Note 9 - 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 10.  All such changes in the exercise price of series A, B, C and D 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 change from the original warrant grants and the Company has not recorded an accounting impact as the result of such change in exercise prices.

Exercise prices at December 31, 2012 and subsequent lower prices for the A, B, C and D warrants are as follow:

At November 8, 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 81,699 Series E ($1) Warrants, 369,037 Series F ($3) Warrants, 85,579 Series G ($0.65) Warrants and 689,159 Series H ($7) Warrants, all 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.   The fair value of the warrants issued under the agreements was estimated on the date of the issuance using the Black-Scholes option pricing model.  The use of a valuation model requires the Company to make certain assumptions with respect to selected model inputs.  Expected volatility was calculated based on the historical volatility of the Company’s stock price.  The average expected life is based on the contractual term of the warrant and expected exercise behavior.  The risk-free interest rate is based on U.S. Treasury zero-coupon issues with a remaining term equal to the expected life assumed at the date of grant. 

The following table provides the assumptions used to value the options granted and warrants issued using the Black-Scholes option pricing model:         

As of September 30, 2015 and December 31, 2014 the weighted average contractual life for all Mentor warrants was 22.7 years and 23.4 years, respectively, and the weighted average outstanding warrant exercise price was $1.87 and $1.84 per share, respectively.

During the nine months ended September 30, 2015 and 2014, a total of 1,563,212 and 8,018,978 warrants were exercised, respectively. There were no warrants issued during the periods ended September 30, 2015 and 2014.  The intrinsic value of outstanding warrants at September 30, 2015 and 2014 was $1,755 and $5,490, respectively.

The following table summarizes common stock warrants as of each period:

Series E, F, G and H warrants were issued for investment banking and advisory services during 2009.  The following table summarizes E, F, G and H warrants as of each period:

On February 9, 2015, in accordance with the authorizing section 1145 reorganization court order, the Company announced a minimum 30 day partial redemption of up to 1% (approximately 140,000) 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 apply during the 30 days must pay 10 cents to redeem the warrant and then exercise the series D warrant to purchase a share at the court specified formula of one-half of the closing bid price on the day preceding the 30 day exercise period, plus the 10 cent fee. In successive months, the 1% partial redemption authorization has been recalculated and repeated according to the court formula at an average exercise price of $0.389 thru September 30, 2015.  The partial redemptions will continue to be recalculated and repeated until such unexercised warrants are exhausted or the partial redemption is otherwise truncated by the Company.