Company: BCHT
Filing Date: 2025-11-13
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001477932-25-008185
Chunk: 108

Company: Birchtech Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-11-13
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 8
Chunk 108
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 utility and its affiliates with a with a non-exclusive license to certain Company patents related to the Company’s two-part SEA® process for use in connection with a certain designated coal-fired power plant operated by them. Such agreement includes a one-time license fee and provides the Company with the right to be included in such party’s bidding process for certain product supply for mercury emissions capture at such party’s designated power plant. Such party has agreed to withdraw from IPR petitions. Effective as of October 15, 2025, the Company entered into an agreement with another utility named as a defendant in the Southern District of Iowa action. While the terms of the agreement are confidential, it includes a resolution of the disputes between the Company and that utility and its affiliates and provides for their withdrawal from related proceedings. As a result of this and the other agreements described above, the Company and several defendants have resolved their respective claims, and those defendants have been dismissed from the applicable actions. There remain two utilities in the consolidated Iowa actions. As described above, between January and July 2025, certain defendants in the consolidated Iowa actions filed IPR petitions seeking to invalidate various asserted claims. In September and October 2025, the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) granted the institution of the review of certain of the Company’s asserted patents. On October 13, 2025, the Court in the consolidated Iowa actions ruled to stay the litigation pending completion of the IPR process in the PTAB. No assurance can be given as to the ultimate outcome of these proceedings. Except for the foregoing disclosures, the Company is not presently aware of any other material pending legal proceedings to which the Company is a party or of which any of its property is the subject. Litigation, including patent litigation, is inherently subject to uncertainties. As such, there can be no assurance that the Company will be successful in litigating and/or settling any of these claims. The Company expenses legal costs relating to patent litigation as incurred.

Note 10 - Stock Based Compensation Stock Based Compensation The Company accounts for stock-based compensation awards in accordance with the provisions of ASC 718, which addresses the accounting for employee stock options which requires that the cost of all employee stock options, as well as other equity-based compensation arrangements, be reflected in the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements over the vesting period based on the estimated fair value of the awards. Stock based compensation consists of the amortization of common stock, stock options, restricted share units and warrants