The above uses of available funds are estimates only. Notwithstanding the proposed uses of available funds
as discussed above, there may be circumstances where, for sound business reasons, a reallocation of funds may be necessary, including due to demands for shifting focus or investment in marketing and business development activities, requirements for
accelerating, increasing, reducing, or eliminating initiatives in response to changes in market, regulations, and/or developments in research and design, unexpected setbacks, and strategic opportunities, such as partnerships, strategic partners,
joint ventures, mergers, acquisitions, and other like opportunities. It is difficult at this time to definitively project the total funds necessary to execute the planned undertakings of the Issuer. For these reasons, management considers it to be
in the best interests of the Issuer and its shareholders to permit management a reasonable degree of flexibility as to how the Issuers funds are employed among the above uses or for other purposes, as the need may arise.
In the Issuers opinion, the working capital is sufficient for its present requirements.
C.
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Research and Development, patents and licenses.
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The Issuer utilizes two open source technologies as the underlying building blocks of its Graph Blockchain Solution. In particular, the Issuer uses Hyperledger
Fabric, which was developed by IBM for the Blockchain aspects of its solution and AgensGraph, a technology developed by Bitnine, for the graph modeling aspects of its solution. The unique aspect of the Graph Blockchain Solution relates to the manner
in which these two technologies are customized and combined together to model blockchain technologies on a graph database.
This methodology for combining
these two technologies was initially developed by an employee of Bitnine. On March 23, 2018, the employee filed two patents with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, in concert with filing two patents with the Korean Intellectual
Property Office on March 26, 2018. The patents relate to methodologies, processes and algorithms developed by the employee, which focus on the enhancement of transactional performance for private Blockchains. This includes data gathering and
throughput, optimization and presenting the data to a user interface dashboard at rates that are considerably faster than traditional relational based systems. Pursuant to a Combined Declaration and Assignment for Utility Patent and Design Patent
Applications dated April 4, 2018, the employee transferred his entire and exclusive right, title and interest to the four patent applications and all letters patent to be obtained with respect to said applications to Graph in consideration for
an aggregate payment of $40,000, of which $10,000 has been paid as of the date hereof.
As of the date hereof, an additional two patents are in the
process of being prepared by the Issuer for filing with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. These patents relate to the control system and method for controlling a private blockchain system, including the technical schema of the solution,
and the visualization and analysis of the graph data.
The above noted patents are still in the application stage and there can be no guarantees that the
Issuer will obtain such patents.
The Issuer also intends to protect any rights it may in hold in the Graph Blockchain Solution by attempting to ensure
that any intellectual property rights that may otherwise be owned by or attributable to its developers in South Korea are transferred to the Issuer. More specifically, all developers currently have assignment of intellectual property clauses in
their employment contracts.
Finally, the contracts that the Issuer has with its distributors, and will have with the ultimate
end-users
of its solutions, also provide that the ownership of all intellectual property pertaining to the Issuer or its subsidiary and their products, including trademarks, trade names and copyright, remains with
the Issuer or its subsidiary.
For a discussion of the risks relating to the Issuers intellectual property, please refer to
Protection of
Intellectual Property Rights
,
Violation of Third Party Intellectual Property Rights
and
Use of Open Source Software
in Item 3.D Risk Factors.
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Trend Information and Business Objectives
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The Issuer expects to accomplish the following business objectives over the following
12-month
period.
Further information on the Samsung contract included in the table below is disclosed in Item 4.B
Business Overview
as the Issuer has
already commenced development of this prototype as of the date of this Form
20-F.
The other contracts listed in this section have not been secured as of the date of this Form
20-F
and they may not be consummated on terms as described herein or at all.
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Business Objective
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Milestones
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Estimated Timing
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Revenue Growth
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Secure contract with Zonetail Inc.
Zonetail Inc. is an early-stage hospitality booking platform company. The Issuer is currently in discussions with Zonetail to provide Blockchain data
management solutions, which will be used for near real-time reporting
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