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Times Three Wireless Inc. (TSX VENTURE:TTW) ("Times Three" or the "Company") announced today that it has entered into an agreement to purchase several fundamental patents along with the right to further develop the patent portfolio by filing additional continuing patent applications.
Times Three's proposed acquisition currently includes 4 patents issued and pending in the USA that relate to the essential development platform and tools widely used to create applications ("apps") for smartphones, tablet computers and other mobile devices.
The purchase agreement requires the Company, on the closing of the transaction, to issue to the seller $1.5 million in common shares priced at $0.11 per share (13,636,364 common shares) and to pay to the seller a minority percentage share of net licensing proceeds generated by Times Three during the life of the subject patent portfolio. The Company will also make certain advance revenue share payments to the seller in the first 12 months after the transaction is completed.
The obligation of the Company to close the acquisition is subject to, among other things, its satisfactory completion of further due diligence over the next 40 day period as well as the receipt of all regulatory and third party approvals, including the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange.
"We are very pleased to enter into an agreement to purchase this foundational and valuable patent portfolio which relates to a large and rapidly growing market for mobile device applications, which has been estimated by ABI Research to be worth US$27 billion in 2013," said William Middleton, Times Three's CEO.
About Times Three
Times Three, originally founded in 1995 as Cell-Loc Inc., is a technology innovation and licensing company based in Calgary with offices in Toronto, Austin and Dallas. It has a long history of innovation and successful product development in wireless location technologies and continues to build and license its portfolio of important patents and intellectual property. The Company's current portfolio now consists of over 20 issued and pending patents in the USA and Japan.
The Company's proprietary narrow band location and telemetry technology has been successfully implemented in a 1500 square kilometer wireless network in São Paulo, Brazil.
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will occur. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve numerous assumptions, known and unknown risks and uncertainties that contribute to the possibility that the predictions, forecasts, projections and other forward-looking statements will not occur, which may cause Times Three's actual performance and financial results in future periods to differ materially from any estimates or projections of future performance or results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, among other things, that the patent portfolio will not be verified by the Company's due diligence, that the seller will not be able to convey unencumbered title to the patent portfolio to the Company, that Time's Three will not receive all regulatory and third party approvals for the acquisition in a timely manner, or at all, that the acquisition agreement will be amended or terminated and the other factors described in Times Three's public filings available in Canada at www.sedar.com. Readers are cautioned that this list of risk factors should not be construed as exhaustive.
The forward-looking statements contained in this news release speak only as of the date of this news release. Except as expressly required by applicable securities laws, Times Three does not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. The forward-looking statements contained in this news release are expressly qualified by this cautionary statement.
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