Note 12 - Common Stock warrants

The Company's Plan of Reorganization, which was approved by the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California on January 11, 2000, provided for the creditors and claimants to receive new warrants in settlement of their claims. The warrants expire May 11, 2038.

Each warrant is callable by the Company if the share price exceeds the exercise price by the lesser of $1 or 100%. The warrant holders have a minimum of 30 calendar days during which to exercise their warrants once they are called. The Company may lower the exercise price of all or part of a warrant series at any time. Similarly, the Company could, but does not anticipate, reverse splitting the stock to raise the stock price above the warrant exercise price. The warrants are specifically not affected and do not split with the shares in the event of a reverse split. If the called warrants are not exercised, the Company has the right to designate the warrants to a new holder in return for a $0.10 per share redemption fee payable to the original warrant holders as discussed further in Note 13. All such changes in the exercise price of warrants were provided for by the court in the Plan of Reorganization in order to provide a mechanism for all debtors to receive value even if they could not or did not exercise their warrant. Therefore, management believes that the act of lowering the exercise price is not a change from the original warrant grants and the Company has not recorded an accounting impact as the result of such change in exercise prices.

All Series A and Series C warrants were exercised by December 31, 2014. Exercise prices in effect at January 1, 2015 through December 31, 2017 for Series B warrants were $0.11 and Series D warrants were $1.60.

In 2009, the Company entered into an Investment Banking agreement with Network One Securities, LLC and a related Strategic Advisory Agreement with Lenox Hill Partners, LP with regard to a potential merger with a cancer development company. In conjunction with those related agreements, the Company issued 689,159 Series H ($7) Warrants, with a 30 year life. The warrants are subject to cashless exercise based upon the ten day trailing closing bid price preceding the exercise as interpreted by the Company.

As of December 31, 2017 and 2016, the weighted average contractual life for all Mentor warrants was 20.5 and 21.5 years, respectively, and the weighted average outstanding warrant exercise price was $2.11 and $2.02 per share, respectively.

During the years ended December 31, 2017 and 2016, a total of 1,544,883 and 4,503,346 warrants were exercised, respectively. There were no warrants issued during the years ended December 31, 2017 and 2016. The intrinsic value of outstanding warrants at December 31, 2017 and 2016 was $0 and $4,275, respectively.

Subsequent to year end, on January 23, 2018, 117,000 shares of Mentor’s Common Stock purchased in 2014 through warrant exercises by two Bhang shareholders under an agreement that was ultimately rescinded, were returned to the Company (see Note 5) and the associated exercise of warrants was reversed with 98,456 Series B warrants and 29,544 Series D warrants reinstated. At this time the CEO was reallocated the 87,456 B warrants, and his D warrants were reduced by the same amount, see Notes 18 and 26.

The following table summarizes Series B and Series D Common Stock warrants as of each period:

Series E, F, G and H warrants were issued for investment banking and advisory services during 2009. Series E, F and G warrants were exercised in 2014.

The following table summarizes H warrants as of each period:

On February 9, 2015, in accordance with Section 1145 of the United States Bankruptcy Code and the Company’s Plan of Reorganization, the Company announced a minimum 30 day partial redemption of up to 1% (approximately 90,000) of the already outstanding Series D warrants to provide for the court specified redemption mechanism for warrants not exercised timely by the original holder or their estates. Company designees that applied during the 30 days paid 10 cents per warrant to redeem the warrant and then exercised the Series D warrant to purchase a share at the court specified formula of not more than one-half of the closing bid price on the day preceding the 30 day exercise period. In the Company’s October 7, 2016 press release, Mentor stated that the 1% redemptions which were formerly priced on a calendar month schedule would subsequently be initiated and be priced on a random date schedule after the prior 1% redemption is completed to prevent potential third party manipulation of share prices at month-end. The periodic partial redemptions will continue to be periodically recalculated and repeated until such unexercised warrants are exhausted or the partial redemption is otherwise temporarily suspended or truncated by the Company. Warrants redemptions from February 15, 2017 through December 31, 2017 were exercised at the full redemption price. The regular and 1% partial redemption authorization, which was recalculated and repeated according to the court formula, resulted in a combined average exercise price of $1.55 and $0.32 for the years ended December 31, 2017 and 2016, respectively.