subscription agent must be made in full United States currency by personal check payable to Pacific Stock Transfer fbo ALR Technologies Inc., the subscription agent, drawn upon a United States or Canadian bank.

 

Payment will be deemed to have been received by the subscription agent only upon the subscription agent’s receipt of a personal check, receipt and clearance of such check.

 

Please note that funds paid by uncertified personal check may take at least seven business days to clear. Accordingly, if you wish to pay by means of an uncertified personal check, we urge you to make payment sufficiently in advance of the expiration date to ensure that the subscription agent receives cleared funds before that time.

 

What should I do if I want to participate in the rights offering, but my shares are held in the name of a custodian bank, broker, dealer or other nominee?

If you hold your shares of common stock through a custodian bank, broker, dealer or other nominee, then your nominee is the record holder of the shares you own. If you are not contacted by your nominee, you should contact your nominee as soon as possible. Your nominee must exercise the subscription rights on your behalf for the shares of common stock you wish to purchase. You will not receive a rights certificate. Please follow the instructions of your nominee. Your nominee may establish a deadline that may be before 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on December 15, 2020, the expiration date for the rights offering.

 

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When will I receive my new shares?

 

All shares that you purchase in the rights offering to which you are entitled will be issued in book-entry, or uncertificated, form. When issued, the shares will be registered in the name of the subscription rights holder of record. As soon as practicable after the expiration of the rights offering period, the subscription agent will arrange for the issuance of the shares of common stock purchased in the rights offering. Subject to state securities laws and regulations, we have the discretion to delay distribution of any shares you may have elected to purchase by exercise of your rights in order to comply with state securities laws.

 

After I send in my payment and rights certificate, may I cancel my exercise of subscription rights?

 

No. All exercises of subscription rights are irrevocable unless the rights offering is terminated, even if the market price of our common stock falls below the $0.05 per share subscription price or you later learn information about us or the rights offering that you consider to be unfavorable to the exercise of your subscription rights. You should not exercise your subscription rights unless you are certain that you wish to purchase shares of our common stock in the rights offering.

 

Have any stockholders agreed to exercise their rights?

No. Our Chairman Sidney Chan, who, together with his affiliates, owns an aggregate of 383,498,482 shares of our common stock, or approximately 75% of the shares outstanding, and our Directors Peter Stafford, Kenneth Robulak, Alfonso Salas, and Ronald Cheng, who collectively owns an aggregate of 4,473,538 shares of our common stock, or approximately 0.9% of the shares outstanding, have each agreed not to exercise their respective basic subscription rights. None of the basic 383,498,482 subscription rights attached to the shares of common stock owned by Mr. Chan or his affiliates are being registered pursuant to this offering. Mr. Chan and his affiliates elected not to participate in this offering owing to their agreement on September 21, 2020 to accept 240,000,000 of our common shares at a price of $0.05 per share in consideration for the retirement of an aggregate amount of $12,000,000 payable to them by the Company. The subscription rights attached to the 4,473,538 shares of common stock held by our Directors are being registered pursuant to this offering, and will be available for purchase to non-shareholders at the discretion of management within 90 days following the expiration date of the offering.

 

Will our directors and officers participate in the rights offering?

No. Our Chairman Sidney Chan, who, together with his affiliates, owns an aggregate of 383,498,482 shares of our common stock, or approximately 75% of the shares outstanding, and our Directors Peter Stafford, Kenneth Robulak, Alfonso Salas, and Ronald Cheng, who collectively owns an aggregate of 4,473,538 shares of our common stock, or approximately 0.9% of the shares outstanding, have each agreed not to exercise their respective basic subscription rights. None of the basic 383,498,482 subscription rights attached to the shares of common stock owned by Mr. Chan or his affiliates are being registered pursuant to this offering. Mr. Chan and his affiliates elected not to participate in this offering owing to their agreement on September 21, 2020 to accept 240,000,000 of our common shares at a price of $0.05 per share in consideration for the retirement of an aggregate amount of $12,000,000 payable to them by the Company. The subscription rights attached to the 4,473,538 shares of common stock held by our Directors are being registered pursuant to this offering, and will be available for purchase to non-shareholders at the discretion of management within 90 days following the expiration date of the offering.

 

Will the equity awards of our employees, officers and directors automatically convert into common stock in connection with the rights offering?

 

Holders of our equity awards to employees, officers and directors, including outstanding stock options, will not receive rights in the rights offering in connection with such equity awards.

 

How will the rights offering affect our outstanding common stock?

As of October 30, 2020, we had 511,020,709 shares of our common stock outstanding. Assuming no additional shares of common stock are issued by the Company prior to consummation of the rights offering and assuming all offered shares are sold in the rights offering, we expect approximately 638,542,936 shares of our common stock will be outstanding immediately after completion of the rights offering.

 

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The issuance of shares of our common stock in the rights offering will dilute, and thereby reduce, your proportionate ownership in our shares of common stock, unless you fully exercise your basic subscription rights. In addition, the issuance of shares of our common stock at a subscription price that is less than the market price as of the record date for the rights offering will likely reduce the price per share of our common stock held by you prior to the rights offering.

 

How much will we receive in net proceeds from the rights offering?

 

We expect the aggregate proceeds, net of expenses, from the rights offering will be approximately $6,320,000  million, assuming all rights are exercised. We intend to use the net proceeds to provide for our general working capital needs. Please see “Use of Proceeds.”

 

Are there risks in exercising my subscription rights?

 

Yes. The exercise of your subscription rights involves risks. Exercising your subscription rights involves the purchase of additional shares of our common stock and should be considered as carefully as you would consider any other equity investment. Among other things, you should carefully consider the risks described under the heading “Risk Factors” in this prospectus and all other information included in, or incorporated by reference into, this prospectus.

 

If the rights offering is not completed, will my subscription payment be refunded to me?

 

Yes. The subscription agent will hold all funds it receives in a segregated bank account until the rights offering is completed. If the rights offering is not completed, all subscription payments received by the subscription agent will be returned promptly, without interest or penalty. If your shares are held in the name of a custodian bank, broker, dealer or other nominee, it may take longer for you to receive the refund of your subscription payment than if you were a record holder of your shares because the subscription agent will return payments through the record holder of your shares.

 

Will I receive interest on any funds I deposit with the subscription agent?

 

No. You will not be entitled to any interest on any funds that are deposited with the subscription agent pending completion or cancellation of the rights offering. If the rights offering is cancelled for any reason, the subscription agent will return this money to subscribers, without interest or penalty, as soon as practicable.

 

When can I sell the shares of common stock I receive upon exercise of the subscription rights?

 

If you exercise your subscription rights, you will be able to resell the shares of common stock purchased by exercising your subscription rights once your account has been credited with those shares, provided you are not otherwise restricted from selling the shares (for example, because you are an insider or affiliate of the Company or because you possess material nonpublic information about the Company). Although we will endeavor to issue the shares as soon as practicable after completion of the rights offering, there may be a delay between the expiration date of the rights offering and the time that the shares are issued due to factors such as the guaranteed delivery period and the time required to complete all necessary calculations. In addition, we cannot assure you that, following the exercise of your subscription rights, you will be able to sell the shares purchased in the rights offering at a price equal to or greater than the subscription price.

 

What are the U.S. federal income tax consequences of exercising my subscription rights?

 

The receipt and exercise of subscription rights by holders of shares of our common stock should generally not be taxable for U.S. federal income tax purposes. You should seek specific tax advice from your tax advisor in light of your particular circumstances and as to the applicability and effect of any other tax laws. See “Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Consequences.”

 

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What fees or charges apply if I purchase shares of common stock in the rights offering?

 

We are not charging any fee or sales commission to issue subscription rights to you or to issue shares to you if you exercise your subscription rights (other than the subscription price). If you exercise your subscription rights through a custodian bank, broker, dealer or other nominee, you are responsible for paying any fees your nominee may charge you.

 

Whom should I contact if I have other questions?

 

If you have other questions regarding the rights offering, please contact the information agent, Pacific Stock Transfer by email at info@pacificstocktransfer.com, by phone at 702-361-3033, or by mail at 6725 Via Austi Pkwy, Suite 300, Las Vegas, NV 89119.

 

To whom should I send my forms and payment?

If your shares are held in the name of a broker, dealer, custodian bank or other nominee, then you should send your subscription documents and subscription payment to that record holder. If you are the record holder, then you should send your subscription documents, rights certificate, and subscription payment or, if applicable, notice of guaranteed delivery, to the address provided below. If sent by mail, we recommend that you send documents and payments by registered mail, properly insured, with return receipt requested, and that a sufficient number of days be allowed to ensure delivery to the subscription agent. DO NOT send or deliver these materials to the Company.

   

By Overnight Courier, or Registered Certified or Express Mail  

   

Pacific Stock Transfer  

6725 Via Austi Pkwy, Suite 300  

Las Vegas, NV 89119  

   

You, or, if applicable, your nominee, are solely responsible for ensuring the subscription agent receives your subscription documents, rights certificate, notice of guaranteed delivery and subscription payment. You should allow sufficient time for delivery of your subscription materials to the subscription agent and clearance of payment before the expiration of the rights offering period.

 

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SUMMARY

 

Our Company

 

ALR Technologies Inc. (the “Company” or “ALRT”) was incorporated under the laws of the State of Nevada on March 24, 1987 as Mo Betta Corp. In April 1998, the Company changed its business purpose to marketing a pharmaceutical compliance device.

 

In December 1998, the common shares of the Company began trading on the Bulletin Board operated by the National Association of Securities Dealers Inc. under the symbol “MBET.” On December 28, 1998, the Company changed its name from Mo Betta Corp. to ALR Technologies Inc. Subsequently the symbol was changed to “ALRT.”

 

In 2011, the Company located its headquarters at 7400 Beaufont Springs Drive, Suite 300, Richmond, Virginia, 23225.

 

During 2011, the Company received FDA clearance and achieved HIPAA compliance for its Diabetes Management System. With these key achievements and successful clinical trials completed, the Company began implementing its commercialization strategy which included a pilot program with patients in Kansas in 2014. The Company obtained significant findings from this pilot program which led to the development of its Insulin Dosage Adjustment, for which it received FDA clearance in 2017, and Predictive A1C, for which it has submitted for worldwide patent application under the patent cooperation treaty to the World Intellectual Property Organization. The Company is actively seeking to commence revenue generating activities.

 

Our Products

 

Products

 

ALRT has developed its Diabetes Solution product by utilizing internet-based technologies to facilitate the health care provider’s ability to monitor their diabetes patients’ health and ensure adherence to health maintenance activities.

 

The ALRT Diabetes Solution is a remote monitoring and care facilitation platform that allows patients to upload the blood glucose data from their meters on a weekly basis. The ALRT System processes and converts each data set to a Predictive A1C value and shares it with the patient and the patient’s physician. The Solution provides the physician with therapy advancement suggestions based on current clinical practice guidelines. Patients receive therapy assessments and adjustments in much shorter cycles, keeping A1Cs at targeted levels, mitigating diabetes complications and lowering costs of care.

 

ALRT previously conducted a clinical trial utilizing manual blood glucose data analysis and follow-up care. The trial demonstrated that remote diabetes care is associated with significant lowering of A1C levels. The study concluded that continuing intervention using an internet-based glucose monitoring system is an effective way of improving glucose control compared to conventional care. A second clinical trial demonstrated that this type of Internet-based Blood Glucose Monitoring System (IBGMS) was associated with comparable reductions in A1C levels with that of more expensive Continuing Glucose Monitoring Systems (CGMS). The Company is seeking to commercialize its Diabetes Solution and has commenced pilot programs in Singapore and the United States. The Company has undertaken the pilot programs to demonstrate the added value of the predictive A1C and therapy advancement features of the ALRT System.

 

In the future, the Company may seek to adapt its Diabetes Solution to be used in the management of other chronic diseases. The Company may be required to obtain additional clearance from the FDA prior to commencing selling activities in the United States for other chronic health conditions.

 

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OFFERING SUMMARY

 

The following summary describes the principal terms of the rights offering, but is not intended to be complete. See the information under the heading “The Rights Offering” in this prospectus for a more detailed description of the terms and conditions of the rights offering.

 

Securities Offered We are distributing to you, at no charge, one non-transferable subscription right for each share of our common stock that you owned as of 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on October 30, 2020, either as a holder of record or, in the case of shares held of record by custodian banks, brokers, dealers or other nominees on your behalf, as a beneficial owner of such shares.

 

Subscription Price $0.05 per share of common stock. To be effective, any payment related to the exercise of a subscription right must clear prior to the expiration of the rights offering period. You may exercise all or a portion of your subscription rights, or you may choose not to exercise any subscription rights at all.

 

Record Date 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on October 30, 2020.

 

Expiration of the Rights Offering 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on December 15, 2020. We may extend the rights offering without notice to you.

 

Use of Proceeds We expect the aggregate net proceeds from the rights offering will be approximately $6,320,000 if all subscription rights are exercised. We intend to use the net proceeds to provide for our general working capital needs. The precise amount and timing of the application of such proceeds will depend upon our funding requirements and the availability and cost of other funds. See “Use of Proceeds.”

 

Basic Subscription Right Each whole subscription right entitles you to purchase one share of our common stock at a subscription price of $0.05 per share. The number of subscription rights you may exercise appears on your rights certificate. Subscription rights may only be exercised in whole numbers; we will not issue fractional shares and will round all of the subscription rights down to the nearest whole number.

 

Over-Subscription Privilege There is no over-subscription privilege. We do not expect all of our stockholders to exercise all of their basic subscription rights. To the extent that any basic subscription rights are not exercised, management may, at its discretion and within 90 days following the expiration date of the offering, allocate any or all of those rights to non-shareholders.

 

Non-Transferability of Rights The subscription rights may not be sold, transferred or assigned and will not be quoted for trading on the OTC Markets quotation system or on any other stock exchange or market.

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No Board Recommendation
Our Board is not making any recommendation regarding the exercise of your subscription rights. You are urged to make your decision based on your own assessment of our business and the rights offering.

 

Revocation All exercises of subscription rights are irrevocable, even if the market price of our common stock falls below the subscription price or you later learn of information that you consider to be unfavorable to the exercise of your subscription rights. You should not exercise your subscription rights unless you are certain that you wish to purchase shares of our common stock in the rights offering.

 

Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Considerations For U.S. federal income tax purposes, holders of shares of our common stock should not recognize gain or loss upon receipt or exercise of a subscription right. You should consult with your own tax advisor as to the tax consequences to you of the receipt, exercise or lapse of the rights in light of your particular circumstances. Please see “Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Consequences.”

 

Extension and Cancellation Although we do not presently intend to do so, we have the option to extend the rights offering expiration date. Our Board may cancel the rights offering at any time before its expiration for any reason. In the event that the rights offering is cancelled, all subscription payments received by the subscription agent will be returned promptly, without interest or penalty.

 

Procedures for Exercising Rights To exercise your subscription rights, you must take the following steps:

 

    If you hold an ALRT stock certificate, you must deliver payment and a properly completed and signed rights certificate to the subscription agent to be received before 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on December 15, 2020. You may deliver the documents and payment by U.S. mail or courier service. If U.S. mail is used for this purpose, we recommend using registered mail, properly insured, with return receipt requested.

 

    If you are a beneficial owner of shares that are registered in the name of a custodian bank, broker, dealer or other nominee, you will not receive a rights certificate. You should instruct your nominee to exercise your subscription rights on your behalf. Please follow the instructions of your nominee, who may require that you meet a deadline earlier than 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on December 1, 2020.

 

  If you cannot deliver rights certificate to the subscription agent on time, you may follow the guaranteed delivery procedures described under “The Rights Offering—Notice of Guaranteed Delivery.”

 

Subscription Agent We retained Pacific Stock Transfer to serve as the subscription agent. The subscription agent will hold funds received in payment for shares of our common stock in a segregated account pending completion of the rights offering. The subscription agent will hold this money until the rights offering is completed or is withdrawn and canceled. If the rights offering is canceled for any reason, all subscription payments received by the subscription agent will be returned promptly, without interest or penalty.

 

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Fees and Expenses We are not charging any fee or sales commission to issue subscription rights to you or to issue shares to you if you exercise your subscription rights (other than the subscription price). If you exercise your subscription rights through a custodian bank, broker, dealer or other nominee, you are responsible for paying any fees your nominee may charge you.

 

No Purchase Commitment Our Chairman Sidney Chan, who, together with his affiliates, owns an aggregate of 383,498,482 shares of our common stock, or approximately 75.05% of the shares outstanding, and our Directors Peter Stafford, Kenneth Robulak, Alfonso Salas, and Ronald Cheng, who collectively own an aggregate of 4,473,538 shares of our common stock, or approximately 0.9% of the shares outstanding, have each agreed with us not to exercise their respective basic subscription rights.  None of basic subscription rights attached to the shares of common stock owned by Mr. Chan or his affiliates are being registered pursuant to this offering, and will not, accordingly be available for purchase by non-shareholders.  The subscription rights attached to the 4,473,538 shares of common stock held by our Directors are being registered pursuant to this offering, and will be available for purchase by non-shareholders at the discretion of management within 90 days following the expiration date of the offering.

 

Shares Outstanding Before the Rights Offering As of October 30, 2020, 511,020,709 shares of our common stock were issued and outstanding and 5,873,722,209 were issued and outstanding on a fully diluted basis. 638,542,936 shares of our common stock are expected to be issued and outstanding after the rights offering.

 

Shares Outstanding After the Rights Offering Assuming that all of the subscription rights are exercised, we will issue approximately 127,522,227 shares of common stock in the rights offering and, assuming no additional shares of common stock are issued by the Company prior to consummation of the rights offering, will have approximately 638,542,936 shares of common stock outstanding after consummation of the rights offering and 6,001,244,436 shares of common stock outstanding after consummation of the rights offering on a fully diluted basis.

 

Trading Symbols Our common stock is quoted on the OTCQB electronic quotation system under the trading symbol “ALRT.” The shares of common stock issued in the rights offering will also be quoted on the OTCQB under the same symbol. The subscription rights will not be quoted for trading on the OTCQB, or listed on any other stock exchange or market.

 

Risk Factors Exercising the subscription rights and investing in our securities involve a high degree of risk. We urge you to carefully read the section entitled “Risk Factors” beginning on page 7 of this prospectus and all other information included in, or incorporated by reference into, this prospectus in its entirety before you decide whether to exercise your subscription rights.

 

Information Agent You should direct any questions or requests for assistance concerning the method of subscribing for common shares or for additional copies of this prospectus the information agent, Pacific Stock Transfer.

 

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RISK FACTORS

 

Investing in our common stock involves a high degree of risk. You should carefully consider the following risk factors and the risks described below, and other information contained in our most recent annual report on Form 10-K, subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and other filings we make with the SEC pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), incorporated by reference herein, before making an investment decision. Additional risks and uncertainties that we are unaware of may become important factors that affect us. If any of these risks actually occurs, our business, financial condition or operating results may suffer, the trading price of our common stock could decline, and you may lose all or part of your investment.

 

RISKS RELATED TO THE RIGHTS OFFERING

 

The future price of our shares of common stock may be less than the $0.05 per share subscription price in the rights offering.

 

If you exercise your subscription rights to purchase shares of common stock in the rights offering, you may not be able to sell them later at or above the $0.05 per share subscription price in the rights offering. The actual market price of our common stock could be subject to wide fluctuations in response to numerous factors, some of which are beyond our control. These factors include, among other things, our operating results and cash flow, business conditions in our industry, the general state of the securities markets, as well as general economic and market conditions, such as downturns in our economy and recessions.

 

You may be committed to buying common stock at a price above the prevailing market price of our common stock.

Once you exercise your subscription rights, you may not revoke them. If you exercise your subscription rights and, afterwards, the public trading market price of our shares of common stock decreases below the subscription price, you will have committed to buying shares of our common stock at a price above the prevailing market price and could have an immediate unrealized loss. Our common is quoted on the OTCQB electronic quotation system under the ticker symbol “ALRT,” and on October 30, 2020, the closing price for our common stock, as reported on the OTCQB, was $0.062 per share. We cannot assure you that the market price of our shares of common stock will not decline after you exercise your subscription rights. Moreover, we cannot assure you that following the exercise of your subscription rights you will be able to sell your shares of common stock at a price equal to or greater than the subscription price.

 

This offering may cause the market price of our common stock to decrease.

 

The subscription price, together with the number of shares of common stock we propose to issue and ultimately will issue in the rights offering, may result in an immediate decrease in the market price of our common stock. This decrease may continue throughout and after the completion of the rights offering. If that occurs, you may have committed to buy common stock in the rights offering at a price greater than the prevailing market price of our common stock. Further, if a substantial number of subscription rights are exercised and the subscribing holders choose to sell some or all of the shares of common stock received upon exercise of those rights, the resulting sales could depress the market price of our common stock. There is no assurance that following the rights offering you will be able to sell your shares of common stock purchased in the rights offering at a price equal to or greater than the subscription price.

 

The subscription price determined by our Board is not an indication of the fair value of our common stock and does not represent the price at which a buyer can be found for the shares now or in the future.

 

The Board has determined the subscription price based on a variety of factors, including historical and current trading prices for our common stock, recent share based transactions involving our affiliates, the price of most recently issued outstanding stock options held by our affiliates, general business conditions, our need for capital, alternatives available to us for raising capital, potential market conditions, and our desire to provide an opportunity to our stockholders to participate in the rights offering on a pro rata basis. In conjunction with its review of these factors, the Board also reviewed our history and prospects, including our past and present earnings, our prospects for future earnings, and the outlook for our industry, and our current financial condition.

 

The subscription price is not necessarily related to our book value, net worth or any other established criteria of value and may or may not be considered the fair value of the common stock to be offered in the rights offering, nor is the subscription price necessarily a reflection of the market price at which our common stock currently sells or may sell in the future. You should not assume or expect that, after the rights offering, our common stock will trade at or above the subscription price. We can give no assurance that our common stock will trade at or above the subscription price in any given time period.

 

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Your percentage ownership in the Company may be diluted as a result of the rights offering.

If you do not exercise your subscription rights or you exercise fewer than all of your rights, and other stockholders fully exercise their rights or exercise a greater proportion of their rights than you exercise, you will suffer dilution of your percentage ownership of our common stock relative to such other stockholders. As of October 30, 2020, there were 511,020,709 shares of common stock outstanding. If all of our stockholders exercise the subscription rights being registered hereunder in full, or if any unsubscribed portion of the shares being registered hereunder are sold to third parties, we will issue 127,522,227 shares of common stock in the rights offering, which represents approximately 19.97% of the 638,542,936 shares of common stock potentially outstanding upon the completion of the rights offering, on a non-diluted basis, or 2.1% of the 6,001,244,436 shares of common stock potentially outstanding on a fully diluted basis upon completion of the rights offering, and subject to the exercise of 5,362,701,500 stock options currently outstanding.

 

You may not revoke your exercise of rights.

 

Once you exercise your subscription rights, you may not revoke or change the exercise unless we are required by law to permit revocation. Accordingly, if you exercise your subscription rights and the market price of our common stock falls below the $0.05 per share subscription price or you later learn information about us or the rights offering that you consider unfavorable to the exercise of your subscription rights, you will be committed to buying shares and may not revoke or change your exercise. The market price of our common stock may decline prior to the expiration of this offering, and a subscribing rights holder may not be able to sell the shares of common stock purchased in the rights offering at a price equal to or greater than the subscription price. Until shares of common stock are delivered upon expiration of the rights offering, you will not be able to sell or transfer the common stock that you purchase in the rights offering.

 

Our Board may cancel the rights offering at any time and for any reason prior to its expiration.

 

Our Board may cancel the rights offering at any time and for any reason prior to its expiration. If our Board cancels the rights offering, neither the Company nor the subscription agent will have any obligation to you with respect to the rights except to return any payment received by the subscription agent, without interest or penalty.

 

The subscription rights are non-transferable, and thus there will be no market for them.

 

You may not sell, transfer or assign your subscription rights to anyone else. We do not intend to list the subscription rights on any securities exchange or any other trading market. Because the subscription rights are non-transferable, there is no market or other means for you to directly realize any value associated with them.

 

If you do not act on a timely basis and follow the subscription instructions, your exercise of subscription rights will be rejected.

 

Stockholders who desire to purchase shares in the rights offering must act on a timely basis to ensure that all required forms and payments are actually received by the subscription agent, and all payments clear, prior to the expiration of the rights offering, subject to the guaranteed delivery procedures described under “The Rights Offering—Notice of Guaranteed Delivery.” If you are a beneficial owner of shares, you must act promptly to ensure that your broker, dealer, custodian bank or other nominee acts for you and that all required forms and payments are actually received by the subscription agent prior to the expiration of the rights offering. We are not responsible if your broker, dealer, custodian bank or nominee fails to ensure that all required forms and payments are actually received by the subscription agent, and all payments clear, prior to the expiration of the rights offering.

 

If you fail to complete and sign the required subscription forms, send an incorrect payment amount or otherwise fail to follow the subscription procedures that apply to your exercise in the rights offering or your payment does not clear prior to the expiration of the rights offering period, the subscription agent may, depending on the circumstances, reject your subscription or accept it only to the extent of any payment that was timely received and cleared. Neither we, nor the subscription agent, undertakes to contact you concerning, or attempt to correct, an incomplete or incorrect subscription form or payment, nor are we under any obligation to correct such forms or payments. We have the sole discretion to determine whether the exercise of your subscription rights properly and timely follows the subscription procedures.

 

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By participating in the rights offering and executing a rights certificate, you are making binding and enforceable representations to the Company.

 

By signing the rights certificate and exercising their rights, each stockholder agrees, solely with respect to such stockholder’s exercise of rights in the rights offering, that we have the right to void and cancel (and treat as if never exercised) any exercise of rights, and shares issued pursuant to an exercise of rights, if any of the agreements, representations or warranties of a subscriber in the subscription documents are false.

 

If you make payment of the subscription price by uncertified check, your check may not clear in sufficient time to enable you to purchase common stock in the rights offering.

 

Any uncertified check used to pay for common stock to be issued in the rights offering must clear prior to expiration of the rights offering, and the clearing process may require five or more business days. If you choose to exercise your subscription rights, in whole or in part, and to pay the subscription price by uncertified check and your check has not cleared prior to expiration of the rights offering, you will not have satisfied the conditions to exercise your subscription rights and will not receive the common stock you wished to purchase.

 

You will not be able to sell or transfer the shares of common stock that you purchase pursuant to the exercise of subscription rights immediately upon expiration of the rights offering.

 

If you exercise your subscription rights, you will not be able to sell or transfer the common stock purchased by exercising your subscription rights until your account has been credited with those shares. Moreover, you will have no rights as a stockholder with respect to the shares purchased in the rights offering until we issue the shares to you. Although we will endeavor to issue the shares as soon as practicable after expiration of the rights offering, including the guaranteed delivery period and after all necessary calculations have been completed, there may be a delay between the expiration date of the rights offering and the time that the shares are issued. Fluctuations in the market price of our common stock may occur between expiration of the rights offering and the time that shares are issued to you.

 

Because no minimum subscription is required and because we do not have formal commitments from our stockholders for the entire amount we seek to raise pursuant to the rights offering, we cannot assure you of the amount of proceeds that we will receive from the rights offering.

 

No minimum subscription is required for consummation of the rights offering. None of our affiliated stockholders will participate in the offering. Furthermore, because we do not have commitments from our other stockholders for the remainder of the amount we seek to raise pursuant to the rights offering, it is possible that no other rights will be exercised in connection with the rights offering. As a result, we cannot assure you of the amount of proceeds that we will receive in the rights offering. Therefore, if you exercise all or any portion of your subscription rights, but other stockholders do not, we may not raise the desired amount of capital in the rights offering, the market price of our common stock could be adversely impacted and we may find it necessary to pursue alternative means of financing, which may be dilutive to your investment.

 

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We have broad discretion in the use of proceeds of the rights offering.

 

We are undertaking the rights offering in order to provide for our general working capital needs. Our Board and management will have considerable discretion in the application of the net proceeds from the rights offering, and it is possible that we may allocate the proceeds differently than investors in the rights offering may desire or that we may fail to maximize the return on these proceeds. You will be relying on the judgment of our Board and management with regard to the use of proceeds from the rights offering, and you will not have the opportunity, as part of your investment decision, to assess whether the proceeds are being used appropriately. For more information, see “Use of Proceeds.”

 

RISKS RELATED TO OUR BUSINESS AND OPERATIONS

 

Although our financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis, our management and independent auditors in their report accompanying our consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2019, believe that our recurring losses from operations and other factors have raised substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern as of December 31, 2019.

 

Our audited financial statements for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019 were prepared on a going concern basis in accordance with U.S. GAAP. The going concern basis assumes that we will continue in operation for the next 12 months and will be able to realize our assets and discharge our liabilities and commitments in the normal course of business, thus our financial statements do not include any adjustments that might be necessary if the Company is unable to continue as a going concern. Our recurring losses, anticipated future losses, negative cash flow, need for additional capital and the uncertainties surrounding our ability to raise such funding, raises substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern. In order for us to continue operations beyond the next 12 months and be able to discharge our liabilities and commitments in the normal course of business, we must complete the development and deployment of our product, and sell our products directly to end-users, establish profitable operations through increased sales, decrease expenses, generate cash from operation or raise additional funds when needed. We intend to improve our financial condition and ultimately improve our financial results by increasing revenues through introduction of our product into new markets, continuing to expand and develop our field sales force and distributor relationships both domestically and internationally, forming strategic arrangements within the health & wellness and medical industries, educating medical professionals and patients as to the benefits of our diabetes management services, and reducing expenses. If we are unable to increase sales, reduce expenses or raise sufficient additional capital we may be unable to continue to fund our operations, develop our products, realize value from our assets, or discharge our liabilities in the normal course of business. If we become unable to continue as a going concern, we could have to liquidate our assets, and potentially realize significantly less than the values at which they are carried on our financial statements, and stockholders could lose all or part of their investment in our common stock.

 

We have experienced net losses for each of the past three years, and we could experience additional losses and have difficulty achieving profitability in the future.

 

We had an accumulated deficit of $87,655,745 and $89,639,087 at December 31, 2019 and June 30, 2020, respectively. We recorded net losses of approximately $9,005,537, $4,122,133, and $2,842,025 for the years ended December 31, 2019, 2018, and 2017, respectively, and $1,983,342 for the six-month period ended June 30, 2020. In order to achieve profitability, we must control our costs and increase net revenue through new sales. Failure to increase our net revenue and decrease our costs could cause our stock price to decline and could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.

 

We may be unable to maintain compliance with OTCQB Standards for Continued Eligibility which could cause our common stock to be demoted from OTCQB. This could result in the lack of a market for our common stock, cause a decrease in the value of an investment in us, and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

 

Our common stock is currently quoted on OTCQB tier of the electronic quotation service operated by OTC Markets Group. To maintain the listing of our common stock on OTCQB, we are required to meet certain listing requirements, including, among others (i) have audited annual financials by a PCAOB auditor; (ii) meet minimum bid price test of $0.01; (iii) maintain SEC reporting standards or equivalent alternative reporting standards; and (iv) not be in bankruptcy. If we fail to meet OTCQB Standards for Continued Eligibility, the trading of the stock will most likely take place on a lower tier of the over-the-counter market, such as the OTC Pink tier established for financial distressed companies or those in bankruptcy. There is no assurance that we will meet the minimum Standards for Continued Eligibility. An investor is likely to find it less convenient to sell, or to obtain accurate quotations in seeking to buy, our common stock on the OTC Pink, and many investors may not buy or sell our common stock due to difficulty in accessing OTC Pink, or over-the-counter markets, generally, due to policies preventing them from trading in securities not listed on a national exchange, not maintaining SEC reporting requirements, or other reasons.

 

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Because the SEC imposes additional sales practice requirements on brokers who deal in shares of penny stocks, some brokers may be unwilling to trade our securities. This means that you may have difficulty reselling your shares, which may cause the value of your investment to decline.

 

Our shares are classified as penny stocks and are covered by Section 15(g) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”) which imposes additional sales practice requirements on brokers-dealers who sell our securities in this offering or in the aftermarket. For sales of our securities, broker-dealers must make a special suitability determination and receive a written agreement prior from you to making a sale on your behalf. Because of the imposition of the foregoing additional sales practices, it is possible that broker-dealers will not want to make a market in our common stock. This could prevent you from reselling your shares and may cause the value of your investment to decline.

 

We could need to raise additional capital in the future, and if we are unable to secure adequate funds on terms acceptable to us, we could be unable to execute our business plan.

 

To remain competitive, we must continue to make significant investments in the development of our product, in obtaining regulatory clearances to introduce our product into new markets, in the expansion of our sales and marketing activities, and in the expansion of our operating and management infrastructure as we increase sales domestically and internationally. If cash generated from our operations is insufficient to fund such growth, we could be required to raise additional funds through the issuance of equity or debt securities in the public or private markets, or through a collaborative arrangement or sale of assets. Additional financing opportunities may not be available to us, or if available, may not be on favorable terms. The availability of financing opportunities will depend, in part, on market conditions, and the outlook for our business. Any future issuance of equity securities or securities convertible into equity securities could result in substantial dilution to our stockholders, and the securities issued in such a financing could have rights, preferences or privileges senior to those of our common stock. In addition, if we raise additional funds through debt financing, we could be subject to debt covenants that place limitations on our operations. We could not be able to raise additional capital on reasonable terms, or at all, or we could use capital more rapidly than anticipated. If we cannot raise the required capital when needed, we may not be able to satisfy the demands of existing and prospective customers, we could lose revenue and market share and we may have to curtail our capital expenditures. The following factors, among others, could affect our ability to obtain additional financing on favorable terms, or at all:

 

  our results of operations;

 

  general economic conditions and conditions in the medical and health management industries;

 

  the perception of our business in the capital markets;

 

  our ratio of debt to equity;

 

  our financial condition;

 

  our business prospects; and

 

  interest rates.

 

If we are unable to obtain sufficient capital in the future, we could have to curtail our capital expenditures. Any curtailment of our capital expenditures could result in a reduction in net revenue, reduced quality of our products, increased manufacturing costs for our products, harm to our reputation, or reduced manufacturing efficiencies and could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.

 

Our success depends, in part, on our relationships with, and the efforts of, third-party distributors.

 

We will rely on a variety of third-party distributors, such as independent health care organizations, medical suppliers, group purchasing organizations, pharmaceutical companies, insulin providers and other health care companies to introduce the ALRT Diabetes Solution to their networks. Such third parties have significant discretion in determining the efforts and resources they apply to the marketing, sale and implementation of our products, and we will face significant challenges and risks in expanding, training, and managing such third-party parties. Third parties may not commit the necessary resources to market and sell our products to the level of our expectations, and, regardless of the resources they commit, they may not be successful. From time to time, we may face competition or pricing pressure from one or more of our non-exclusive distributors in certain geographic areas where those distributors are selling inventory to the same customer base as us. Additionally, most distributor agreements may be terminated with limited notice, and we may not be able to replace any terminating distributor in a timely manner or on terms agreeable to us, if at all. If we are not able to maintain our distribution network, if our distribution network is not successful in marketing and selling our products, or if we experience a significant reduction in, cancellation, or change in the size and timing of orders from our distributors, our revenues could decline significantly and could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.

 

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Our inability to distinguish our Diabetes Solution from other diabetes treatment compliance devices or solutions could limit the market acceptance of our products and our market share.

 

Our Diabetes Solution represents a relatively new entry into the market for diabetes compliance solutions. Our future success will depend on our ability to increase demand for our products by demonstrating to a broad spectrum of healthcare providers the potential performance advantages and efficiencies of our Diabetes Solution over traditional methods of treatment management and over competitive management solutions, and our inability to do so could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations. Historically, we have experienced long sales cycles because healthcare professionals have been, and could continue to be, slow to adopt new technologies on a widespread basis. As a result, we generally are required to invest a significant amount of time and resources to educate healthcare administrators and other purchasers about the benefits of our product in comparison to competing products and technologies before completing a sale, if any.

 

Factors that could inhibit adoption of our Diabetes Solution by healthcare professionals include concerns about the efficacy and reliability of our product. In order to invest in our product, a healthcare administrator generally needs to invest time to understand the technology, consider how physicians may respond to the new technology, assess the financial impact the investment could have on a medical practice and become comfortable introducing and using our products. Absent an immediate competitive motivation, a healthcare administrator may not feel compelled to invest the time required to learn about the potential benefits of using our product. Physicians may not accept or adopt our products until they see additional clinical evidence supporting the safety and efficiency of our product, or recommendations supporting our product by influential health care providers or practitioners. In addition, economic pressure, caused, for example, by an economic slowdown, changes in health care reimbursement or by competitive factors in a specific market, could make healthcare organizations reluctant to purchase substantial capital equipment or invest in new technologies. Physician acceptance will depend on the recommendations of specialists, as well as other factors, including the relative effectiveness, reliability and efficiency of our systems as compared to other in methods for managing diabetes treatment.

 

Any failure in our efforts to train health practitioners could result in the misuse of our products, reduce the market acceptance of our products and have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.

There is a learning process involved for health practitioners to become proficient users of our Diabetes Solution. It is critical to the success of our sales efforts to adequately train a sufficient number of practitioners. Following completion of training, we rely on health practitioners and administrators to advocate the benefits of our products in the broader marketplace. Convincing practitioners to dedicate the time and energy necessary for adequate training and implementation is challenging, and we cannot provide assurance that we will be successful in these efforts. If practitioners are not properly trained, they could misuse or ineffectively use our Diabetes Solution, or could be less likely to appreciate our Diabetes Solution. This could also result in unsatisfactory patient outcomes, negative publicity, FDA regulatory action, or lawsuits against us, any of which could negatively affect our reputation and sales of our Diabetes Solution.

 

If future data proves to be inconsistent with our clinical results or if competitors’ products present more favorable results our revenues could decline and our business, financial condition, and results of operations could be materially and adversely affected.

 

If new studies or comparative studies generate results that are not as favorable as our clinical results, our revenues could decline. Additionally, if future studies indicate that our competitors’ products are more effective or reliable than ours, our revenues could decline. Furthermore, health professionals could choose not to purchase our Diabetes Solution until they receive additional published long-term clinical evidence and recommendations from prominent health professionals that indicate our system is effective for clinical applications.

 

We face competition from other companies, many of which have substantially greater resources than we do. If we do not successfully develop and commercialize current and future products that remain competitive with products or alternative technologies developed by others, we could lose revenue opportunities and customers and our ability to grow our business would be impaired.

 

A number of competitors have substantially greater capital resources, larger customer bases, larger technical, sales and marketing forces and stronger reputations with target customers than ours. We compete with a number of domestic and foreign companies that market diabetes treatment management products, such as hardware, software and testing supplies, as well as companies that market integrated treatment solutions in the healthcare market. The marketplace is highly fragmented and very competitive. We expect that the rapid technological changes occurring in the health care industry could lead to the entry of new competitors, particularly if artificial intelligence driven software gains market acceptance in the field. If we do not compete successfully, our revenue and market share could decline and our business, financial condition, and results of operations could be adversely affected.

 

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Our long-term success depends upon our ability to (i) distinguish our products through improving our product performance and pricing, protecting our intellectual property, improving our customer support, accurately timing the introduction of new products, and developing sustainable distribution channels worldwide; and (ii) develop and successfully commercialize new products, new or improved technologies, and additional applications for our Diabetes Solution. There is no assurance that we will be able to distinguish our Diabetes Solution, commercialize any new products, new or improved technologies, or additional applications for our intellectual property.

 

If our customers cannot obtain third-party reimbursement for their use of our products, they could be less inclined to purchase our products and our business, financial condition, and results of operations could be adversely affected.

 

Our products are generally purchased by medical professionals who have various billing practices and patient mixes. Such practices range from primarily private pay to those who rely heavily on third-party payers, such as private insurance or government programs. In the United States, third-party payers review and frequently challenge the prices charged for medical products and/or services. In many foreign countries, the prices for diabetes treatment services are predetermined through government regulation. Payers could deny coverage and reimbursement on various grounds, including if they determine that the procedure was not medically necessary or that the device used in the procedure was investigational. Accordingly, both coverage and reimbursement can vary significantly from payer to payer. For the portion of physicians who rely heavily on third-party reimbursement, the inability to obtain reimbursement for services using our products could deter them from purchasing or using our products. We cannot predict the effect that future health care reforms or changes in financing for health plans could have on our business. Any such changes could have an adverse effect on the ability of a physician or medical institution to generate a profit using our current or future products. In addition, such changes could act as disincentives for capital investments by medical professionals.

 

We could incur problems in manufacturing our products.

 

Our products are manufactured by third party suppliers. In order to grow our business, we must expand our supply chain to meet any demand we may experience. We could encounter difficulties in securing additional supply of our products, including problems involving supplier production capacity and yields, quality control and assurance, component supply, and shortages of qualified personnel. In addition, before we can scale up commercial manufacture of our products, we must ensure that our third-party manufacturing facilities, processes, and quality systems, and the manufacture of our Diabetes Solution, comply with FDA regulations governing facility compliance, quality control, and documentation policies and procedures. In addition, our supplier manufacturing facilities are subject to periodic inspections by the FDA, as well as various state agencies and foreign regulatory agencies. From time to time, we could experience significant supply delays while our suppliers ensure compliance with these requirements. Our success will depend in part upon our ability to supply our products in compliance with the FDA’s QSR and other regulatory requirements. Although we have not experienced quality issues with components of our products supplied by third parties, we expect to encounter periodic quality control issues. Our future success depends on our ability to supply products on a timely basis with acceptable purchase costs, while at the same time ensuring good quality control and complying with applicable regulatory requirements, and an inability to do so could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations

 

Product liability claims against us could be costly and could harm our reputation.

 

The sale of medical devices involves the risk of product liability claims against us. Claims could exceed our then current product liability insurance coverage limits. Our insurance policies will be subject to various standard coverage exclusions, including damage to the product itself, losses from recall of our product, and losses covered by other forms of insurance such as workers compensation. We cannot be certain that we will be able to successfully defend any claims against us, nor can we be certain that our insurance will cover all liabilities resulting from such claims. In addition, we cannot provide assurance that we will be able to obtain such insurance in the future on terms acceptable to us, or at all. Regardless of merit or eventual outcome, any product liability claim brought against us could result in harm to our reputation, decreased demand for our products, costs related to litigation, product recalls, loss of revenue, an increase in our product liability insurance rates, or the inability to secure coverage in the future, and could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.

 

Rapidly changing standards and competing technologies could harm demand for our products, result in significant additional costs, and have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.

 

The markets in which our products compete are subject to rapid technological change, evolving industry standards, changes in the regulatory environment, and frequent introductions of new devices and evolving techniques in diabetes treatment and patient management. Competing products could emerge that render our products uncompetitive or obsolete. The process of developing new medical devices is inherently complex and requires regulatory approvals or clearances that can be expensive, time-consuming, and uncertain. We cannot guarantee that we will successfully identify new product opportunities, identify new and innovative applications of our technology, or be financially or otherwise capable of completing the research and development required to bring new products to market in a timely manner. An inability to expand our product offerings or the application of our technology could limit our growth. In addition, we could incur higher manufacturing costs if manufacturing processes or standards change, and we could need to replace, modify, design, or build and install equipment, all of which would require additional capital expenditures.

 

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We could be unable to effectively manage and implement our growth strategies, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations

 

Our growth strategy includes expanding the market for our Diabetes Solution, and developing new applications and enhancements for our product, ie. Expansion of our existing market, product line and entry into new medical applications divert the use of our resources and systems, require additional resources that might not be available (or available on acceptable terms), require additional country-specific regulatory approvals, result in new or increasing competition, could require longer implementation times or greater start-up expenditures than anticipated, and could otherwise fail to achieve the desired results in a timely fashion, if at all. These efforts could also require that we successfully commercialize new technologies in a timely manner, price them competitively and cost-effectively, and manufacture and deliver sufficient volumes of new products of appropriate quality on time. We could be unable to increase our sales and earnings by expanding our product offerings in a cost-effective manner, and we could fail to accurately predict future customer needs and preferences or to produce viable technologies. In addition, we could invest heavily in research and development of products that do not lead to significant revenue. Even if we successfully innovate and develop new products and product enhancements, we could incur substantial costs in doing so. In addition, promising new products could fail to reach the market or realize only limited commercial success because of efficacy or safety concerns, failure to achieve positive clinical outcomes, or uncertainty over third-party reimbursement.

 

We could be subject to breaches of our information technology systems, which could damage our reputation and customer relationships. Such breaches could subject us to significant reputational, financial, legal, and operational consequences.

 

We will rely on information systems (“IS”) in our business to obtain, rapidly process, analyze and manage data to, among other things:

 

  facilitate the purchase and distribution of thousands of inventory items through numerous distributors;

 

  receive, process and ship orders on a timely basis;

 

  accurately bill and collect from thousands of customers;

 

  process payments to suppliers; and

 

  provide technical support to our customers.

 

A cyber-attack that bypasses our IS security, or employee error, malfeasance or other disruptions that cause an IS security breach could lead to a material disruption of our IS and/or the loss of business information. Such an attack could result in, among other things:

 

  the theft, destruction, loss, misappropriation or release of confidential data and intellectual property;

 

  operational or business delays;

 

  liability for a breach of personal financial and health information belonging to our customers and their patients or to our employees; and

 

  damage to our reputation

 

any of which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations. In the event of an attack, we would be exposed to a risk of loss or litigation and possible liability, including under laws that protect the privacy of personal information.

 

Litigation against us could be costly and time-consuming to defend and could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations.

 

We expect to be involved from time to time involved in various claims, litigation matters and regulatory proceedings incidental to our business, including claims for damages arising out of the use of our products or services and claims relating to intellectual property matters, employment matters, commercial disputes, competition, sales and trading practices, environmental matters, personal injury, and insurance coverage. Some of these lawsuits include claims for punitive as well as compensatory damages. The defense of these lawsuits could divert our management’s attention, and we could incur significant expenses in defending these lawsuits. In addition, we could be required to pay damage awards or settlements or become subject to unfavorable equitable remedies. Moreover, any insurance or indemnification rights that we could have may be insufficient or unavailable to protect us against potential loss exposures.

 

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If we lose our key management personnel, or are unable to attract or retain qualified personnel, it could adversely affect our ability to execute our growth strategy.

 

Our success is dependent, in part, upon our ability to hire and retain management, engineers, marketing and sales personnel, technical, research and other personnel who are in high demand and are often subject to competing employment opportunities. Our success will depend on our ability to retain our current management, engineers, marketing and sales, technical, research and other personnel and to attract and retain qualified like personnel in the future. Competition for senior management, engineers, marketing and sales personnel, and other specialized technicians is intense and we may not be able to retain our personnel. If we lose the services of any executive officers, key contractors or key employees, our ability to achieve our business objectives could be harmed and our business, financial condition, and results of operations could be materially and adversely affected. In general, our officers could terminate their employment at any time without notice for any reason.

 

If we fail to comply with the reporting obligations of the Exchange Act and Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, or if we fail to maintain adequate internal control over financial reporting, our business, financial condition, and results of operations, and investors’ confidence in us, could be materially and adversely affected.

 

As a public company, we are required to comply with the periodic reporting obligations of the Exchange Act, including preparing annual reports, quarterly reports, and current reports. Our failure to prepare and disclose this information in a timely manner and meet our reporting obligations in their entirety could subject us to penalties under federal securities laws, expose us to lawsuits, and restrict our ability to access financing on favorable terms, or at all.

 

In addition, pursuant to Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, we are required to evaluate and provide a management report of our systems of internal control over financial reporting. During the course of the evaluation of our internal control over financial reporting, we could identify areas requiring improvement and could be required to design enhanced processes and controls to address issues identified through this review. This could result in significant delays and costs to us and require us to divert substantial resources, including management time, from other activities. In addition, if we fail to maintain the adequacy of our internal control over financial reporting, we may not be able to ensure that we can conclude on an ongoing basis that we have effective internal control over financial reporting in accordance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Moreover, effective internal controls are necessary for us to produce reliable financial reports and are important to help prevent fraud. Any failure to maintain compliance with the requirements of Section 404 on a timely basis could result in the loss of investor confidence in the reliability of our financial statements, which in turn could, negatively impact the trading price of our stock, and adversely affect investors’ confidence in the Company and our ability to access capital markets for financing.

 

RISKS RELATED TO OUR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

 

If the patents that we own or license, or our other intellectual property rights, do not adequately protect our technologies, we could lose market share to our competitors and be unable to operate our business profitably.

 

Our future success depends, in part, on our ability to obtain and maintain patent protection for our products and technology, to preserve our trade secrets and to operate without infringing the intellectual property of others. We rely on patents to establish and maintain proprietary rights in our technology and products. We currently possess a number of issued patents and patent applications with respect to our products and technology. However, we cannot ensure that any additional patents will be issued, that the scope of any patent protection will be effective in helping us address our competition, or that any of our patents will be held valid if subsequently challenged. It is also possible that our competitors could independently develop similar or more desirable products, duplicate our products, or design products that circumvent our patents. The laws of foreign countries may not protect our products or intellectual property rights to the same extent as the laws of the United States. In addition, there have been recent changes in the patent laws and rules of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (the “USPTO”), and there could be future proposed changes that, if enacted, have a significant impact on our ability to protect our technology and enforce our intellectual property rights. If we fail to protect our intellectual property rights adequately, our competitive position could be adversely affected, and there could be a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.

 

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If third parties claim that we infringe their intellectual property rights, we could incur liabilities and costs and have to redesign or discontinue selling certain products, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.

 

We face substantial uncertainty regarding the impact that other parties’ intellectual property positions will have on systems for diabetes treatment monitoring. The medical technology industry has in the past been characterized by a substantial amount of litigation and related administrative proceedings regarding patents and intellectual property rights. From time to time, we expect to receive, notices of claims of infringement, misappropriation, or misuse of other parties’ proprietary rights. Some of these claims could lead to litigation. We may not prevail in any future intellectual property infringement litigation given the complex technical issues and inherent uncertainties in litigation. Any claims, with or without merit, could be time-consuming and distracting to management, result in costly litigation, or cause product shipment delays. Adverse determinations in litigation could subject us to significant liability and could result in the loss of proprietary rights. A successful lawsuit against us could also force us to cease selling or redesign products that incorporate the infringed intellectual property. Additionally, we could be required to seek a license from the holder of the intellectual property to use the infringed technology, and it is possible that we may not be able to obtain a license on acceptable terms, or at all.

 

RISKS RELATED TO OUR REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT

 

Changes in government regulation or the inability to obtain or maintain necessary government approvals could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.

 

Our products are subject to extensive government regulation, both in the United States and in other countries. To clinically test, manufacture, and market products for human use, we must comply with regulations and safety standards set by the FDA and comparable state and foreign agencies. Regulations adopted by the FDA are wide-ranging and govern, among other things, product design, development, manufacture and control testing, labeling control, storage, advertising, and sales. Generally, products must meet regulatory standards as safe and effective for their intended use before being marketed for human applications. The clearance process is expensive, time-consuming, and uncertain. Failure to comply with applicable regulatory requirements of the FDA can result in an enforcement action which could include a variety of sanctions, including fines, injunctions, civil penalties, recall or seizure of our products, operating restrictions, partial suspension, or total shutdown of production and criminal prosecution. The failure to receive or maintain requisite approvals for the use of our products or processes, or significant delays in obtaining such approvals, could prevent us from developing, manufacturing, and marketing products and services necessary for us to remain competitive.

 

If we develop new products and applications or make any significant modifications to our existing products or labeling, we will need to obtain additional regulatory clearances or approvals. Any modification that could significantly affect a product’s safety or effectiveness, or that would constitute a change in its intended use, will require a new FDA 510(k) clearance, or could require a Premarket approval (PMA) application. The FDA requires each manufacturer to make this determination initially, but the FDA can review any such decision and can disagree with a manufacturer’s determination. If the FDA disagrees with a manufacturer’s determination, the FDA can require the manufacturer to cease marketing and/or recall the modified device until 510(k) clearance or Premarket approval (PMA) is obtained. If 510(k) clearance is denied and a Premarket approval (PMA) application is required, we could be required to submit substantially more data and conduct human clinical testing and would very likely be subject to a significantly longer review period.

 

Products sold in international markets are also subject to the regulatory requirements of each respective country or region. The regulations of the European Union require that a device have a CE Mark, indicating conformance with European Union laws and regulations before it can be sold in the European Union. The regulatory international review process varies from country to country. We expect to rely on our compliance consultants in any foreign countries in which we may market our products to comply with the regulatory laws of such countries. Failure to comply with the laws of such countries could prevent us from selling products in such countries. In addition, unanticipated changes in existing regulatory requirements or the adoption of new requirements could impose significant costs and burdens on us, which could increase our operating expenses.

 

Changes in health care regulations in the U.S. and elsewhere could adversely affect the demand for our products as well as the way in which we conduct our business. For example, in 2010, President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, which included various reforms impacting Medicare coverage and reimbursement, including revision to prospective payment systems, any of which could adversely impact any Medicare reimbursements received by our end-user customers. New legislation may be enacted as President Trump and Congress consider further reform. In addition, as a result of the focus on health care reform, there is risk that Congress could implement changes in laws and regulations governing health care service providers, including measures to control costs, and reductions in reimbursement levels. We cannot be sure that government or private third-party payers will cover and reimburse the treatments using our products, in whole or in part, in the future, or that payment rates will be adequate. If healthcare providers cannot obtain adequate coverage and reimbursement for our products, or the procedures in which they are used, our business, results of operations, and financial condition could suffer.

 

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We could be subject to or otherwise affected by federal and state health care laws, including fraud and abuse and health information privacy and security laws, and we could face substantial penalties if we are unable to fully comply with such regulations.

 

We are directly or indirectly, through our customers, subject to extensive regulation by both the federal government and the states and foreign countries in which we conduct our business. The laws that directly or indirectly affect our ability to operate our business include, but are not limited to, the following:

 

  the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, which regulates the design, testing, manufacture, labeling, marketing, distribution, and sale of prescription drugs and medical devices;

 

  state food and drug laws;

 

  the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, which prohibits persons from knowingly and willfully soliciting, offering, receiving, or providing remuneration, directly or indirectly, to induce the referral for the furnishing of, or the purchase, order, or recommendation of, a good or service, for which payment could be made under FHCPs such as Medicare, Medicaid, and TRICARE;

 

  state law equivalents to the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, which may not be limited to government reimbursed items;

 

  state laws that prohibit fee-splitting arrangements;

 

  the federal Civil False Claims Act, which imposes liability on any person or entity that knowingly presents, or causes to be presented, a false or fraudulent claim for payment to the government, including FHCPs;

 

 

state false claims laws that prohibit anyone from presenting, or causing to be presented, claims for payment to third-party payers that are false or fraudulent;

 

  federal crimes for knowingly and willfully executing a scheme to defraud any health care benefit program or making false statements in connection with the delivery of or payment for items or services under a health care benefit program;

 

  federal law prohibiting offering remuneration to a Medicare or Medicaid beneficiary to influence the beneficiary’s selection of a particular provider, practitioner, or supplier;

 

  the federal Stark Law, which, in the absence of a statutory or regulatory exception, prohibits: (i) the referral of Medicare or Medicaid patients by a physician to an entity for the provision of designated health care services, if the physician or a member of the physician’s immediate family has a direct or indirect financial relationship, including an ownership interest in, or a compensation arrangement with, the entity and (ii) submitting a bill to Medicare or Medicaid for services rendered pursuant to a prohibited referral;

 

  state law equivalents to the Stark Law, which may not be limited to government reimbursed items;

 

  the Physician Payments Sunshine Act, which requires us to report annually to CMS certain payments and other transfers of value we make to U.S.-licensed physicians, dentists, and teaching hospitals;

 

  the FCPA, which generally prohibits companies and their intermediaries from paying anything of value to foreign officials to influence any decision of the foreign official in his/her official capacity or to secure any other improper advantage to obtain or retain business;

 

  HIPAA and HITECH and their implementing regulations, which govern the use, disclosure, and safeguarding of PHI;

 

  state privacy laws that protect the confidentiality of patient information;

 

  Medicare and Medicaid laws and regulations that prescribe the requirements for coverage and payment, including the amount of such payment; state laws that prohibit the practice of medicine by non-physicians; and

 

  the Federal Trade Commission Act and similar laws regulating advertising and consumer protection.

 

If our past, present, or future operations are found to be in violation of any of the laws described above or the other governmental laws or regulations to which we or our customers are subject, we could be subject to the applicable penalty associated with the violation, which could include civil and criminal penalties, damages, fines, exclusion from FHCPs, and the curtailment or restructuring of our operations. If we are required to obtain permits or license under these laws that we do not already possess, we could become subject to substantial additional regulation or incur significant expense. Any penalties, damages, fines, or curtailment or restructuring of our operations could be significant. The risk of potential non-compliance is increased by the fact that many of these laws have not been fully interpreted by applicable regulatory authorities or the courts, and their provisions are open to a variety of interpretations and additional legal or regulatory change. Any action against us for violation of these laws, even if we successfully defend against it, could cause us to incur significant legal expenses, divert our management’s attention from the operation of our business, damage our reputation, and cause a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.

 

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Product sales or introductions could be delayed or canceled as a result of the FDA regulatory requirements applicable to diabetes testing products, treatment management systems, or both, which could cause our sales or profitability to decline and have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.

 

The process of obtaining and maintaining regulatory approvals and clearances to market a medical device from the FDA and similar regulatory authorities abroad can be costly and time-consuming, and we cannot provide assurance that such approvals and clearances will be granted. Pursuant to FDA regulations, unless exempt, the FDA permits commercial distribution of a new medical device only after the device has received 510(k) clearance or is the subject of an approved Premarket approval (PMA). The FDA will clear marketing of a medical device through the 510(k) process if it is demonstrated that the new product is substantially equivalent to other 510(k)-cleared products. The pre-market approval process is more costly, lengthy and uncertain than the 510(k) process, and must be supported by extensive data, including data from preclinical studies, and human clinical trials. Because we cannot provide assurance that any new products, or any product enhancements, that we develop will be subject to the shorter 510(k) clearance process, significant delays in the introduction of any new products or product enhancement could occur. We cannot provide assurance that the FDA will not require a new product or product enhancement to go through the lengthy and expensive PMA process. Delays in obtaining regulatory clearances and approvals could:

 

  delay or eliminate commercialization of products we develop;

 

  require us to perform costly procedures;

 

  diminish any competitive advantages that we may attain; and

 

  reduce our ability to collect revenues or royalties.

 

Although we have obtained 510(k) clearance from the FDA to market our Diabetes Solution, we cannot provide assurance that the clearance of these systems will not be withdrawn or that we will not be required to obtain new clearances or approvals for modifications or improvements to our products.

 

Our products are subject to recalls and other regulatory actions after receiving FDA clearance or approval.

 

The FDA and similar governmental bodies in other countries have the authority to require the recall of our products in the event of material deficiencies or defects in design or manufacture. A government mandated or voluntary recall by us could occur as a result of component failures, manufacturing errors, or design defects, including defects in labeling. Any recall would divert management’s attention and financial resources and harm our reputation with customers. Any recall involving our Diabetes Solution would be particularly harmful to us, because our Diabetes Solution is our sole product. However, any recall could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.

 

RISKS RELATED TO OUR STOCK

 

The liquidity and trading volume of our common stock could be low, and our ownership is concentrated.

 

The liquidity and trading volume of our common stock has at times been low in the past and could again be low in the future. If the liquidity and trading volume of our common stock is low, this could adversely impact the trading price of our shares, our ability to issue stock and our stockholders’ ability to obtain liquidity in their shares. In addition, our Chairman and sole executive officer Sidney Chan and his affiliates own in excess of 75% of outstanding common stock as at the date of this Registration Statement.

 

As a result, Mr. Chan and his affiliates will be able to affect the outcome of, or exert significant influence over, all matters requiring stockholder approval, including the election and removal of directors and any change in control. In particular, this concentration of ownership of our common stock could have the effect of delaying or preventing a change in control of our company or otherwise discouraging or preventing a potential acquirer from attempting to obtain control of our company. This, in turn, could have a negative effect on the market price of our common stock. It could also prevent our stockholders from realizing a premium over the market prices for their shares of common stock. Moreover, the interests of this concentration of ownership may not always coincide with our interests or the interests of other stockholders. The concentration of ownership also contributes to the low trading volume and volatility of our common stock.

 

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Our stock price has been, and could continue to be, volatile.

 

There has been significant volatility in the market price and trading volume of equity securities, which is often unrelated to the financial performance of the companies issuing the securities. These broad market fluctuations could negatively affect the market price of our stock. The market price and volume of our common stock could fluctuate, and in the past has fluctuated, more dramatically than the stock market in general. You may not be able to resell your shares at or above the price you paid for them due to fluctuations in the market price of our stock caused by changes in our operating performance or prospects or other factors. Some factors, in addition to the other risk factors identified above, that could have a significant effect on our stock market price include but are not limited to the following:

 

  actual or anticipated fluctuations in our operating results or future prospects;

 

  our announcements or our competitors’ announcements of new products;

 

  the public’s reaction to our press releases, our other public announcements, and our filings with the SEC;

 

  strategic actions by us or our competitors, such as acquisitions or restructurings;

 

  new laws or regulations or new interpretations of existing laws or regulations applicable to our business;

 

  changes in accounting standards, policies, guidance, interpretations, or principles;

 

  changes in our growth rates or our competitors’ growth rates;

 

  developments regarding our patents or proprietary rights or those of our competitors;

 

  our inability to raise additional capital as needed;

 

  concerns or allegations as to the safety or efficacy of our products;

 

  changes in financial markets or general economic conditions;

 

  sales of stock by us or members of our management team, our Board, our significant stockholders, or certain institutional stockholders; and

 

  changes in stock market analyst recommendations or earnings estimates regarding our stock, other comparable companies or our industry generally.

 

You could experience substantial dilution of your investment as a result of subsequent exercises of our outstanding options, vesting of restricted stock units, future sales of our equity, or the future grant of equity by us.

 

You could experience substantial dilution of your investment as a result of subsequent exercises of outstanding warrants and outstanding options issued as compensation for services performed by employees, directors, consultants, and others, future sales of our equity, or the grant of future equity-based awards. As of October 30, 2020, an aggregate of 5,362,701,500 shares of common stock were authorized for issuance pursuant to the exercise of outstanding stock options having a weighted-average exercise price of $0.005 per share. To the extent that outstanding options are exercised, our existing stockholders will experience dilution. We rely heavily on equity awards to motivate current contractors and employees and to attract new employees. The grant of future equity awards by us to our contractors, employees and other service providers could further dilute our stockholders’ interests in the Company.

 

Anti-takeover provisions in our charter, bylaws, other agreements, and under Nevada law could discourage, delay, or prevent a change in control of the Company.

 

Provisions in our restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws could discourage, delay, or prevent a merger or acquisition involving us that our stockholders may consider favorable. These provisions include but are not limited to the right of our Board to issue preferred stock without stockholder approval, no stockholder ability to fill director vacancies, elimination of the rights of our stockholders to act by written consent and call special stockholder meetings, super-majority vote requirements for certain amendments to our certificate of incorporation and stockholder proposals for amendments to our bylaws, prohibition against stockholders from removing directors other than “for cause” and rules regarding how stockholders may present proposals or nominate directors for election at stockholder meetings.

 

We are also subject to the anti-takeover provisions of the Nevada Revised Statues. Under these provisions, if anyone becomes an “interested stockholder,” we may not enter into a “business combination” with that person for two years without special approval, which could discourage a third-party from making a takeover offer and could delay or prevent a change in control of us. An “interested stockholder” generally means (subject to certain exceptions as described in the Nevada General Corporation Law) someone owning voting stock of our Company and who is an officer, director, or employee of our Company during the past two years, or who is an acquiring person in a contemplated transaction.

 

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Because we do not intend to pay dividends, our stockholders will benefit from an investment in our common stock only if it appreciates in value.

 

We intend to retain our future earnings, if any, to finance the expansion of our business and do not expect to pay any cash dividends in the foreseeable future. As a result, the success of an investment in our common stock will depend entirely upon any future appreciation. There is no guarantee that our common stock will appreciate in value or even maintain the price at which our stockholders purchased their shares.

 

USE OF PROCEEDS

 

Although we cannot determine what the actual net proceeds from the sale of the shares of common stock in the rights offering will be until the rights offering is completed, assuming all subscription rights are exercised, we estimate that the aggregate net proceeds from the rights offering, after deducting estimated offering expenses, will be approximately $6,320,000. We intend to use the net proceeds we receive from the rights offering to provide for our general working capital needs.

 

The precise amount and timing of the application of such proceeds will depend upon our funding requirements and the availability and cost of other funds. Our Board and management will have considerable discretion in the application of the net proceeds from the rights offering, and it is possible that we may allocate the proceeds differently than investors in the rights offering may desire or that we may fail to maximize the return on these proceeds. You will be relying on the judgment of our management with regard to the use of proceeds from the rights offering, and you will not have the opportunity, as part of your investment decision, to assess whether the proceeds are being used appropriately.

 

CAPITALIZATION

The following table sets forth our capitalization October 30, 2020 and as adjusted to reflect the sale of 127,522,227 shares of our common stock, assuming all subscription rights are exercised, at the subscription price of $0.05 per share and the receipt of the net proceeds from the rights offering after deducting estimated offering expenses in the amount of $56,111. The table does not reflect the use of proceeds from the rights offering. The information presented in the table below should be read in conjunction with our unaudited consolidated financial statements and notes thereto incorporated by reference into this prospectus.

 

   Actual as of
October 30, 2020
(unaudited)
   As Adjusted for
Rights Offering
 
   $(in thousands, except per share data) 
STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY:          
Common stock, $0.001 par value, 10,000,000,000 shares authorized; 511,020,709 shares issued and outstanding   511    639 
Additional paid-in capital   70,900    77,200 
Accumulated deficit   (92,700)   (92,700)
Total stockholders’ equity   (21,289)   (14,861)
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity  $11    6,439

 

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PRICE RANGE OF COMMON STOCK AND DIVIDEND POLICY  

Our common stock is listed and traded on the OTCQB under the symbol “ALRT.” On October 30, 2020, the most recent practicable date before the date of this prospectus, we had 511,020,709 shares of common stock outstanding and approximately 132 holders of record of the common stock, and the closing price of our common stock as reported on the OTCQB was $0.062 per share.

The following table summarizes the high and low closing sale prices per share of our common stock for the periods indicated, as reported on the OTCQB. These prices do not include adjustments for retail mark-ups, markdowns or commissions.

 

   Price Range 
   Low   High 
Year ending December 31, 2020        
First Quarter  $0.017   $0.047 
Second Quarter  $0.030   $0.065 
Third Quarter (through September 30, 2020)  $0.038   $0.087 
Year ended December 31, 2019          
First Quarter  $0.020   $0.048 
Second Quarter  $0.035   $0.042 
Third Quarter  $0.028   $0.052 
Fourth Quarter  $0.014   $0.039 
Year ended December 31, 2018          
First Quarter  $0.026   $0.074 
Second Quarter  $0.030   $0.056 
Third Quarter  $0.036   $0.074 
Fourth Quarter  $0.031   $0.064 

 

The foregoing table shows only historical comparisons. These comparisons may not provide meaningful information to you in determining whether to purchase shares of common stock in the rights offering. You are urged to obtain current market quotations for our common stock and to review carefully the other information included in, or incorporated by referenced into, this prospectus.

 

We intend to retain our available funds from earnings and other sources for future growth and, therefore, do not anticipate paying any cash dividends in the foreseeable future. Additionally, we do not anticipate paying any stock dividends in the foreseeable future. Our dividend policy may be changed at any time, and from time to time, by our Board. We did not pay or declare any dividends in 2020, 2019 or 2018.

 

THE RIGHTS OFFERING

 

The following describes the rights offering in general and assumes, unless specifically provided otherwise, that you are a record holder of our common stock on the record date. If you hold your shares in a brokerage account or through a broker, dealer, custodian bank or other nominee, please also refer to “—Method of Exercising Subscription Rights — Subscription by Beneficial Owners.”

 

The Subscription Rights

We are distributing to holders of shares of our common stock as of 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on October 30, 2020, which is the record date for the rights offering, at no charge, non-transferable subscription rights to purchase shares of our common stock at $0.05 per share (a price that is a 19.4% discount to the closing price of our common stock as reported on the OTCQB on the record date). Each holder of record of our common stock will receive one subscription right for each share of our common stock owned by such holder as of 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on the record date. Each whole subscription right entitles the holder to a basic subscription right (as described below). The subscription rights entitle the holders of our common stock to purchase an aggregate of 127,522,227 shares of our common stock for an aggregate subscription price of $6,376,111. The shares to be issued in the rights offering, like our existing shares of common stock, will be quoted on the OTCQB under the symbol “ALRT.”

Basic Subscription Right. The basic subscription right provides the holder of each whole subscription right the opportunity to purchase one share of our common stock at subscription price of $0.05 per share, subject to delivery of the required documents and payment of the subscription price prior to the expiration of the rights offering. You may exercise all or a portion of your basic subscription rights or you may choose not to exercise any subscription rights at all. Subscription rights may only be exercised in whole numbers; we will not issue fractional shares and will round all of the subscription rights down to the nearest whole number.

 

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Reasons for the Rights Offering

 

We are engaging in the rights offering to provide for our general working capital needs. Our Board has chosen, as recommended by management, to raise capital through a rights offering to give all our stockholders the opportunity to limit ownership dilution by buying additional shares of common stock. Our Board also considered several alternative capital raising methods prior to concluding that the rights offering was the appropriate option under the current circumstances. Our Board believes that the rights offering will strengthen the Company’s financial condition by generating additional cash and increasing its capital position.

 

Based on its consideration of these factors, the information and analyses regarding the rights offering prepared by management and the recommendation of management that the rights offering is in the best interests of the Company in light of the information available to management, and the additional information and documentation reviewed by our Board, our Board approved the rights offering and determined that the rights offering is in the best interests of the Company and its stockholders. However, our Board is not making any recommendation regarding your exercise of the subscription rights. We cannot assure you that we will not need to seek additional financing or engage in additional capital offerings in the future or that the rights offering will raise sufficient capital to provide for our general working capital needs.

 

Determination of Subscription Price

 

The Board has determined the subscription price based on a variety of factors, including historical and current trading prices for our common stock, recent share based transactions involving our affiliates, the price of most recently issued outstanding stock options held by our affiliates, general business conditions, our need for capital, alternatives available to us for raising capital, potential market conditions, and our desire to provide an opportunity to our stockholders to participate in the rights offering on a pro rata basis. In conjunction with its review of these factors, the Board also reviewed our history and prospects, including our past and present earnings, our prospects for future earnings, and the outlook for our industry, and our current financial condition.

 

We cannot assure you that the market price of our shares of common stock will not decline during or after the rights offering. We also cannot assure you that you will be able to sell shares of our common stock purchased during the rights offering at a price equal to or greater than the subscription price. We urge you to obtain a current quote for our common stock before exercising your subscription rights.

 

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No Purchase Commitment

Our Chairman Sidney Chan, who, together with his affiliates, owns an aggregate of 383,498,482 shares of our common stock, or approximately 75% of the shares outstanding, and our Directors Peter Stafford, Kenneth Robulak, Alfonso Salas, and Ronald Cheng, who collectively own an aggregate of 4,473,538 shares of our common stock, or approximately 0.9% of the shares outstanding, have each agreed with us not to exercise their respective basic subscription rights pursuant to the rights offering. None of basic subscription rights attached to the shares of common stock owned by Mr. Chan or his affiliates are being registered pursuant to this offering, and will not, accordingly be made available to non-shareholder purchaser. Mr. Chan and his affiliates elected not to participate in this offering owing to their agreement on September 21, 2020 to accept 240,000,000 of our common shares at a price of $0.05 per share in consideration for the retirement of an aggregate amount of $12,000,000 payable to them by the Company. The subscription rights attached to the 4,473,538 shares of common stock held by our other Directors are being registered pursuant to this offering, and may be available for purchase by non-shareholders at the discretion of management within 90 days following the expiration date of the offering.

 

Method of Exercising Subscription Rights

127,522,227 non-transferable subscription rights are being distributed for each share of our common stock that you owned as of 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on October 30, 2020, the record date for the rights offering. The exercise of subscription rights is irrevocable and may not be cancelled or modified. You may exercise your subscription rights as follows:

Subscription by Registered Holders. If you are a registered holder of shares of our common stock, the number of subscription rights you may exercise is indicated on the enclosed rights certificate. You may exercise your subscription rights by properly completing and executing the rights certificate and forwarding it, together with your full payment, to the subscription agent at the address set forth below under “—Subscription Agent,” to be received prior to 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on December 15, 2020, the expiration date for the rights offering.

Subscription by Beneficial Owners. If you are a beneficial owner of shares of our common stock that are registered in the name of a custodian bank, broker, dealer or other nominee, you will not receive a rights certificate. Instead, one subscription right will be issued to the nominee record holder for each share of our common stock that you own at the record date. If you are not contacted by your nominee, you should promptly contact your nominee in order to subscribe for shares of our common stock in the rights offering.

If you hold your shares of common stock in the name of a custodian bank, broker, dealer or other nominee, your nominee will exercise the subscription rights on your behalf in accordance with your instructions. Your nominee may establish a deadline that may be before 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on December 15, 2020, the expiration date for the rights offering.

 

Payment Method

 

As described in the instructions accompanying the rights certificate, payments submitted to the subscription agent must be made in full United States currency by personal check payable to Pacific Stock Transfer fbo ALR Technologies Inc., the subscription agent, drawn upon a United States bank.

 

Payment will be deemed to have been received by the subscription agent only upon the subscription agent’s receipt of a personal check, receipt and clearance of such check.

 

Please note that funds paid by uncertified personal check may take at least seven business days to clear. Accordingly, if you wish to pay by means of an uncertified personal check, we urge you to make payment sufficiently in advance of the expiration date to ensure that the subscription agent receives cleared funds before that time.

 

Your subscription rights will not be successfully exercised unless the subscription agent actually receives from you, your custodian bank, broker, dealer or other nominee, as the case may be, all of the required documents and your full subscription price payment (and your payment has cleared) prior to 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on December 15, 2020, the scheduled expiration date of the rights offering, unless you have used the guaranteed delivery procedures described under “—Notice of Guaranteed Delivery.”

You should read and follow the instructions accompanying the rights certificate carefully. As described in the instructions accompanying the rights certificate, in certain cases additional documentation or signature guarantees may be required.

 

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The method of delivery of payments of the subscription amount to the subscription agent will be at the risk of the holders of subscription rights. If sent by mail, we recommend that you send those documents and payments by registered mail, properly insured, with return receipt requested, and that a sufficient number of days be allowed to ensure timely delivery to the subscription agent. Do not send or deliver these materials to us.

 

There is no sales fee or commission payable by you in connection with the issuance of subscription rights or the issuance of shares of common stock if you exercise your subscription rights (other than the subscription price). We will pay all fees charged by the subscription agent. However, if you exercise your subscription rights through a custodian bank, broker, dealer or other nominee, you are responsible for paying any other commissions, fees, taxes or other expenses your nominee may charge you in connection with the exercise of the subscription rights.

 

Medallion Guarantee May Be Required

 

Your signature on your rights certificate must be guaranteed by an eligible institution, such as a member firm of a registered national securities exchange or a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States, subject to standards and procedures adopted by the subscription agent, unless:

 

  you provide on the rights certificate that shares are to be delivered in your name and to your address of record, as imprinted on the face of the rights certificate; or

 

  you are an eligible institution.

 

Delivery to any address or by a method other than those set forth above does not constitute valid delivery. 

Missing or Incomplete Subscription Information

If you send a payment that is insufficient to purchase the number of shares you requested, or if the number of shares you requested is not specified in the forms you submit, the payment received will first be applied, to the fullest extent possible based on the amount of the payment received, to exercise your basic subscription rights. Any excess subscription payments received by the subscription agent will be returned promptly, without interest or penalty, following the expiration of the rights offering.

If you deliver your rights certificate and other documents or payment in a manner different from that described in this prospectus, we may not honor the exercise of your subscription rights.

Expiration Date

The period during which you may exercise your subscription rights expires at 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on December 15, 2020. If you do not exercise your subscription rights prior to that time, your subscription rights will expire and will no longer be exercisable. We will not be required to issue shares of our common stock to you if the subscription agent receives your rights certificate or your subscription payment after that time, unless you have used the guaranteed delivery procedures described under “—Notice of Guaranteed Delivery.” We have the option to extend the rights offering without notice to you. If we elect to extend the expiration of the rights offering, we will issue a press release announcing such extension no later than the next business day after our Board extends the rights offering.

If you hold your shares of common stock in the name of a custodian bank, broker, dealer or other nominee, your nominee will exercise the subscription rights on your behalf in accordance with your instructions. Your nominee may establish a deadline that may be before 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on December 15, 2020, the expiration date for the rights offering.

 

Conditions, Withdrawal and Termination

We reserve the right to withdraw the rights offering at any time for any reason. In addition, we may terminate the rights offering if at any time before completion of the rights offering there is any judgment, order, decree, injunction, statute, law or regulation entered, enacted, amended or held to be applicable to the rights offering that in the sole judgment of our Board would or might make the rights offering or its completion, whether in whole or in part, illegal or otherwise restrict or prohibit completion of the rights offering. If our Board cancels the rights offering, all affected subscription rights will expire without value, and all subscription payments received by the subscription agent will be returned promptly, without interest or penalty.

 

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Subscription and Information Agent

We retained Pacific Stock Transfer to serve as the subscription agent and as the information agent for the rights offering. The agent will maintain the list of subscriptions. We will pay all fees and expenses of the agent related to the rights offering and have also agreed to indemnify the agent from certain liabilities that it may incur in connection with the rights offering. If your shares are held in the name of a broker, dealer, custodian bank or other nominee, then you should send your subscription documents and subscription payment to that record holder. If you are the record holder, then you should send your subscription documents, rights certificate, subscription payment or, if applicable, notice of guaranteed delivery, to the address provided below. If sent by mail, we recommend that you send documents and payments by registered mail, properly insured, with return receipt requested, and that a sufficient number of days be allowed to ensure delivery to the subscription agent. Do not send or deliver these materials to the Company.

 

By Overnight Courier, or Registered Certified or Express Mail  
   
Pacific Stock Transfer  
6725 Via Austi Pkwy, Suite 300  
Las Vegas, NV 89119  

 

No Fractional Shares

We will not issue fractional shares in connection with the rights offering. Fractional shares of our common stock resulting from the exercise of the basic subscription rights will be eliminated by rounding down to the nearest whole share. Any excess subscription payments received by the subscription agent will be returned promptly, without interest, following expiration of the rights offering.

 

Notice to Nominees

 

If you are a custodian bank, broker, dealer or other nominee who holds shares of our common stock for the account of others on the record date, you should notify the beneficial owners of the shares for whom you are the nominee of the rights offering as soon as possible to learn their intentions with respect to exercising their subscription rights. You should obtain instructions from the beneficial owners with respect to their subscription rights, as set forth in the instructions we have provided to you for your distribution to beneficial owners. If the beneficial holder so instructs, you should complete the rights certificate and submit it to the subscription agent together with the form entitled “Nominee Holder Election Form” and with the proper payment. We will provide the Nominee Holder Election Form to you with your rights offering materials. If you did not receive this form, you should contact the information agent to request a copy. If you hold shares of our common stock for the account(s) of more than one beneficial owner, you may exercise the number of subscription rights to which all such beneficial owners in the aggregate otherwise would have been entitled had they been direct record holders of our common stock on the record date, provided that you, as a nominee record holder, make a proper showing to the subscription agent by submitting the Nominee Holder Election Form.

 

In the case of subscription rights that you hold of record on behalf of others through DTC, those subscription rights may be exercised by instructing DTC to transfer the subscription rights from your DTC account to the subscription agent’s DTC account, and by delivering to the subscription agent the required certification as to the number of shares subscribed for pursuant to the exercise of the subscription rights of the beneficial owners on whose behalf you are acting, together with payment of the full subscription price.

 

Notice of Guaranteed Delivery

 

If you wish to exercise your subscription rights, but you do not have sufficient time to deliver the rights certificate evidencing your subscription rights to the subscription agent, on or before the time the rights offering expires, you may exercise your subscription rights by the following guaranteed delivery procedures:

 

  deliver to the subscription agent on or prior to the rights offering expiration date your subscription price payment in full for each share you subscribed for under your basic subscription right in the manner set forth above under “—Payment Method”;

 

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  deliver to the subscription agent on or prior to the expiration date the form entitled “Notice of Guaranteed Delivery,” substantially in the form provided with the “Instructions For Use of ALR Technologies Inc. Certificates” distributed with your rights certificates; and

 

  deliver the properly completed rights certificate evidencing your subscription rights being exercised and the related nominee holder certification, if applicable, with any required signature guarantee, to the subscription agent no later than two business days after the expiration date of the rights offering. For purposes of these notice of guaranteed delivery procedures, “business day” means any day on which trading is conducted on the OTCQB.

 

Your notice of guaranteed delivery must be delivered in substantially the same form provided with the Instructions For Use of ALR Technologies Inc. Rights Certificates, which will be distributed to you with your rights certificate. Your notice of guaranteed delivery must include a signature guarantee from a member firm of a registered national securities exchange or a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc., or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States, or a bank, stockbroker, savings and loan association or credit union with membership in an approved signature guarantee medallion program, pursuant to Rule 17Ad-15 of the Exchange Act (each, an “Eligible Institution”). A form of that guarantee is included with the notice of guaranteed delivery.

 

In your notice of guaranteed delivery, you must state:

 

  your name;

 

  the number of subscription rights represented by your rights certificates, the number of shares of our common stock for which you are subscribing under your basic subscription right; and

 

  your guarantee that you will deliver to the subscription agent the rights certificate evidencing the subscription rights you are exercising within two business days following the expiration of the rights offering.

 

You may deliver your notice of guaranteed delivery to the subscription agent in the same manner as your rights certificate at the address set forth above under “—Subscription Agent” or may be transmitted, if transmitted by an Eligible Institution, to the subscription agent by email to info@pacificstocktransfer.com..

 

The agent will send you additional copies of the form of notice of guaranteed delivery if you request them by calling 702-361-3033, or by emailing info@pacificstocktransfer.com.

 

Beneficial Owners

 

If you are a beneficial owner of shares of our common stock and will receive your subscription rights through a custodian bank, broker, dealer or other nominee, we will ask your nominee to notify you of the rights offering. If you wish to exercise your subscription rights, you will need to have your custodian bank, broker, dealer or other nominee act for you, as described above. To indicate your decision with respect to your subscription rights, you should follow the instructions of your nominee. If you wish instead to obtain a separate rights certificate, you should contact your nominee as soon as possible and request that a rights certificate be issued to you. You should contact your nominee if you do not receive notice of the rights offering, but you believe you are entitled to participate in the rights offering. We are not responsible if you do not receive the notice by mail or otherwise from your nominee or if you receive notice without sufficient time to respond to your nominee by the deadline established by your nominee, which may be before 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on December 15, 2020, the expiration date.

 

Non-Transferability of Subscription Rights

 

The subscription rights granted to you are non-transferable and, therefore, you may not sell, transfer or assign your subscription rights to anyone. The subscription rights will not be listed for trading on the OTCQB or any other market or stock exchange. The shares of our common stock issuable upon exercise of the subscription rights will be listed on the OTCQB under the ticker symbol “ALRT.”

 

Validity of Subscriptions

 

We will resolve, in our sole discretion, all questions regarding the validity and form of the exercise of your subscription rights, including time of receipt and eligibility to participate in the rights offering. Our determination will be final and binding. Once made, subscriptions and directions are irrevocable, and we will not accept any alternative, conditional or contingent subscriptions or directions. We reserve the absolute right to reject any subscriptions or directions not properly submitted or the acceptance of which would be unlawful. You must resolve any irregularities in connection with your subscriptions before the subscription period expires, unless waived by us in our sole discretion. Neither the Company nor the subscription agent shall be under any duty to notify you or your representative of defects in your subscriptions. A subscription will be considered accepted, subject to our right to withdraw or terminate the rights offering, only when a properly completed and duly executed rights certificate and any other required documents and the full subscription payment have been received by the subscription agent. Our interpretations of the terms and conditions of the rights offering will be final and binding.

 

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Funding Arrangements; Return of Funds

 

Pacific Stock Transfer the subscription agent, will hold funds received in payment for shares of our common stock in a segregated account pending completion of the rights offering. The subscription agent will hold this money until the rights offering is completed or is withdrawn or terminated. If the rights offering is canceled for any reason, all subscription payments received by the subscription agent will be returned to subscribers, without interest or penalty, as soon as practicable.

 

Uncertificated Shares of Common Stock

 

All shares of our common stock that you purchase in the rights offering will be issued in book-entry, or uncertificated, form. When issued, the shares will be registered in the name of the subscription rights holder of record. As soon as practicable after the expiration of the rights offering, the subscription agent will arrange for issuance to each subscription rights holder of record that has validly exercised its subscription rights the shares of common stock purchased in the rights offering. Subject to state securities laws and regulations, we have the discretion to delay distribution of any shares you may have elected to purchase by exercise of your rights in order to comply with state securities laws.

 

Rights of Subscribers

 

You will have no rights as a stockholder with respect to the shares of our common stock purchased in the rights offering until your account, or your account at your broker, dealer, custodian bank or other nominee, is credited with such shares.

 

Foreign Stockholders

 

We will not mail this prospectus or rights certificates to stockholders with addresses that are outside the United States or Canada or that have an army post office or foreign post office address. The subscription agent will hold these rights certificates for their account. To exercise subscription rights, our foreign stockholders must notify the subscription agent prior to 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, at least three business days prior to the expiration of the rights offering (or, if the rights offering is extended, on or before three business days prior to the extended expiration date) and demonstrate to the satisfaction of the subscription agent that the exercise of such subscription rights does not violate the laws of the jurisdiction of such stockholder.

 

No Revocation or Change

 

All exercises of subscription rights are irrevocable. Once you submit the rights certificate or have instructed your nominee of your subscription request, you are not allowed to revoke or change the exercise or request a refund of monies paid, unless we are required by law to grant revocation rights, even if the market price of our common stock falls below the $0.05 per share subscription price or you learn information about us or the rights offering that you consider to be unfavorable. You should not exercise your subscription rights unless you are certain that you wish to purchase the shares of our common stock offered pursuant to the rights offering.

 

Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Treatment of Rights Distribution

 

The receipt and exercise of subscription rights by holders of shares of our common stock should generally not be taxable for U.S. federal income tax purposes. You should seek specific tax advice from your tax advisor in light of your particular circumstances and as to the applicability and effect of any other tax laws. See “Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Consequences.”

 

No Recommendation to Rights Holders

 

Our Board is not making any recommendation regarding your exercise of the subscription rights. Stockholders who exercise subscription rights risk investment loss on new money invested. We cannot predict the price at which our shares of common stock will trade, and, therefore, we cannot assure you that the market price for our common stock will be above the subscription price or that anyone purchasing shares at the subscription price will be able to sell those shares in the future at the same price or a higher price. You are urged to make your decision based on your own assessment of our business and the rights offering. Please see “Risk Factors” and all other information included in, or incorporated by reference into, this prospectus for a discussion of the risks related to the rights offering and the risks involved in investing in our common stock.

 

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Shares of Our Common Stock Outstanding After the Rights Offering

 

As of October 30, 2020, we had 511,020,709 shares of our common stock issued and outstanding. Assuming no additional shares of common stock are issued by the Company prior to consummation of the rights offering and assuming all shares are sold in the rights offering, we expect approximately 638,542,936 shares of our common stock will be outstanding immediately after completion of the rights offering.

 

Other Matters

 

We are not making the rights offering in any state or other jurisdiction in which it is unlawful to do so, nor are we distributing or accepting any offers to purchase any shares of our common stock from subscription rights holders who are residents of those states or other jurisdictions or who are otherwise prohibited by federal or state laws or regulations to accept or exercise the subscription rights. We may delay the commencement of the rights offering in those states or other jurisdictions, or change the terms of the rights offering, in whole or in part, in order to comply with the securities laws or other legal requirements of those states or other jurisdictions. Subject to state securities laws and regulations, we also have the discretion to delay allocation and distribution of any shares you may elect to purchase by exercise of your subscription rights in order to comply with state securities laws. We may decline to make modifications to the terms of the rights offering requested by those states or other jurisdictions, in which case, if you are a resident in those states or jurisdictions or if you are otherwise prohibited by federal or state laws or regulations from accepting or exercising the subscription rights, you will not be eligible to participate in the rights offering. However, we are not currently aware of any states or jurisdictions that would preclude participation in the rights offering.

 

DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS

 

Background

 

ALR Technologies Inc. (the “Company” or “ALRT”) was incorporated under the laws of the State of Nevada on March 24, 1987 as Mo Betta Corp. In April 1998, the Company changed its business purpose to marketing a pharmaceutical compliance device.

 

In December 1998, the common shares of the Company began trading on the Bulletin Board operated by the National Association of Securities Dealers Inc. under the symbol “MBET.” On December 28, 1998, the Company changed its name from Mo Betta Corp. to ALR Technologies Inc. Subsequently the symbol was changed to “ALRT.”

 

In 2011, the Company located its headquarters at 7400 Beaufont Springs Drive, Suite 300, Richmond, Virginia, 23225.

 

During 2011, the Company received FDA clearance and achieved HIPAA compliance for its Diabetes Solution. With these key achievements and successful clinical trials completed, the Company began implementing its commercialization strategy which included a pilot program with patients in Kansas in 2014. The Company obtained significant findings from this pilot program which led to the development of its Insulin Dosage Adjustment, for which it received FDA clearance in 2017, and Predictive A1C, for which it has submitted for worldwide patent application under the patent cooperation treaty to the World Intellectual Property Organization. The Company is actively seeking to commence revenue generating activities.

 

Products

 

ALRT has developed its Diabetes Solution product by utilizing internet-based technologies to facilitate the health care provider’s ability to monitor their diabetes patients’ health and ensure adherence to health maintenance activities.

 

The ALRT Diabetes Solution is a remote monitoring and care facilitation platform that allows patients to upload the blood glucose data from their meters on a weekly basis. The ALRT System processes and converts each data set to a Predictive A1C value and shares it with the patient’s physician. The System provides the physician with therapy advancement suggestions based on current clinical practice guidelines. Patients receive therapy assessments and adjustments in much shorter cycles, keeping A1Cs at target, mitigating diabetes complications and lowering costs of care.

 

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ALRT previously conducted a clinical trial utilizing manual blood glucose data analysis and follow-up care. The trial demonstrated that remote diabetes care is associated with significant lowering of A1C levels. The study concluded that continuing intervention using an internet-based glucose monitoring system is an effective way of improving glucose control compared to conventional care. A second clinical trial demonstrated that this type of Internet-based Blood Glucose Monitoring System (IBGMS) was associated with comparable reductions in A1C levels with that of more expensive Continuing Glucose Monitoring Systems (CGMS). The Company is planning further trials to demonstrate the added value of the predictive A1C and therapy advancement features of the Diabetes Solution. 

 

In the future, the Company may seek to adapt its Diabetes Solution to be used in the management of other chronic diseases. The Company may be required to obtain additional clearance from the FDA prior to commencing selling activities in the United States for other chronic health conditions.

 

Diabetes is a leading cause of death, serious illness and disability across North America. By the year 2030, it is expected that 1 in 10 adults, globally, will have diabetes (diagnosed and undiagnosed instances). We believe diabetes is a global pandemic.

 

Data from the American Diabetes Association shows 30 million Americans have diabetes and 84 million have prediabetes. That’s 1 in 3 Americans coping with the disease or serious threat of it. The total cost of diagnosed diabetes is staggering at $327 billion annually ($237 billion in direct medical costs and $90 billion in reduced productivity), putting serious drag on an already strained health care system. Taking a broader view, the global cost of diabetes was estimated at a whopping $825 billion annually in 2016.

 

Diabetes is a lifelong chronic disease with no cure. However, people with diabetes can take steps to control their disease and reduce the risk of developing the associated serious complications, thereby controlling health care costs. The Canadian Diabetes Association Clinical Practice Guidelines Expert Committee reports that, “Successful diabetes care depends on the daily commitment of persons with diabetes mellitus to self-manage through the balance of lifestyle and medication. Diabetes care should be organized around a multi- and interdisciplinary diabetes health care team that can establish and sustain a communication network between the person with diabetes and the necessary health care and community systems”. Diabetes incidence rates, economic costs and human costs are increasing even though we know how to control the disease. The Diabetes Control and Complication Trial conducted from 1983 to 1993 outlined management as follows:

 

  Testing blood glucose levels four or more times per day;
  Injecting insulin at least three times a day or using an insulin pump;
  Adjust insulin dose according to food intake and exercise;
  Following a diet and exercise plan; and
  Monthly visits to health care team.

 

We believe there are five causes for diabetes to not be controlled:

 

  1. Patient non-adherence;
  2. Unreliable data;
  3. Data overload;
  4. Clinical inertia; and
  5. Insulin under prescription.

 

As noted in Patrick Connole, “UnitedHealth care, Other Large Insurers Seek Better Adherence to Diabetes Care”, Health Plan Week, February 11, 2013 Volume 23 Issue 5, 80% of United States patients with diabetes do not follow their prescribed care plan. Central to conventional diabetes care is patient self-management.

 

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Unreliable Data

 

As noted in Gonder-Frederick, L.A., et al, “Self Measurement of Blood Glucose: Accuracy of Self-Reporting Data and Adherence to Recommended Regimen” Diabetes Care, Volume 11, no. 7, July 1988, 77% of patient data contain errors.

 

Data Overload

 

Health care professionals (the “HCPs”) face a lack of timely and reliable blood glucose data, resulting in delays to advance therapy and sub-optimal insulin dosing. The amount of patient data for clinicians to analyze is too vast and significant during 15-minute clinical appointments and the information they have is unreliable.

 

Clinical Inertia

 

As noted in Khunti, K., et al, “Clinical Inertia in People with Type 2 Diabetes: A Retrospective Cohort Study of More than 80,000 People.” Diabetes Care, Volume 36, no. 11, July 2013, across over 80,000 patients, when A1C goals were not met, therapy intensification was late across every measure. It took on average 19 months to escalate patients with an average A1C of 8.7% from single medication to dual therapy and 82 months to escalate patients with an average A1C of 8.8% from dual medication to triple therapy. Furthermore, they found that it took approximately 20 years to advance patients with an average A1C of over 9% to insulin. At the end of the study, less than 50% of the patients had their treatment intensified.

 

Furthermore, in Treatment intensification for patients with type 2 diabetes and poor glycaemic control by Fu and Sheenan, it was noted that out of 11,525 patients investigated with an A1C greater than 8% patients received intensification as follows:

 

●         37% within 6 months; 

●         11% within 6-12 months; and 

●         52% never.

 

Failure to respond to higher than targeted A1C with treatment intensification puts patients with escalated A1C at risk for complications and diabetes-associated co-morbidities.

 

Insulin Under Prescription

 

Insulin dosing is complex, requiring review of large amounts of data, which takes significant amounts of time. We believe HCPs routinely under-prescribe insulin to ensure they avoid insulin dosage adjustments, which could result in hypoglycemia for their patients.

 

Cleveland Clinic Study

 

A team at Cleveland Clinic examined historical electronic medical record data of more than 7,300 patients with type 2 diabetes and concluded that there is a pervasiveness of clinical inertia for the management of type 2 diabetes in real-world clinical practice settings.

 

The selected patients had an A1C value of ≥ 7% on a stable regimen of two oral anti-diabetic agents for at least 6 months (from 2005 to 2016). The median time to treatment intensification after A1C was above target was longer than one year. For patients with an A1c of ≥ 9%, therapy was not intensified in 44% of patients.

 

According to lead study author Dr. Kevin Pantalone of Cleveland Clinic’s Endocrinology & Metabolism Institute, “Short of a patient reporting non-adherence to their existing regimen of diabetes therapies, it is hard to imagine a reason why treatment intensification was not observed more frequently, when indicated, particularly in patients with an A1C ≥ 9%. In general, if intensification does not occur, the A1C can be expected to stay the same or get worse, it is not magically going to get better”. (emphasis added)

 

ALRT Diabetes Solution for Diabetes Monitoring

 

ALRT has created the Diabetes Solution to address the diabetes marketplace globally. The Company’s Diabetes Solution consists of hardware, software and diabetes test supplies. We designed the Diabetes Solution to be focused on the HCP and is agnostic and proactive. Our software operates on iOS, Android, Windows and MacOS systems. Enrollment into the ALRT Diabetes Solution will include a branded glucose meter, diabetes test strips, lancets and a carrying case. Our technology collects all the blood glucose data from the glucose meters, uploads it to a secure account and ships diabetes test strips as required. The patient data is aggregated to a Predictive A1C value for a comprehensive view of the treatment plan and patient adherence to the plan, with the data available (and messaged) to authorized people.

 

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 The ALRT Diabetes Solution addresses the five causes for not controlling diabetes with:

 

  Active patient monitoring;
  Direct meter uploads;
  Machine intelligent data processing;
  Predictive A1C; and
  Insulin dosage adjustment.

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DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS

 

Background

 

ALR Technologies Inc. (the “Company” or “ALRT”) was incorporated under the laws of the State of Nevada on March 24, 1987 as Mo Betta Corp. In April 1998, the Company changed its business purpose to marketing a pharmaceutical compliance device.

 

In December 1998, the common shares of the Company began trading on the Bulletin Board operated by the National Association of Securities Dealers Inc. under the symbol “MBET.” On December 28, 1998, the Company changed its name from Mo Betta Corp. to ALR Technologies Inc. Subsequently the symbol was changed to “ALRT.”

 

In 2011, the Company located its headquarters at 7400 Beaufont Springs Drive, Suite 300, Richmond, Virginia, 23225.

 

During 2011, the Company received FDA clearance and achieved HIPAA compliance for its Diabetes Solution. With these key achievements and successful clinical trials completed, the Company began implementing its commercialization strategy which included a pilot program with patients in Kansas in 2014. The Company obtained significant findings from this pilot program which led to the development of its Insulin Dosage Adjustment, for which it received FDA clearance in 2017, and Predictive A1C, for which it has submitted for worldwide patent application under the patent cooperation treaty to the World Intellectual Property Organization. The Company is actively seeking to commence revenue generating activities.

 

Products

 

ALRT has developed its Diabetes Solution product by utilizing internet-based technologies to facilitate the health care provider’s ability to monitor their diabetes patients’ health and ensure adherence to health maintenance activities.

 

The ALRT Diabetes Solution is a remote monitoring and care facilitation platform that allows patients to upload the blood glucose data from their meters on a weekly basis. The ALRT System processes and converts each data set to a Predictive A1C value and shares it with the patient’s physician. The System provides the physician with therapy advancement suggestions based on current clinical practice guidelines. Patients receive therapy assessments and adjustments in much shorter cycles, keeping A1Cs at target, mitigating diabetes complications and lowering costs of care.

 

ALRT previously conducted a clinical trial utilizing manual blood glucose data analysis and follow-up care. The trial demonstrated that remote diabetes care is associated with significant lowering of A1C levels. The study concluded that

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continuing intervention using an internet-based glucose monitoring system is an effective way of improving glucose control compared to conventional care. A second clinical trial demonstrated that this type of Internet-based Blood Glucose Monitoring System (IBGMS) was associated with comparable reductions in A1C levels with that of more expensive Continuing Glucose Monitoring Systems (CGMS). The Company is planning further trials to demonstrate the added value of the predictive A1C and therapy advancement features of the Diabetes Solution.

 

In the future, the Company may seek to adapt its Diabetes Solution to be used in the management of other chronic diseases. The Company may be required to obtain additional clearance from the FDA prior to commencing selling activities in the United States for other chronic health conditions.

 

Diabetes is a leading cause of death, serious illness and disability across North America. By the year 2030, it is expected that 1 in 10 adults, globally, will have diabetes (diagnosed and undiagnosed instances). We believe diabetes is a global pandemic.

 

Data from the American Diabetes Association shows 30 million Americans have diabetes and 84 million have prediabetes. That’s 1 in 3 Americans coping with the disease or serious threat of it. The total cost of diagnosed diabetes is staggering at $327 billion annually ($237 billion in direct medical costs and $90 billion in reduced productivity), putting serious drag on an already strained health care system. Taking a broader view, the global cost of diabetes was estimated at a whopping $825 billion annually in 2016.

 

Diabetes is a lifelong chronic disease with no cure. However, people with diabetes can take steps to control their disease and reduce the risk of developing the associated serious complications, thereby controlling health care costs. The Canadian Diabetes Association Clinical Practice Guidelines Expert Committee reports that, “Successful diabetes care depends on the daily commitment of persons with diabetes mellitus to self-manage through the balance of lifestyle and medication. Diabetes care should be organized around a multi- and interdisciplinary diabetes health care team that can establish and sustain a communication network between the person with diabetes and the necessary health care and community systems”. Diabetes incidence rates, economic costs and human costs are increasing even though we know how to control the disease. The Diabetes Control and Complication Trial conducted from 1983 to 1993 outlined management as follows:

 

  · Testing blood glucose levels four or more times per day;

 

  · Injecting insulin at least three times a day or using an insulin pump;

 

  · Adjust insulin dose according to food intake and exercise;

 

  · Following a diet and exercise plan; and

 

  · Monthly visits to health care team.

 

We believe there are five causes for diabetes to not be controlled:

 

  1. Patient non-adherence;

 

  2. Unreliable data;

 

  3. Data overload;

 

  4. Clinical inertia; and

 

  5. Insulin under prescription.

 

As noted in Patrick Connole, “UnitedHealth care, Other Large Insurers Seek Better Adherence to Diabetes Care”, Health Plan Week, February 11, 2013 Volume 23 Issue 5, 80% of United States patients with diabetes do not follow their prescribed care plan. Central to conventional diabetes care is patient self-management.

 

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Unreliable Data

 

As noted in Gonder-Frederick, L.A., et al, “Self Measurement of Blood Glucose: Accuracy of Self-Reporting Data and Adherence to Recommended Regimen” Diabetes Care, Volume 11, no. 7, July 1988, 77% of patient data contain errors.

 

Data Overload

 

Health care professionals (the “HCPs”) face a lack of timely and reliable blood glucose data, resulting in delays to advance therapy and sub-optimal insulin dosing. The amount of patient data for clinicians to analyze is too vast and significant during 15-minute clinical appointments and the information they have is unreliable.

 

Clinical Inertia

 

As noted in Khunti, K., et al, “Clinical Inertia in People with Type 2 Diabetes: A Retrospective Cohort Study of More than 80,000 People.” Diabetes Care, Volume 36, no. 11, July 2013, across over 80,000 patients, when A1C goals were not met, therapy intensification was late across every measure. It took on average 19 months to escalate patients with an average A1C of 8.7% from single medication to dual therapy and 82 months to escalate patients with an average A1C of 8.8% from dual medication to triple therapy. Furthermore, they found that it took approximately 20 years to advance patients with an average A1C of over 9% to insulin. At the end of the study, less than 50% of the patients had their treatment intensified.

 

Furthermore, in Treatment intensification for patients with type 2 diabetes and poor glycaemic control by Fu and Sheenan, it was noted that out of 11,525 patients investigated with an A1C greater than 8% patients received intensification as follows:

·         37% within 6 months;

·         11% within 6-12 months; and

·         52% never.

 

Failure to respond to higher than targeted A1C with treatment intensification puts patients with escalated A1C at risk for complications and diabetes-associated co-morbidities.

 

Insulin Under Prescription

 

Insulin dosing is complex, requiring review of large amounts of data, which takes significant amounts of time. We believe HCPs routinely under-prescribe insulin to ensure they avoid insulin dosage adjustments, which could result in hypoglycemia for their patients.

 

Cleveland Clinic Study

 

A team at Cleveland Clinic examined historical electronic medical record data of more than 7,300 patients with type 2 diabetes and concluded that there is a pervasiveness of clinical inertia for the management of type 2 diabetes in real-world clinical practice settings.

 

The selected patients had an A1C value of ≥ 7% on a stable regimen of two oral anti-diabetic agents for at least 6 months (from 2005 to 2016). The median time to treatment intensification after A1C was above target was longer than one year. For patients with an A1c of ≥ 9%, therapy was not intensified in 44% of patients.

 

According to lead study author Dr. Kevin Pantalone of Cleveland Clinic’s Endocrinology & Metabolism Institute, “Short of a patient reporting non-adherence to their existing regimen of diabetes therapies, it is hard to imagine a reason why treatment intensification was not observed more frequently, when indicated, particularly in patients with an A1C ≥ 9%. In general, if intensification does not occur, the A1C can be expected to stay the same or get worse, it is not magically going to get better”. (emphasis added)

 

ALRT Diabetes Solution for Diabetes Monitoring

 

ALRT has created the Diabetes Solution to address the diabetes marketplace globally. The Company’s Diabetes Solution consists of hardware, software and diabetes test supplies. We designed the Diabetes Solution to be focused on the HCP and is agnostic and proactive. Our software operates on iOS, Android, Windows and MacOS systems. Enrollment into the ALRT Diabetes Solution will include a branded glucose meter, diabetes test strips, lancets and a carrying case. Our technology collects all the blood glucose data from the glucose meters, uploads it to a secure account and ships diabetes test strips as required. The patient data is aggregated to a Predictive A1C value for a comprehensive view of the treatment plan and patient adherence to the plan, with the data available (and messaged) to authorized people.

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 The ALRT Diabetes Solution addresses the five causes for not controlling diabetes with:

 

  · Active patient monitoring;

 

  · Direct meter uploads;

 

  · Machine intelligent data processing;

 

  · Predictive A1C; and

 

  · Insulin dosage adjustment.

 

Active Patient Monitoring

 

Industry data indicates that 50% or more of people on medications do not take them as prescribed, and that this non-compliance contributes to 10% of hospitalizations and billions of dollars spent annually in excessive and preventable health care costs. Reminding a person to take an action is the first step in our system; monitoring their actions and their data is the second, and intervention when needed is the important follow-up.

 

The ALRT system monitors patient uploads and the underlying data providing more timely access to patient blood glucose data. Our system initiates interventions by notifying the HCP of out of range results, or failure to upload data in accordance with the requirements of the care plan. The ALRT system does not rely upon the patient to manually upload data. Once a patient completes their test blood glucose test, the ALRT Diabetes Solution will automatically receive the data at the chosen time interval. The ALRT Diabetes Solution provides the notifications and audit trail needed for achieving best practice results. Its performance tracking allows care teams to identify areas in treatment plans that require change of improvement.

 

Direct Meter Uploads

 

Data is uploaded via Bluetooth directly from the glucometer into the ALRT application. This ensures that the data is accurate and reliable based on the results of testing.

 

Machine Intelligent Data Processing

 

Our machine intelligence processes large amounts of data, notifies relevant stakeholders and flags patients for review making collaboration real time. Across segments and populations, this also provides significant data points on use of diabetes test strips and insulin, which may be significant for businesses in those industries.

 

Predicative A1C

 

Predictive A1C is a patent-pending unique feature for monitoring the effectiveness of care plans. This technology utilizes data diagnostics to compare targeted A1C with indicated results. Weekly patient blood glucose data is evaluated, and HCPs are notified as needed for care plan review when blood glucose values exceed parameters set by the HCPs. Our platform provides HCPs with patient prioritization reports and alerts based on the Predictive A1C measures and other related diagnostics. Predictive A1C was designed to assist HCPs in addressing clinical inertia in diabetes care.

 

Insulin Dose Adjustment

 

Insulin Dose Adjustment is an FDA-cleared feature that makes optimal insulin adjustment suggestions to HCPs based on dosing guidelines from organizations like American Diabetes Association. This ensures that HCPs are making timely insulin dosage assessments based on the blood testing results uploaded. ALRT’s next phase of technology advancement will produce an algorithm for advancing non-insulin diabetes therapies according to clinical practice guidelines.

 

Background

 

In August 2010, the Company received the results of a clinical trial conducted by Dr. Hugh Tildesley using the ALRT Diabetes Solution (then referred to as the “Health-e-Connect System”). The trial showed A1C dropping from 8.8% to 7.6% for the Intervention Group using ALRT’s Health-e-Connect System as part of a diabetes management program.

 

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The A1C test is important in diabetes treatment management as a long-term measure of control over blood glucose for diabetes patients. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, “In general, every percentage drop in A1C blood test results (e.g., from 8% to 7%), can reduce the risk of microvascular complications (eye, kidney and nerve diseases) by 40%”. The trial served as the basis for an article titled Effect of Internet Therapeutic Intervention on A1c Levels in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Treated with Insulin, which was published in the August 2010 Diabetes Care publication.

 

In July 2011, the follow-up results of the Dr. Tildesley clinical trial were published in the Canadian Journal of Diabetes. Dr. Tildesley conducted a 12-month study using Health-e-Connect System as an Internet Based Blood Glucose Monitoring System (IBGMS) to provide intensive blood glucose control to determine the effects of internet-based blood glucose monitoring on A1C levels in patients with type 2 diabetes treated with insulin. Dr Tildesley concluded that, “While IBGMS intervention was not a substitute for the patient–physician interaction in a clinical setting, it significantly improved A1C and, over time, we observed better glycemic control and patient satisfaction”.

 

In October 2011, the Company received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Diabetes Solution (then known as the Health-e-Connect System) for remote monitoring of patients in support of effective diabetes management programs. The 510(k) clearance enables the Company to commence with the United States marketing and sales launch of its Health-e-Connect System.

 

In September 2014, the Company initiated its pilot program with one of the Kansas City Metropolitan Physician Association clinics to deploy its Diabetes Solution. Data from the KCMPA pilot program indicated that a number of patients had achieved reductions in their A1C levels. Furthermore, the data indicated that patients that left the pilot program had increases in A1C subsequently.

 

On February 18, 2015, the Company filed a 510(k) application with the FDA to add a remote insulin dosing recommendation feature to the Company’s Diabetes Solution. The Company utilized the publicly available algorithm of the AACE and ADA. This feature allows the Company to regularly run a patient’s blood glucose data (and other key data) through the AACE and ADA algorithm. When the algorithm indicated that the patient’s dose may not be optimal, the Diabetes Solution would provide the health care provider that a dose change may be warranted and what the change would be based on AACE and ADA guidelines. The decision about the dose change would rest entirely with the health care provider. However, this new feature may make a significant contribution to improving the outcomes of diabetes patients if it allowed HCPs to keep their patients at the optimal dose for longer periods. On September 18, 2017, the Company received clearance from the FDA for its Insulin Dosage Adjustment feature within the Company’s Diabetes Solution.

 

On June 20, 2017, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer filed a worldwide patent application under the Patent Cooperation Treaty to the World Intellectual Property Office for Predictive A1C feature. The Company holds the rights to use the Predictive A1C feature. During the 2019 year, the Company and the Chairman have entered into the National Phase for the applications by applying to target member countries.

 

During 2019, the Company added automated patient management to the Diabetes Solution. The Company is also seeking to have a private label glucometer, diabetes test strips, lancets and carrying cases produced as part of the Diabetes Solution. The Company is in talks with a manufacturer that has global operations.

 

During 2019, the Company initiated support for continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) systems with the ALRT Diabetes Solution. CGM has become the standard of care for patients with type 1 diabetes and is quickly gaining favor with type 2 diabetes patients who use insulin.

 

Reimbursement for Health Professionals

 

The Company continues to work to obtain confirmation that the Diabetes Solution will allow for services to be provided by physicians that will be reimbursed by health insurance companies. The reimbursement will be a breakthrough, as physicians will be paid to provide these important new services to their patients with chronic conditions.

 

Business Development and Marketing Strategy

 

The Company is focusing its efforts on introducing and marketing its Diabetes Solution for medical clinics, hospitals and HCPs to provide direct care to patients and be reimbursed by the patients’ health benefit plans, as well as to employers due to the significant return on investment they can achieve by keeping employees/plan members healthy.

 

The Company is first targeting customers located in the United States because of the large market potential, but will also seek to obtain regulatory clearance and establish selling operations/agreements for sales and distribution in Canada, Europe, Australia, Singapore, and selected countries in Asia and South America.

 

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Other Products

 

The Company does not have any other products outside of the Diabetes Solution.

 

Manufacturers

 

The Company does not have any designated manufacturers at this time. The Company is in discussions with an international manufacturer of glucometers, diabetes test supplies and lancets for ALRT branded offerings.   

 

Selling Activities

 

The Company is actively seeking alliances with health care organizations, pharmaceutical companies, insulin providers and other health care companies that can act as catalysts to effect positive change for containing health care costs and improving health outcomes. We will work with these types of organizations to introduce the ALRT Diabetes Solution to their network and seek to start significant pilot projects that will lead to revenue-generating arrangements.

 

Patents and Trademarks

 

  US Patent D446, 740 received on August 21, 2001 for Ornamental design of a Medication Alert Device in the shape of a heart.
  US Patent D446,739 received on August 21, 2001 for Ornamental Design of a Medication Alert Device in the shape of a dog bone.
  US Patent D447,074 received on August 28, 2001 for Ornamental Design of a Medication Alert Device in the shape of a stylized paw.
  US Patent 6,934,220 received on August 23, 2005 entitled Portable Programmable Medical Alert Device.
  US Patent 7,607,431 issued October 27, 2009 for patient compliance and remote monitoring of patient’s use of nebulizer compressors.

 

The Company has the following patent applications pending:

 

  Provisional Patent Application serial number 61/271,852 filed on July 27, 2009. Title is Patient Care Coordination System Including Home Use of Medical Apparatus.

 

The Company’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer has the following patent applications under the PCT:

 

  PCT/CA2017/050753 dated June 27, 2017. Title is “method and system for monitoring a diabetes treatment plan”.

 

This patent application has been submitted to Canada, the United States of America, Europe, Singapore and Australia. The Company holds an exclusive license to the patent applications.

 

Competition

 

The Company competes with other corporations that produce diabetes compliance devices, monitoring systems and wellness applications, many of whom have greater financial, marketing and other resources than we do. A few companies currently offer compliance monitoring systems, but either a) at much higher prices, b) have fewer benefits than our system, or c) they do not have FDA clearance. The Company’s competition includes, but is not limited to, Livongo, Glooko, WellDoc, Medtronics, iGlucose and Microsoft HealthVault.

 

We feel none of these companies currently offer a comprehensive compliance system that offers the full spectrum of benefits and features that our Diabetes Solution does with the potential cost efficiencies. We believe that while some of the competitors address the issues of unreliable data and patient non-adherence, none of the competition address data overload, clinical inertia or insulin under prescription from our perspective.

 

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Employees and Independent Contractors

 

The Company has 27 personnel under employment, independent contractor and consulting arrangements. The consultants of the Company have contracts that outline their roles and responsibilities as independent contractor, as well as outline the confidentiality requirements for all matters pertaining to the Company.   

 

Recent Developments

 

On February 4, 2019, the Company granted a consultant the option to acquire of total of 2,500,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.035 per share for a term of five years. On July 15, 2019, the same consultant was granted the option to acquire an additional 7,500,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.035 per share until February 3, 2024.

 

On March 15, 2019, the Company granted the option to acquire 9,150,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.035 per share for a term of five years. The option to acquire 2,500,000 shares of common stock was granted to one consultant and the option to acquire 6,650,000 shares of common stock was granted to one director.

 

On April 12, 2019, the Company modified the option to acquire an aggregate 564,350,200 shares of common stock of the Company to extend the maturity date to April 12, 2024. The option to acquire 564,350,200 shares of common stock was held by 13 individuals, including 560,000,200 held by the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (or the “Chairman” or “Chief Executive Officer”) and 2,000,000 held by three non-executive directors. The exercise price of the options, ranging from $0.002 to $0.03 per share, was not impacted by the modification. As a result of the modification, the Company recognized stock-based compensation of $1,150,060 for the incremental fair value associated with the extension of the maturity date of the options.

 

On May 6, 2019, the Company granted the option to acquire an aggregate 13,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.035 per share for a term of five years to three non-executive directors of the Company.

 

On May 17, 2019, the Company granted the option to acquire an aggregate 27,900,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.035 per share for a term of five years to 13 optionees as follows:

 

Number of

Optionees 

Position Option to acquire common stock
One (1) Non-executive member of the Board of Directors 1,000,000
Seven (7) Software Development Team member 19,700,000
One (1) Manager, Procurement and Quality Assurance 3,000,000
Four (4) Clinical Team member 4,200,000

 

 On May 31, 2019, the Company granted the option to acquire 10,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.035 per share for a term of one year to a consultant of the Company subject to vest upon achievement of vesting milestones. The options expired unexercised.

 

On June 12, 2019, the Company granted the option to acquire an aggregate 40,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.05 per share until May 15, 2024 to three sales agents (the “US Sales Team”). The option to acquire 40,000,000 shares of common stock will vest when the US Sales Team sign up a total of 20,000 ALRT Diabetes Solution customers in the United States prior to December 31, 2020 (the “Sales Target”). To date, no options granted to these sales agents have vested.

 

On June 17, 2019, the Company’s Board of Directors approved the grant of options to acquire 15,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company for a term of five years, as follows:

 

Number of

Optionees 

Position Option to acquire common stock

Exercise 

Price 

Two (2) Sales Agent 10,000,000 $0.050
One (1) Advisor 5,000,000 $0.035

   

The 5,000,000 options approved for grant to an advisor were granted.

 

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Each sales agent was approved for the grant of 5,000,000 options subject to vesting conditions. The options are to vest when each sales agent signs up 20,000 Diabetes Solution customers in the United States prior to August 31, 2020 (the “Sales Target”). The Company reallocated the options allocated to one sales agent to support sales agent recruitment efforts. To date, 8,500,000 of the 10,000,000 option shares have been granted to sales agents vested (refer to August 16, 2019 and September 6, 2019 option issuances). To date, no options granted to these sales agents have vested.

   

On June 19, 2019, the Chairman of the Company exercised the option to acquire 25,000,000 shares of common stock at a price of $0.002 per share for a total purchase price of $50,000. The Chairman extinguished an outstanding debt owed by the Company to him in the amount of $50,000 as consideration. The Company also issued 1,000,000 common shares for the exercise of options at a price of $0.015 per share for a total purchase price of $15,000, which was settled with the extinguishment of accounts payable.

 

On June 24, 2019, the Company modified the terms of the options granted on January 31, 2018 to acquire 24,000,000 shares of common stock at a price of $0.015 for a term of five years that were subject to vest based on the achievement of certain performance milestones as follows:

 

  the option to acquire 4,000,000 shares of common stock was cancelled; and
  the vesting conditions were amended to broaden the eligible performance vesting conditions.

 

On July 15, 2019, the Company’s Board of Directors approved the grant of options to acquire 20,000,000 shares of common stock. Of the options approved for grant:

 

  the option to acquire 10,000,000 shares of common stock, with 5,000,000 options each to be granted to two prospective sales agents of the Company, which will be exercisable at a price of $0.04 per share and will vest subject to the performance as follows:
  each agent enrolling a total of 20,000 ALRT Diabetes Solution customers in certain countries located in Asia; or
  such other activities that would provide similar business impact at the sole discretion of the Board of Directors of the Company; and
  the option to acquire 10,000,000 shares of common stock:
  is allocated towards the formation of a Latin American sales team;
  will be granted upon the recruitment of sales personnel in Latin America; and
  will have performance vesting conditions to be determined by the Company’s Board of Directors at grant.

 

Although the Board of Directors have approved the 20,000,000 options referenced above, as the Company is still working on developing its Latin American and Asia sales teams, these options have not yet been granted.

 

On August 16, 2019, the Company granted the option to acquire 2,500,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.05 per share for a term of five years to a sales agent. The option to acquire 2,500,000 shares were to vest when the sales agent signed up 20,000 Diabetes Solution customers in the United States prior to May 31, 2020. The sales target was not achieved and the options expired unvested.

 

On September 6, 2019, the Company granted the option to acquire 1,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.05 per share for a term of five years to a sales agent. The option to acquire 1,000,000 shares will vest when the sales agent signs up 20,000 Diabetes Solution customers in the United States prior to August 31, 2020. The sales target was not achieved and the options expired unvested.

 

On September 17, 2019, the Company granted the option to acquire 5,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.035 per share for a term of five years to a consultant.

 

On October 3, 2019, the Company granted the option to acquire an aggregate 3,500,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.035 per share for a term of five years to two consultants.

 

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On October 24, 2019, the Company granted the option to acquire an aggregate 2,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.035 per share for a term of five years to two consultants.

 

On December 11, 2019, the Company granted one creditor the option to acquire 120,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.015 per share for a term of five years in connection with receiving additional line of credit financing. The creditor is the Chief Executive Officer of the Company.

 

On February 13, 2020, the Company entered into a agreement with Singapore General Hospital (“SGH”) to jointly undertake a novel remote diabetes management pilot to prove the efficacy of the ALRT Diabetes Solution in insulin-treated diabetes patients.

 On February 14, 2020, the Company entered into a debt settlement agreement with a non-related party whereby the parties agreed to settle $80,000, consisting of $60,000 accounts payable and $20,000 for the provision of services under a Services Agreement dated January 1, 2020, with the issuance of 2,000,000 restricted shares of common stock of the Company. The restricted shares of common stock were issued on March 11, 2020.

 

On April 1, 2020, the Company granted one consultant the option to acquire 10,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.035 per share for a term of five years.

 

On May 12, 2020, the Company’s Board of Directors approved the modification of the options to acquire 40,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company granted on June 12, 2019 at $0.05 per share to extend the period of vesting from May 31, 2020 to December 31, 2020. None of these options have vested to date.

 

On May 18, 2020, the Company granted one consultant the option to acquire 500,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.035 per share until May 17, 2024.

 

On May 20, 2020, the Company signed agreements with clinics of Centrus Health Kansas City to conduct a clinical pilot with four Centrus Health primary care clinics. The pilot is intended to demonstrate the clinical usefulness of the ALRT Diabetes Solution in improving diabetes patient outcomes while reducing the cost of care.

 

On June 1, 2020, the Company granted one consultant the option to acquire 10,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.035 per share until May 31, 2025 subject to the consultant contributing to the successful launch of the ALRT Diabetes Solution in Canada, including the enrolment of at least 20,000 patients.

 

On June 5, 2020, the Company granted one sales agent the option to acquire 10,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.035 per share until May 31, 2025 subject to the agent enrolling 20,000 patients into the ALRT Diabetes Solution by May 31, 2021.

 

On June 30, 2020, the Company entered into an agreement with Bionime Corporation to market and sell the ALRT Diabetes Solution to diabetes patients of private physicians in Singapore. The ALRT offers a comprehensive approach to diabetes and includes Bionime’s Rightest GM700SB blood glucose meter and test strips. Bionime's marketing team will call on the private physician practices in Singapore and the larger private practice groups. The doctors will provide an enrollment package that contains a Bionime blood glucose meter and all testing supplies. Refills of testing supplies will be picked up by patients at their doctor’s office on a quarterly basis. Patients will be instructed to download the free ALRT App for mobile phones or tablets, compatible with Android and iOS devices and use Bluetooth to upload their blood glucose readings from their meters once per week. The cost of the ALRT Diabetes Solution offering will be less than the cost of test supplies available in pharmacy chains.

 

Recent Financings

 

On August 24, 2020, the Company completed a private placement whereby it sold 242,800 restricted shares of common stock at a price of $0.05 per share for total proceeds of $12,140.

 

On September 21, 2020, the “Company entered into two shares for debt agreements (the “Agreements”) to issue an aggregate of 240,000,000 restricted shares of common stock at a deemed price of $0.05 per share to retire $12,000,000 of outstanding debt as follows.

 

Creditor Shares Issued Price per Share Outstanding Debt Retired
Mr. Sidney Chan 150,000,000 $0.05 $7,500,000
Ms. Christine Kan 90,000,000 $0.05 $4,500,000
Total 240,000,000   $12,000,000

 

Each of the Agreements have a non-dilutive clause for any subsequent equity sales by the Company to issue its shares of common below $0.05 per share for a term of twelve months.

 

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LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

 

As at the date of this Prospectus there are no material pending legal proceedings, other than ordinary routine litigation incidental to the business, to which the registrant or any of its subsidiaries is a party or of which any of their property is the subject.

 

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

Our audited consolidated financial statements for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, and our unaudited financial statements for the six months ended June 30, 2020, are included in this prospectus. Our financial statements are prepared in accordance with United States generally accepted accounting principles and are stated in United States Dollars (US$). The financial statements appear beginning on page F-1.

 

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ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Condensed Financial Statements 

June 30, 2020 and 2019  

(unaudited)

 

Index Page
   
Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets F-4
   
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations F-5
   
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows F-6
   
Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements F-7 – F-22

 

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ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets 

($ United States)

 

         
  

June 30, 

2020 

  

December 31,

2019

 
   (unaudited)     
         
Assets          
Current assets:          
Cash  $712   $1,838 
Total assets  $712   $1,838 
           
Liabilities and Stockholders’ Deficit          
Current liabilities:          
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities  $1,131,676   $1,128,081 
Promissory notes payable to related parties   3,031,966    3,031,966 
Promissory notes payable to unrelated parties   2,254,353    2,254,353 
Interest payable   5,630,831    5,364,997 
Lines of credit from related parties   20,472,110    19,310,707 
Total liabilities   32,520,936    31,090,104 
           
Stockholders’ Deficit          
Preferred stock:          
Authorized: 500,000,000 (December 31, 2019 - 500,000,000) shares of preferred stock with a par value of $0.001 per share          
Shares issued and outstanding: Nil (December 31, 2019 - Nil) shares of preferred stock were issued and outstanding        
Common stock:          
Authorized: 10,000,000,000 (December 31, 2019 - 10,000,000,000) shares of common stock with a par value of $0.001 per share          
Shares issued and outstanding: 270,777,909 shares of common stock (December 31, 2019 - 268,777,909 shares of common stock)   270,777    268,777 
Additional paid-in capital   56,848,086    56,298,702 
Accumulated deficit   (89,639,087)   (87,655,745)
Stockholders’ deficit   (32,520,224)   (31,088,266)
Total liabilities and stockholders’ deficit  $712   $1,838 

 

See accompanying notes to the condensed consolidated financial statements.

 

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ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations 

($ United States) 

(Unaudited)

 

   Three months ended   Six months ended 
   June 30,   June 30, 
   2020   2019   2020   2019 
                 
Expenses                    
General, selling and administration  $131,359   $641,942   $254,404   $986,683 
Product development costs   122,551    1,162,879    217,761    1,217,901 
Professional fees   429,246    208,957    466,550    437,234 
Loss from operations   683,156    2,013,778    938,715    2,641,818 
                     
Other Expense                    
Interest   525,636    1,586,936    1,044,627    2,082,829 
Total other expense   525,636    1,586,936    1,044,627    2,082,829 
Net loss  $(1,208,792)  $(3,600,714)  $(1,983,342)  $(4,724,647)
Loss per share - basic and diluted  $(0.00)  $(0.01)  $(0.01)  $(0.02)
                     

Weighted average shares outstanding - basic and diluted

   270,777,909    245,955,687    270,291,721    244,366,798 

 

See accompanying notes to the condensed consolidated financial statements.

 

F-5

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows 

($ United States) 

(Unaudited)

 

     
   Six Months Ended 
   June 30, 
   2020   2019 
         
OPERATING ACTIVITIES          
Net loss  $(1,983,342)  $(4,724,647)
Stock-based compensation-interest       1,085,371 
Stock-based compensation-product development costs   18,804    1,048,318 
Stock-based compensation-professional fees   391,843    392,677 
Stock-based compensation-selling, general and administration       805,865 
Non-cash imputed interest expenses   60,737    60,856 
Accrued interest on lines of credit   719,455    672,145 
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:          
Increase in accounts payable and accrued liabilities   83,595    48,507 
Increase in interest payable   265,834    264,434 
           
Net cash used in operating activities   (443,074)   (346,474)
           
FINANCING ACTIVITIES          
Proceeds from borrowings on lines of credit   441,948    346,819 
           
Net cash provided by financing activities   441,948    346,819 
           
Increase (decrease) in cash   (1,126)   345 
Cash, beginning of period   1,838    3,378 
           
Cash, end of period  $712   $3,723 

 

See accompanying notes to the condensed consolidated financial statements.

 

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ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements 

For the Six Months Ended June 30, 2020 

($ United States) 

(Unaudited)

 

1.Basis of Presentation, Nature of Operations and Going Concern

 

ALR Technologies Inc. (the “Company”) was incorporated under the laws of the state of Nevada on March 24, 1987. On May 16, 2020, the Company incorporated a wholly owned subsidiary, ALR Technologies Sg Pte. Ltd., under the Companies Act of Singapore. The Company has developed its Diabetes Management Solution which is a comprehensive approach to diabetes care consisting of data collection, predictive A1C, insulin dosage adjustment suggestions, performance tracking, remote monitoring and diabetes test supplies. The Company is seeking commercial opportunities to deploy the Diabetes Management Solution in the United States of America, Canada and Singapore.

 

These condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America (“US GAAP”) in US dollars and on a going concern basis, which presumes the realization of assets and the discharge of liabilities and commitments in the normal course of operations for the foreseeable future. Several adverse conditions cast substantial doubt on the validity of this assumption. The Company has incurred significant losses over the six-month periods ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 of $1,983,342 and $4,724,647, respectively. As of June 30, 2020, the Company is unable to self-finance its operations, has a working capital deficit of $32,520,224 (December 31, 2019 - $31,088,266), accumulated deficit of $89,639,087 (December 31, 2019 - $87,655,745), limited resources, no source of operating cash flow and no assurance that sufficient funding will be available to conduct continued product development activities. If the Company is able to finance its required product development activities, there is no assurance the Company’s current projects will be commercially viable or profitable. The Company has debts comprised of accounts payable, interest payable, lines of credit and promissory notes payable totaling $32,520,936 currently due, due on demand or considered delinquent. There is no assurance that the Company will not face additional legal action from creditors regarding the above debts. Any one or a combination of these above conditions could result in the failure of the business and cause the Company to cease operations.

 

The Company’s ability to continue as a going concern is dependent upon the continued financial support of its creditors and its ability to obtain financing to fund working capital and overhead requirements, fund the development of the Company’s product line and, ultimately, the Company’s ability to achieve profitable operations and repay overdue obligations. The Company has obtained short-term financing from its chairman’s family through lines of credit facilities with available borrowing in the principal amount up to $10,300,000 (as of June 30, 2020 the total principal balance outstanding was $10,200,673) (note 5). During 2020, the Company has continued to receive financing from the Chairman in excess of the borrowing limit of the line of credit it has available. The amounts received by the Company from the Chairman have been borrowed under the same terms as the line of credit. The Company and the Chairman have not entered into a new agreement for the amount of borrowing available.

 

The resolution of whether the Company is able to continue as a going concern is dependent upon the realization of management’s plans. The Company plans to raise needed capital through the exercise of share options, increase to existing debt facilities or the acquisition of new debt facilities, and by future common share private placements. There can be no assurance that the Company will be able to raise any additional debt or equity capital from the sources described above, or that the lenders in the line of credit arrangements will maintain the availability of borrowing from the line. If management is unsuccessful in obtaining short-term financing or achieving long-term profitable operations, the Company will be required to cease operations.

 

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ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements 

For the Six Months Ended June 30, 2020 

($ United States) 

(Unaudited)

 

1.Basis of Presentation, Nature of Operations and Going Concern (continued)

 

All of the Company’s debt is either due on demand or is in default, while continuing to accrue interest at its stated rate. The Company will seek to obtain creditors’ consents to delay repayment of the outstanding promissory notes payable and related interest thereto, until it is able to replace this financing with funds generated by operations, recapitalization with replacement debt or from equity financings through private placements. While some of the Company’s creditors have agreed to extend repayment deadlines in the past, there is no assurance that they will continue to do so in the future. In the past, creditors have successfully commenced legal action against the Company to recover debts outstanding. In those instances, the Company was able to obtain financing from related parties to cover the verdict or settlement; however, there is no assurance that the Company would be able to obtain the same financing in the future. If the Company is unsuccessful in obtaining financing to cover any potential verdicts or settlements, the Company will be required to cease operations.

 

The Company’s activities will necessitate significant uses of working capital beyond 2020. Additionally, the Company’s capital requirements will depend on many factors, including the success of the Company’s continued product development and distribution efforts. The Company plans to continue financing its operations with the lines of credit it has available and future debt arrangements it obtains.

 

While the Company strongly believes that its capital resources will be sufficient in the near term, there is no assurance that the Company’s activities will generate sufficient revenues to sustain its operations without additional capital or if additional capital is needed, that such funds, if available, will be obtainable on terms satisfactory to the Company.

 

In March 2020 the World Health Organization declared coronavirus COVID-19 a global pandemic. This contagious disease outbreak, which has continued to spread, and any related adverse public health developments, has adversely affected workforces, economies, and financial markets globally, potentially leading to an economic downturn. The impact on the Company is not currently determinable but management continues to monitor the situation.    

 

2.Significant Accounting Policies

 

The unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements as of June 30, 2020 and for the period then ended have been prepared pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). Certain information and note disclosures normally included in annual financial statements prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States have been condensed or omitted pursuant to those rules and regulations, although the Company believes that the disclosures made are adequate to make the information not misleading.

 

In the opinion of management, all adjustments necessary to present fairly the financial position as of June 30, 2020 and December 31, 2019 and the results of operations and cash flows as of June 30, 2020 and 2019, and for the periods then ended, have been made. Those adjustments consist of normal and recurring adjustments.

 

These unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the financial statements and notes thereto included in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019.

 

The results of operations for the six-month period ended June 30, 2020 are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for the full year.

 

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ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements 

For the Six Months Ended June 30, 2020 

($ United States) 

(Unaudited)

 

3.Accounts Payable and Accrued Liabilities

 

A summary of the accounts payable and accrued liabilities is as follows:

 

         
  

June 30, 

2020

  

December 31,

2019 

 
         
Accounts payable  $897,573   $887,423 
Accrued liabilities   234,103    240,658 
           
   $1,131,676   $1,128,081 

 

4.Promissory Notes and Interest Payable

 

a)Promissory notes payable to related parties:

 

A summary of the promissory notes payable to related parties is as follows:

 

             
  June 30,     December 31,  
Promissory Notes Payable to Related Parties   2020      2019  
                 
Promissory notes payable to relatives of directors collateralized by a general security agreement over all the assets of the Company, due on demand:                
                     
  i. Interest at 1% per month   $ 720,619     $ 720,619  
                     
  ii. Interest at 1.25% per month     51,347       51,347  
                     
  iii. Interest at the U.S. bank prime rate plus 1%     100,000       100,000  
                     
  iv. Interest at 0.5% per month     695,000       695,000  
                 
Promissory notes payable, unsecured, to relatives of a director, bearing interest at 1% per month, due on demand     1,465,000       1,465,000  
Total Promissory Notes Payable to Related Parties   $ 3,031,966     $ 3,031,966  

 

F-9

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements 

For the Six Months Ended June 30, 2020 

($ United States) 

(Unaudited)

 

4.Promissory Notes and Interest Payable (continued)

 

b)Promissory notes payable to unrelated parties

 

A summary of the promissory notes payable to unrelated parties is as follows:

 

             
 

June 30,

    December 31,  
 Promissory Notes Payable to Unrelated Parties   2020     2019  
                 
Unsecured promissory notes payable to unrelated lenders:                
                     
  i. Interest at 1% per month, repayable on March 31, 2009, due on demand   $ 450,000     $ 450,000  
                     
  ii. Interest at 1% per month, with $50,000 repayable on December 31, 2004, $75,000 repayable on August 18, 2007, $75,000 repayable on November 19, 2007 and the balance due on demand. All are due on demand, accruing interest at the same rate     887,456       887,456  
                     
  iii. Interest at 0.625% per month, with $50,000 repayable on October 5, 2004, $40,000 repayable on December 31, 2004 and $60,000 repayable on July 28, 2006, all due on demand     150,000       150,000  
                     
  iv. Non-interest-bearing, repayable on July 17, 2005, due on demand     270,912       270,912  
                     
  v. Interest at 0.667% per month, repayable at $25,000 per month beginning October 2009, none repaid to date     310,985       310,985  
                     
  vi. Interest at 0.667% per month, with $125,000 due January 15, 2011     125,000       125,000  
                   
Promissory notes payable, secured by a guarantee from the Chief Executive Officer, bearing interest at 1% per month     60,000       60,000  
Total Promissory Notes Payable to Unrelated Parties   $ 2,254,353     $ 2,254,353  

 

c)Interest payable

 

A summary of the interest payable activity is as follows:

 

   Interest 
Payable
 
     
Balance, December 31, 2018  $4,836,127 
Interest incurred on promissory notes payable   528,870 
      
Balance, December 31, 2019   5,364,997 
Interest incurred on promissory notes payable   265,834 
      
Balance, June 30, 2020  $5,630,831 

 

F-10

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements 

For the Six Months Ended June 30, 2020 

($ United States) 

(Unaudited)

 

4.Promissory Notes and Interest Payable (continued)

 

c)Interest payable (continued)

 

         
   June 30,   December 31, 
   2020   2019 
         
Related parties (relatives of the Chairman)  $3,035,643   $2,876,280 
Non-related parties   2,595,188    2,488,717 
           
   $5,630,831   $5,364,997 

 

Historically, all interest payable incurred is from interest incurred at the stated rate of promissory notes issued by the Company. The payment terms, security and any interest payable are based on the underlying promissory notes payable that the Company has outstanding.

 

d)Interest expense

 

During the six months ended June 30, 2020, the Company incurred interest expense of $1,044,627 (2019 - $2,082,829) substantially as follows:

 

$719,455 (2019 - $672,168) incurred on lines of credit payable;

$264,435 (2019 - $264,434) incurred on promissory notes payables as shown in note 4(b);

60,737 (2019 - $60,856) incurred from the calculation of imputed interest on accounts payable outstanding for longer than one year, advances payable and promissory notes payable, which had no stated interest rate; and

$nil (2019 - $1,085,371) incurred related to the modification of the option held by creditors of the Company to acquire shares of common stock which were granted as consideration for providing financing to the Company.

 

F-11

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements 

For the Six Months Ended June 30, 2020 

($ United States) 

(Unaudited)

 

5.Lines of Credit

 

As of June 30, 2020, the Company had two lines of credit as follows:

 

Creditor  Interest
Rate
  Borrowing
Limit
   Repayment
Terms
  Amount
Outstanding
   Accrued
Interest
   Total   Security  Purpose
Chairman and CEO  1% per
Month
  $10,300,000   Due on
Demand
  $10,200,673   $6,175,119   $16,375,792   General
Security
over Assets
 

General
Corporate

Requirements

Wife of
Chairman
  1% per
Month
   2,000,000   Due on
Demand
   2,000,000    2,096,318    4,096,318   General
Security
over Assets
 

General
Corporate

Requirements

Total     $12,300,000      $12,200,673   $8,271,437   $20,472,110       

 

As of December 31, 2019, the Company had two lines of credit as follows:

 

Creditor  Interest Rate  Borrowing Limit   Repayment Terms  Principal Borrowed   Accrued Interest   Total
Outstanding
   Security  Purpose
Chairman and CEO 

1% per

Month

  $10,300,000  

Due on

Demand

  $9,757,325   $5,576,997   $15,334,322  

General

Security

over Assets

 

General

Corporate

Requirements

Wife of Chairman 

1% per

Month

   2,000,000  

Due on

Demand

   2,000,000    1,976,385    3,976,385  

General

Security

over Assets

 

General

Corporate

Requirements

Total     $12,300,000      $11,757,325   $7,553,382   $19,310,707       

 

On December 11, 2019, the Company and the Chairman entered into an amendment agreement to increase the borrowing limit on the line of credit provided by the Chairman to the Company from $8,500,000 to $10,300,000. The terms of amounts to be advanced under the amendment are consistent with the line of credit. In connection with the line of credit, the Company granted the Chairman the option to acquire 120,000,000 shares of common of the Company at a price of $0.015 per share for a term of five years (note 7).

 

6.Capital Stock

 

a)Authorized capital stock

 

i.Common Stock

 

10,000,000,000 shares of common stock with a par value of $0.001 per share.

 

ii.Preferred Stock

 

500,000,000 shares of preferred stock with a par value of $0.001 per share.

 

F-12

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC.

Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

For the Six Months Ended June 30, 2020

($ United States)

(Unaudited)

 

6.     Capital Stock (continued)

 

b)    Issued capital stock

 

During the period ended June 30, 2020:

 

On March 11, 2020, the Company issued 2,000,000 restricted shares of common stock at a price of $0.04 per share for a purchase price of $80,000 in exchange for the retirement of $60,000 of accounts payable and $20,000 for the provision of services.

 

During the year ended December 31, 2019:

 

On June 19, 2019, the Company issued 26,000,000 shares of common stock to two individuals for the exercise of stock options as follows:

 

25,000,000 shares at an exercise price of $0.002 per share for a purchase price of $50,000. As consideration, the Company retired accrued interest owing to the Chairman on his line of credit totaling $50,000; and

1,000,000 shares at an exercise price of $0.015 per share for a purchase price of $15,000. As consideration, the Company retired accounts payable totaling $15,000.

 

7.     Additional Paid-in Capital

 

Stock options

 

A summary of stock option activity is as follows:

 

   Six Months Ended   Year Ended 
   June 30, 2020   December 31, 2019 
       Weighted Average       Weighted Average 
   Number of Options   Exercise
Price
   Number of
Options
   Exercise
Price
 
Outstanding, beginning of period   5,236,401,500   $0.003    5,014,851,500   $0.002 
Granted   30,500,000   $0.035    254,050,000   $0.028 
Exercised      $    (26,000,000)  $(0.003)
Cancelled / Expired   (13,500,000)  $(0.034)   (6,500,000)  $(0.015)
Outstanding, end of period   5,253,401,500   $0.004    5,236,401,500   $0.003 
                     
Exercisable, end of period   5,162,401,500   $0.003    5,154,901,500   $0.003 

 

F-13

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC.

Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

For the Six Months Ended June 30, 2020

($ United States)

(Unaudited)

 

7.     Additional Paid-in Capital (continued)

 

Stock options (continued)

 

During the period ended June 30, 2020:

 

On April 1, 2020, the Company granted one consultant the option to acquire 10,000,000 shares of common stock at a price of $0.035 per share for a term of five years. The fair value of the options granted totaling $391,843 was fully recorded at grant.

 

On May 12, 2020, the Company amended the option to acquire 40,000,000 shares of common stock granted on June 12, 2019 to extend the period of vesting from May 31, 2020 to December 31, 2020. None of these options have vested to date.

 

On May 18, 2020, the Company granted one consultant the option to acquire 500,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.035 per share until May 17, 2024. The fair value of the options granted totaling $18,725 was fully recorded at grant.

 

On June 1, 2020, the Company granted one consultant the option to acquire 10,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.035 per share until May 31, 2025 subject to the consultant contributing to the successful launch of the ALRT Diabetes Solution in Canada, including the enrolment of at least 20,000 patients. The fair value of the options granted totaling $621,853 was not recorded, as it cannot be determined that it is more likely than not that the performance condition will be met.

 

On June 5, 2020, the Company granted one sales agent the option to acquire 10,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.035 per share until May 31, 2025 subject to the agent enrolling 20,000 patients into the ALRT Diabetes Solution by May 31, 2021. The fair value of the options granted totaling $494,868 was not recorded, as it cannot be determined that it is more likely than not that the performance condition will be met.

 

During the six-month period ended June 30, 2020, the Company recorded a further $79 (June 30, 2019 - $824) in compensation expense related to vesting of stock options granted in previous years.

 

F-14

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC.

Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

For the Six Months Ended June 30, 2020

($ United States)

(Unaudited)

 

7.     Additional Paid-in Capital (continued)

 

Stock options (continued)

 

During the year ended December 31, 2019:

 

On February 4, 2019, the Company granted a consultant the option to acquire a total of 2,500,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.035 per share for a term of five years. The fair value of the options granted totaled $99,723 and was fully recorded at grant.

 

On March 15, 2019, the Company granted an option to acquire 9,150,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.035 per share for a term of five years. The option to acquire 2,500,000 shares of common stock was granted to one consultant and the option to acquire 6,650,000 shares of common stock was granted to one director. The fair value of the options granted totaled $364,058 and was fully recorded at grant.

 

On April 12, 2019, the Company modified options to acquire 564,350,200 shares of common stock of the Company by extending the expiry date to April 12, 2024. The options modified had:

 

exercise prices ranging from $0.002 to $0.03 per share; and

expiration dates ranging from April 19, 2019 to May 29, 2020 immediately prior to the modification.

 

The fair value related to the extension of the life of the options totaled $1,150,060 and was recorded at the modification date.

 

On May 6, 2019, the Company granted options to acquire 13,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.035 per share for a term of five years to three directors of the Company. The fair value of the options granted totaled $467,845 and was fully recorded at grant.

 

On May 17, 2019, the Company granted options to acquire 27,900,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.035 per share for a term of five years to eleven consultants, one director and one employee of the Company. The fair value of the options granted totaled $1,059,856 and was fully recorded at grant.

 

On May 31, 2019, the Company granted options to acquire 10,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.035 per share for a term of one year to one consultant. The option to acquire 10,000,000 shares would vest based on achievements of performance milestones. The fair value of the options granted totaling $399,722 was not recorded, as it cannot be determined that it is more likely than not that the performance conditions will be met. These options expired on May 30, 2020.

 

F-15

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC.

Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

For the Six Months Ended June 30, 2020

($ United States)

(Unaudited)

 

7.     Additional Paid-in Capital (continued)

 

Stock options (continued)

 

During the year ended December 31, 2019: (continued)

 

On June 12, 2019, the Company granted options to acquire 40,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.05 per share until May 15, 2024 to three sales agents. The option to acquire 40,000,000 shares will vest based on achievements of performance milestones. The fair value of the options granted totaling $1,595,316 was not recorded, as it cannot be determined that it is more likely than not that the performance conditions will be met.

 

On June 17, 2019, the Company granted options to acquire 5,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.035 per share for a term of five years to one advisor. The fair value of the options granted totaled $189,865 and was fully recorded at grant.

 

On June 17, 2019, the Company granted options to acquire 5,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.05 per share for a term of five years to a sales agent. The option to acquire 5,000,000 shares will vest based on achievements of performance milestones. The fair value of the options granted totaled $189,833 was not recorded, as it cannot be determined that it is more likely than not that the performance conditions will be met.

 

On June 24, 2019, options granted on January 31, 2018 to acquire 24,000,000 shares of common stock at a price of $0.015 for a term of five years that were subject to vest based on the achievement of certain performance milestones were modified as follows:

 

the option to acquire 4,000,000 shares of common stock was cancelled; and

the performance conditions were modified.

 

No compensation expense was reversed related to the cancellation of the unvested options as no compensation expense related to these options had been previously recorded. No compensation expense related to the modification of the options was recorded, as the change in vesting conditions did not make it more likely than not that the performance conditions will be met.

 

On July 15, 2019, the Company granted a consultant options to acquire 7,500,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.035 per share exercisable until February 3, 2024. The fair value of the options granted totaled $318,530 and was fully recorded at grant.

 

On August 16, 2019, the Company granted a consultant the option to acquire an aggregate 2,500,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.05 per share. The option to acquire 2,500,000 shares will vest based on achievements of performance milestones. The fair value of the options granted totaling $108,655 was not recorded, as it cannot be determined that it is more likely than not that the performance conditions will be met.

 

F-16

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC.

Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

For the Six Months Ended June 30, 2020

($ United States)

(Unaudited)

 

7.     Additional Paid-in Capital (continued)

 

Stock options (continued)

 

During the year ended December 31, 2019: (continued)

 

On September 6, 2019, the Company granted a consultant the option to acquire 1,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.05 per share for a term of five years. The option to acquire 1,000,000 shares will vest based on achievements of performance milestones. The fair value of the options granted totaling $40,863 was not recorded, as it cannot be determined that it is more likely than not that the performance conditions will be met.

 

On September 17, 2019, the Company granted a consultant the option to acquire 5,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.035 per share for a term of five years. The fair value of the options granted totaled $194,850 and was fully recorded at grant.

 

On October 3, 2019, the Company granted two advisors the option to acquire an aggregate 3,500,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.035 per share for a term of five years. Options to acquire 2,500,000 shares of common stock will vest upon the advisor entering into a full-time role with the Company. The fair value of the options granted totaled $136,399 of which $38,971 has been recorded related to the vested options.

 

On October 24, 2019, the Company granted two advisors the option to acquire an aggregate 2,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.035 per share for a term of five years. The fair value of the options granted totaled $63,940 and was fully recorded at grant.

 

On December 11, 2019 the Company granted one creditor the option to acquire 120,000,000 shares of common of the Company at a price of $0.015 per share for a term of five years in connection with receiving line of credit financing (note 5). The fair value of the options granted totaled $2,158,441 and was fully recorded upon the Company entering into the financing agreement with the creditor.

 

During the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company recorded a further $18,630 in compensation expense related to vesting of stock options granted in previous years.

 

F-17

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC.

Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

For the Six Months Ended June 30, 2020

($ United States)

(Unaudited)

 

7.     Additional Paid-in Capital (continued)

 

Stock options (continued)

 

Options Outstanding:

 

The options outstanding at June 30, 2020 and December 31, 2019 were as follows:

 

   June 30, 2020   December 31, 2019 
Expiry Date  Options   Exercise Price   Intrinsic Value   Options   Exercise Price   Intrinsic Value 
May 30, 2020      $   $    10,000,000   $0.035   $ 
July 1, 2021   4,365,001,300   $0.002   $0.037    4,365,001,300   $0.002   $0.015 
November 27, 2022   6,950,000   $0.015   $0.024    7,200,000   $0.015   $0.002 
January 31, 2023   40,500,000   $0.015   $0.024    40,500,000   $0.015   $0.002 
June 13, 2023   5,000,000   $0.015   $0.024    5,000,000   $0.015   $0.002 
October 1, 2023   300,000   $0.050   $    300,000   $0.050   $ 
February 3, 2024   10,000,000   $0.035   $0.004    10,000,000   $0.035   $ 
March 14, 2024   9,150,000   $0.035   $0.004    9,150,000   $0.035   $ 
April 12, 2024   560,000,200   $0.002   $0.037    560,000,200   $0.002   $0.015 
April 12, 2024   3,900,000   $0.015   $0.024    4,150,000   $0.015   $0.002 
April 12, 2024   200,000   $0.030   $0.009    200,000   $0.030   $ 
May 6, 2024   13,000,000   $0.035   $0.004    13,000,000   $0.035   $ 
May 17, 2024   40,000,000   $0.050   $    40,000,000   $0.050   $ 
May 17, 2024   25,400,000   $0.035   $0.004    27,900,000   $0.035   $ 
June 17, 2024   5,000,000   $0.050   $    5,000,000   $0.050   $ 
June 17, 2024   5,000,000   $0.035   $0.004    5,000,000   $0.035   $ 
August 16, 2024   2,500,000   $0.050   $    2,500,000   $0.050   $ 
September 6, 2024   1,000,000   $0.050   $    1,000,000   $0.050   $ 
September 17, 2024   5,000,000   $0.035   $0.004    5,000,000   $0.035   $ 
October 3, 2024   3,500,000   $0.035   $0.004    3,500,000   $0.035   $ 
October 24, 2024   2,000,000   $0.035   $0.004    2,000,000   $0.035   $ 
December 11, 2024   120,000,000   $0.015   $0.024    120,000,000   $0.015   $0.002 
April 1, 2025   10,000,000   $0.035   $0.004       $   $ 
May 31, 2025   20,000,000   $0.035   $0.004       $   $ 
Total   5,253,401,500   $0.004   $0.036    5,236,401,500   $0.003   $0.014 
Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Life        1.48              1.96      

 

F-18

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC.

Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

For the Six Months Ended June 30, 2020

($ United States)

(Unaudited)

 

7.     Additional Paid-in Capital (continued)

 

Stock options (continued)

 

The expense incurred related to stock options was allocated as follows:

 

   Three Months
Ended
June 30, 2020
   Three Months
Ended
June 30, 2019
   Six Months
Ended
June 30, 2020
   Six Months
Ended
June 30, 2019
 
Interest expense  $   $1,085,371   $   $1,085,371 
Product development   18,725    1,047,981    18,804    1,048,318 
Professional   391,843    193,485    391,843    392,677 
General, selling and administration       541,209        805,865 
                     
   $410,568   $2,868,046   $410,647   $3,332,231 

 

The Company uses the fair value method for determining stock-based compensation for all options granted during the fiscal periods. The fair value was determined using the Black-Scholes option pricing model based on the following weighted average assumptions:

 

   June 30, 2020   December 31, 2019 
Risk-free interest rate   0.38%   1.84%
Expected life   4.9 Years    5 years 
Expected dividends   0%   0%
Expected volatility   320%   306%
Forfeiture rate   0    0%

 

The weighted average fair value for the options granted during the six months ended June 30, 2020 was $0.05 (December 31, 2019 - $0.03).

 

F-19

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC.

Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

For the Six Months Ended June 30, 2020

($ United States)

(Unaudited)

 

8.     Related Party Transactions and Balances

 

   Three months ended
June 30, 2020
   Three months ended
June 30, 2019
   Six months ended
June 30, 2020
   Six months ended
June 30, 2019
 
   $   $   $   $ 
Related party transaction included within interest expense:                    
Interest expenses on promissory notes issued to relatives of the Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of the Company   79,171    74,780    157,963    149,562 
Interest expense on lines of credit payable to the Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of the Company and his spouse   363,001    338,895    719,455    672,145 
Interest expense related to the modification of stock options held by the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company and his spouse related to financing provided       1,085,371        1,085,371 
Related party transactions including within selling, general and administration expenses:                    
Consulting fees to the Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of the Company accrued on the line of credit available to the Company   62,400    47,400    124,800    94,800 
Stock options granted to four members of the Board of Directors of the Company       505,832        770,421 
Selling, general and administration expense related to the modification of stock options to three members of the Board of Directors       799,625        799,625 
Related party transactions included within product development expense:                    
Consulting fees to a relative of the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company   30,000    60,000    60,000    60,000 

 

Interest on promissory notes payable to related parties, management compensation and compensation paid to a relative of a director have been recorded at the exchange amount, which is the amount agreed to by the parties. Options granted to related parties have been recorded at their estimated fair value.

 

9.     Commitments and Contingencies

 

a)Contingencies

 

The Company has had three judgments against it relating to overdue promissory notes and accrued interest and a fourth creditor has demanded repayment of an overdue promissory note and accrued interest. To date, the Company has not repaid any of these amounts and could be subject to further action. The legal liability, totaling $1,207,768 (December 31, 2019 - $1,188,968), of these promissory notes and related accrued interest have been fully recognized and recorded by the Company. The Company has accrued interest of $232,472 (December 31, 2019 - $220,472) related to one of these promissory notes.

 

F-20

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC.

Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

For the Six Months Ended June 30, 2020

($ United States)

(Unaudited)

 

9.     Commitments and Contingencies (continued)

 

b)Commitments

 

i)The Company has a consulting arrangement with Sidney Chan, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company. Under the terms of the contract, Mr. Chan will be paid $240,000 per annum for services as Chief Executive Officer. The contract can be terminated at any time with thirty days’ notice and the payment of two years’ annual salary. Should the contract be terminated, all debts owed to Mr. Chan and his spouse must be immediately repaid. The initial term of the contract is for one year and automatically renews for continuous one-year terms. Also, under the terms of the contract are the following:

 

i.Incentive revenue bonus

 

Mr. Chan will be entitled to a 1% net sales commission from the sales of any of the Company’s products at any time during his life, regardless if Mr. Chan is still under contract with the Company.

 

ii.Sale of business

 

If more than 50% of the Company’s stock or assets are sold, Mr. Chan will be compensated for entering into non-compete agreements based on the selling price of the Company or its assets as follows:

 

-2% of sales price up to $24,999,999 plus;

-3% of sales price between $25,000,000 and $49,999,999 plus;

-4% of sales price between $50,000,000 and $199,999,999 plus; and

-5% of sales price in excess of $200,000,000.

 

ii)On June 13, 2018, Mr. Sidney Chan, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company accepted a proposal from the Board of Directors of the Company to purchase the $5,000,000 convertible debenture financing (the “Financing”). The Note will be convertible for a period of 5 years, will bear interest at a rate of 8% per annum and will be repayable in four equal semi-annual instalments starting 42 months after its issuance until maturity. The Note will be transferable or saleable by the Chairman or other holder thereof, in whole or in part, at any time without notice to the Company.

 

On September 20, 2018, the parties agreed to increase the proposed Financing from $5,000,000 to $7,000,000. On October 25, 2018, the parties agreed to increase the proposed Financing from $7,000,000 to $8,500,000 (the “Amended Financing”). The Amended Financing will continue to be convertible into shares of common stock of the Company at $0.05 per share. On December 11, 2019, the parties agreed to increase the proposed Financing from $8,500,000 to $10,300,000. The Company has reserved up to 500,000,000 shares of common stock with respect to the possible exercise of the Note.

 

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ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC.

Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

For the Six Months Ended June 30, 2020

($ United States)

(Unaudited)

 

9.     Commitments and Contingencies (continued)

 

b)Commitments (continued)

 

ii)(continued)

 

The Company and the Chairman are continuing discussions on a definitive agreement to implement the Note with the customary terms, conditions and representations of a commercial lending agreement. The closing of the Amended Financing and sale of the Note will not occur until such time that is 30 days subsequent to the confirmation of the Company’s first commercial sale of its diabetes management software program, which has not yet occurred.

 

10.   Subsequent Events

 

a)On August 9, 2020, the Company’s Board of Directors approved the issuance of up to 240,000 common shares of the Company at $0.05 per share for a total amount of $12,000 for the provision of services.

 

b)On August 9, 2020, the Company’s Board of Directors approved the issuance of up to 69,500,000 options subject to the optionees entering into concurrent agreements with the Company based on their related sales, consulting or employment roles. All options have an exercise price of $0.05 per share with 22,000,000 options expiring on May 17, 2024 and 47,500,000 options expiring on May 31, 2025.

 

F-22

 

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Financial Statements 

December 31, 2019 and 2018

 

Index Page
   
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm F-1
   
Balance Sheets F-2
   
Statements of Operations F-3
   
Statements of Changes in Stockholders’ Deficit F-4
   
Statements of Cash Flows F-5
   
Notes to Financial Statements F-6 – F-27

 

F-1

 

 

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

 

To the Stockholders and the Board of Directors of ALR Technologies Inc.

 

Opinion on the Financial Statements 

We have audited the accompanying balance sheets of ALR Technologies Inc. (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2019 and 2018, the related statements of operations, changes in stockholders’ deficit, and cash flows, for the years then ended, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2019 and 2018, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the years then ended, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

 

Going Concern  

The accompanying financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern. As discussed in Note 1 to the financial statements, the Company has not generated revenues since inception, has incurred losses in developing its business, and further losses are anticipated. The Company requires additional funds to meet its obligations and the costs of its operations. These factors raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. Management’s plans in this regard are described in Note 1. The financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty

 

Basis for Opinion 

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

 

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. As part of our audits we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB.

 

Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

 

DALE MATHESON CARR-HILTON LABONTE LLP 

CHARTERED PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTANTS

 

We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2013 

Vancouver, Canada 

March 27, 2020

 

 

 

F-1

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Balance Sheets 

($ United States) 

December 31, 2019 and 2018

 

         
   2019   2018 
         
Assets          
Current assets:          
Cash  $1,838   $3,378 
Total assets  $1,838   $3,378 
           
Liabilities and Stockholders’ Deficit          
Current liabilities:          
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities  $1,128,081   $1,014,268 
Promissory notes payable to related parties   3,031,966    2,891,966 
Promissory notes payable to unrelated parties   2,254,353    2,394,353 
Interest payable   5,364,997    4,836,127 
Lines of credit from related parties   19,310,707    17,261,650 
Total liabilities   31,090,104    28,398,364 
           
Stockholders’ Deficit          
Preferred stock:          
Authorized: 500,000,000 shares of preferred stock (2018 - 500,000,000) with a par value of $0.001 per share          
Shares issued and outstanding: Nil shares of preferred stock (2018 - Nil) were issued and outstanding        
Common stock          
Authorized: 10,000,000,000 shares of common stock (2018 - 10,000,000,000) with a par value of $0.001 per share          
Shares issued and outstanding: 268,777,909 shares of common stock (2018 - 242,777,909 shares of common stock).   268,777    242,777 
Additional paid-in capital   56,298,702    50,012,445 
Accumulated deficit   (87,655,745)   (78,650,208)
Stockholders’ deficit   (31,088,266)   (28,394,986)
Total liabilities and stockholders’ deficit  $1,838   $3,378 

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements

 

F-2

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Statements of Operations 

($ United States) 

Years Ended December 31, 2019 and 2018

 

         
   2019   2018 
         
Operating Expenses          
Product development  $1,625,075   $408,640 
Professional fees   523,389    451,064 
Selling, general and administrative   1,595,936    1,323,552 
Operating Loss   3,744,400    2,183,256 
Interest expense   5,261,137    1,938,877 
Net Loss  $(9,005,537)  $(4,122,133)
           
Weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding, basic and diluted   256,668,320    242,777,909 
           
Loss per share, basic and diluted  $(0.04)  $(0.02)

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements

 

F-3

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Statements of Changes in Stockholders’ Deficit 

($ United States) 

From December 31, 2018 to December 31, 2019

 

                 
   Common Stock   Additional       Total 
   Number of       Paid-in   Accumulated   Stockholders’ 
   Shares   Amount   Capital   Deficit   Deficit 
                     
Balance, December 31, 2017   242,777,909   $242,777   $48,308,919   $(74,528,075)  $(25,976,379)
Imputed interest           122,183        122,183 
Stock options granted as compensation           1,581,343        1,581,343 
Net loss for the year               (4,122,133)   (4,122,133)
Balance, December 31, 2018   242,777,909    242,777    50,012,445    (78,650,208)   (28,394,986)
Issuance of common stock for exercise of stock options   26,000,000    26,000    39,000        65,000 
Imputed interest           122,488        122,488 
Stock options granted as compensation           6,124,769        6,124,769 
Net loss for the year               (9,005,537)   (9,005,537)
Balance, December 31, 2019   268,777,909   $268,777   $56,298,702   $(87,655,745)  $(31,088,266)

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements

 

F-4

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Statements of Cash Flows 

($ United States) 

Years Ended December 31, 2019 and 2018

 
     
   2019   2018 
           
OPERATING ACTIVITIES          
Net loss  $(9,005,537)  $(4,122,133)
Stock-based compensation-product development   1,243,644    186,476 
Stock-based compensation-selling, general and administrative   1,244,636    993,716 
Stock-based compensation-professional fees   392,677    401,151 
Stock-based compensation-interest expense   3,243,812     
Unpaid interest expense on line of credit   1,365,967    1,287,822 
Non-cash imputed interest expense   122,488    122,183 
Changes in assets and liabilities:          
Increase (decrease) in accounts payable and accrued liabilities   128,813    (23,805)
Increase in interest payable   528,870    528,871 
           
Net cash used in operating activities   (734,630)   (625,719)
           
FINANCING ACTIVITIES          
Proceeds from lines of credit   733,090    625,986 
           
Net cash provided by financing activities   733,090    625,986 
           
Change in cash   (1,540)   267 
Cash, beginning of year   3,378    3,111 
Cash, end of year  $1,838   $3,378 

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements

 

F-5

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Notes to Financial Statements 

For the Years Ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 

($ United States)

 

1.Basis of presentation, nature of operations and going concern

 

ALR Technologies Inc. (the “Company”) was incorporated under the laws of the state of Nevada on March 24, 1987. The Company has developed a compliance monitoring system that will allow for HCPs to remotely monitor patient health conditions and provide patient health management. On October 17, 2011, the Company announced that it had received Section 510(k) clearance from the United States Food and Drug Administration for its Health-e-Connect System. The Company is currently seeking pilot programs to deploy its product.

 

These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) in U.S. dollars and on a going concern basis, which presumes the realization of assets and the discharge of liabilities and commitments in the normal course of operations for the foreseeable future. Several adverse conditions cast substantial doubt on the validity of this assumption. The Company has incurred significant losses over the past several fiscal years (2019 - $9,005,537; 2018 - $4,122,133), is currently unable to self-finance its operations, has a working capital deficit of $31,088,266 (2018 - $28,394,986), accumulated deficit of $87,655,745 (2018 - $78,650,208), limited resources, no source of operating cash flow, and no assurance that sufficient funding will be available to conduct continued product development activities. If the Company is able to finance its required product development activities, there is no assurance the Company’s current projects will be commercially viable or profitable. The Company has debts comprised of accounts payable and accrued liabilities, interest payable, lines of credit and promissory notes payable totaling $31,090,104 (2018 - $28,398,364) currently due, due on demand or considered delinquent. There is no assurance that the Company will not face additional legal action from creditors regarding delinquent accounts payable, promissory notes payable and interest payable. Any one or a combination of the above conditions could result in the failure of the business and cause the Company to cease operations.

 

The Company’s ability to continue as a going concern is dependent upon the continued financial support of its creditors and its ability to obtain financing to fund working capital and overhead requirements, fund the development of the Company’s product line, and ultimately, the Company’s ability to achieve profitable operations and repay overdue obligations. Management has obtained short-term financing from related parties through line of credit facilities with available borrowing in principal amount up to $12,300,000. As of December 31, 2019, the total principal balance outstanding was $11,757,325. The resolution of whether the Company is able to continue as a going concern is dependent upon the realization of management’s plans. When additional financing is required, the Company plans to raise needed capital through the exercise of share options and by future common share private placements. There can be no assurance that the Company will be able to raise any additional debt or equity capital from the sources described above, or that the lenders in the line of credit arrangements will maintain the availability of borrowing from the line. If management is unsuccessful in obtaining short-term financing or achieving long-term profitable operations, the Company will be required to cease operations.

 

F-6

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Notes to Financial Statements 

For the Years Ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 

($ United States)

 

1.Basis of presentation, nature of operations and going concern (continued)

 

All of the Company’s debt is either due on demand or is in default, while continuing to accrue interest at its stated rates. The Company will seek to obtain creditors’ consents to delay repayment of the outstanding promissory notes payable and related interest thereto, until it is able to replace this financing with funds generated by operations, recapitalization with replacement debt or from equity financings through private placements. While some of the Company’s creditors have agreed to extend repayment deadlines in the past, there is no assurance that they will continue to do so in the future. In the past, creditors have successfully commenced legal action against the Company to recover debts outstanding. In those instances, the Company was able to obtain financing from related parties to cover the verdict or settlement; however, there is no assurance that the Company would be able to obtain the same financing in the future. If the Company is unsuccessful in obtaining financing to cover any potential verdicts or settlements, the Company will be required to cease operations.

 

The Company’s activities will necessitate significant uses of working capital beyond 2019. Additionally, the Company’s capital requirements will depend on many factors, including the success of the Company’s continued product development and distribution efforts. The Company plans to continue financing its operations with the lines of credit it has available.

 

There is no assurance that the Company’s activities will generate sufficient revenues to sustain its operations without additional capital or if additional capital is needed, that such funds, if available, will be obtainable on terms satisfactory to the Company.

 

2.Significant accounting policies

 

a)Stock-based compensation

 

The Company follows the fair value method of accounting for stock-based compensation. The Company estimates the fair value of share-based payment awards on the date of grant using an option pricing model. The value of the portion of the award that is ultimately expected to vest is recognized as an expense over the requisite service period in the Company’s financial statements. The Company estimates the fair value of the stock options using the Black-Scholes option pricing model. The Black-Scholes option pricing model requires the input of highly subjective assumptions, including the option’s expected life and the price volatility of the underlying stock.

 

F-7

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Notes to Financial Statements 

For the Years Ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 

($ United States)

 

2.Significant accounting policies (continued)

 

b)Income taxes

 

Income taxes are accounted for under the asset and liability method. Deferred income tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the differences between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax basis, and operating loss carry-forwards that are available to be carried forward to future years for tax purposes.

 

Deferred income tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the years in which those temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. The effect on deferred income tax assets and liabilities of a change in tax rates is recognized in income in the period that includes the enactment date. When it is not considered to be more likely than not that a deferred income tax asset will be realized, a valuation allowance is provided for the excess.

 

The Company follows the accounting requirements associated with uncertainty in income taxes using the provisions of Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 740, Income Taxes. Using that guidance, tax positions initially need to be recognized in the financial statements when it is more-likely-than-not the positions will be sustained upon examination by the tax authorities. It also provides guidance for derecognition, classification, interest and penalties, accounting in interim periods, disclosure and transition. As of December 31, 2019, the Company has no uncertain tax positions that qualify for either recognition or disclosure in the financial statements.

 

c)Use of estimates

 

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, the measurement of stock-based compensation, the fair value of financial instruments, and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Management believes the estimates are reasonable; however, actual results could differ from those estimates.

 

d)Loss per share

 

Basic loss per common share is calculated by dividing net loss by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the year. Diluted loss per common share is calculated by dividing the net loss by the sum of the weighted average number of common shares outstanding and the dilutive common equivalent shares outstanding during the year. Common equivalent shares consist of the shares issuable upon exercise of stock options and warrants calculated using the treasury stock method. Common equivalent shares are not included in the calculation of the weighted average number of shares outstanding for diluted loss per common share when the effect would be anti-dilutive.

 

 

F-8

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Notes to Financial Statements 

For the Years Ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 

($ United States)

 

2.Significant accounting policies (continued)

 

e)Comprehensive income

 

Comprehensive income is the overall change in the net assets of the Company for a period, other than changes attributable to transactions with stockholders. It is made up of net income and other comprehensive income. Other comprehensive income consists of net income and other gains and losses affecting stockholders’ equity that under GAAP are excluded from net income. The Company has no items of other comprehensive income (loss) in any period presented. Therefore, as presented in the Company’s statements of operations, net loss equals comprehensive loss.

 

f)Fair value of financial instruments

 

The Company’s financial instruments include cash, accounts payable, promissory notes payable, interest payable and lines of credit. The fair values of these financial instruments approximate their carrying values due to the relatively short periods to maturity of these instruments. For fair value measurement, U.S. GAAP establishes a three-tier hierarchy that prioritizes the inputs used in the valuation methodologies in measuring fair value:

 

Level 1 — observable inputs that reflect quoted prices (unadjusted) for identical assets or liabilities in active markets.

 

Level 2 — include other inputs that are directly or indirectly observable in the marketplace.

 

Level 3 — unobservable inputs which are supported by little or no market activity.

 

g)Recently adopted and issued accounting pronouncements

 

i.Adopted

 

In July 2017, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update 2017-11, Earnings Per Share (Topic 260), Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity (Topic 480), and Derivative and Hedging (Topic 815). The amendments in Part I of this update change the classification analysis of certain equity-linked financial instruments (or embedded features) with down-round features. When determining whether certain financial instruments should be classified as liabilities or equity instruments, a down-round feature no longer precludes equity classification when assessing whether the instrument is indexed to an entity’s own stock. The amendments also clarify existing disclosure requirements for equity-classified instruments. As a result, a freestanding equity-linked financial instrument (or embedded conversion option) no longer would be accounted for as a derivative liability at fair value as a result of the existence of a down-round feature. For freestanding equity classified financial instruments, the amendments require entities that present earnings per share (“EPS”) in accordance with Topic 260 to recognize the effect of the down-round feature when it is triggered. That effect is treated as a dividend and as a reduction of income available to common shareholders in basic EPS. Convertible instruments with embedded conversion options that have down-round features are now subject to the specialized guidance for contingent beneficial conversion features (in Subtopic 470-20, Debt-Debt with Conversion and Other Options), including related EPS guidance (in Topic 260). The amendments in Part II of this update recharacterize the indefinite deferral of certain provisions of Topic 480 that now are presented as pending content in the ASC, to a scope exception. Those amendments do not have an accounting effect. There was no impact from adopting this standard.

 

F-9

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Notes to Financial Statements 

For the Years Ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 

($ United States)

 

2.Significant accounting policies (continued)

 

g)Recently adopted and issued accounting pronouncements (continued)

 

i.Adopted (continued)

 

In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842). Topic 842 is effective for public companies for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2018, including interim periods within those fiscal years. The new standard establishes a right-of-use (“ROU”) model that requires a lessee to record a ROU asset and a lease liability, measured on a discounted basis, on the balance sheet for all leases with terms longer than 12 months. Leases are classified as either finance or operating, with classification affecting the pattern of expense recognition in the statement of income. Originally, entities were required to adopt ASU 2016-02 using a modified retrospective approach, which required prior periods to be presented under this new standard with certain practical expedients available. However, in July 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-11, Leases (Topic 842): Targeted Improvements, which allows entities the option of recognizing the cumulative effect of applying the new standard as an adjustment to the opening balance of retained earnings in the year of adoption while continuing to present all prior periods under previous lease accounting guidance. The Company adopted Topic 842 as of January 1, 2019 which did not result in any impact on the Company’s financial statements.

 

ii.Issued

 

The Company has implemented all new accounting pronouncements that are in effect and may impact its financial statements. The Company does not believe that there are any other new accounting pronouncements that have been issued that might have a material impact on its financial position or statements of operations.

 

F-10

 

  

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Notes to Financial Statements 

For the Years Ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 

($ United States)

 

3.Interest, advances and promissory notes payable

 

a)Promissory notes payable to related parties:

 

A summary of the promissory notes payable to related parties is as follows:

 

                 
  December 31,      December 31,   
 Promissory Notes Payable to Related Parties   2019     2018  
                 
Promissory notes payable to relatives of directors collateralized by a general security agreement over all the assets of the Company, due on demand:                
                     
  i. Interest at 1% per month   $ 720,619     $ 580,619  
                     
  ii. Interest at 1.25% per month     51,347       51,347  
                     
  iii. Interest at the U.S. bank prime rate plus 1%     100,000       100,000  
                     
  iv. Interest at 0.5% per month     695,000       695,000  
                 
Promissory notes payable, unsecured, to relatives of a director, bearing interest at 1% per month, due on demand     1,465,000       1,465,000  
Total Promissory Notes Payable to Related Parties   $ 3,031,966     $ 2,891,966  

 

F-11

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Notes to Financial Statements 

For the Years Ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 

($ United States)

 

3.Interest, advances and promissory notes payable (continued)

 

b)Promissory notes payable to unrelated parties

 

A summary of the promissory notes payable to unrelated parties is as follows:

 

             
 

December 31, 

    December 31,  
Promissory Notes Payable to Unrelated Parties    2019     2018  
                 
Unsecured promissory notes payable to unrelated lenders:                
                     
  i. Interest at 1% per month, repayable on March 31, 2009, due on demand   $ 450,000     $ 450,000  
                     
  ii. Interest at 1% per month, with $50,000 repayable on December 31, 2004, $75,000 repayable on August 18, 2007, $75,000 repayable on November 19, 2007 and the balance due on demand. All are due on demand, accruing interest at the same rate     887,456       887,456  
                     
  iii. Interest at 0.625% per month, with $50,000 repayable on October 5, 2004, $40,000 repayable on December 31, 2004 and $60,000 repayable on July 28, 2006, all due on demand     150,000       150,000  
                     
  iv. Non-interest-bearing, repayable on July 17, 2005, due on demand     270,912       270,912  
                     
  v. Interest at 0.667% per month, repayable at $25,000 per month beginning October 2009, none repaid to date     310,985       310,985  
                     
  vi. Interest at 0.667% per month, with $125,000 due January 15, 2011     125,000       125,000  
                   
Promissory notes payable, secured by a guarantee from the Chief Executive Officer, bearing interest at 1% per month     60,000       200,000  
Total Promissory Notes Payable to Unrelated Parties   $ 2,254,353     $ 2,394,353  

 

F-12

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Notes to Financial Statements 

For the Years Ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 

($ United States)

 

3.Interest, advances and promissory notes payable (continued)

 

c)Interest payable

 

A summary of the interest payable activity is as follows:

 

Balance, December 31, 2017  $4,307,256 
Interest incurred on promissory notes payable   528,871 
      
Balance, December 31, 2018   4,836,127 
Interest incurred on promissory notes payable   528,870 
      
Balance, December 31, 2019  $5,364,997 

 

Interest payable is due to related and non-related parties as follows:

 

   December 31,   December 31, 
   2019   2018 
         
Related parties (relatives of the Chairman)  $2,876,280   $2,554,655 
Non-related parties   2,488,717    2,281,472 
           
   $5,364,997   $4,836,127 

 

The payment terms, security and any interest payable are based on the underlying promissory notes payable that the Company has outstanding.

 

d)Interest expense

 

During the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company incurred interest expense of $5,261,137 (2018 - $1,938,877) substantially as follows:

 

$3,243,812 (2018 - $nil) incurred related to 1) the grant of options as consideration for receiving an increase to the borrowing limit on the line of credit between the Company and the Chairman and 2) the modification of options held by the Chairman and his spouse that were granted in connection with financing provided to the Company;

$528,871 (2018 - $528,871) incurred on promissory notes (note 3(a)) and other payables;

1,365,966 (2018 - $1,287,822) incurred on lines of credit payable as shown in note 4; and

$122,488 (2018 - $122,184) incurred from the calculation of imputed interest on accounts payable outstanding for longer than one year, advances payable and promissory notes payable, which had no stated interest rate.

 

F-13

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Notes to Financial Statements 

For the Years Ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 

($ United States)

 

4.Lines of credit

 

On December 11, 2019, the Company and the Chairman entered into an amendment agreement to increase the borrowing limit on the line of credit provided by the Chairman to the Company from $8,500,000 to $10,300,000. The terms of amounts to be advanced under the amendment are consistent with the line of credit. In connection with the line of credit, the Company granted the Chairman the option to acquire 120,000,000 shares of common of the Company at a price of $0.015 per share for a term of five years (note 6).

 

As of December 31, 2019, the Company has two lines of credit as follows:

 

Creditor  Interest Rate  Borrowing Limit   Repayment Terms  Principal Borrowed   Accrued Interest   Total
Outstanding
   Security  Purpose
Chairman and CEO  1% per Month  $10,300,000   Due on Demand  $9,757,325   $5,576,997   $15,334,322   General Security over Assets  General Corporate Requirements
Wife of Chairman  1% per Month   2,000,000   Due on Demand   2,000,000    1,976,385    3,976,385   General Security over Assets  General Corporate Requirements
Total     $12,300,000      $11,757,325   $7,553,382   $19,310,707       

 

As of December 31, 2018, the Company has two lines of credit as follows:

 

Creditor  Interest Rate  Borrowing Limit   Repayment Terms  Principal Borrowed   Accrued Interest   Total 
Outstanding
   Security  Purpose
Chairman and CEO  1% per Month  $8,500,000   Due on Demand  $9,024,235   $4,501,030   $13,525,265   General Security over Assets  General Corporate Requirements
Wife of Chairman  1% per Month   2,000,000   Due on Demand   2,000,000    1,736,385    3,736,385   General Security over Assets  General Corporate Requirements
Total     $10,500,000      $11,024,235   $6,237,415   $17,261,650       

 

5.Capital stock

 

b)Authorized share capital

 

i.Common stock

 

10,000,000,000 shares of common stock with a par value of $0.001 per share.

 

ii.Preferred stock

 

500,000,000 shares of preferred stock with a par value of $0.001 per share.

 

F-14

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Notes to Financial Statements 

For the Years Ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 

($ United States)

 

5.Capital stock (continued)

 

c)Issued share capital

 

During the year ended December 31, 2019:

 

On June 19, 2019, the Company issued 26,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company to two individuals for the exercise of stock options as follows:

 

25,000,000 shares at an exercise price of $0.002 per share for a purchase price of $50,000. As consideration, the Company retired accrued interest owing to the Chairman on his line of credit totaling $50,000; and

1,000,000 shares at an exercise price of $0.015 per share for a purchase price of $15,000. As consideration, the Company retired accounts payable totaling $15,000.

 

During the year ended December 31, 2018:

 

There was no activity during the year ended December 31, 2018.

 

6.Additional paid-in capital

 

Stock options

 

A summary of stock option activity is as follows:

 

          
    Year Ended   Year Ended 
    December 31, 2019   December 31, 2018 
    Number of Options  

Weighted
Average

Exercise 
Price

   Number of 
Options
   Weighted
Average
Exercise 
Price
 
Outstanding, beginning of period    5,014,851,500   $0.002    4,963,851,500   $0.002 
Granted    254,050,000   $0.028    52,500,000   $0.015 
Exercised     (26,000,000)  $(0.003)      $ 
Cancelled    (6,500,000)  $(0.015)   (1,500,000)  $(0.015)
Outstanding, end of period    5,236,401,500   $0.003    5,014,851,500   $0.002 
                      
Exercisable, end of period    5,154,901,500   $0.003    4,987,851,500   $0.002 

 

F-15

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Notes to Financial Statements 

For the Years Ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 

($ United States)

 

6.Additional paid-in capital (continued)

 

Stock options (continued)

 

During the year ended December 31, 2019:

 

On February 4, 2019, the Company granted a consultant the option to acquire a total of 2,500,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.035 per share for a term of five years. The fair value of the options granted totaled $99,723 and was fully recorded at grant.

 

On March 15, 2019, the Company granted an option to acquire 9,150,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.035 per share for a term of five years. The option to acquire 2,500,000 shares of common stock was granted to one consultant and the option to acquire 6,650,000 shares of common stock was granted to one director. The fair value of the options granted totaled $364,058 and was fully recorded at grant.

 

On April 12, 2019, the Company modified options to acquire 564,350,200 shares of common stock of the Company by extending the expiry date to April 12, 2024. The options modified had:

 

exercise prices ranging from $0.002 to $0.03 per share; and

expiration dates ranging from April 19, 2019 to May 29, 2020 immediately prior to the modification.

 

The fair value related to the extension of the life of the options totaled $1,150,060 and was recorded at the modification date.

 

On May 6, 2019, the Company granted options to acquire 13,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.035 per share for a term of five years to three directors of the Company. The fair value of the options granted totaled $467,845 and was fully recorded at grant.

 

On May 17, 2019, the Company granted options to acquire 27,900,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.035 per share for a term of five years to eleven consultants, one director and one employee of the Company. The fair value of the options granted totaled $1,059,856 and was fully recorded at grant.

 

On May 31, 2019, the Company granted options to acquire 10,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.035 per share for a term of one year to one consultant. The option to acquire 10,000,000 shares will vest based on achievements of performance milestones. The fair value of the options granted totaling $399,722 was not recorded, as it cannot be determined that it is more likely than not that the performance conditions will be met.

 

On June 12, 2019, the Company granted options to acquire 40,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.05 per share until May 15, 2024 to three sales agents. The option to acquire 40,000,000 shares will vest based on achievements of performance milestones. The fair value of the options granted totaling $1,595,316 was not recorded, as it cannot be determined that it is more likely than not that the performance conditions will be met.

 

F-16

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Notes to Financial Statements 

For the Years Ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 

($ United States)

 

6.Additional paid-in capital (continued)

 

Stock options (continued)

 

During the year ended December 31, 2019: (continued)

 

On June 17, 2019, the Company granted options to acquire 5,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.035 per share for a term of five years to one advisor. The fair value of the options granted totaled $189,865 and was fully recorded at grant.

 

On June 17, 2019, the Company granted options to acquire 5,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.05 per share for a term of five years to a sales agent. The option to acquire 5,000,000 shares will vest based on achievements of performance milestones. The fair value of the options granted totaled $189,833 was not recorded, as it cannot be determined that it is more likely than not that the performance conditions will be met.

 

On June 24, 2019, options granted on January 31, 2018 to acquire 24,000,000 shares of common stock at a price of $0.015 for a term of five years that were subject to vest based on the achievement of certain performance milestones were modified as follows:

 

the option to acquire 4,000,000 shares of common stock was cancelled; and

the performance conditions were modified.

 

No compensation expense was reversed related to the cancellation of the unvested options as no compensation expense related to these options had been previously recorded. No compensation expense related to the modification of the options was recorded, as the change in vesting conditions did not make it more likely than not that the performance conditions will be met.

 

On July 15, 2019, the Company granted a consultant options to acquire 7,500,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.035 per share exercisable until February 3, 2024. The fair value of the options granted totaled $318,530 and was fully recorded at grant.

 

On August 16, 2019, the Company granted a consultant the option to acquire an aggregate 2,500,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.05 per share. The option to acquire 2,500,000 shares will vest based on achievements of performance milestones. The fair value of the options granted totaling $108,655 was not recorded, as it cannot be determined that it is more likely than not that the performance conditions will be met.

 

On September 6, 2019, the Company granted a consultant the option to acquire 1,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.05 per share for a term of five years. The option to acquire 1,000,000 shares will vest based on achievements of performance milestones. The fair value of the options granted totaling $40,863 was not recorded, as it cannot be determined that it is more likely than not that the performance conditions will be met.

 

F-17

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Notes to Financial Statements 

For the Years Ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 

($ United States)

 

6.Additional paid-in capital (continued)

 

Stock options (continued)

 

During the year ended December 31, 2019: (continued)

 

On September 17, 2019, the Company granted a consultant the option to acquire 5,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.035 per share for a term of five years. The fair value of the options granted totaled $194,850 and was fully recorded at grant.

 

On October 3, 2019, the Company granted two advisors the option to acquire an aggregate 3,500,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.035 per share for a term of five years. Options to acquire 2,500,000 shares of common stock will vest upon the advisor entering into a full-time role with the Company. The fair value of the options granted totaled $136,399 of which $38,971 has been recorded related to the vested options.

 

On October 24, 2019, the Company granted two advisors the option to acquire an aggregate 2,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.035 per share for a term of five years. The fair value of the options granted totaled $63,940 and was fully recorded at grant.

 

On December 11, 2019 the Company granted one creditor the option to acquire 120,000,000 shares of common of the Company at a price of $0.015 per share for a term of five years in connection with receiving line of credit financing (note 4). The fair value of the options granted totaled $2,158,441 and was fully recorded upon the Company entering into the financing agreement with the creditor.

 

During the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company recorded a further $18,630 in compensation expense related to vesting of stock options granted in previous years.

 

During the year ended December 31, 2018:

 

On January 31, 2018, the Company granted nine consultants and advisors the option to acquire a total of 47,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.015 per share for a term of five years and one advisor the option to acquire 200,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.03 per share until April 18, 2019. Options to acquire 24,000,000 shares of common stock will vest based on achievements of performance milestones by one consulting group (these options were modified on June 24, 2019). The fair value of the options granted totaled $2,722,605, of which $1,338,207 related to vested options was recorded as compensation expense and $1,384,398 related to options with performance vesting conditions was not recorded, as it is expected that the performance conditions will not be met.

 

On June 13, 2018, the Company granted a consultant the option to acquire a total of 5,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.015 per share for a term of five years. The fair value of the options granted totaled $189,968.

 

F-18

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Notes to Financial Statements 

For the Years Ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 

($ United States)

 

6.Additional paid-in capital (continued)

 

Stock options (continued)

 

On October 1, 2018, the Company granted a consultant the option to acquire a total of 300,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.05 per share for a term of five years. The fair value of the options granted totaled $15,926.

 

The Company recorded a further $37,242 in compensation expense related to vesting of stock options granted in previous years.

 

F-19

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Notes to Financial Statements 

For the Years Ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 

($ United States)

 

6.Additional paid-in capital (continued)

 

Stock options (continued)

 

Outstanding

 

The options outstanding at December 31, 2019 and 2018 were as follows:

 

   December 31, 2019   December 31, 2018 
Expiry Date  Options   Exercise Price   Intrinsic Value   Options   Exercise Price   Intrinsic Value 
                         
April 18, 2019      $    $    200,000   $0.030   $0.005 
May 21, 2019      $    $    500,000   $0.015   $0.020 
July 25, 2019      $    $    1,000,000   $0.015   $0.020 
August 1, 2019      $    $    1,250,000   $0.015   $0.020 
January 30, 2020      $    $    2,400,000   $0.015   $0.020 
May 29, 2020      $    $    560,000,200   $0.002   $0.033 
May 30, 2020   10,000,000   $0.035   $       $   $ 
July 1, 2021   4,365,001,300   $0.002   $0.015    4,390,001,300   $0.002   $0.033 
November 27, 2022   7,200,000   $0.015   $0.002    7,200,000   $0.015   $0.020 
January 31, 2023   40,500,000   $0.015   $0.002    47,000,000   $0.015   $0.020 
June 13, 2023   5,000,000   $0.015   $0.002    5,000,000   $0.015   $0.020 
October 1, 2023   300,000   $0.050   $    300,000   $0.050   $ 
February 3, 2024   10,000,000   $0.035   $       $   $ 
March 14, 2024   9,150,000   $0.035   $       $   $ 
April 12, 2024   560,000,200   $0.002   $0.015       $   $ 
April 12, 2024   4,150,000   $0.015   $0.002       $   $ 
April 12, 2024   200,000   $0.030   $       $   $ 
May 6, 2024   13,000,000   $0.035   $       $   $ 
May 17, 2024   40,000,000   $0.050   $       $   $ 
May 17, 2024   27,900,000   $0.035   $       $   $ 
June 17, 2024   5,000,000   $0.050   $       $   $ 
June 17, 2024   5,000,000   $0.035   $       $   $ 
August 16, 2024   2,500,000   $0.050   $       $   $ 
September 6, 2024   1,000,000   $0.050   $       $   $ 
September 17, 2024   5,000,000   $0.035   $       $   $ 
October 3, 2024   3,500,000   $0.035   $       $   $ 
October 24, 2024   2,000,000   $0.035   $       $   $ 
December 11, 2024   120,000,000   $0.015   $0.002       $   $ 
Total   5,236,401,500   $0.003   $0.014    5,014,851,500   $0.002   $0.033 
Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Life    1.96              2.40      

 

F-20

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Notes to Financial Statements 

For the Years Ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 

($ United States)

 

6.Additional paid-in capital (continued)

 

Stock options (continued)

 

The fair value of the stock options granted and vested was allocated as follows:

 

         
  

December 31,

2019

  

December 31, 

2018

 
         
Product development expense  $1,243,644   $186,476 
Professional expense   392,677    401,151 
Selling, general and administrative expenses   1,244,636    993,716 
Interest   3,243,812     
           
   $6,124,769   $1,581,343 

 

The Company uses the fair value method for determining stock-based compensation for all options granted during the fiscal periods. The fair value was determined using the Black-Scholes option pricing model based on the following weighted average assumptions:

 

         
  

December 31, 

2019

  

December 31, 

2018

 
         
Risk-free interest rate   1.84%   2.52%
Expected life   5 years    5 years 
Expected dividends   0%   0%
Expected volatility   306%   309%
Forfeiture rate   0%   0%

 

The weighted average fair value for the options granted during 2019 was $0.03 (2018 - $0.06).

 

F-21

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Notes to Financial Statements 

For the Years Ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 

($ United States)

 

7.Related party transactions and balances

 

         
  

Year Ended

December 31,

2019

  

Year Ended

December 31,

2018

 
         
Related party transaction included within interest expense:          
Interest expense on promissory notes issued to relatives of the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company  $321,626   $299,126 
Interest expense on lines of credit payable to the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company and his spouse  $1,365,967   $1,287,822 
           
Interest expense related to the modification of stock options held by the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company and his spouse related to financing provided  $1,085,371   $ 
           
Stock-based compensation related to stock options granted to a director of the Company  $2,158,441   $ 
           
Related party transactions included within selling, general and administrative expenses:          
Consulting fees to the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company accrued on the line of credit available to the Company  $189,600   $189,600 
Stock-based compensation related to stock options granted to four directors of the Company  $770,421   $ 
Selling, general and administrative expenses related to the modification of stock options to three directors of the Company  $29,204   $ 
           
Related party transactions included within selling, general and administrative expenses:          
Consulting fees to a relative of the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company  $120,000   $ 

 

Interest on promissory notes payable to related parties, management compensation and compensation paid to a relative of a director have been recorded at the exchange amount, which is the amount agreed to by the parties. Options granted to related parties have been recorded at their estimated fair value.

 

F-22

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Notes to Financial Statements 

For the Years Ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 

($ United States)

 

8.Commitments and contingencies

 

b)Contingencies

 

The Company has had three judgments against it relating to overdue promissory notes and accrued interest, and a fourth creditor has demanded repayment of an overdue promissory note and accrued interest. To date, the Company has not repaid any of these promissory notes and related accrued interest and could be subject to further action. The legal liability, totaling $1,188,968, of these promissory notes and related accrued interest have been fully recognized and recorded by the Company. The Company has accrued additional interest of $220,472 related to one of these promissory notes.

 

c)Commitments

 

The Company has a consulting arrangement with Mr. Sidney Chan, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company. Under the terms of the contract, Mr. Chan will be paid $180,000 per annum for services as Chief Executive Officer. The contract can be terminated at any time with thirty days’ notice and the payment of two years’ annual salary. Should the contract be terminated, all debts owed to Mr. Chan and his spouse must be immediately repaid. The initial term of the contract is for one year and automatically renews for continuous one-year terms. Also, under the terms of the contract are the following:

 

i.Incentive revenue bonus

 

Mr. Chan will be entitled to a 1% net sales commission from the sales of any of the Company’s products at any time during his life, regardless if Mr. Chan is still under contract with the Company.

 

ii.Sale of business

 

If more than 50% of the Company’s stock or assets are sold, Mr. Chan will be compensated for entering into non-compete agreements based on the selling price of the Company or its assets as follows:

 

2% of sales price up to $24,999,999 plus

3% of sales price between $25,000,000 and $49,999,999 plus

4% of sales price between $50,000,000 and $199,999,999 plus

5% of sales price in excess of $200,000,000.

 

F-23

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Notes to Financial Statements 

For the Years Ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 

($ United States)

 

9.Financial instruments

 

The Company’s financial instruments consist of cash, accounts payable, interest payable, promissory notes payable to unrelated parties, promissory notes payable to related parties and lines of credit from related parties.

 

a)Fair value

 

The fair values of cash and certain accounts payable approximate their carrying values due to the relatively short periods to maturity of these instruments.

 

Certain accounts payable have been outstanding longer than one year. The Company has recorded imputed interest at a rate of 1% per month over the period the payables have been outstanding for longer than one year, with a corresponding amount recognized in additional paid-in capital. The calculated amount represents the implicit compensation for the use of funds beyond a reasonable term for regular trade payables.

 

For the purposes of fair value analysis, promissory notes payable to related parties and promissory notes payable to unrelated parties can be separated into two classes of financial liabilities:

 

i.Interest-bearing promissory notes, lines of credit and related interest payable; and

ii.Non-interest-bearing promissory notes past due.

 

The interest-bearing promissory notes payable are all delinquent and have continued to accrue interest at their stated rates. The Company currently does not have the funds to extinguish these debts and will continue to incur interest until such time as the liabilities are extinguished. There is not an active market for delinquent loans for a Company with a similar financial position. Management asserts the carrying values of the promissory notes and related interest payable are a reasonable estimate of fair value, as they represent the Company’s best estimate of their legal obligation for these debts. As there is no observable market for interest rates on similar promissory notes, the fair value was estimated using Level 2 inputs in the fair value hierarchy.

 

The Company has one non-interest-bearing promissory note payable past due. There is not an active market for default loans not bearing interest nor is there an observable market for lending to companies with a financial position similar to the Company. The Company has recorded imputed interest at a rate of 1% per month over the life of the promissory notes, with a corresponding amount recognized in additional paid-in capital representing the implicit compensation for the use of funds. Management asserts the payment date for these amounts cannot be reasonably determined. Management further asserts there is not a determinable interest rate for arm’s length borrowings based on the current financial position of the Company and asserts the carrying value is the best estimate of the Company’s legal liability and represents the fair value for the promissory note. This would be considered a Level 2 input in the fair value hierarchy.

 

F-24

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Notes to Financial Statements 

For the Years Ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 

($ United States)

 

9.Financial instruments (continued)

 

b)Credit risk

 

Financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to credit risk consist of cash. The Company only has an immaterial cash balance and is not exposed to significant credit risk.

 

c)Market risk

 

Market risk is the risk that the fair value or future cash flows of a financial instrument will fluctuate due to changes in market prices. Market risk comprises two types of risk: interest rate risk and foreign currency risk.

 

i.Interest rate risk

 

Interest rate risk consists of two components:

 

a)Cash flow risk

 

To the extent that payments made or received on the Company’s monetary assets and liabilities are affected by changes in the prevailing market interest rates, the Company is exposed to interest rate cash flow risk.

 

The Company is exposed to interest rate cash flow risk on promissory notes payable of $500,000, which incur a variable interest rate of prime plus 1%. A hypothetical change of 1% on interest rates would increase or decrease net loss and comprehensive loss by $5,000.

 

b)Price risk

 

To the extent that changes in prevailing market interest rates differ from the interest rate on the Company’s monetary assets and liabilities, the Company is exposed to price risk.

 

The Company’s promissory notes payable consist of $500,000 of variable interest rate notes and $4,786,319 of fixed interest rate notes. All of these notes are past due and are currently due on demand while interest continues to accrue. Due to the delinquency of the fixed interest rate promissory notes payable, there is no active market for these instruments and fluctuations in market interest rates do not have a significant impact on their estimated fair values as of December 31, 2019.

 

At December 31, 2019, the effect on net loss and comprehensive loss of a hypothetical change of 1% in market interest rate cannot be reasonably determined.

 

F-25

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Notes to Financial Statements 

For the Years Ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 

($ United States)

 

9.Financial instruments (continued)

 

c)Market risk (continued)

 

ii.Foreign currency risk

 

The Company incurs certain accounts payable and expenses in Canadian dollars and is exposed to fluctuations in changes in exchange rates between the U.S. and Canadian dollars. As at December 31, 2019, the effect on net loss and comprehensive loss of a hypothetical change of 10% between the U.S. and Canadian dollars would not be material. The Company has not entered into any foreign currency contracts to mitigate risk.

 

10.Income taxes

 

The provision for income taxes differs from the result that would be obtained by applying the statutory tax rate of 21% (2018 - 21%) to income before income taxes. The difference results from the following items:

 

         
  

December 31, 

2019 

  

December 31, 

2018

 
         
Computed expected benefit of income taxes  $(1,891,163)  $(865,648)
Stock-based compensation   1,286,201    332,082 
Non-deductible interest expense   25,722    25,658 
Impact of change in tax rate       5,163,267 
Expiry of tax credits   18,486     
True up of prior year balances   37,917     
Increase (decrease) in valuation allowance   522,837    (4,655,359)
           
Income tax provision  $   $ 

 

The components of the net deferred income tax asset, the statutory tax rate and the amount of the valuation allowance are as follows:

 

         
  

December 31, 

2019 

  

December 31, 

2018 

 
         
Net operating loss carried forward  $44,625,741   $42,136,043 
Tax rate   21%   21%
Deferred income tax assets   9,371,406    8,848,569 
Valuation allowance   (9,371,406)   (8,848,569)
           
Net deferred income tax asset  $   $ 

 

F-26

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Notes to Financial Statements 

For the Years Ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 

($ United States)

 

10.Income taxes (continued)

 

The potential benefit of the deferred income tax asset has not been recognized in these financial statements since it cannot be assured that it is more likely than not that such benefit will be utilized in future years. The Company believes that the available objective evidence creates sufficient uncertainty regarding the realizability of the deferred income tax assets such that a full valuation allowance has been recorded.

 

The operating losses amounting to $44,625,741 for utilization in the United States of America, the jurisdiction where they were incurred, will expire between 2020 and 2039 if they are not used. The following table lists the fiscal year in which the loss was incurred and the expiration date of the operating loss carry-forwards:

 

Fiscal Year   Amount   Expiry Date 
2000   $4,425,866    2020 
2001    3,681,189    2021 
2002    2,503,951    2022 
2003    2,775,900    2023 
2004    1,250,783    2024 
2005    1,304,283    2025 
2006    1,532,322    2026 
2007    1,479,818    2027 
2008    1,599,919    2028 
2009    1,723,146    2029 
2010    822,678    2030 
2011    1,746,615    2031 
2012    1,638,421    2032 
2013    2,568,328    2033 
2014    2,855,631    2034 
2015    2,761,513    2035 
2016    2,471,978    2036 
2017    2,487,072    2037 
2018    2,238,048    2038 
2019    2,758,280    2039 
Total   $44,625,741      

 

11.Subsequent events

 

On February 14, 2020, the Company entered into a debt settlement agreement with a non-related party whereby the parties agreed to settle $80,000, consisting of $60,000 accounts payable and $20,000 for the provision of services under a Services Agreement dated January 1, 2020, with the issuance of 2,000,000 restricted shares of common stock of the Company. The shares were issued on March 11, 2020.

 

On February 26, 2020, the Board of Directors approved an increase the compensation paid to the CEO of the Company from $180,000 per annum to $240,000 per annum retroactive to January 1, 2020.

 

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ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Financial Statements 

December 31, 2018 and 2017

 

Index Page
   
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm F-1
   
Balance Sheets F-2
   
Statements of Operations F-3
   
Statements of Changes in Stockholders’ Deficit F-4
   
Statements of Cash Flows F-5
   
Notes to Financial Statements F-6 – F-23

 

 

 

 

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

 

To the Stockholders and the Board of Directors of ALR Technologies Inc.

 

Opinion on the Financial Statements 

We have audited the accompanying balance sheets of ALR Technologies Inc. (the "Company") as of December 31, 2018 and 2017, the related statements of operations, changes in stockholders' deficit, and cash flows, for the years then ended, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the "financial statements"). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2018 and 2017, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the years then ended, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

 

Going Concern

The accompanying financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern. As discussed in Note 1 to the financial statements, the Company has not generated revenues since inception, has incurred losses in developing its business, and further losses are anticipated. The Company requires additional funds to meet its obligations and the costs of its operations. These factors raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. Management’s plans in this regard are described in Note

1. The financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty

 

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company's financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) ("PCAOB") and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

 

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. As part of our audits we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company's internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB.

 

Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

 

DALE MATHESON CARR-HILTON LABONTE LLP

CHARTERED PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTANTS

 

We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2013

Vancouver, Canada 

March 28, 2019

 

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F-1

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Balance Sheets

($United States) 

December 31, 2018 and 2017

  

           
   2018    2017  
           

Assets 

          
Current assets:          
Cash  $3,378  $3,111 
Total assets  $3,378  $3,111 
           

Liabilities and Stockholders’ Deficit 

          
Current liabilities:          
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities  $1,014,268  $1,038,073 
Promissory notes payable due to related parties   2,891,966    2,891,966 
Promissory notes payable due to unrelated parties   2,394,353    2,394,353 
Interest payable   4,836,127    4,307,256 
Lines of credit from related parties   17,261,650    15,347,842 
Total liabilities   28,398,364    25,979,490 
           
Stockholders’ Deficit          
Preferred stock:          
Authorized: 500,000,000 shares of preferred stock (2017 - 500,000,000) with a par value of $0.001 per share          
Shares issued and outstanding: Nil shares of preferred stock (2017 - Nil) were issued and outstanding        
Common stock          
Authorized: 10,000,000,000 shares of common stock (2017 - 10,000,000,000) with a par value of $0.001 per share          
Shares issued and outstanding: 242,777,909 shares of common stock (2017 - 242,777,909 shares of common stock).   242,777    242,777 
Additional paid-in capital   50,012,445    48,308,919 
Accumulated deficit   (78,650,208)   (74,528,075)
Stockholders’ deficit   (28,394,986)   (25,976,379)
Total liabilities and stockholders’ deficit  $3,378  $3,111 

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements

 

F-2

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Statements of Operations 

($ United States) 

Years Ended December 31, 2018 and 2017

 

         
   2018   2017 
           
Operating Expenses          
Product development  $408,640   $416,304 
Professional fees   451,064    244,430 
Selling, general and administration   1,323,552    405,556 
Operating Loss   2,183,256    1,066,290 
Recovery of expense       (86,236)
Interest expense   1,938,877    1,861,971 
Net Loss  $(4,122,133)  $(2,842,025)
           

Weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding, basic and diluted 

   242,777,909    242,777,909 
           

Loss per share, basic and diluted 

  $(0.02)  $(0.01)

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements

 

F-3

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Statements of Changes in Stockholders’ Deficit 

($ United States) 

From December 31, 2017 to December 31, 2018 

 

                     
           Additional       Total 
Common Stock  Number of
Shares
   Amount  

Paid-in
Capital

   Accumulated
Deficit
  

Stockholders’
Deficit

 
                          
Balance, December 31, 2016    242,777,909   $242,777   $48,212,548   $(71,686,050)  $(23,230,725)
Imputed interest reversal           (103,859)       (103,859)
Stock options granted as compensation           200,230        200,230 
Net loss for the year               (2,842,025)   (2,842,025)
Balance, December 31, 2017   242,777,909    242,777    48,308,919    (74,528,075)   (25,976,379)
Imputed interest           122,183        122,183 
Stock options granted as compensation           1,581,343        1,581,343 
Net loss for the year               (4,122,133)   (4,122,133)
Balance, December 31, 2018   242,777,909   $242,777   $50,012,445   $(78,650,208)  $(28,394,986)

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements

 

F-4

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Statements of Cash Flows 

($ United States) 

Years Ended December 31, 2018 and 2017

 

         
    2018    2017 
           
OPERATING ACTIVITIES          
Net loss  $(4,122,133)  $(2,842,025)
Stock-based compensation-product development   186,476    66,800 
Stock-based compensation-selling, general and admin   993,716    80,938 
Stock-based compensation-professional fees   401,151    52,492 
Unpaid interest expense on line of credit   1,287,822    1,202,250 
Non-cash imputed interest expense   122,183    154,848 
Non-cash gain on reversal of expense        (86,236)
Changes in assets and liabilities:          
Decrease in prepaid expenses       1,429 
Increase in accounts payable and accrued liabilities   13,725    95,106 
Increase in interest payable   528,871    504,872 
           
Net cash used in operating activities   (625,718)   (769,526)
           
FINANCING ACTIVITIES          
Proceeds from lines of credit   625,985    770,030 
           
Net cash provided by financing activities   625,985    770,030 
           
Change in cash   267    504 
Cash, beginning of year   3,111    2,607 
Cash, end of year  $3,378   $3,111 

 

See accompanying notes to financial statements

 

F-5

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Notes to Financial Statements 

For the Years Ended December 31, 2018 and 2017 

($ United States)

 

1.Basis of presentation, nature of operations and going concern

 

ALR Technologies Inc. (the “Company”) was incorporated under the laws of the state of Nevada on March 24, 1987. The Company has developed a compliance monitoring system that will allow for health care professionals to remotely monitor patient health conditions and provide patient health management. On October 17, 2011 the Company announced that it had received Section 510(k) clearance from the United States Food and Drug Administration for its Health-e-Connect System. The Company is currently seeking pilot programs to deploy its product.

 

These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) in U.S dollars and on a going concern basis, which presumes the realization of assets and the discharge of liabilities and commitments in the normal course of operations for the foreseeable future. Several adverse conditions cast substantial doubt on the validity of this assumption. The Company has incurred significant losses over the past several fiscal years (2018 - $4,122,133; 2017 - $2,842,025), is currently unable to self-finance its operations, has a working capital deficit of $28,394,986 (2017 - $25,979,490), accumulated deficit of $78,650,208 (2017 - $74,528,075), limited resources, no source of operating cash flow, and no assurance that sufficient funding will be available to conduct continued product development activities. If the Company is able to finance its required product development activities, there is no assurance the Company’s current projects will be commercially viable or profitable. The Company has debts comprised of accounts payable and accrued liabilities, interest payable, lines of credit and promissory notes payable totaling $28,398,364 (2017 - $25,979,490) currently due, due on demand or considered delinquent. There is no assurance that the Company will not face additional legal action from creditors regarding delinquent accounts payable, promissory notes and interest payable. Any one or a combination of these above conditions could result in the failure of the business and cause the Company to cease operations.

 

The Company’s ability to continue as a going concern is dependent upon the continued financial support of its creditors and its ability to obtain financing to fund working capital and overhead requirements, fund the development of the Company’s product line and ultimately, the Company’s ability to achieve profitable operations and repay overdue obligations. Management has obtained short-term financing from related parties through lines of credit facilities with available borrowing in principal amount up to $10,500,000. As of December 31, 2018, the total principal balance outstanding was $11,024,235. The resolution of whether the Company is able to continue as a going concern is dependent upon the realization of management’s plans. When additional financing is required, the Company plans to raise needed capital through the exercise of share options and by future common share private placements. There can be no assurance that the Company will be able to raise any additional debt or equity capital from the sources described above, or that the lenders in the line of credit arrangements will maintain the availability of borrowing from the line. If management is unsuccessful in obtaining short- term financing or achieving long-term profitable operations, the Company will be required to cease operations.

 

 

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ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Notes to Financial Statements 

For the Years Ended December 31, 2018 and 2017 

($ United States)

 

1.Basis of presentation, nature of operations and going concern (continued)

 

All of the Company’s debt is either due on demand or is in default, while continuing to accrue interest at its stated rates. The Company will seek to obtain creditors’ consents to delay repayment of the outstanding promissory notes payable and related interest thereto, until it is able to replace this financing with funds generated by operations, recapitalization with replacement debt or from equity financings through private placements. While some of the Company’s creditors have agreed to extend repayment deadlines in the past, there is no assurance that they will continue to do so in the future. In the past, creditors have successfully commenced legal action against the Company to recover debts outstanding. In those instances, the Company was able to obtain financing from related parties to cover the verdict or settlement; however, there is no assurance that the Company would be able to obtain the same financing in the future. If the Company is unsuccessful in obtaining financing to cover any potential verdicts or settlements, the Company will be required to cease operations.

 

The Company’s activities will necessitate significant uses of working capital beyond 2018. Additionally, the Company’s capital requirements will depend on many factors, including the success of the Company’s continued product development and distribution efforts. The Company plans to continue financing its operations with the lines of credit it has available.

 

There is no assurance that the Company’s activities will generate sufficient revenues to sustain its operations without additional capital or if additional capital is needed, that such funds, if available, will be obtainable on terms satisfactory to the Company.

 

2.Significant accounting policies

 

a)Stock-based compensation

 

The Company follows the fair value method of accounting for stock-based compensation. The Company estimates the fair value of share-based payment awards on the date of grant using an option pricing model. The value of the portion of the award that is ultimately expected to vest is recognized as an expense over the requisite service period in the Company’s financial statements. The Company estimates the fair value of the stock options using the Black-Scholes option pricing model. The Black-Scholes option pricing model requires the input of highly subjective assumptions, including the option’s expected life and the price volatility of the underlying stock.

 

 

F-7

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Notes to Financial Statements 

For the Years Ended December 31, 2018 and 2017 

($ United States)

 

2.Significant accounting policies (continued)

 

b)Income taxes

 

Income taxes are accounted for under the asset and liability method. Deferred income tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the differences between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax basis, and operating loss carry-forwards that are available to be carried forward to future years for tax purposes.

 

Deferred income tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the years in which those temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. The effect on deferred income tax assets and liabilities of a change in tax rates is recognized in income in the period that includes the enactment date. When it is not considered to be more likely than not that a deferred income tax asset will be realized, a valuation allowance is provided for the excess.

 

The Company follows the accounting requirements associated with uncertainty in income taxes using the provisions of Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) ASC 740, Income Taxes. Using that guidance, tax positions initially need to be recognized in the financial statements when it is more-likely-than-not the positions will be sustained upon examination by the tax authorities. It also provides guidance for derecognition, classification, interest and penalties, accounting in interim periods, disclosure and transition. As of December 31, 2018, the Company has no uncertain tax positions that qualify for either recognition or disclosure in the financial statements.

 

c)Use of estimates

 

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, the measurement of stock-based compensation, the fair value of financial instruments and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Management believes the estimates are reasonable; however, actual results could differ from those estimates.

 

d)Loss per share

 

Basic loss per common share is calculated by dividing net loss by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the year. Diluted loss per common share is calculated by dividing the net loss by the sum of the weighted average number of common shares outstanding and the dilutive common equivalent shares outstanding during the year. Common equivalent shares consist of the shares issuable upon exercise of stock options and warrants calculated using the treasury stock method. Common equivalent shares are not included in the calculation of the weighted average number of shares outstanding for diluted loss per common shares when the effect would be anti-dilutive.

 

 

F-8

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Notes to Financial Statements 

For the Years Ended December 31, 2018 and 2017 

($ United States)

 

2.Significant accounting policies (continued)

 

e)Comprehensive income

 

Comprehensive income is the overall change in the net assets of the Company for a period, other than changes attributable to transactions with stockholders. It is made up of net income and other comprehensive income. Other comprehensive income consists of net income and other gains and losses affecting stockholders’ equity that under generally accepted accounting principles are excluded from net income. The Company has no items of other comprehensive income (loss) in any period presented. Therefore, as presented in the Company’s statements of loss, net loss equals comprehensive loss.

 

f)Fair value of financial instruments

 

The Company’s financial instruments include cash, accounts payable, promissory notes payable, interest payable and lines of credit. The fair values of these financial instruments approximate their carrying values due to the relatively short periods to maturity of these instruments. For fair value measurement, U.S. GAAP establishes a three-tier hierarchy which prioritizes the inputs used in the valuation methodologies in measuring fair value:

 

Level 1 — observable inputs that reflect quoted prices (unadjusted) for identical assets or liabilities in active markets.

 

Level 2 — include other inputs that are directly or indirectly observable in the marketplace.

 

Level 3 — unobservable inputs which are supported by little or no market activity.

 

g)Recently adopted and issued accounting pronouncements

 

i.Adopted

 

In August 2016, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2016-15, Statement of Cash Flows (Topic 230): Classification of Certain Cash Receipts and Cash Payments. The new standard will make eight targeted changes to how cash receipts and cash payments are presented and classified in the statement of cash flows. The standard will be effective for the Company beginning January 1, 2018, with early application permitted. The standard will require adoption on a retrospective basis unless it is impracticable to apply, in which case we would be required to apply the amendments prospectively as of the earliest date practicable.

 

In May 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-09, Stock Compensation: Scope of Modification Accounting. The amendments in this update provide guidance about which changes to the terms or conditions of a share-based payment award require an entity to apply modification accounting. ASU 2017-09 is effective for fiscal years and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2017, which will be effective for the Company for the year ending December 31, 2018.

 

 

F-9

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Notes to Financial Statements 

For the Years Ended December 31, 2018 and 2017 

($ United States)

 

2.Significant accounting policies (continued)

 

h)Recently adopted and issued accounting pronouncements

 

ii. Issued

 

In July 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-11, Earnings Per Share (Topic 260), Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity (Topic 480), and Derivative and Hedging (Topic 815). The amendments in Part I of this update change the classification analysis of certain equity-linked financial instruments (or embedded features) with down-round features. When determining whether certain financial instruments should be classified as liabilities or equity instruments, a down-round feature no longer precludes equity classification when assessing whether the instrument is indexed to an entity's own stock. The amendments also clarify existing disclosure requirements for equity-classified instruments. As a result, a freestanding equity-linked financial instrument (or embedded conversion option) no longer would be accounted for as a derivative liability at fair value as a result of the existence of a down-round feature. For freestanding equity classified financial instruments, the amendments require entities that present earnings per share ("EPS") in accordance with Topic 260 to recognize the effect of the down-round feature when it is triggered. That effect is treated as a dividend and as a reduction of income available to common shareholders in basic EPS. Convertible instruments with embedded conversion options that have down-round features are now subject to the specialized guidance for contingent beneficial conversion features (in Subtopic 470-20, Debt-Debt with Conversion and Other Options), including related EPS guidance (in Topic 260). The amendments in Part II of this update recharacterize the indefinite deferral of certain provisions of Topic 480 that now are presented as pending content in the Accounting Standards Codification, to a scope exception. Those amendments do not have an accounting effect. ASU 2017-11 is effective for fiscal years and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2018, which will be effective for the Company for the quarter ending December 31, 2019. Early adoption is permitted. The Company is assessing the impact, if any, of implementing this guidance on its financial position, results of operations and liquidity.

 

The Company has implemented all new accounting pronouncements that are in effect and may impact its financial statements. The Company does not believe that there are any other new accounting pronouncements that have been issued that might have a material impact on its financial position or statement of operations.

 

 

F-10

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Notes to Financial Statements 

For the Years Ended December 31, 2018 and 2017 

($ United States)

 

3.Promissory notes and interest payable

 

a)Promissory notes payable to related parties:

 

A summary of the promissory notes payable to related parties is as follows:

 

Promissory Notes Payable to Related Parties 

December 

31, 2018

  

December 

31, 2017 

 
           
Promissory notes payable to relatives of directors collateralized by a general security agreement over all the assets of the Company, due on demand:          
           
i. Interest at 1% per month  $580,619   $580,619 
             
ii. Interest at 1.25% per month   51,347    51,347 
             
iii. Interest at the U.S. bank prime rate plus 1%   100,000    100,000 
             
iv. Interest at 0.5% per month   695,000    695,000 
             
Promissory notes payable, unsecured, to relatives of a director, bearing interest at 1% per month, due on demand   1,465,000    1,465,000 
           

Total Promissory Notes Payable to Related Parties 

  $2,891,966   $2,891,966 

 

F-11

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Notes to Financial Statements 

For the Years Ended December 31, 2018 and 2017 

($ United States)

 

3.Interest, advances and promissory notes payable (continued)

 

b)Promissory notes payable to unrelated parties

 

A summary of the promissory notes payable to unrelated parties is as follows:

  

         
Promissory Notes Payable to Unrelated Parties 

December 31, 

2018 

  

December 31, 

2017 

 
           
Unsecured promissory notes payable to unrelated lenders:           
           
i.  Interest at 1% per month, repayable on March 31, 2009, due on demand  $450,000   $450,000 
           
ii. Interest at 1% per month, with $50,000 repayable on December 31, 2004, $75,000 repayable on August 18, 2007, $75,000 repayable on November 19, 2007 and the balance due on demand. All are due on demand, accruing interest at the same rate   887,456    887,456 
           
iii. Interest at 0.625% per month, with $50,000 repayable on October 5, 2004, $40,000 repayable on December 31, 2004, and $60,000 repayable on July 28, 2006, all due on demand   150,000    150,000 
           
iv. Non-interest-bearing, repayable on July 17, 2005, due on demand   270,912    270,912 
           
v.  Interest at 0.667% per month, repayable at $25,000 per month beginning October 2009, none repaid to date   310,985    310,985 
           
vi. Interest at 0.667% per month, with $125,000 due January 15, 2011   125,000    125,000 
           
Promissory notes payable, secured by a guarantee from the Chief Executive Officer, bearing interest at 1% per month   200,000    200,000 
           

Total Promissory Notes Payable to Unrelated Parties 

  $2,394,353   $2,394,353 

 

F-12

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Notes to Financial Statements 

For the Years Ended December 31, 2018 and 2017 

($ United States)

 

3.Interest, advances and promissory notes payable (continued)

 

c)Interest payable

 

A summary of the interest payable activity is as follows:

 

Balance, December 31, 2016  $3,629,913 
Interest incurred on promissory notes payable   504,873 
Transfer from implicit interest to interest payable on promissory note   172,470 
      
Balance, December 31, 2017    4,307,256 
Interest incurred on promissory notes payable   528,871 
      
Balance, December 31, 2018   $4,836,127 

 

As at December 31, 2017, interest of $172,470 was transferred from imputed interest to interest payable as the Company determined it was more appropriate to treat interest amounts recorded as a liability for one promissory note which had no stated interest rate. The difference between the rate at which interest was imputed and the rate at which interest was deemed reasonable for accrual purposes, totaling $86,236, was recorded as a recovery of expense.

 

  

December 31, 

2018 

  

December 31, 

2017 

 
         
Related parties (relatives of the Chairman)   $2,554,655   $2,255,529 
Non-related parties   2,281,472    2,051,727 
           
   $4,836,127   $4,307,256 

 

The payment terms, security and any interest payable are based on the underlying promissory notes payable that the Company has outstanding.

 

d)Interest expense

 

During the year ended December 31, 2018, the Company incurred interest expense of $1,938,877 (2017 - $1,861,971) substantially as follows:

 

-$528,871 (2017 - $504,873), including interest incurred on promissory notes (note 3(a)) and other payables;

-$1,287,822 (2017 - $1,202,250) incurred on lines of credit payable as shown in note 4; and

-$122,183 (2017 - $154,848) incurred from the calculation of imputed interest on accounts payable outstanding for longer than one year, advances payable and promissory notes payable, which had no stated interest rate.

 

 

F-13

 

 

ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Notes to Financial Statements 

For the Years Ended December 31, 2018 and 2017 

($ United States)

 

4.Lines of credit

 

As of December 31, 2018, the Company has two lines of credit as follows:

 

Creditor  Interest  
Rate
  Borrowing  
Limit
   Repayment  
Terms
  Principal  
Borrowed
   Accrued  
Interest
   Total  
Outstanding
   Security  Purpose
Chairman and CEO  1% per Month  $8,500,000   Due on Demand  $9,024,235   $4,501,030   $13,525,265   General Security over Assets  General Corporate Requirements
Wife of Chairman  1% per Month   2,000,000   Due on Demand   2,000,000    1,736,385    3,736,385   General Security over Assets  General Corporate Requirements
Total     $10,500,000      $11,024,235   $6,237,415   $17,261,650       

 

As of December 31, 2017, the Company has two lines of credit as follows:

 

Creditor  Interest  
Rate
  Borrowing  
Limit
   Repayment  
Terms
  Principal  
Borrowed
   Accrued  
Interest
   Total  
Outstanding
   Security  Purpose
Chairman and CEO  1% per Month  $8,500,000   Due on Demand  $8,398,249   $3,453,208   $11,851,457   General Security over Assets  General Corporate Requirements
Wife of Chairman  1% per Month   2,000,000   Due on Demand   2,000,000    1,496,385    3,496,385   General Security over Assets  General Corporate Requirements
Total     $10,500,000      $10,398,249   $4,949,593   $15,347,842       

 

5.Capital stock

 

a)Authorized share capital

 

i.Common stock

 

During the year ended December 31, 2018:

 

10,000,000,000 shares of common stock with a par value of $0.001 per share.

 

During the year ended December 31, 2017:

 

i.Preferred stock

 

500,000,000 shares of preferred stock with a par value of $0.001 per share.

 

 

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ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Notes to Financial Statements 

For the Years Ended December 31, 2018 and 2017

($ United States)

 

5.Capital stock (continued)

 

b)Issued share capital

 

During the years ended December 31, 2018 and December 31, 2017:

 

There was no activity during the years.

 

6.Additional paid-in capital

 

Stock options

 

A summary of stock option activity is as follows: 

 

                  
    Year Ended
December 31, 2018
   Year Ended
December 31, 2017
 
    Number of  
Options
  

Weighted Average

Exercise  
Price

  

Number of

Options

  

Weighted Average

Exercise  
Price

 
Outstanding, beginning of period    4,963,851,500   $0.002    4,962,301,500   $0.013 
Granted    52,500,000   $0.015    6,500,000   $0.002 
Cancelled    (1,500,000)  $0.015    (4,950,000)  $(0.061)
Outstanding, end of period    5,014,851,500   $0.002    4,963,851,500   $0.002 
                      

Exercisable, end of period 

    4,987,851,500   $0.002    4,958,201,500   $0.002 

 

During the year ended December 31, 2018:

 

On January 31, 2018, the Company granted nine consultants and advisors the option to acquire a total of 47,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.015 per share for a term of five years and one advisor the option to acquire 200,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.03 per share until April 18, 2019. Options to acquire 24,000,000 shares of common stock will vest based on achievements of performance milestones by one consulting group. The fair value of the options granted totaled $2,722,605, of which, $1,338,207 related to vested options was recorded as compensation expense and $1,384,398 related to options with performance vesting conditions was not recorded as its expected that the performance conditions will not be met.

 

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ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Notes to Financial Statements 

For the Years Ended December 31, 2018 and 2017 

($ United States)

 

6.Additional paid-in capital (continued)

 

Stock options (continued)

 

On June 13, 2018, the Company granted a consultant the option to acquire a total of 5,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.015 per share for a term of five years. The fair value of the options granted totaled $189,968.

 

On October 1, 2018, the Company granted a consultant the option to acquire a total of 300,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.05 per share for a term of five years. The fair value of the options granted totaled $15,926.

 

The Company recorded a further $37,242 in compensation expense related to vesting of stock options granted in previous years.

 

During the year ended December 31, 2017:

 

On November 27, 2017, the Company granted ten individuals the option acquire a total of 6,500,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.015 per share for a term of five years. 2,350,000 of the approved options were to a director of the Company and 4,150,000 were to consultants of the Company. The fair value of the options granted total $194,970. In addition, the Company also extended the life of the options to acquire an aggregate of 2,200,000 shares of common stock held by four consultants to November 27, 2022.

 

The Company recorded a further $5,260 in compensation expense related to vesting of stock options granted in previous years. 

 

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ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Notes to Financial Statements 

For the Years Ended December 31, 2018 and 2017 

($ United States)

 

6.Additional paid-in capital (continued)

 

Stock options (continued)

 

Outstanding

 

The options outstanding at December 31, 2018 and 2017 were as follows:

 

   December 31, 2018  December 31, 2017 
Expiry Date  Options   Exercise Price   Intrinsic Value   Options   Exercise Price   Intrinsic Value 
                               
April 18, 2019   200,000   $0.030   $0.005           $ 
May 21, 2019   500,000   $0.015   $0.020    500,000   $0.030  $0.01 
July 25, 2019   1,000,000   $0.015   $0.020    1,000,000   $0.015   $0.025 
August 1, 2019   1,250,000   $0.015   $0.020    1,250,000   $0.015   $0.025 
January 30, 2020   2,400,000   $0.015   $0.020    2,400,000   $0.015  $0.025 
May 29, 2020   560,000,200   $0.002   $0.033    560,000,200   $0.002  $0.038 
July 1, 2021   4,390,001,300   $0.002   $0.033    4,390,001,300   $0.002  $0.038 
November 27, 2022   7,200,000   $0.015   $0.020    8,700,000   $0.015  $0.025 
January 31, 2023   47,000,000   $0.015   $0.020       $   $ 
June 13, 2023   5,000,000   $0.015   $0.020       $   $ 
October 1, 2023   300,000   $0.050   $       $   $ 
Total   5,014,851,500   $0.002   $0.033    4,963,851,500   $0.002   $0.038 
Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Life        2.40              3.38      

 

The fair value of the stock options granted and vested was allocated as follows: 

 

   December 31,   December 31, 
   2018   2017 
         
Product development expense  $186,476   $66,800 
Professional expense   401,151    52,492 
Selling, general and administration expenses:   993,716    80,938 
           
   $1,581,343   $200,230 

 

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ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 

Notes to Financial Statements 

For the Years Ended December 31, 2018 and 2017 

($ United States)

 

6.Additional paid-in capital (continued)

 

Stock options (continued)

 

The Company uses the fair value method for determining stock-based compensation for all options granted during the fiscal periods. The fair value was determined using the Black-Scholes option pricing model based on the following weighted average assumptions:

  

         
   December 31,   December 31, 
   2018   2017 
           
Risk-free interest rate    2.52%   2.34%
Expected life   5 years    5 years 
Expected dividends   0%   0%
Expected volatility   309%   330%
Forfeiture rate   0%   0%

 

The weighted average fair value for the options granted during 2018 was $0.06 (2017 - $0.03).

 

7.Related party transactions and balances

  

         
   Year Ended  
December 31,  
2018
   Year Ended  
December 31,  
2017
 
           
Related party transaction included within interest expense:          
Interest expenses on promissory notes issued to relatives of the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company  $299,125   $299,125 
Interest expense on lines of credit payable to the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company and his spouse  $1,287,822   $1,202,250 
           
Related party transactions including within selling, general and administration expenses:          
Consulting fees to the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company accrued on the line of credit available to the Company  $189,600  $189,600 
Stock-based compensation related to stock options granted a Director of the Company  $   $70,489 

  

Interest on promissory notes payable to related parties, management compensation and compensation paid to a relative of a director have been recorded at the exchange amount, which is the amount agreed to by the parties. Options granted to related parties have been recorded at their estimated fair value.

  

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ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC.

Notes to Financial Statements

For the Years Ended December 31, 2018 and 2017

($ United States)

 

8.Commitments and contingencies

 

a)Contingencies

 

The Company has had three judgments against it relating to overdue promissory notes and accrued interest and a fourth creditor has demanded repayment of an overdue promissory note and accrued interest. To date, the Company has not repaid any of these promissory notes and related accrued interest and could be subject to further action. The legal liability, totaling $1,113,768, of these promissory notes and related accrued interest have been fully recognized and recorded by the Company. The Company has accrued additional interest of $172,470 related to one of these promissory notes.

 

b)Commitments

 

The Company has a consulting arrangement with Mr. Sidney Chan, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company. Under the terms of the contract, Mr. Chan will be paid $180,000 per annum for services as Chief Executive Officer. The contract can be terminated at any time with thirty days’ notice and the payment of two years annual salary. Should the contract be terminated, all debts owed to Mr. Chan and his spouse must be immediately repaid. The initial term of the contract is for one year and automatically renews for continuous one-year terms. Also, under the terms of the contract are the following:

 

i.Incentive revenue bonus

 

Mr. Chan will be entitled to a 1% net sales commission from the sales of any of the Company’s products at any time during his life, regardless if Mr. Chan is still under contract with the Company.

 

ii.Sale of business

 

If more than 50% of the Company’s stock or assets are sold, Mr. Chan will be compensated for entering into non-compete agreements based on the selling price of the Company or its assets as follows: 

-2% of sales price up to $24,999,999 plus

-3% of sales price between $25,000,000 and $49,999,999 plus

-4% of sales price between $50,000,000 and $199,999,999 plus

-5% of sales price in excess of $200,000,000.

 

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ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC.

Notes to Financial Statements

For the Years Ended December 31, 2018 and 2017

($ United States)

 

9.Financial instruments

 

The Company’s financial instruments consist of cash, accounts payable, interest payable, promissory notes payable to unrelated parties, promissory notes payable to related parties and lines of credit from related parties.

 

a)Fair value

 

The fair values of cash and certain accounts payable approximate their carrying values due to the relatively short periods to maturity of these instruments.

 

Certain accounts payable have been outstanding longer than one year. The Company has recorded imputed interest at a rate of 1% per month over the period the payables have been outstanding for longer than one year, with a corresponding amount recognized in additional paid-in capital. The calculated amount represents the implicit compensation for the use of funds beyond a reasonable term for regular trade payables.

 

For the purposes of fair value analysis, promissory notes payable to related parties and promissory notes payable to unrelated parties can be separated into two classes of financial liabilities.

 

i.Interest-bearing promissory notes, lines of credit and related interest payable; and

ii.Non-interest-bearing promissory notes past due.

 

The interest-bearing promissory notes payable are all delinquent and have continued to accrue interest at their stated rates. The Company currently does not have the funds to extinguish these debts and will continue to incur interest until such time as the liabilities are extinguished. There is not an active market for delinquent loans for a Company with a similar financial position. Management asserts the carrying values of the promissory notes and related interest payable are a reasonable estimate of fair value as they represent the Company’s best estimate of their legal obligation for these debts. As there is no observable market for interest rates on similar promissory notes, the fair value was estimated using Level 2 inputs in the fair value hierarchy.

 

The Company has one non-interest-bearing promissory note payable past due. There is not an active market for default loans not bearing interest nor is there an observable market for lending to companies with a financial position similar to the Company. The Company has recorded imputed interest at a rate of 1% per month over the life of the promissory notes, with a corresponding amount recognized in additional paid-in capital representing the implicit compensation for the use of funds. Management asserts the payment date for these amounts cannot be reasonably determined. Management further asserts there is not a determinable interest rate for arm’s length borrowings based on the current financial position of the Company and asserts the carrying value is the best estimate of the Company’s legal liability and represents the fair value for the promissory note. This would be considered a Level 2 input in the fair value hierarchy.

 

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ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC.

Notes to Financial Statements

For the Years Ended December 31, 2018 and 2017

($ United States)

 

9.Financial instruments (continued)

 

b)Credit risk

 

Financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to credit risk consist of cash. The Company only has an immaterial cash balance and is not exposed to significant credit risk.

 

c)Market risk

 

Market risk is the risk that the fair value or future cash flows of a financial instrument will fluctuate because of changes in market prices. Market risk comprises two types of risk: interest rate risk and foreign currency risk.

 

i.Interest rate risk

 

Interest rate risk consists of two components:

 

a)    Cash flow risk

 

To the extent that payments made or received on the Company’s monetary assets and liabilities are affected by changes in the prevailing market interest rates, the Company is exposed to interest rate cash flow risk.

 

The Company is exposed to interest rate cash flow risk on promissory notes payable of $500,000, which incur a variable interest rate of prime plus 1%. A hypothetical change of 1% on interest rates would increase or decrease net loss and comprehensive loss by $5,000.

 

b)Price risk

 

To the extent that changes in prevailing market interest rates differ from the interest rate on the Company’s monetary assets and liabilities, the Company is exposed to price risk.

 

The Company’s promissory notes payable consist of $500,000 of variable interest rate notes and $4,786,319 of fixed interest rate notes. All of these notes are past due and are currently due on demand while interest continues to accrue. Due to the delinquency of the fixed interest rate promissory notes payable, there is no active market for these instruments and fluctuations in market interest rates do not have a significant impact on their estimated fair values as of December 31, 2018.

 

At December 31, 2018, the effect on the net loss and comprehensive loss of a hypothetical change of 1% in market interest rate cannot be reasonably determined.

 

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ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC.

Notes to Financial Statements

For the Years Ended December 31, 2018 and 2017

($ United States)

 

9.Financial instruments (continued)

 

d)Foreign currency risk

 

The Company incurs certain accounts payable and expenses in Canadian dollars and is exposed to fluctuations in changes in exchange rates between the US and Canadian dollars. As at December 31, 2018, the effect on net loss and comprehensive loss of a hypothetical change of 10% between the US and Canadian dollars would not be material. The Company has not entered into any foreign currency contracts to mitigate risk.

 

10.Income taxes

 

The provision for income taxes differs from the result that would be obtained by applying the statutory tax rate of 21% (2017 - 34%) to income before income taxes. The difference results from the following items: 


 

  

December 31,

2018 

  

December 31, 

2017 

 
           
Computed expected benefit of income taxes
  $(865,648)  $(966,289)
Stock-based compensation   332,082    68,037 
Non-deductible interest expense   25,658    52,648 
Impact of change in tax rate   5,163,267     
Increase (decrease) in valuation allowance   (4,655,359)   845,604 
           
Income tax provision
  $   $ 

 

The components of the net deferred income tax asset, the statutory tax rate and the amount of the valuation allowance are as follows: 


 

    December 31,  December 31, 
    2018  2017 
           
Net operating loss carried forward
  $42,136,043   $39,717,436 
Tax rate   21%   34%
Deferred income tax assets   8,848,569    13,503,928 
Valuation allowance   (8,848,569)   (13,503,928)
           
Net deferred income tax asset
  $   $ 

 

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ALR TECHNOLOGIES INC.

Notes to Financial Statements

For the Years Ended December 31, 2018 and 2017

($ United States)

 

10.Income taxes (continued)

 

The potential benefit of the deferred income tax asset has not been recognized in these financial statements since it cannot be assured that it is more likely than not that such benefit will be utilized in future years. The Company believes that the available objective evidence creates sufficient uncertainty regarding the realizability of the deferred income tax assets such that a full valuation allowance has been recorded.

 

The operating losses amounting to $42,136,043 for utilization in the United States of America, the jurisdiction where they were incurred, will expire between 2019 and 2038 if they are not used. The following table lists the fiscal year in which the loss was incurred and the expiration date of the operating loss carry-forwards: 

 

Fiscal Year  Amount   Expiry Date 
1999  $88,022  2019 
2000   4,425,866  2020 
2001   3,681,189  2021 
2002   2,503,951  2022 
2003   2,775,900  2023 
2004   1,250,783  2024 
2005   1,304,283  2025 
2006   1,532,322  2026 
2007   1,479,818  2027 
2008   1,599,919  2028 
2009   1,723,146  2029 
2010   822,678  2030 
2011   1,746,615  2031 
2012   1,638,421  2032 
2013   2,568,328  2033 
2014   2,855,631  2034 
2015   2,761,513  2035 
2016   2,471,978  2036 
2017   2,487,072  2037 
2018   2,418,608  2038 
Total  $42,136,043    

 

11.Subsequent events

 

a)On February 4, 2019, the Company granted a consultant the option to acquire of total of 2,500,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.035 per share for a term of five years.

 

b)On March 15, 2019, the Company granted the option to acquire 9,150,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.035 per share. The option to acquire 2,500,000 shares of common stock was granted to one consultant and the option to acquire 6,650,000 shares of common stock was granted to one director.

  

F-23

 

 

MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF  

FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

 

General

 

The Company’s business is focused on enhancement of adherence to disease and health care management programs through monitoring, reminders and improved communications. The Company’s primary business markets are the providers of health insurance and the providers of disease and case management services, including the home care industry.

 

The largest potential for sustainable long-term growth and value generation lies with the market segments that have the most influence on the end-user and the most to gain from improved health care results. These market segments are the health insurance providers, and the medical clinics and physicians who provide the care for people with chronic disease. Our focus is on penetrating the full cycle of health care services, including medical clinics, hospitals and health plans with diabetics being the initial patient targets.

 

Revenue

 

The Company did not generate any revenue during fiscal 2019, 2018 or 2017, or during the six-month period ended June 30, 2020. For the past several years, the Company has been devoting its efforts to developing and commercializing its Diabetes Management System, a blood glucose management platform that combines patient monitoring, patient adherence, care team communications, automated patient management and insulin dosage suggestions.

 

In October 2011, the Company announced that it had received FDA clearance to sell its Diabetes Management System in the United States. In 2012, the Company obtained HIPAA clearance for its Diabetes Management System. The Company since demonstrated that the average patient’s A1C was reduced by 1.2% over six months in both a clinical trial and a pilot program. Subsequently, the Company developed and obtained FDA clearance for Insulin Dose Adjustment and developed and is patent pending for its proprietary Predictive A1C innovation. The Company is ready to launch the Diabetes Management System commercially and is seeking a suitable opportunity.

 

Product Development

 

During the 2019 fiscal year, the majority of the Company’s product development efforts were expended to: 

  Further development of its Diabetes Management System;
  Prepare for additional functionality to enhance care facilitation activity;
  Increase compatibility and usability of the Diabetes Management System;
  Initiate development of its Diabetes Management System for compatibility with continuous glucose monitoring technologies;
  Implement advances as a result of user feedback; and
  Other general advances of the Diabetes Management System.

 

With the completion of the Diabetes Management System, the Company is currently focusing its efforts on the commercial launch plans of the product and conducting research activities for future attributes and applications for the Diabetes Management System.

 

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Product development and research costs were $1,625,075 in 2019, $408,640 in 2018, and $416,304 in 2017. Included in product development costs were stock-based compensation costs of $1,243,644 in 2019, $186,476 in 2018, and $66,800 in 2017. During the six-month ended June 30, 2020 product development and research costs were $217,761 including $18,804 in stock-based compensation.

 

Operating Capital

 

The Company has no revenues and has not generated any revenues since creating its Diabetes Management System. The Company is funding operations through the line of credit financing it has available. The majority of the Company’s expenditures go towards product development, professional fees and administrative activities. The Company incurs significant amounts of interest expense from its debts outstanding and, from time to time, the grant of stock options in exchange for either 1) deferred payment, 2) agreements of note extensions, and 3) increased borrowing limits provided. All stock options granted related to the debts of the Company have been recorded at their fair value using the Black-Scholes option pricing model and are expensed over the agreed upon term of the debt instrument where applicable. Where the debt of the Company is a line of credit arrangement with no fixed terms of repayment, the stock option expense is fully recognized at the time of grant.

 

There is no certainty of the timing or amount of cash flows from sales, and if sales do begin, there is no certainty that it will reach the level necessary to cover operating costs and costs to service the Company’s debts. The Company has limited resources and is seeking to penetrate markets with indirect competition with much greater resources. The Company is seeking to displace generally accepted processes for diabetes management, which means it is directly entering into an unestablished market. Management is evaluating alternatives to penetrate both existing and new marketplaces in order to generate cash flows. Management believes the business plan of the Company will give it the best opportunity to achieve commercial feasibility, but due to the current acceptance levels of the Diabetes Management System, there is substantial uncertainty over the Company’s ability to execute the plan, the level of success associated with the execution of its business plan or the actual timeline to execute the plan. If the actual timeline for the execution of the business plan is substantially longer than planned, it could jeopardize the Company’s long-term success. For these reasons the Company is seeking additional financing.

 

The Company has operating lines of credit with a borrowing limit of $12,300,000. As at December 31, 2019, the Company had borrowing available of approximately $543,000 on its line of credit. The Company does not have any other facilities readily available at this time and has continued to receive funding under the terms of the existing line of credit that has reached the borrowing limit from the Chief Executive Officer. Management will seek to acquire additional financing to allow the Company to become a commercially viable enterprise, whereby it can generate sufficient cash flow from the sales of its Diabetes Management System to support its cost of operations, overhead and repay its obligations.

 

There is no certainty that the Company will ever be able to achieve the level of sales necessary to cover operating costs or achieve the level of sales before the borrowing limits on the lines of credit financing are reached. The Company will require additional financing in the future for which there is no guarantee it will receive. Furthermore, even if the Company is able to achieve sufficient cash flows to support operations, it will need to service its debt obligations, which as of December 31, 2019 were $31,100,000.

 

On September 21, 2020, the Company entered into two shares for debt agreements (the “Agreements”) to issue an aggregate of 240,000,000 restricted shares of common stock at a deemed price of $0.05 per share to retire $12,000,000 of outstanding debt as follows.

 

Creditor Shares Issued Price per Share Outstanding Debt Retired
Mr. Sidney Chan 150,000,000 $0.05 $7,500,000
Ms. Christine Kan 90,000,000 $0.05 $4,500,000
Total 240,000,000   $12,000,000

 

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Each of the Agreements have a non-dilutive clause for any subsequent equity sales by the Company to issue its shares of common stock below $0.05 per share for a term of twelve months. The Agreements were approved by all the independent directors of the Company. The shares were issued pursuant to the exemption from registration contained in Regulation S of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

 

A total of approximately $13,500,000 remains owed to the Chairman and his spouse.

 

Operating Issues

 

The Company has expended significant efforts introducing the Diabetes Management System to specified retail chains, pharmaceutical manufacturers, contract research organizations, health management organizations, pharmacy benefits managers and certain clinics treating specific disease conditions. The Company has not had sales for several years. During the 2017, 2018 and 2019 fiscal years, the Company has devoted 100% of its efforts to developing the Diabetes Management System for commercial launch. Management plans for the Company to become a commercially viable enterprise through the sale of Diabetes Management subscriptions.

 

If management is not successful in its plans, the Company may be required to raise additional funds from its existing and prospective shareholders or debtholders, which it may not be able to accomplish on satisfactory terms for the Company.

 

Management Compensation

 

During 2019, the Company’s sole officer, Mr. Sidney Chan, earned $15,800 per month, which was recorded as an increase to the borrowings on the lines of credit provided by Mr. Chan to the Company. Mr. Chan’s compensation was the same for the 2018 and 2017 fiscal years. Mr. Chan was granted the option to acquire 120,000,000 shares of common stock in connection with increasing the borrowing limit on the Company’s line of credit by $1,800,000.

 

The Company issues stock options as compensation from time to time. No directors of the Company earn service fees for their position as director of the Company. Those directors that hold a position as officer or consultant of the Company earn fees for those services provided. During 2019, the Company granted incentive options to its directors as follows: 

  Mr. Ken Robulak was granted the option to acquire 6,650,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.035 per share for five years;
  Dr. Alfonso Salas was granted the option to acquire 5,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.035 per share for five years; and
  Mr. Ronald Cheng and Mr. Peter Stafford were each granted the option to acquire 4,500,000 shares of common stock of the Company at a price of $0.035 per share for a term of five years.

 

The Company did not grant any incentive options to its directors during 2018. In 2017, we granted 2,350,000 stock options to Ken Robulak. The options are exercisable at a price of $0.015 per share for a five-year term ending November 27, 2022.

 

Results of Operations

 

Our results of operations for the six and three-month periods ended June 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively, and for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2019, 2018, and 2017, respectively, are described below.

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Six Months Ended June 30, 2020

 

   Six Months Ended June 30 
                 
              Amount (%)    Amount ($) 
            Increase /    Increase / 
    2020    2019    (Decrease)    (Decrease) 
Operating Expenses                    
General, selling and administrative  $254,000    987,000    (74)   (733,000)
Product development   218,000    1,218,000    (82)   (1,000,000)
Professional fees   467,000    437,000    7    30,000 
Total Operating Expenses   939,000    2,642,000    (64)   (1,703,000)
                     
Other Item                    
Interest expense   1,045,000    2,083,000    (50)   (1,038,000)
Net Loss  $(1,984,000)   (4,725,000)   (58)   (2,741,000)

 

The net loss for the Company’s six-month period ended June 30, 2020 was significantly impacted by the grant of options to incentivize personnel as follows as compared to the same period on the previous year:

 

 

Six Months Ended

June 30, 2020

Six Months Ended

June 30, 2019

Options Granted as Compensation 30,500,000 112,550,000
Options Modified as Compensation 564,350,200
Compensation Expense Recognized from Option Grants and Modifications $411,000 $3,332,231
Value of Options Granted as Consideration $0.05 $0.04
Compensation expense from Options Granted or Options Modified as a percentage of Net Loss for the Period 21% 71%

   

The net loss for the six months ended June 30, 2020 was 58% ($2,741,000) lower than the net loss at June 30, 2019 as a result of a reduction of option expense of $2,921,000 incurred during 2020 as compared to the same period in 2019. During the six months ended June 30, 2020 the Company recognized $411,000 of compensation expense related to the grant of options as compared the six months ended June 30, 2019 whereby the Company recognized $3,332,000 of compensation expense related to the grant and modification of options. The fair value from the grant and the modification of the options accounted for 107% of the reduction in net loss from the six months ended June 30, 2019 to June 30, 2020. Of the options granted to acquire 30,500,000 shares of common stock granted during the six months ended June 30, 2020, 20,000,000 with a fair value of approximately $1.117M did not vest and were not recorded during the period. 

 

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General, selling and administrative expenses. General, selling and administrative costs consist of salaries and consulting fees of management personnel, stock-based compensation for options granted to management personnel, travel and trade show costs, rent of the Company’s corporate office, website costs, information technology costs and general costs incurred through day-to-day operations. From the six-month period ended June 30, 2020 as compared to the six-month period ended June 30, 2019, there was a significant variance in the total expense incurred related primarily to the grant of stock options. During the six months ended June 30, 2020 the Company did not grant any options which vested to personnel classified under General, Selling and Administrative. During the six months ended June 30, 2019, the Company granted 20,650,000 options which vested immediately to personnel. By type of general and administrative cost, the variance can be seen as follows:

 

   Six Months Ended
June 30,
   Six Months Ended
June 30,
   Amount ($)
Increase /
(Decrease)
 
   2020   2019     
             
General, selling and administrative:               
Salaries and consulting fees  $185,000    113,000    72,000 
Stock-based compensation       806,000    (806,000)
Travel and trade shows   14,000    28,000    (14,000)
Website and information technology   18,000    8,000    10,000 
Public company costs   21,000    8,000    13,000 
Other general and administrative costs   16,000    24,000    (8,000)
Total  $254,000    987,000    (733,000)

 

During the six-month period ended June 30, 2020, aside from the grant of stock options, the Company’s selling, general and administrative operating expenses increased by $73,000 as compared to the same period in 2019. The increase was substantially driven by increased amounts paid to consultants of the Company.

 

Product development costs. Substantially all of the product development costs incurred related to a) services provided by contractors of the Company, b) expenses incurred for product development, and c) stock-based compensation for options granted to members of the product development team. The change in balance from the previous year is the result of decrease in compensation expense of $1,029,000 related to the grant of the options to acquire 26,900,000 shares of common stock to the Company’s development team during the six months ended June 30, 2019. During the current year, the Company granted the option to acquire 500,000 shares of common stock to members of its technical team.

 

Professional fees. Professional costs incurred consist of consulting and advisory fees of certain professionals retained, audit fees, legal fees, diabetes care facilitators and stock-based compensation for options granted to professionals. During the period, there was an increase in professional fees. By type of professional cost, the variance can be seen as follows:

 

   Six Months Ended
June 30,
2020
   Six Months Ended
June 30,
2019
   Amount ($)
Increase /
(Decrease)
 
             
Professional fees:               
Professionals retained  $58,000    35,000    23,000 
Legal fees   17,000    9,000    8,000 
Stock-based compensation   392,000    393,000    (1,000)
Total  $467,000    437,000    30,000 

 

The increase in professional fees can be attributed to the Company retaining additional personnel during the current year and incurring increased legal fees related to patent filings.

 

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Interest expense. Interest expense was from the following sources for the six-month periods ended June 30, 2020 and 2019: 

 

   Six Months Ended
June 30,
2020
   Six Months Ended
June 30,
2019
 
Interest expense          
Interest expense incurred on stock options modified  $   $1,085,000 
Interest expense incurred on lines of credit   120,000    672,000 
Interest expense incurred on promissory notes   264,000    264,000 
Imputed interest on zero interest loans   61,000    61,000 
Total  $445,000   $2,082,000 

 

Interest on Promissory Notes

There were not any changes in the amount of promissory notes outstanding from June 30, 2019 to June 30, 2020. The interest incurred on promissory note was consistent during the three months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019.

 

Interest on Lines of Credit  

The Company has two line of credit facilities that had balances as follows:

 

Lines of Credit:  June 30,
2020
   June 30,
2019
   Amount ($)
Increase /
(Decrease)
 
             
Line of credit provided by Sidney Chan  $10,201,000   $9,371,000   $830,000 
Line of credit provided by Christine Kan   2,000,000    2,000,000     
Total  $12,201,000   $11,371,000   $830,000 

 

The Company incurred interest on the lines of credit as follows:

 

Interest Expense on Lines of Credit:  Six Months
Ended
June 30,
2020
   Six Months
Ended
June 30,
2019
   Amount ($)
Increase /
(Decrease)
 
             
Interest expense incurred on line of credit from Sidney Chan during the year  $599,000   $552,000   $47,000 
Interest expense incurred on line of credit from Christine Kan during the year   120,000    120,000     
Total  $719,000   $672,000   $47,000 

   

Imputed Interest

During the 2020 and 2019 periods, the Company had certain zero interest promissory notes and accounts payable in excess of one year. Pursuant to the Company’s accounting policy, these zero interest amounts are considered to be financing items in nature and are assigned a deemed interest rate (1% per month). The interest incurred on these is expensed as imputed interest and instead of increasing the liabilities of the Company, it is allocated to equity under the financial statement line item “additional paid-in capital”. The change from the prior period is related to the discussion included under Interest on Promissory Notes above.

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Three Months Ended June 30, 2020

 

   Three Months Ended June 30 
                 
              Amount (%)    Amount ($) 
            Increase /    Increase / 
    2020    2019    (Decrease)    (Decrease) 
Operating Expenses                    
General, selling and administrative  $131,000    642,000    (80)  $(511,000)
Product development   123,000    1,163,000    (89)   (1,040,000)
Professional fees   429,000    209,000    105    220,000 
Total Operating Expenses   683,000    2,014,000    (66)   1,331,000 
                     
Other Item                    
Interest expense   526,000    1,587,000    (67)   1,061,000 
Net Loss  $(1,209,000)   (3,601,000)   (66)  $(2,392,000)

 

The net loss for the three months ended June 30, 2020 decreased by 66% ($2,392,000) as compared to the same period in the prior year as a result of the grant of an option to acquire shares of common stock of the Company and modification of options previously issued for a total fair value of $2,868,045. The decrease in the fair value of the options granted in 2020 accounted for 103% of the decrease in net loss of the six months ended June 30, 2020 as compared to the six months ended June 30, 2019. 

 

 

Three Months Ended

June 30, 2020

Three Months Ended  

June 30, 2019

Number of Options Granted or Modified 30,500,000 665,250,200
Value of Options Granted or Modified as Consideration $411,000 $2,868,000
Percentage of Net Loss 34% 80%

 

Year ended December 31, 2019 compared to Year ended December 31, 2018

 

           Amount ($)   Percentage (%) 
         Increase /   Increase / 
   2019   2018   (Decrease)   (Decrease) 
Operating Expenses                    
Selling, general and administrative  $1,596,000   $1,324,000    272,000    21 
Product development   1,625,000    409,000    1,216,000    297 
Professional fees   523,000    451,000    72,000    16 
    3,744,000    2,184,000    1,560,000    71 
                     
Other items                    
Interest expense   5,261,000    1,939,000    3,322,000    171 
Net Loss  $(9,005,000)  $(4,123,000)   (4,882,000)   118 

 

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Year-ended December 31, 2018 compared to Year-ended December 31, 2017

 

       Amount ($)   Percentage (%) 
         Increase /   Increase / 
    2018   2017   (Decrease)   (Decrease) 
Operating Expenses                    
Selling, general and administrative  $1,323,552   $405,556    917,996    226 
Product development   408,640    416,304    (7,664)   (2)
Professional fees   451,064    244,430    206,634    85 
    2,183,256    1,066,290    1,116,966    105 
Other items
                    
Interest expenses   1,938,877    1,861,971    76,906    4 
Recovery of expense       (86,236)   86,236    100 
Net Loss  $(4,122,133)  $(2,842,025)   (1,280,108)   45 

 

The net loss for the Company’s years ended December 31, 2019, 2018 and 2017 was significantly impacted by the grant of options:

 

 

Year Ended  

December 31, 2019 

Year Ended  

December 31, 2018 

Year Ended  

December 31, 2017 

Options Granted as Consideration 254,050,000 52,500,000 6,500,000
Value of Options Granted as Consideration $6,125,000 $1,581,000 $200,230
Percentage of Net Loss 68% 38% 7%

 

The net loss for the year ended December 31, 2019 was 118% ($4,882,000) higher than the net loss at December 31, 2018 as a result of the grant of options with an incremental fair value of $4,544,000 during 2019 as compared to the prior year. The incremental fair value from the grant of the options in 2019 accounted for 93% of the total change in net loss as compared to 2018. Aside from the stock-based compensation included within operating expenses, the Company had an increase in operating loss of $260,000, which was primarily a result of increased fees for professionals, development personnel and management personnel.

 

The net loss for the year ended December 31, 2018 was 45% ($1,280,108) higher than the net loss at December 31, 2017 as a result of the grant of options with an incremental fair value of $1,381,113 during 2018 as compared to the prior year. The incremental fair value from the grant of the options in 2018 accounted for 108% of the total change in net loss as compared to 2017. Aside from the stock-based compensation included with operating expenses, the Company had a reduction in operating loss of $264,147 which was primarily a result of shifting compensation for professionals, consultants and advisors from cash-based to incentive stock options.

 

General and Administrative

 

General and administrative costs incurred consist of salaries and consulting fees of management personnel, stock-based compensation for options granted to management personnel, travel and trade show costs, rent of the Company’s corporate office, website development costs and general costs incurred through day-to-day operations.

 

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During the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company had a significant increase in the selling, general and administrative expenses, primarily driven by an increase in stock-based compensation. The components of general and administrative expense and the changes therein can be seen as follows:

 

           Amount ($) 
        Increase / 
Selling, General and Administrative:  2019   2018   (Decrease) 
                
Management salaries and consulting fees  $261,000   $241,000    20,000 
Stock-based compensation   1,245,000    994,000    251,000 
Travel and trade shows   41,000    43,000    (2,000)
Rent of corporate office   1,000    1,000     
Website and information technology   18,000    15,000    3,000 
Other general and administrative costs   30,000    30,000     
Total  $1,596,000   $1,324,000    272,000 

 

The increase in stock-based compensation accounted for 92% of the increase of general and administrative expenses in fiscal 2019 as compared to fiscal 2018. During fiscal 2019, the Company granted 31 directors, consultants, sales agents and advisors the option to purchase 134,050,000 shares of common stock in exchange for their services, of which 73,050,000 vested during the year. Aside from the change of general and administrative expenses related to stock-based compensation, which is non-cash-based, general and administrative costs incurred during 2019 increased by $21,000 during the 2018 fiscal year.

 

During the year ended December 31, 2018, the Company had a significant increase in the selling, general and administrative expenses, primarily driven by an increase in stock-based compensation. The components of general and administrative expense and the changes therein are as follows:

 

         Amount ($)
Increase /
 
   2018   2017   (Decrease) 
                
Selling, general and administrative:               
Management salaries and consulting fees  $241,000   $226,000    15,000 
Stock-based compensation   994,000    81,000    913,000 
Travel and tradeshows   43,000    46,000    (3,000)
Rent of corporate office   1,000    9,000    (8,000)
Website and information technology   15,000    20,000    (5,000)
Other general and administrative costs   30,000    24,000    6,000 
Total  $1,324,000   $406,000    918,000 

 

The increase in stock-based compensation accounted for 99% of the increase of general and administrative expenses in fiscal 2018 as compared to fiscal 2017. During fiscal 2018 the Company granted 11 consultants and advisors the option to purchase 52,500,000 shares of common stock in exchange for their services.

 

Product Development

 

Product development costs consists of a) services provided by contractors of the Company, b) expenses incurred for product development, and c) stock-based compensation for options granted to members of the product development team. Product development costs of the Company in 2019 were consistent with 2018 and 2017 with changes of the components as follows:

 

           Amount ($) 
        Increase / 
Product Development:  2019   2018   (Decrease) 
             
Personnel consulting fees  $367,000   $212,000    155,000 
Stock-based compensation   1,244,000    186,000    1,058,000 
Purchases and other amounts   14,000    11,000    3,000 
Total  $1,625,000   $409,000    1,216,000 

 

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         Amount ($)
Increase /
 
   2018   2017   (Decrease) 
                
Product development:               
Personnel consulting fees
  $212,000   $330,000    (118,000)
Stock-based compensation   186,000    67,000    119,000 
Purchases and other amounts   11,000    19,000    8,000 
Total  $409,000   $416,000    (7,000)

 

For the 2019 fiscal year, the Company was anticipating similar or slightly reduced product development expenses as compared to 2018 and 2017, before any changes from stock-based compensation expense. Development costs excluding stock-based compensation increased by $158,000 during the 2019 fiscal year as compared to the 2018 fiscal year. The Company had an increase in development consulting fees incurred as compared to the prior year as a result of increased services provided by certain consultants during the year.

 

For the 2018 fiscal year, the Company was anticipating similar or slightly reduced product development expenses as compared to 2017, before any changes from stock-based compensation expense. The Company had a significant reduction in development consulting fees incurred as compared to the prior year as a result of reduced external consultants retained for quality control assessments and a reduction in its development team.

 

Interest Expense

 

Interest expense was from the following sources for the six-month periods ended June 30, 2020 and 2019:

 

  

Six Months Ended

June 30, 2020

  

Six Months Ended

June 30, 2019

 
Interest expense          
Interest expense incurred on stock options modified     1,085,000 
Interest expense incurred on lines of credit   120,000    672,000 
Interest expense incurred on promissory notes   264,000    264,000 
Imputed interest on zero interest loans   61,000    61,000 
Total  445,000   2,082,000 

 

Interest on Promissory Notes

 

There were not any changes in the amount of promissory notes outstanding from June 30, 2019 to June 30, 2020. The interest incurred on promissory note was consistent during the three months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019.

 

Interest on Lines of Credit

 

The Company has two line of credit facilities that had balances as follows:

 

Lines of Credit:  June 30, 2020   June 30, 2019   Amount ($)
Increase /
(Decrease)
 
                
Line of credit provided by Sidney Chan  10,201,000   9,371,000   830,000 
Line of credit provided by Christine Kan   2,000,000    2,000,000     
Total  12,201,000   11,371,000   830,000 

 

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The Company incurred interest on the lines of credit as follows:

 

Interest Expense on Lines of Credit:  Six Months
Ended
June 30,
2020
   Six Months
Ended
June 30,
2019
   Amount ($)
Increase /
(Decrease)
 
Interest expense incurred on line of credit from Sidney Chan  599,000   552,000   47,000 
Interest expense incurred on line of credit from Christine Kan   120,000    120,000     
Total  719,000   672,000   47,000 

 

Imputed Interest

 

During the 2020 and 2019 periods, the Company had certain zero interest promissory notes and accounts payable in excess of one year. Pursuant to the Company’s accounting policy, these zero interest amounts are considered to be financing items in nature and are assigned a deemed interest rate (1% per month). The interest incurred on these is expensed as imputed interest and instead of increasing the liabilities of the Company, it is allocated to equity under the financial statement line item “additional paid-in capital”. The change from the prior period is related to the discussion included under Interest on Promissory Notes above.

 

During the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company incurred an increase in interest expense as compared to the prior year as a result of a higher interest-bearing debt load as compared to the prior year. Interest expense was incurred from the following sources for the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018:

 

Interest Expense:  2019   2018   Amount ($)
Increase /
(Decrease)
 
                
Interest expense incurred on promissory notes  $529,000   $529,000     
Interest expense incurred on lines of credit   1,366,000    1,288,000    78,000 
Imputed interest on zero interest loans   122,000    122,000     
Stock options granted for promissory notes   3,244,000        3,244,000 
Total  $5,261,000   $1,939,000    3,322,000 

 

During the year ended December 31, 2018, the Company incurred an increase in interest expense as compared to the prior year as a result of a higher interest bearing debt load as compared to the prior year. Interest expense was incurred from the following sources for years ended December 31, 2018 and 2017:

 

Interest Expense  2018   2017   Amount ($)
Increase /
(Decrease)
 
Interest expense incurred on promissory notes  $529,000   $677,000   $(148,000)
Interest expense incurred on lines of credit   1,288,000    1,202,000    86,000 
Imputed interest on zero interest loans   122,000    155,000    (33,000)
Stock options granted for promissory notes            
Other       (172,000)   172,000 
Total  $1,939,000   $1,862,000   $77,000 

 

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Interest on Promissory Notes

 

There were no repayments, issuances or changes to balances in any of the promissory notes from December 31, 2018 to December 31, 2019.

 

There were no repayments, issuances or changes, in any of the promissory notes from December 31, 2017 to December 31, 2018. As a December 31, 2017 there was one note that had no stated terms of interest which the Company determined it was more appropriate to record accrued interest of 8% as opposed to imputed interest of 12%. As a result the Company transferred accrued interest of $172,470 from imputed interest to accrued interest related to this promissory note. The difference of 4% totaling $86,000 was recorded as a recovery of expense during the 2017 fiscal year. As a result of this transfer both interest expense and imputed interest were

 

Interest on Lines of Credit 

The Company has two line of credit facilities with balances as follows as at December 31, 2019 and 2018:

 

  As at
Dec 31
   As at
Dec 31
   Amount ($)  
Lines of Credit:  2019   2018   Increase 
             
Line of credit provided by Sidney Chan  $9,757,000   $9,024,000    733,000 
Line of credit provided by Christine Kan   2,000,000    2,000,000     
Total  $11,757,000   $11,024,000    733,000 

 

The Company incurred interest expense on the lines of credit as follows as at December 31, 2019 and 2018:

 

  Year Ended
Dec 31
   Year Ended
Dec 31
   Amount ($) 
Interest Expense on Line of Credit:  2019   2018   Increase 
                
Interest expense incurred on line of credit from Sidney Chan during the year
  $1,126,000   $1,048,000    78,000 
Interest expense incurred on line of credit from Christine Kan during the year
 240,000    240,000     
Total  $1,366,000   $1,288,000    78,000 

 

Interest on Lines of Credit

The Company has two line of credit facilities with balances as follows: 

Lines of Credit:  As at
Dec 31
2018
   As at
Dec 31
2017
   Amount ($)
Increase /
(Decrease)
 
Line of Credit provided by Sidney Chan  $9,024,000   $8,398,000   $626,000 
Line of Credit provided by Christine Kan   2,000,000    2,000,000     
Total  $11,024,000   $10,398,000   $626,000 

 

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  The Company incurred interest expense on the lines of credit as follows:    

 

Interest Expense on Line of Credit:  Year Ended
2018
   Year Ended
2017
  

Amount ($)
Increase /

(Decrease)

 
                
Interest expense incurred on line of credit from Sidney Chan during the year  $1,048,000   $962,000   $86,000 
Interest expense incurred on line of credit from Christine Kan during the year   240,000    240,000     
Total  $1,288,000   $1,202,000   $86,000 

 

During the 2019 fiscal year, the Company borrowed an additional $733,000 from its line of credit facilities (interest rates of 1% per month on the borrowed balance). In addition to incurring interest for a full year on the amounts borrowed to the end of the 2018 fiscal year, this borrowing during 2019 resulted in significantly higher interest incurred on the lines of credit for the year ended December 31, 2019. During 2019, the Company anticipated financing its operations through line of credit borrowing facilities, which, as a result, its interest expense related to the line of credit facilities further increased.

 

During the 2018 fiscal year, the Company had borrowed an additional $626,000 from its line of credit facilities (interest rates of 1% per month on the borrowed balance). In addition to incurring interest for a full year on the amounts borrowed during the 2017 fiscal year, this borrowing during 2018 resulted in significantly higher interest incurred on the lines of credit for the year ended. During 2019, the Company is anticipating financing its operations through line of credit borrowing facilities, which as a result, its interest expense related to the line of credit facilities further increased.

 

Imputed Interest  

During the 2019 and 2018 fiscal years, the Company had certain zero interest promissory notes and accounts payable in excess of one year. Pursuant to the Company’s accounting policy, these zero interest amounts are considered to be financing items in nature and are assigned a deemed interest rate (1% per month). The interest incurred on these is expensed as imputed interest; instead of increasing the liabilities of the Company, imputed interest expense is allocated to equity under the financial statement line item additional paid-in capital. The Company’s zero interest instruments were as follows as at December 31, 2019 and 2018:

 

Zero Interest Instruments:  2019   2018  

Amount ($)

Decrease

 
Accounts payable (older than one year)  $760,000   $760,000     
Promissory notes to unrelated parties   271,000    271,000     
Total  $1,031,000   $1,031,000     

  

The Company incurred imputed interest as follows:

 

Imputed Interest Expense:  2019   2018  

Amount ($)

Increase /

(Decrease)

 
Accounts payable (older than one year)  $90,000   $90,000     
Promissory notes to unrelated parties   32,000    32,000     
Total  $122,000   $122,000     

 

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 During the 2018 and 2017 fiscal years, the Company had certain zero interest promissory notes and accounts payable in excess of one year. Pursuant to the Company’s accounting policy, these zero interest amounts are considered to be financing items in nature and are assigned a deemed interest rate (1% per month). The interest incurred on these is expensed as imputed interest; instead of increasing the liabilities of the Company, imputed interest expense is allocated to equity under the financial statement line item “additional paid-in capital”. The Company’s zero interest instruments were as follows as at December 31, 2018 and 2017:

 

Zero Interest Instruments:  2018   2017  

Amount ($)

Increase /

(Decrease)

 
Accounts payable (older than one year)  $760,000   $727,000    33,000 
Promissory notes to unrelated parties   271,000    571,000    (300,000)
Total  $1,031,000   $1,298,000    (267,000)

  

The Company incurred imputed interest as follows:

 

Imputed Interest Expense:  2018   2017  

Amount ($)

Increase /

(Decrease)

 
             
Accounts payable (older than one year)  $90,000   $87,000    3,000 
Promissory notes to unrelated parties   32,000    68,000    (36,000)
Total  $122,000   $155,000    (33,000)

  

Moving forward, we anticipate the expense to be consistent with the current year until such time as the Company has sufficient funds available to repay these old accounts payable and zero interest promissory notes. 

 

Professional Fees

Professional fees expense consists of consulting and advisory fees of certain professionals retained, audit fees, legal fees and stock-based compensation for options granted to professionals. By component of professional fees, the variance can be seen as follows:

 

  

Six Months Ended  

June 30,   2020

  

Six Months Ended  

June 30,   2019

  

Amount ($)  

Increase /  

(Decrease)

 
Professional fees:               
Professionals retained  $58,000   $35,000    23,000 
Legal fees   17,000    9,000    8,000 
Stock-based compensation   392,000   393,000    (1,000)
Total  $467,000   $437,000    30,000 

 

The increase in professional fees can be attributed to the Company retaining additional personnel during the current year and incurring increased legal fees related to patent filings.

 

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           Amount ($) 
        Increase / 
Professional Fees:  2019   2018   (Decrease) 
                
Legal fees  $35,000   $7,000    38,000 
Professional advisors retained   53,000    25,000    28,000 
Corporate auditor   43,000    18,000    25,000 
Stock-based compensation   392,000    401,000    (9,000)
Total  $523,000   $451,000    82,000 

 

The increase in professional fees for the 2019 fiscal year as compared to the prior year can be attributed to the Company granting stock-based compensation to its service providers as opposed to cash-based compensation. The Company increased its cash-based professional fees by $80,000 from the prior year as a result of increased business activity in the current year, filing of patent applications and increased corporate legal costs.

 

We had anticipated cash-based professional fees to increase for the 2019 fiscal year as compared to the 2018 fiscal year, as in the prior year we benefited from the timing of certain professional engagements, which had limited expense in the 2018 fiscal year. For 2020, we expect the cash-based professional fees to be consistent with the 2019 fiscal year; however, this could vary significantly if business milestones are reached.

 

           Amount ($) 
        Increase / 
Professional Fees:  2018   2017   (Decrease) 
                
Legal fees  $7,000   $38,000    (31,000)
Professional advisors retained   25,000    94,000    (69,000)
Corporate auditor   18,000    60,000    (42,000)
Stock-based compensation   401,000    52,000    349,000 
Total  $451,000   $244,000    207,000 

 

The increase in professional fees for the 2018 fiscal year as compared to prior year can be attributed to the Company granting stock-based compensation to its service providers as opposed to cash based compensation. The Company reduced its cash based professional fees by $142,000 from the prior year as a result of reduced professionals retained, reduced legal costs incurred and reduced audit requirements since the Company was previously deficient with its reporting status.

 

We had anticipated cash based professional fees to decrease for the 2018 fiscal year as compared to the 2017 fiscal year as its audit fees would be significantly lower due to 2017 expenses representing multiple years of engagements. For 2019 we expect the cash based professional fees to increase since it benefited from timing differences in 2018 which reduced the total professional fees incurred. The Company has granted significant stock options with vesting terms which could vest during the 2019 fiscal year based on sales milestones generated. If these options were to vest, the stock-based compensation could be significant.

 

Liquidity and Capital Resources

 

Cash Balances

 

The Company’s nominal current assets as at June 30, 2020, December 31, 2019, December 31, 2018 and December 31, 2017 consists of cash. The Company’s cash balance was $712 at June 30, 2020, $1,838 at December 31, 2019, $3,378 at December 31, 2018 and $3,111 at December 31, 2017.

 

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Short- and Long-Term Liquidity

 

Working Capital
   As at
June 30,
2020
   As at
December 31,
2019
   Amount ($)
Increase / (Decrease)
   Percentage (%)
Increase / (Decrease)
 
Current Assets  $1,000   $2,000    (1,000)   (50)
Current Liabilities  $32,521,000   $31,090,000    1,431,000    5 
Working Capital Deficiency  $(32,520,000)  $(31,088,000)   (1,432,000)   (5)

   

Working Capital  As At
December 31, 2019
   As At
December 31,
2018
   Amount ($)
Increase / (Decrease)
   Percentage (%)
Increase / (Decrease)
 
Current Assets  $2,000   $3,000    (1,000)   (33)
Current Liabilities   31,090,000    28,398,000    2,692,000    9 
Working Deficiency  $(31,088,000)  $(28,395,000)   (2,693,000)   (9)

 

Working Capital  As At
December 31,
2018
   As At
December 31,
2017
   Amount ($)
Increase / (Decrease)
   Percentage (%)
Increase / (Decrease)
 
Current Assets  $3,000   $3,000         
Current Liabilities   28,398,000    25,979,000    2,419,000    9 
Working Deficiency  $(28,395,000)  $(25,976,000)   (2,419,000)   (9)

 

The Company has a severe working capital deficiency. It does not have the ability to service its current liabilities for the next twelve months and is reliant on its line of credit facilities to meet its ongoing operations. The Company has $543,000 remaining to borrow on its line of credit facility and will require additional funding for the 2020 fiscal year based on its operating requirements. Until the Company has revenue-producing activities that exceed its operating requirements, it will be unable to service its current liabilities and the working capital deficit will continue to increase. As of the date of this management discussion and analysis, the Company has not commenced revenue-generating activities, nor does it know when they will commence. There is substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to repay its current liabilities in the near term or any time in the future, which could ultimately lead to business failure.

 

Current Liabilities

 

The Company has current liabilities of $32,521,000 as at June 30, 2020 as compared to $31,090,000 as at December 31, 2019, $28,398,000 as at December 31, 2018, and $25,979,000 as at December 31, 2017. Current liabilities for the relevant periods of comparison were as follows:

 

   June 30,
2020
  December 31,
2019
  Change
$
  Change
%
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities  $1,132,000    1,128,000    4,000    0 
Promissory notes payable to related parties   3,032,000    3,032,000         
Promissory notes payable to unrelated parties   2,254,000    2,254,000         
Interest payable   5,629,000    5,365,000    264,000    5 
Lines of credit to related parties   20,474,000    19,311,000    1,163,000    6 
Total current liabilities  $32,521,000    31,090,000    1,431,000    5 

 

The increase in interest payable of $264,000 relates to accrued interest incurred on promissory notes at their stated rates of interest. All of the promissory notes and related interest payable are overdue.

 

The fluctuations in accounts payable occurred as part of operations.

 

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The increase in the lines of credit payable of approximately $1,163,000 is attributable to borrowings of:

 

  $443,000 to fund operations, product development activities, overhead, administrative requirements and business development activities; and
  $720,000 of accrued interest incurred on the principal of the borrowed amounts.

 

   December 31, 2019   December 31,
2018
   Change
($)
   Change
(%)
 
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities  $1,128,000   $1,014,000    114,000    10 
Interest payable   5,365,000    4,836,000    529,000    10 
Lines of credit   19,311,000    17,262,000    2,049,000    11 
Promissory notes to related parties   3,032,000    2,892,000    140,000    5 
Promissory notes to arm’s length parties   2,254,000    2,394,000    (140,000)   (6)
Total current liabilities  $31,090,000   $28,398,000    2,701,000    9 

 

   December 31,
2018
   December 31,
2017
   Change
($)
   Change
(%)
 
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities  $1,014,000   $1,038,000    (24,000)   (2)
Interest payable   4,836,000    4,307,000    529,000    12 
Lines of credit   17,262,000    15,348,000    1,914,000    12 
Promissory notes to related parties   2,892,000    2,892,000         
Promissory notes to arm’s length parties   2,394,000    2,394,000         
Total current liabilities  $28,398,000   $25,979,000    2,419,000    9 

 

Accounts Payable and Accrued Liabilities

 

Accounts payable and accrued liabilities consists of the trade payables and accrued liabilities of the Company. As at December 31, 2019 accounts payable totaling approximately $760,000 and accrued liabilities totaling $181,000 were older than one year old with the majority of these being more than ten years old. As at December 31, 2018 amounts totaling approximately $930,000 were older than one year old with the majority of this amount being more than ten years old.

 

Interest Payable

 

Interest payable relates to the unpaid interest expense incurred on the promissory notes to related parties and promissory notes to arm’s length parties. The change from December 31, 2019 to December 31, 2018 are equal to the interest expense incurred on both categories of promissory notes during the 2019 fiscal year. The change from December 31, 2018 to December 31, 2017 is equal to the interest expense incurred on both categories of promissory notes during the 2018 fiscal year.

 

Promissory Notes to Related Parties and Promissory Notes Payable to Arm’s Length Parties

 

The Company has promissory notes with 20 individuals or corporations that relate to historical amounts borrowed. There has been no new activity for several years. All of these promissory notes are past due and continue to accrue interest at their respective legal rates of interest (mostly 1% per month). The change in fiscal 2019 relates to the assignment of an amount of $140,000 from an arm’s length creditor to a related party creditor.

 

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Lines of Credit

 

As of June 30, 2020, the Company had two lines of credit as follows:

 

Creditor  Interest Rate  Borrowing Limit   Repayment Terms  Amount
 Outstanding
   Accrued Interest   Total   Security  Purpose
Chairman
and CEO
  1% per Month   $10,300,000   Due on Demand   $10,200,673   $6,175,119   $16,375,792   General   Security   over Assets   General   Corporate Requirements

Wife of

Chairman

  1% per Month    2,000,000   Due on Demand    2,000,000    2,096,318    4,096,318   General   Security   over Assets   General   Corporate Requirements
Total     $12,300,000      $12,200,673   $8,271,437   $20,472,110       

 

As of June 30, 2020, the Company has borrowed total principal of $12,201,000. As of December 31, 2019, the Company has borrowed total principal of $11,757,000 (2018 - $11,024,000; 2017 - $10,398,000). During the six months ended June 30, 2020, the Company incurred interest expense of $719,000 (June 30, 2019 - $672,000). During the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company incurred interest expense of $1,366,000 (2018 - $1,288,000; 2017 - $1,202,000).

 

Line of Credit from Ms. Christine Kan

 

The Company obtained a line of credit of US$1,000,000 from Ms. Christine Kan (the spouse of the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the Company) in March 2010 (the terms of which were finalized in May 2010). The loan was unsecured with interest payable on funds borrowed at 1% per month. These proceeds were to be put towards working capital and the continued development of the Company’s product line. On January 3, 2011, the creditor granted the Company an increase in the borrowing limit from $1,000,000 to $2,000,000. As of December 31, 2019, the Company has borrowed $2,000,000 (2018 - $2,000,000; 2017 - $2,000,000) and has accrued interest outstanding of $1,976,000 (2018 - $1,736,000; 2017 - $1,496,000). During the 2019 fiscal year, the Company borrowed $nil (2018 - $nil; 2017 - $nil) an incurred interest of $240,000 (2018 - $240,000; 2017 - $240,000).

 

Line of Credit from Mr. Sidney Chan

 

On March 6, 2011, the Company obtained a $2,500,000 line of credit from Mr. Sidney Chan (the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the Company). Under the terms of the arrangement, the amount borrowed by the Company bears simple interest at a rate of 1% per month. The amount borrowed is secured by a general security agreement over the assets of the Company and is due on demand. Originally, the line of credit was for a comprehensive marketing program, but subsequently was amended to be for general corporate purposes. On April 1, 2014, Mr. Chan and the Company executed an amending agreement whereby Mr. Chan increased the borrowing limit of the line of credit he has provided to the Company from $4,000,000 to $5,500,000. On May 29, 2015, the borrowing limit was further increased to $7,000,000. On July 1, 2016, the borrowing limit was further increased to $8,500,000 and on December 11, 2019, increased further to $10,300,000. As of December 31, 2019, the Company has borrowed $9,757,000 (2018 - $9,024,000; 2017 - $8,398,000) and has accrued interest outstanding of $5,577,000 (2018 - $4,501,000; 2017 - $3,453,000). During 2019, the Company borrowed $733,000 (2018 - $626,000; 2017 - $770,000) and incurred interest of $1,126,000 (2018 - $1,048,000; 2017 - $962,000). During fiscal 2019, $50,000 of accrued interest was applied as settlement for the conversion of options to shares. In the prior year, the Company had exceeded the borrowing limit on this line of credit, but had continued to receive funding under the same terms.

 

Short- and Long-Term Liquidity

 

As of June 30, 2020, the Company does not have the current financial resources and committed financing to enable it to meet its administrative overhead, product development budgeted costs and debt obligations over the next 12 months.

 

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The Company has incurred significant operating losses over the past several fiscal years (2019 - $9,005,537; 2018 - $4,122,133; 2017 - $2,842,025), is currently unable to self-finance its operations, has a working capital deficit of 32,520,224 as at June 30, 2020 and $31,088,266 as at December 31, 2019 (2018 - $28,394,986; 2017 - $25,979,490), an accumulated deficit of $89,639,087 as at June 30, 2020, and $87,655,745 as at December 31, 2019 (2018 - $78,650,208; 2017 - $74,528,075), limited resources, no source of operating cash flow, no assurances that sufficient funding will be available to conduct further product development and operations, and no assurance the Company’s current projects will be commercially viable or profitable.

 

All of the Company’s debt financing is past due or due on demand. The Company will seek to replace this financing with funds generated by operations, replacement debt, or from equity financings through private placements or the exercise of options. While certain of the Company’s creditors have agreed not to demand immediate payment. There is no assurance that they will continue to do so in the future. As the Company is past due or in default on its promissory notes payable and accrued interest payable, there is substantial risk of future legal action against the Company. The Company has faced consent judgments and demand notices against it for overdue promissory notes. Failure to obtain either replacement financing or creditor consent to delay the repayment of existing financing could result in the Company having to cease operations.

 

 Tabular Disclosure of Contractual Obligations as at June 30, 2020:

 

   Payments due by period
         Less than    1-3    3-5    More Than 
    Total    1 year    years    years    5 Years 
                          
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities  $1,132,000   $1,132,000   $   $   $ 
Promissory notes to related parties   3,032,000    3,032,000             
Promissory notes to arm’s length parties   2,254,000    2,254,000             
Interest payable   5,629,000    5,629,000             
Lines of credit from related parties   20,474,000    20,474,000             
   $32,521,000   $32,521,000   $   $   $ 

 

Cash Flows      
   Six Months Ended  Six Months Ended
   June 30, 2020  June 30, 2019
Cash Flows used in Operating Activities  $(443,000)  $(346,000)
Cash Flows provided by Financing Activities   442,000    347,000 
Net change in Cash During Period  $(1,000)  $1,000 

 

 Cash Flows    Year Ended   December 31,   2019  Year Ended   December 31,   2018  Year Ended   December 31,   2017
Cash Flows used in Operating Activities  $(735,000)  $(626,000)   (770,000)
Cash Flows provided by Financing Activities   733,000    626,000    770,000 
Net decrease in Cash During Period  $(2,000)  $     

 

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Cash Used in Operating Activities

 

Cash used by the Company in operating activities during the six months ended June 30, 2020 was $443,000 in comparison with $346,000 used during the same period last year. The Company’s expenditures from operations were used as follows (approximate amounts):

 

   Six Months Ended
June 30, 2020
  Six Months Ended
June 30, 2019
       
Product development consulting and expenses  $139,000   $117,000 
Management and employees’ compensation   185,000    113,000 
Professional fees and related accounts payable   56,000    66,000 
Travel and trade shows   13,000    28,000 
Other   50,000    22,000 
Cash used in Operations  $443,000   $346,000 

 

The majority of the expenditures were to fund product development costs, pay professional fees, and selling and administration costs associated with operating the business.

 

Cash used by the Company in operating activities during the year ended December 31, 2019 totaled $735,000 as compared to $626,000 for year ended December 31, 2018 and $770,000 for year ended December 31, 2017. The Company’s cash used in operating activities can be reconciled from net loss as follows:

 

Cash Used in Operating Activities Reconciliation  2019  2018  2017
                
Net loss  $(9,005,000)  $(4,122,000)  $(2,842,000)
                
Stock-based compensation incurred for interest, product development, professional fees and management personnel   6,125,000    1,581,000    200,000 
Non-cash imputed interest expense   122,000    122,000    155,000 
Recovery of expense           (86,000)
Increase in prepaid expenses from realization of prepaid expenses           1,000 
Net purchases (net repayments) with balances owing in accounts payable and accrued liabilities   128,000    (24,000)   95,000 
Accrued interest on lines of credit   1,366,000    1,288,000    1,202,000 
Accrued interest from promissory notes   529,000    529,000    505,000 
                
Cash used in operating activities  $(735,000)  $(626,000)  $(770,000)

 

 Cash Proceeds from Financing Activities

 

Cash sourced by the Company from financing activities during the six-month period ended June 30, 2020 was $442,000 in comparison with $347,000 sourced during the same period last year. The funds sourced from lines of credit provided by Chairman of the Board and a relative of the Chairman of the Board. The loans received in 2020 and 2019 covered the operating, product development and market development requirements for the Company to repay certain accounts payable.

 

During the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company borrowed $733,000 (2018 - $626,000; 2017 - $770,000) on its operating line of credit from the Chairman of the Company. The amounts borrowed during 2018 and 2019 were in excess of the borrowing limit of the line of credit. 

 

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

 

There are no off-balance sheet arrangements that have or are reasonably likely to have a current or future effect on our financial condition, changes in financial condition, revenues or expenses, results of operations, liquidity, capital expenditures or capital resources that is material to investors.

 

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Critical Accounting Policies

 

The preparation of our financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities as of the date of the financial statements, and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reported periods. Actual results may differ from these estimates under different assumptions or conditions. The Company believes the accounting policies that are most critical to its financial condition and results of operations and involve management’s judgment and/or evaluations of inherent uncertain factors are as follows:

 

Options and warrants issued in consideration for debt. The Company allocates the proceeds received from long-term debt between the liability and the options and warrants issued in consideration for the debt, based on their relative fair values, at the time of issuance. The amount allocated to the options or warrants is recorded as additional paid-in capital and as a discount to the related debt. The discount is amortized to interest expense on a yield basis over the term of the related debt.

 

Stock-based compensation. The Company follows Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123R, Share-Based Payment (“SFAS 123R”). SFAS 123R requires companies to estimate the fair value of share-based payment awards on the date of grant using an option pricing model. The value of the portion of the award that is ultimately expected to vest is recognized as an expense over the requisite service period in the Company’s financial statements. Stock-based compensation recognized during the period is based on the value of the portion of the stock-based payment awards that are ultimately expected to vest during the period. The Company estimates the fair value of the stock options using the Black-Scholes option pricing model, consistent with the provisions of SFAS 123R. The Black-Scholes valuation model requires the input of highly subjective assumptions, including the option’s expected life and the price volatility of the underlying stock. The expected stock price volatility assumption was determined using historical volatility of the Company’s common stock.

 

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

 

Adopted

 

In July 2017, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2017-11, Earnings Per Share (Topic 260), Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity (Topic 480), and Derivative and Hedging (Topic 815). The amendments in Part I of this update change the classification analysis of certain equity-linked financial instruments (or embedded features) with down-round features. When determining whether certain financial instruments should be classified as liabilities or equity instruments, a down-round feature no longer precludes equity classification when assessing whether the instrument is indexed to an entity’s own stock. The amendments also clarify existing disclosure requirements for equity-classified instruments. As a result, a freestanding equity-linked financial instrument (or embedded conversion option) no longer would be accounted for as a derivative liability at fair value as a result of the existence of a down-round feature. For freestanding equity classified financial instruments, the amendments require entities that present earnings per share (“EPS”) in accordance with Topic 260 to recognize the effect of the down-round feature when it is triggered. That effect is treated as a dividend and as a reduction of income available to common shareholders in basic EPS. Convertible instruments with embedded conversion options that have down-round features are now subject to the specialized guidance for contingent beneficial conversion features (in Subtopic 470-20, Debt-Debt with Conversion and Other Options), including related EPS guidance (in Topic 260). The amendments in Part II of this update recharacterize the indefinite deferral of certain provisions of Topic 480 that now are presented as pending content in the Accounting Standards Codification, to a scope exception. Those amendments do not have an accounting effect. ASU 2017-11 is effective for fiscal years and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2018, which is effective for the Company for the quarter ended December 31, 2019. Early adoption is permitted. The Company is assessing the impact, if any, of implementing this guidance on its financial position, results of operations and liquidity. 

 

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In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842). Topic 842 is effective for public companies for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2018, including interim periods within those fiscal years. The new standard establishes a right-of-use (“ROU”) model that requires a lessee to record a ROU asset and a lease liability, measured on a discounted basis, on the balance sheet for all leases with terms longer than 12 months. Leases are classified as either finance or operating, with classification affecting the pattern of expense recognition in the statement of income. Originally, entities were required to adopt ASU 2016-02 using a modified retrospective approach, which required prior periods to be presented under this new standard with certain practical expedients available. However, in July 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-11, Leases (Topic 842): Targeted Improvements, which allows entities the option of recognizing the cumulative effect of applying the new standard as an adjustment to the opening balance of retained earnings in the year of adoption while continuing to present all prior periods under previous lease accounting guidance. The Company adopted Topic 842 as of January 1, 2019 which did not result in any impact on the Company’s financial statements.

 

Issued

 

The Company has implemented all new accounting pronouncements that are in effect and may impact its financial statements. The Company does not believe that there are any other new accounting pronouncements that have been issued that might have a material impact on its financial position or statement of operations.

 

SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT

 

The following table sets forth certain information relating to the beneficial ownership of our common stock by each of our directors, officers and key employees, individually and as a group, and by person, entity or group known to the Company to be the beneficial owner of more than five percent (5%) of the outstanding shares of our common stock based on a review of publicly available statements of beneficial ownership filed with the SEC and Company records.

The following table sets forth, as of the date of this report, the total number of shares owned beneficially by each of our directors, officers and key employees, individually and as a group, and the present owners of 5% or more of our total outstanding shares. The stockholder listed below has direct ownership of his/her shares and possesses sole voting and dispositive power with respect to the shares. Percentage ownership is based on 511,020,709 shares of our common stock being issued and outstanding as of October 30, 2020 on a non-diluted basis.

 

Name of Beneficial Owner

Direct Amount of 

Beneficial Owner 

  Position

Percent 

of Class 

Sidney Chan 383,498,482 [1][2]

Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer and member of the Board of Directors 

75.05%
         
Dr. Alfonso Salas 1,577,738 [3] Member of the Board of Directors [7]
         
Kenneth Robulak   1,190,000 [4] Member of the Board of Directors  [7]
         
Peter Stafford 500,000 [5] Member of the Board of Directors [7]
         
Ronald Cheng 1,205,800 [6] Member of the Board of Directors [7]
         

All Officers and Directors as a group (5 people) 

387,952,020    

75.92% 

[1] 189,845,000 shares are held in the name of Sidney Chan, 500,000 shares are held in the name of KRS Retraction Limited, and, 193,153,482 shares are owned by Christine Kan, Mr. Chan’s wife.
[2] Mr. Chan and his wife also hold the option to acquire 5,045,001,500 shares of common stock of the Company.
[3] Dr. Salas also holds the option to acquire 5,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company.
[4] Mr. Robulak also holds the option to acquire 10,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company.
[5] Mr. Stafford also holds the option to acquire 5,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company.
[6] Mr. Cheng also holds the option to acquire 5,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company.
[7] Less than 1%        

 

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 DESCRIPTION OF CAPITAL STOCK

 

The following summary description sets forth some of the general terms and provisions of our common stock. Because this is a summary description, it does not contain all of the information that may be important to you.

 

For a more detailed description of our common stock, you should refer to the applicable provisions of the NRSNevada Revised Statutes (the “NRS”) and our charter and bylaws as in effect at the time of any offering. Copies of our Articles of Incorporation, as amended, and our Bylaws, as amended are included as exhibits to the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part.

 

General

Under our charter, we are authorized to issue10,000,000,000 shares of our common stock, par value $0.001 per share, and 500,000,000 shares of preferred stock, par value $0.001 par value per share. As of October 30, 2020, there were 511,020,709 shares of our common stock issued and outstanding and no shares of our preferred stock issued and outstanding. Also as of October 30, 2020, there were stock options outstanding to acquire 5,362,701,500 shares of common stock.

 

Holders of our common stock are entitled to one vote for each share on all matters submitted to a stockholder vote. Holders of common stock do not have cumulative voting rights. Therefore, holders of a majority of the shares of common stock voting for the election of directors can elect all of the directors. Holders of our common stock representing a majority of the voting power of our capital stock issued, outstanding and entitled to vote, represented in person or by proxy, are necessary to constitute a quorum at any meeting of our stockholders. A vote by the holders of a majority of our outstanding shares is required to effectuate certain fundamental corporate changes such as liquidation, merger or an amendment to our articles of incorporation.

 

Holders of common stock are entitled to share in all dividends that the board of directors, in its discretion, declares from legally available funds. In the event of liquidation, dissolution or winding up, each outstanding share entitles its holder to participate pro rata in all assets that remain after payment of liabilities and after providing for each class of stock, if any, having preference over the common stock. Holders of our common stock have no pre-emptive rights, no conversion rights and there are no redemption provisions applicable to our common stock.

 

Preferred Stock

To the fullest extent permitted by the laws of the State of Nevada (currently set forth in Nevada Revised Statutes (NRS) 78.195 and 78.1955), as may be amended from time to time, our Board of Directors may create sub-classes or series of our preferred shares, and may fix and determine the designations, rights, preferences, or other variations attached to those preferred shares. We may issue preferred shares for such consideration as may be fixed by our Board of Directors.

Dividend Policy

We have never declared or paid any cash dividends on our common stock. We currently intend to retain future earnings, if any, to finance the expansion of our business. As a result, we do not anticipate paying any cash dividends in the foreseeable future.

Share Purchase Warrants and Options

As of the date of this Prospectus, there were stock options outstanding to acquire 5,362,701,500 shares of common stock, and no outstanding warrants to purchase shares of our common stock.

Convertible Securities

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We have not issued any other securities convertible into shares of our common stock or granted any rights convertible or exchangeable into shares of our common stock.

 

Anti-Takeover Provisions of Nevada Law and Our Governing Documents

 

Nevada Law

 

We are subject to Section NRS78.411 of the NRS (“Section 78.411”). Section 78.411 generally provides that a Nevada corporation which has not “opted out” of coverage by this section in the prescribed manner may not engage in any “combination” with an “interested stockholder” for a period of two years following the date that the stockholder became an “interested stockholder” unless prior to that time the Board of Directors of the corporation approved either the “combination” or the transaction which resulted in the stockholder becoming an “interested stockholder.”

 

In general, Section 78.411 prohibits a publicly held Nevada corporation from engaging in “business combination” transactions with any “interested stockholder” for a period of two years following the time that the stockholder became an interested stockholder, unless:

 

  prior to the time the stockholder became an interested stockholder, either the applicable business combination or the transaction which resulted in the stockholder becoming an interested stockholder is approved by the corporation’s board of directors;

   

  at or subsequent to the time that the stockholder became an interested stockholder, the business combination is approved by the corporation’s board of directors and authorized at an annual or special meeting of stockholders by the affirmative vote of at least 60% of the outstanding voting stock which is not owned by the interested stockholder.

A “business combination” is defined to include, in general and subject to exceptions, a merger of the corporation with the interested stockholder; a sale of 5% or more of the market value of the corporation’s consolidated assets to the interested stockholder; certain transactions that result in the issuance of the corporation’s stock to the interested stockholder; a transaction that has the effect of increasing the proportionate share of the corporation’s stock owned by the interested stockholder; and any receipt by the interested stockholder of loans, guarantees or other financial benefits provided by the corporation. An “interested stockholder” is defined to include, in general and subject to exceptions, a person that (1) owns outstanding voting stock of the corporation or (2) is an officer, director, or employee of the corporation; or (3) an acquiring person at any time within the prior two year period. A Nevada corporation may opt out of Section 78.411 with an express provision in its original articles of incorporation or by an amendment to its articles of incorporation or bylaws expressly electing not to be governed by Section 78.411 and approved by a majority of its outstanding voting shares. We have not opted out of Section 78.411. As a result, Section 78.411 could delay, deter or prevent a merger, change of control or other takeover of our company that our stockholders might consider to be in their best interests, including transactions that might result in a premium being paid over the market price of our common stock, and may also limit the price that investors are willing to pay in the future for our common stock.

 

Undesignated Preferred Stock

 

The ability to authorize undesignated preferred stock makes it possible for our Board to issue one or more series of preferred stock with voting or other rights or preferences. These and other provisions may have the effect of deferring hostile takeovers or delaying changes in control or management of our company.

 

Requirements for Advance Notification of Stockholder Nominations and Proposals

 

Our bylaws establish advance notice procedures with respect to stockholder proposals and the nomination of candidates for election as directors, other than nominations made by or at the direction of our Board or a committee of our Board.

 

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Stockholder Action by Written Consent; Special Meetings of Stockholders

 

Our stockholders may take action by written consent in lieu of a meeting as provided in our bylaws. Our bylaws provide that certain procedures, including notifying our Board and awaiting a record date, must be followed for stockholders to act by written consent. A special meeting of our stockholders may be called only by our Board, the Chairman of our Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President. A special meeting may also be called at the request of stockholders holding a majority of the aggregate number of shares of capital stock of the Company issued and outstanding and entitled to vote at that meeting (subject to certain timeliness and content requirements of the demand).

 

Amendment of Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws

 

Our charter may be amended by the affirmative vote of a majority of the aggregate number of shares of each class of our capital stock issued and outstanding after a resolution of our Board declaring the advisability of such amendment has been adopted in accordance with Nevada law. Our bylaws may be amended by the affirmative vote of a majority of the aggregate number of shares of each class of our capital stock issued and outstanding (and entitled to vote on the subject matter) present in person or represented by proxy at a meeting of stockholders provided that notice thereof is stated in the written notice of the meeting. Our bylaws may also be amended by a majority of our Board in accordance with Nevada law and our charter.

 

Forum Selection

 

Unless our Board acting on behalf of the Company selects an alternative forum, the Nevada District Court (or, if the Nevada District Court does not have jurisdiction, another state court located within the State of Nevada or, if no court located within the State of Nevada has jurisdiction, the federal district court for the District of Nevada) shall be the sole and exclusive forum for (i) any derivative action or proceeding brought on behalf of the Company, (ii) any action asserting a claim of breach of a fiduciary duty owed by any of our directors, officers or other employees to the Company or our stockholders, (iii) any action asserting a claim against the Company or any of our directors, officers or other employees arising pursuant to any provision of the NRSNRS, our charter or our bylaws or (iv) any action asserting a claim against the Company or any of our directors, officers or other employees governed by the internal affairs doctrine of the State of Nevada, in all cases subject to the court’s having personal jurisdiction over all indispensable parties named as defendants.

 

If any action the subject matter of which is within the scope of the immediately preceding paragraph is filed in a court other than a court located within the State of Nevada in the name of any stockholder, such stockholder will be deemed to have consented to (i) the personal jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located within the State of Nevada in connection with any action brought in any such court to enforce the exclusive forum provision (an “Enforcement Action”) and (ii) having service of process made upon such stockholder in any such Enforcement Action by service upon such stockholder’s counsel in the action outside of the State of Nevada as agent for such stockholder.

 

Stock Quotation

 

Our common stock trades on the OTCQB electronic quotation system under the symbol “ALRT.”

 

Transfer Agent and Registrar

 

The transfer agent and registrar for our common stock is Pacific Stock Transfer.

 

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PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION

 

We are distributing rights certificates and copies of this prospectus to those persons who were holders of our common stock on October 30, 2020, the record date for the rights offering, promptly following the effective date of the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part. We are offering the rights and the shares of common stock underlying the rights directly to you. We have not employed any brokers, dealers or underwriters in connection with the solicitation or exercise of subscription rights in this offering and no commissions, fees or discounts will be paid in connection with this offering. Those directors and officers of the Company who may assist in the rights offering will not register with the SEC as brokers in reliance on certain safe harbor provisions contained in Rule 3a4-1 under the Exchange Act. Pacific Stock Transfer is acting as our subscription agent to affect the exercise of the rights and the issuance of the underlying common stock. Therefore, while certain of our directors and officers may solicit responses from you, those directors and officers will not receive any commissions or compensation for those services.

 

Delivery of Shares

 

As soon as practicable after the record date for the rights offering, we will distribute the subscription rights and rights certificates to individuals who owned shares of our common stock at 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on October 30, 2020.

 

If your shares are held in the name of a broker, dealer, custodian bank or other nominee, then you should send your subscription documents and subscription payment to that record holder. If you are the record holder, then you should send your subscription documents, rights certificate, notice of guaranteed delivery and subscription payment to the address provided below. If sent by mail, we recommend that you send documents and payments by registered mail, properly insured, with return receipt requested, and that a sufficient number of days be allowed to ensure delivery to the subscription agent. Do not send or deliver these materials to the Company.

 

By Overnight Courier, or Registered Certified or Express Mail
 
Pacific Stock Transfer
6725 Via Austi Pkwy, Suite 300
Las Vegas, NV 89119
 

See “The Rights Offering—Method of Exercising Subscription Rights.” If you have any questions regarding the Company or the rights offering, or you have any questions regarding completing a rights certificate or submitting payment in the rights offering, please contact the information agent, 702-361-3033, or by emailing info@pacificstocktransfer.com..

 

MATERIAL U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSEQUENCES

 

The following discussion is a summary of material U.S. federal income tax consequences to U.S. holders (as defined below) of our common stock of the receipt and ownership of the subscription rights acquired through the rights offering and the ownership and disposition of shares of common stock received upon exercise of the subscription rights.

 

This summary deals only with U.S. holders that acquire subscription rights in the rights offering and assumes that the subscription rights or shares of common stock issued upon exercise of the subscription rights will be held as capital assets within the meaning of Section 1221 of the Code. This discussion does not address all aspects of U.S. federal income taxation that may be relevant to U.S. holders in light of their personal circumstances. This discussion also does not address tax consequences to U.S. holders that may be subject to special tax rules, including, without limitation, insurance companies, real estate investment trusts, regulated investment companies, grantor trusts, tax-exempt organizations, employee stock purchase plans, partnerships and other pass-through entities, persons holding shares of common stock as part of a hedging, integrated, conversion or constructive sale transaction or a straddle, financial institutions, brokers, dealers in securities or currencies, traders that elect to mark-to-market their securities, persons that acquired shares of common stock in connection with employment or other performance of services, persons subject to the alternative minimum tax, U.S. holders that have a functional currency other than the U.S. dollar, U.S. expatriates and foreign holders. In addition, the discussion does not describe any tax consequences arising out of the tax laws of any state, local or foreign jurisdiction, or any U.S. federal tax considerations other than income taxation (such as Medicare contribution taxation or estate or gift taxation).

 

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Furthermore, the discussion below is based upon the provisions of the Code, and regulations, administrative pronouncements and judicial decisions thereunder, as of the date hereof, and such authorities may be repealed, revoked or modified, perhaps retroactively. We have not sought, and will not seek, any rulings from the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) regarding the matters discussed below. There can be no assurance that the IRS or a court will not take positions concerning the tax consequences of the receipt and ownership of the subscription rights acquired through the rights offering and the ownership of shares of common stock received upon exercise of the subscription rights that are different from those discussed below.

 

As used herein, a “U.S. holder” means a beneficial owner of subscription rights or shares of common stock that is for U.S. federal income tax purposes:

 

  an individual who is a citizen or resident of the United States;

 

  a corporation (or other entity treated as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes) created or organized in or under the laws of the United States or any state thereof or the District of Columbia;

 

  an estate the income of which is subject to U.S. federal income taxation regardless of its source; or

 

  a trust (a) the administration of which is subject to the primary supervision of a court within the United States and one or more U.S. persons as described in the Code have authority to control all substantial decisions of the trust, or (b) that has a valid election in effect under applicable U.S. Treasury regulations to be treated as a U.S. person.

 

If any entity or arrangement that is treated as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes is a beneficial owner of subscription rights or shares of common stock, the U.S. federal income tax treatment of a partner will generally depend upon the status of the partner and the activities of the partnership. U.S. holders that are partnerships (and partners in such partnerships) are urged to consult their own tax advisors.

 

U.S. HOLDERS SHOULD CONSULT THEIR OWN TAX ADVISORS REGARDING THE APPLICATION OF THE U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX LAWS TO THEIR PARTICULAR SITUATIONS AND THE CONSEQUENCES UNDER FEDERAL ESTATE AND GIFT TAX LAWS, FOREIGN, STATE, AND LOCAL LAWS AND TAX TREATIES OF RECEIVING, OWNING AND EXERCISING SUBSCRIPTION RIGHTS AND ACQUIRING, HOLDING AND DISPOSING OF SHARES OF COMMON STOCK.

 

Taxation of Subscription Rights

 

Receipt of Subscription Rights. Although the authorities governing the rights offering are complex and do not speak directly to the consequences of certain aspects of the rights offering, we believe your receipt of subscription rights pursuant to the rights offering with respect to your shares of our common stock should be treated as a nontaxable distribution with respect to such shares of our common stock for U.S. federal income tax purposes. Under Section 305(a) of the Code, a corporation’s distribution of stock rights to stockholders is generally tax-free. Section 305(b) of the Code, however, provides certain instances where a distribution of stock rights is taxable to stockholders. One such instance is a “disproportionate distribution” in which a distribution or a series of distributions, including deemed distributions, has the result of (1) the receipt of cash or non-stock property by some stockholders or holders of debt instruments convertible into stock, and (2) an increase in the proportionate interest of other stockholders in the assets or earnings and profits of the corporation. During the last 36 months, we have not made any distributions of cash or non-stock property with respect to our common stock. In addition, within the last 36 months, we have not made any payments in cash or non-stock property of interest on previously outstanding convertible notes or of dividends or previously outstanding preferred stock. Currently, we do not have any convertible debt or preferred stock outstanding, nor do we currently intend to issue any convertible debt or preferred stock or pay any dividends on our common stock (other than the issuance of the subscription rights in connection with this offering), but there is no guarantee that we will not do so. While the application of this rule is very complex and subject to uncertainty, we believe that the distribution of the subscription rights hereunder does not result in an increase to any stockholder’s proportionate interest in our earnings and profits or assets. Accordingly, we believe that pursuant to Section 305 of the Code and the Treasury regulations promulgated thereunder, the receipt of subscription rights with respect to shares of our common stock should generally not be taxable to our holders of shares of our common stock.

 

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Our position regarding the tax-free treatment of the subscription rights distribution is not binding on the IRS, or the courts. If this position is finally determined by the IRS or a court to be incorrect, whether on the basis that the issuance of the subscription rights is a “disproportionate distribution” or otherwise, the fair market value of the subscription rights would be taxable to holders of our common stock as a dividend to the extent of the holder’s pro rata share of our current and accumulated earnings and profits, if any. Any excess would be treated first as a tax-free return of capital to the extent of your adjusted basis in your shares of our common stock and then as capital gain from the sale or exchange of your shares of our common stock. Although no assurance can be given, it is anticipated that we will not have current or accumulated earnings and profits through the end of 2020.

 

The discussion below assumes that the receipt of subscription rights with respect to your shares of our common stock will be treated as a nontaxable distribution.

 

Tax Basis and Holding Period of Subscription Rights. Your tax basis of the subscription rights you receive with respect to your shares of commons stock for U.S. federal income tax purposes will depend on the fair market value of the subscription rights you receive and the fair market value of your existing shares of common stock on the date you receive the subscription rights.

 

If the fair market value of the subscription rights you receive is less than 15% of the fair market value of your existing shares of common stock on the date you receive the subscription rights, the subscription rights will be allocated a zero basis for U.S. federal income tax purposes, unless you elect to allocate your basis in your existing shares of common stock between your existing shares of common stock and the subscription rights in proportion to the relative fair market values of the existing shares of common stock and the subscription rights determined on the date of receipt of the subscription rights. If you choose to allocate basis between your existing shares of common stock and the subscription rights, you must make this election on a statement included with your timely filed tax return (including extensions) for the taxable year in which you receive the subscription rights. Such an election is irrevocable.

 

However, if the fair market value of the subscription rights you receive is 15% or more of the fair market value of your existing shares of common stock on the date you receive the subscription rights, then you must allocate your basis in your existing shares of common stock between your existing shares of common stock and the subscription rights you receive in proportion to their fair market values determined on the date you receive the subscription rights.

 

The fair market value of the subscription rights on the date that the subscription rights are distributed is uncertain, and we have not obtained, and do not intend to obtain, an appraisal of the fair market value of the subscription rights on that date. In determining the fair market value of the subscription rights, you should consider all relevant facts and circumstances, including any difference between the subscription price of the subscription rights and the trading price of our shares of common stock on the date that the subscription rights are distributed, the length of the period during which the subscription rights may be exercised and the fact that the subscription rights are non-transferable.

 

Your holding period of the subscription rights will include your holding period of the shares of common stock with respect to which the subscription rights were distributed.

 

Exercise of Subscription Rights. You generally will not recognize gain or loss on the exercise of a subscription right received with respect to your shares of common stock.

 

Your tax basis in a share of common stock acquired through exercise of a subscription right will equal the sum of (1) the subscription price and (2) your tax basis, if any, in the subscription right as determined above.

 

The holding period of a share of common stock acquired through exercise of a subscription right will begin on the date the subscription right is exercised.

 

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If you exercise a subscription right received in the rights offering after disposing of the common stock with respect to which such subscription right is received, then certain aspects of the tax treatment of the exercise of the subscription right are unclear, including (1) the allocation of tax basis between the common stock previously sold and the subscription right, (2) the impact of such allocation on the amount and timing of gain or loss recognized with respect to the common stock previously sold, and (3) the impact of such allocation on the tax basis of common stock acquired through exercise of the subscription right. If you exercise a subscription right received in the rights offering after disposing of the common stock with respect to which the subscription right is received, you should consult with your tax advisor.

 

Expiration of Subscription Rights. If you allow subscription rights received in the rights offering with respect to your shares of common stock to expire, you should not recognize any gain or loss for U.S. federal income tax purposes and any portion of the tax basis in your existing shares of common stock previously allocated to the subscription rights that have expired will be reallocated to the existing shares of common stock.

 

Taxation of Shares of Common Stock

 

Distributions. Distributions with respect to shares of common stock acquired upon exercise of subscription rights will be taxable as dividend income when actually or constructively received to the extent of our current or accumulated earnings and profits as determined for U.S. federal income tax purposes. To the extent that the amount of a distribution exceeds our current and accumulated earnings and profits, such distribution will be treated first as a tax-free return of capital to the extent of your adjusted tax basis in such shares of common stock and thereafter as capital gain.

 

Dispositions. If you sell or otherwise dispose of shares of common stock acquired upon exercise of subscription rights, you will generally recognize capital gain or loss equal to the difference between the amount realized and your adjusted tax basis in the shares of common stock. Such capital gain or loss will be long-term capital gain or loss if your holding period for the shares of common stock is more than one year. Long-term capital gain of an individual, estate or trust is generally taxed at favorable rates. The deductibility of capital losses is subject to limitations.

 

Information Reporting and Backup Withholding

 

You may be subject to information reporting and/or backup withholding with respect to dividend payments on or the gross proceeds from the disposition of our shares of common stock acquired through the exercise of subscription rights. Backup withholding may apply under certain circumstances if you (i) fail to furnish your social security or other taxpayer identification number (“TIN”), (ii) furnish an incorrect TIN, (iii) fail to report interest or dividends properly, or (iv) fail to provide a certified statement, signed under penalty of perjury, that the TIN provided is correct, that you are not subject to backup withholding and that you are a U.S. person. Any amount withheld from a payment under the backup withholding rules is allowable as a credit against (and may entitle you to a refund with respect to) your U.S. federal income tax liability, provided that the required information is timely furnished to the IRS. Certain persons are exempt from backup withholding, including corporations and financial institutions. You are urged to consult your own tax advisor as to your qualification for exemption from backup withholding and the procedure for obtaining such exemption.

 

Additional Withholding Tax

Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code (provisions commonly referred to as “FATCA”) generally impose an additional withholding tax on certain types of payments made to “foreign financial institutions” and certain other non-U.S. entities. Specifically, a 30% withholding tax will be imposed on dividends on, or gross proceeds from the sale or other disposition of, shares of common stock paid to a foreign financial institution or to a non-financial foreign entity, unless (i) the foreign financial institution undertakes certain diligence and reporting obligations, (ii) the non-financial foreign entity either certifies it does not have any substantial U.S. owners or furnishes identifying information regarding each substantial U.S. owner, or (iii) the foreign financial institution or non-financial foreign entity otherwise qualifies for an exemption from these rules. If the payee is a foreign financial institution, and is subject to the diligence and reporting requirements in clause (i) above, it must enter into an agreement with the U.S. Treasury requiring, among other things, that it undertake to identify accounts held by certain U.S. persons or U.S.-owned foreign entities, annually report certain information about such accounts, and withhold 30% on payments to account holders whose actions prevent it from complying with these reporting and other requirements. Current IRS guidance delays the implementation of withholding under FATCA with respect to payments of gross proceeds from a sale or other disposition of shares of common stock until after December 31, 2018.

 

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THE PRECEDING DISCUSSION OF MATERIAL U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSEQUENCES IS NOT TAX ADVICE. EACH U.S. HOLDER SHOULD CONSULT ITS OWN TAX ADVISOR REGARDING THE PARTICULAR U.S. FEDERAL, STATE, LOCAL AND FOREIGN TAX CONSEQUENCES OF RECEIVING, OWNING AND EXERCISING SUBSCRIPTION RIGHTS AND ACQUIRING, HOLDING AND DISPOSING OF SHARES OF COMMON STOCK, INCLUDING THE CONSEQUENCES OF ANY PROPOSED CHANGE IN APPLICABLE LAWS.

 

LEGAL MATTERS

 

The validity of the shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of the rights and offered by this prospectus will be passed upon for us by W.L. Macdonald Law Corporation.

 

EXPERTS

No expert or counsel named in this Prospectus as having prepared or certified any part thereof or having given an opinion upon the validity of the securities being registered or upon other legal matters in connection with the registration or offering of our common stock was employed on a contingency basis or had or is to receive, in connection with the offering, a substantial interest, directly or indirectly, in us. Additionally, no such expert or counsel was connected with us as a promoter, managing or principal underwriter, voting trustee, director, officer or employee.

The audited financial statements and schedule of ALR Technologies Inc. as of December 31, 2019, 2018, and 2017 are incorporated into this prospectus and in the Registration Statement from our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively, filed with the SEC on March 27, 2020 and March 29, 2019, respectively, which contains an explanatory paragraph regarding the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern, have been so incorporated in reliance upon the report of DALE MATHESON CARR-HILTON LABONTE LLP, an independent registered accounting firm, incorporated herein, given upon the authority of said firm as experts in accounting and auditing.

 

WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION

 

We are subject to the informational requirements of the Exchange Act and in accordance therewith file reports, proxy statements and other information with the SEC. Our filings are available to the public over the Internet at the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov, as well as at our website at www.alrt.com.

 

You may also read and copy, at prescribed rates, any document we file with the SEC at the Public Reference Room of the SEC located at 100 F Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20549. Please call the SEC at (800) SEC-0330 for further information on the SEC’s Public Reference Room.

 

INFORMATION INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

 

Not Applicable

 

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PART II

 

INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS

 

Item 13. Other Expenses of Issuance and Distribution.

 

The following table sets forth the fees and expenses payable by us in connection with the sale of the securities being registered hereunder, all of which will be borne by us. With the exception of the SEC registration fee, all amounts shown are estimates.

 

SEC registration fee   $ 696 
Subscription agent fees and expenses   $ 20,000 
Legal fees and expenses   $ 25,000 
Accounting fees and expenses   $ 5,000 
Printing and Miscellaneous   $ 10,415 
        
Total   $ 56,111 

 

Item 14. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

 

Our directors and officers are indemnified as provided by the Nevada Statutes and our Bylaws. We have agreed to indemnify each of our directors and certain officers against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933. Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to our directors, officers and controlling persons pursuant to the provisions described above, or otherwise, we have been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933 and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than our payment of expenses incurred or paid by our director, officer or controlling person in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, we will, unless in the opinion of our counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

 

We have been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act, and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities is asserted by one of our directors, officers, or controlling persons in connection with the securities being registered, we will, unless in the opinion of our legal counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit the question of whether such indemnification is against public policy to a court of appropriate jurisdiction. We will then be governed by the court’s decision.

 

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Item 15. Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities.

 

During the three years preceding the filing of this registration statement, we have issued the following securities that were not registered under the Securities Act:

 

1.On September 21, 2020, ALR Technologies Inc. (the “Company”) entered into two shares for debt agreements (the “Agreements”) to issue an aggregate of 240,000,000 restricted shares of common stock at a deemed price of $0.05 per share to retire $12,000,000 of outstanding debt as follows.

Creditor  Shares Issued   Price per Share   Outstanding Debt Retired 
Mr. Sidney Chan   150,000,000   $0.05   $7,500,000 
Ms. Christine Kan   90,000,000   $0.05   $4,500,000 
Total   240,000,000        $12,000,000 

 

Each of the Agreements have a non-dilutive clause for any subsequent equity sales by the Company to issue its shares of common stock below $0.05 per share for a term of twelve months. The Agreements were approved by all the independent directors of the Company. The shares were issued pursuant to the exemption from registration contained in Regulation S of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. The foregoing transaction took place outside the United States. Both of Mr. Chan and Ms. Kan are non-US persons. Mr. Chan is the Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of the Company. Ms. Kan is the spouse of Mr. Chan.

 

2.On August 24, 2020, the Company sold 242,800 shares of restricted stock at a price of $0.05 per share for total consideration of $12,140.

 

3.On February 14, 2020, the Company entered into a debt settlement agreement with a non-related party whereby the parties agreed to settle $80,000, consisting of $60,000 accounts payable and $20,000 for the provision of services under a Services Agreement dated January 1, 2020, with the issuance of 2,000,000 restricted shares of common stock of the Company. The restricted shares of common stock were issued on March 11, 2020.

 

4.On June 19, 2019, the Chairman of the Company exercised the option to acquire 25,000,000 shares of common stock at a price of $0.002 per share for a total purchase price of $50,000. The Chairman extinguished an outstanding debt owed by the Company to him in the amount of $50,000 as consideration. The Company also issued 1,000,000 common shares for the exercise of options at a price of $0.015 per share for a total purchase price of $15,000, which was settled with the extinguishment of accounts payable.

 

The offers and sales of securities described above were made in reliance upon an exemption from registration requirements pursuant to Section 4(a)(2) under the Securities Act, based upon representations made to us by the purchasers thereof.

 

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Item 16. Exhibits.

 

The exhibits listed in the accompanying Exhibit Index are filed (except where otherwise indicated) as part of this registration statement.

 

Item 17. Undertakings.

 

The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:

 

(1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:

 

(i) To include any prospectus required by section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933;

 

(ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than a 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in the effective registration statement.

 

(iii) To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to such information in the registration statement;

 

provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i), (a)(1)(ii) and (a)(1)(iii) of this section do not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in the registration statement, or is contained in a form of prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) that is part of the registration statement.

 

(2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

 

(3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

 

(4) That, for the purpose of determining liability under the Securities Act to any purchaser, each prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) as part of a registration statement relating to an offering, other than registration statements relying on Rule 430B or other than prospectuses filed in reliance on Rule 430A, shall be deemed to be part of and included in the registration statement as of the date it is first used after effectiveness. Provided, however, that no statement made in a registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement or made in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference into the registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale prior to such first use, supersede or modify any statement that was made in the registration statement or prospectus that was part of the registration statement or made in any such document immediately prior to such date of first use.

 

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(5) That, for the purpose of determining liability of the registrant under the Securities Act of 1933 to any purchaser in the initial distribution of the securities, the undersigned registrant undertakes that in a primary offering of securities of the undersigned registrant pursuant to this registration statement, regardless of the underwriting method used to sell the securities to the purchaser, if the securities are offered or sold to such purchaser by means of any of the following communications, the undersigned registrant will be a seller to the purchaser and will be considered to offer or sell such securities to such purchaser:

 

(i) Any preliminary prospectus or prospectus of the undersigned registrant relating to the offering required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424;

 

(ii) Any free writing prospectus relating to the offering prepared by or on behalf of the undersigned registrant or used or referred to by the undersigned registrant;

 

(iii) The portion of any other free writing prospectus relating to the offering containing material information about the undersigned registrant or its securities provided by or on behalf of the undersigned registrant; and

 

(iv) Any other communication that is an offer in the offering made by the undersigned registrant to the purchaser.

 

The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes to supplement the prospectus, after the expiration of the subscription period, to set forth the results of the subscription offer, the transactions by the underwriters during the subscription period, the amount of unsubscribed securities to be purchased by the underwriters, and the terms of any subsequent reoffering thereof. If any public offering by the underwriters is to be made on terms differing from those set forth on the cover page of the prospectus, a post-effective amendment will be filed to set forth the terms of such offering.

 

Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933 and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933 and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

 

(i) The undersigned hereby undertakes that:

 

(1) For purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, the information omitted from the form of prospectus filed as part of this registration statement in reliance upon Rule 430A and contained in a form of prospectus filed by the registrant pursuant to Rule 424(b)(1) or (4) or 497(h) under the Securities Act shall be deemed to be part of this registration statement as of the time it was declared effective.

 

(2) For the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each post-effective amendment that contains a form of prospectus shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

 

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EXHIBIT INDEX

 

    Incorporated by reference  
Exhibit         Filed
No. Document Description Form Date Number herewith
           
3.1 Initial Articles of Incorporation. 10-SB 12/10/99 3.1  
           
3.2 Bylaws. 10-SB 12/10/99 3.2  
           
3.3 Articles of Amendment to the Articles of Incorporation, dated October 22, 1998. 10-SB 12/10/99 3.3  
           
3.4 Articles of Amendment to the Articles of Incorporation, dated December 7, 1998. 10-SB 12/10/99 3.4  
           
3.5 Articles of Amendment to the Articles of Incorporation, dated January 6, 2005. 8-K 1/20/05 3.1  
           
3.6 Amendment to Bylaws, dated October 13, 2011 8-K 10/13/11 3.6  
           
3.7 Amendment to Bylaws, dated April 10, 2012 8-K 4/16/12 3.7  
           
5.1* Opinion of W.L. Macdonald Law Corporation        
           
10.1 Consulting Agreement with Endocrine Research Society Inc. 10KSB 10/01/13 10.1  
           
10.2 Distribution Agreement with Mo Betta Corp. 10-SB 12/10/99 99.1  
           
14.1 Code of Ethics. 10-KSB 4/14/03 14.1  
           
23.1

Consent of Dale Matheson Carr-Hilton Labonte LLP Chartered Professional Accountants 

      X
           
23.2* Consent of W.L. Macdonald Law Corporation (contained in Exhibit 5.1)        
           
99.1 Pooling Agreement. 10-SB 12/10/99 99.2  
           
99.2 Amended Pooling Agreement. 10-SB 12/10/99 99.3  
           
99.4 Lock-Up Agreement. 10-SB 12/10/99 99.4  
           
99.5 Audit Committee Charter. 10-KSB 3/31/14 99.1  
           
99.6 Disclosure Committee Charter. 10-KSB 4/14/03 99.2  
           
99.7 Nomination Committee Charter 10-KSB 8/15/13 99.3  
           
99.8 Compensation Committee Charter 10-KSB 8/15/13 99.4  
           
99.10* Form of Instructions for Use of rights certificates        
           
99.11* Form of Letter to Shareholders        

 

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99.12* Form of Letter to Beneficial Holders        
           
99.13* Form of Letter to Clients of Nominee Holders        
           
99.14* Form of Nominee Holder Certification Form        
           
99.15* Beneficial Holder Election Form        
           
99.16* Form of Notice of Guaranteed Delivery        
           
99.17* Form of Notice of Important Tax Information        

 

*To be filed

 

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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this amendment to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized in the Republic of Singapore , on November 4, 2020.

     
  ALR TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
     
  By: /s/ Sidney Chan
    Sidney Chan
    Chairman, Principal Executive Officer, Principal Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer and a member of the Board of Directors

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this amendment has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

Signatures   Title   Date
         

“Sidney Chan”

 

Chairman, Principal Executive Officer, Principal

  November 4, 2020.
Mr. Sidney Chan   Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer and a member of the Board of Directors    
         

“Peter Stafford”

 

Member of the Board of Directors

  November 4, 2020.
Mr. Peter Stafford        
         

“Kenneth J. Robulak”

 

Member of the Board of Directors

  November 4, 2020. 
Mr. Kenneth J. Robulak        
         

“Alfonso Salas” 

 

Member of the Board of Directors 

  November 4, 2020.
Dr. Alfonso Salas        
         

“Ronald Cheng”  

 

Member of the Board of Directors 

  November 4, 2020. 
Mr. Ronald Cheng        

 

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