hopTo Inc. - Annual Report: 2016 (Form 10-K)

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

Form 10-K

ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d)

OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2016

Commission File Number: 0-21683

hopTo Inc.

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

51 East Campbell Avenue, Suite 128

Campbell, California 95008

(Address of principal executive offices)

(800) 472-7466

(408) 688-2674

(Registrant’s telephone number)

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act: None

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act: Common Stock, $0.0001 par value

Indicate by check mark if the Registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. Yes [  ] No [X]

Indicate by check mark if the Registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act. Yes [  ] No [X]

Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the Registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes [X] No [  ]

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulations S-T during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files).

Yes [X] No [  ]

Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of the Registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K.      [X]

Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer or a smaller reporting company. See definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

[  ] Large accelerated filer [  ] Accelerated filer [  ] Non-Accelerated filer [X] Smaller reporting company

Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).

Yes [  ] No [X]

As of June 30, 2016, the aggregate market value of the Registrant’s common stock held by non-affiliates was $12,328,303.

As of March 21, 2017, there were outstanding 9,804,400 shares of the Registrant’s common stock.

hopTo Inc.

ANNUAL REPORT ON FORM 10-K

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Forward-Looking Information

This report includes, in addition to historical information, “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. This act provides a “safe harbor” for forward-looking statements to encourage companies to provide prospective information about themselves so long as they identify these statements as forward-looking and provide meaningful cautionary statements identifying important factors that could cause actual results to differ from the projected results. All statements other than statements of historical fact we make in this report are forward-looking statements. In particular, the statements regarding industry prospects and our future results of operations or financial position are forward-looking statements. Such statements are based on management’s current expectations and are subject to a number of uncertainties and risks that could cause actual results to differ significantly from those described in the forward looking statements. Factors that may cause such a difference include, but are not limited to, those discussed in Item 1A. “Risk Factors,” as well as those discussed elsewhere in this report. Statements included in this report are based upon information known to us as of the date that this report is filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), and we assume no obligation to update or alter our forward-looking statements made in this report, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as otherwise required by applicable federal securities laws.

PART I

Introduction

We are developers of application publishing software which includes application virtualization software and cloud computing software for multiple computer operating systems including Windows, UNIX and several Linux-based variants. Our application publishing software solutions are sold under the brand name GO-Global, which is our sole revenue source at this time. GO-Global is an application access solution for use and/or resale by independent software vendors (“ISVs”), corporate enterprises, governmental and educational institutions, and others who wish to take advantage of cross-platform remote access and Web-enabled access to their existing software applications, as well as those who are deploying secure, private cloud environments.

Since 2012 we have also been developing several products in the field of software productivity for mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones, which have been marketed under the hopTo brand.

The hopTo products were originally marketed to consumers and were later also marketed to small and medium sized businesses and enterprise level customers under the name hopTo Work. hopTo Work allows customers to instantly transform their legacy applications to become touch friendly on modern mobile devices. During 2015 and 2016 we also worked to integrate hopTo Work with certain software products offered by Citrix Systems.

Over the years, we have also made significant investments in intellectual property (“IP”). We have filed many patents designed to protect the new technologies embedded in hopTo.

Recent Developments

As of Q4 2016, we have effectively ceased all of our sales, marketing and R&D efforts for the hopTo products, and at this time we do not expect any meaningful revenues from these products in the foreseeable future.

We continue to own all hopTo-related IP including source-code, related patents, and the relevant trademarks. We continue to believe that we may be able to extract value from these assets and are currently working to do so at this time. For detailed information on the hopTo products and technologies, please refer to our Annual Report on form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2015, which was filed with the SEC on March 30, 2016 as well as our other SEC filings which are available at www.sec.gov.

Corporate Background

hopTo Inc., or the Company, is a Delaware corporation, founded in May 1996. Our headquarters are located at 51 East Campbell Avenue, Suite 128, Campbell, California, 95008, our toll-free phone number is 1-800-472-7466, and our phone number for local and international calls is 408-688-2674. We also have an office in Concord, New Hampshire. Additionally, we have remote employees located in various states, as well as internationally in the United Kingdom and Israel. Our corporate Internet Website is http://www.hopTo.com. The information on our Website is not part of this annual report.

Our Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K and any amendments to such reports filed with or furnished to the SEC under sections 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 are made available free of charge on our corporate Internet Website investor webpage at www.hopto.com/investors (click the “Financial Reporting” link and then the “SEC Filings” link) as soon as reasonably practicable after such reports are electronically filed with or furnished to the SEC.

Our Intellectual Property

We believe that IP is a business tool that potentially maximizes our competitive advantages and product differentiation, grows revenue opportunities, encourages collaboration with key business partners, and protects our long-term growth opportunities. Strategic IP development is therefore a critical component of our overall business strategy. It is a business function that consistently interacts with our research and development, product development, and marketing initiatives to generate further value from those operations.

We rely primarily on trade secret protection, copyright law, confidentiality, and proprietary information agreements to protect our proprietary technology and registered trademarks. Despite our precautions, it may be possible for unauthorized third parties to copy portions of our products, or to obtain information we regard as proprietary. The loss of any material trade secret, trademark, trade name or copyright could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations and financial condition. We intend to defend our proprietary technology rights; however, we cannot give any assurance that our efforts to protect our proprietary technology rights will be successful.

We also currently hold rights to patents but are not currently pursuing additional patent applications.

We do not believe our products infringe on the rights of any third parties, but we can give no assurance that third parties will not assert infringement claims against us in the future, or that any such assertion will not result in costly litigation or require us to obtain a license to proprietary technology rights of such parties.

ipCapital Group, Inc.

On October 11, 2011, we engaged ipCapital Group, Inc. (“ipCapital”), an affiliate of John Cronin, who is one of our directors, to assist us in the execution of our strategic decision to significantly strengthen, grow and commercially exploit our intellectual property assets. Our engagement agreement with ipCapital, which has been amended three times, affords us the right to request ipCapital to perform a number of diverse services, employing its proprietary processes and methodologies, to facilitate our ability to identify and extract from our current intellectual property base new inventions, potential patent applications, and marketing and licensing opportunities. See the Exhibits referred to in Item 15 in this Form 10-K for further details on the ipCapital engagement agreement and amendments thereto.

In addition to the fees we agreed to pay ipCapital for its services, we issued ipCapital a five-year warrant to purchase up to 26,667 shares of our common stock at an initial price of $3.90 per share. Half of the warrant (13,333 shares) has a time-based vesting condition, with such vesting to occur in three equal annual installments. The vesting installments occurred on October 11, 2012, 2013 and 2014, respectively. The remaining 13,333 shares became fully vested upon the completion to our satisfaction of all services that we requested from ipCapital under the engagement agreement, prior to the signing of the amendments. Such performance was deemed satisfactory during 2012. We believe that these fees, together with the issuance of the warrant, constitute no greater compensation than we would be required to pay an unaffiliated person for substantially similar services.

As a result of ipCapital’s work under the engagement agreement, as amended, as of March 31, 2017, 173 new patent applications have been filed. Of these 173 applications, 52 patents have been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”). We have also received notice from the USPTO that one additional patent application has been allowed and will ultimately issue as a US patent in the next 30-45 days. Due to financial constraints on our operations, we have suspended patent prosecution activity other than to pay issuance fees for patents already approved by USPTO. As of March 31, 2017 there are 5 patent applications that remain pending with the USPTO. We do not expect to file more applications in 2017.

ipCapital Licensing Company I, LLC

In February 2013, we entered into an IP Brokerage agreement with ipCapital Licensing Company I, LLC (“ipCLC”) (the “IP Brokerage Agreement”). At the time that we entered into this agreement, John Cronin was a partner at ipCLC. He is no longer affiliated with ipCLC. Pursuant to the IP Brokerage Agreement, we engaged ipCLC, on a no-retainer basis, to identify and present us with candidates who may be seeking to acquire a certain limited group of our patents unrelated to our current business strategy. In June 2016, we determined that the IP Brokerage Agreement is no longer in effect since ipCLC no longer exists as an entity.

The GO-Global Software Products

Our GO-Global product offerings can be categorized into product families as follows:

Target Markets

The target market for our GO-Global products includes small to medium-sized companies, departments within large corporations, governmental and educational institutions, independent software vendors (ISVs) and value-added resellers (VARs). Our software enables these targeted organizations to move their existing applications to the public cloud and provide SaaS, or move them to a secure, private cloud environment. By using our software, organizations can give their remote users, partners and customers access to their native applications. Our software is designed to allow these organizations and enterprises to tailor the configuration of the end-user device for a particular purpose, rather than following a “one PC fits all” high-cost ownership model. We believe our opportunities are as follows:

Strategic Customer Relationships

We believe it is important to maintain our current strategic alliances and to seek suitable new alliances in order to enhance shareholder value, improve our technology and/or enhance our ability to penetrate relevant target markets. We also are focusing on strategic relationships that have immediate revenue generating potential, strengthen our position in the server-based software market, add complementary capabilities and/or raise awareness of our products and us. Our strategic relationships for all GO-Global products include the following:

Sales, Marketing and Support

Sales and marketing efforts for our software products are directed at increasing product awareness and demand among ISVs, small to medium-sized enterprises, departments within larger corporations and VARs who have a vertical orientation or are focused on Windows, UNIX and/or Linux environments. Current marketing activities include Internet marketing, direct response, targeted advertising campaigns, tradeshows, promotional materials, public relations, and maintaining an active Web presence for marketing and sales purposes.

We currently consider the following to be our most significant customers and partners. For the purposes of this table, “Sales” refers to the dollar value of orders received from these customers and partners in the period indicated. These Sales values do not necessarily equal recognized revenue for these periods due to our revenue recognition policies which require deferral of revenue associated with stocking orders of software licenses and prepaid software service fees.

Many of our customers enter into, and periodically renew, maintenance contracts to ensure continued product updates and support. Currently, we offer maintenance contracts for one, two, three and five-year periods.

Operations

We perform all purchasing, order processing and shipping of products and accounting functions related to our operations. Although we generally ship products electronically, when a customer requires us to physically ship them a disc, production of the disc, printing of documentation and packaging are also accomplished through in-house means; however, since virtually all of our orders are currently being fulfilled electronically, we do not maintain any prepackaged inventory. Additionally, we have relatively little backlog at any given time; thus, we do not consider backlog a significant indicator of future performance.

Research and Development

Our 2016 research and development efforts focused on further enhancing the functionality, performance and reliability of existing products and developing new features, including activity on hopTo products. We invested approximately $2,187,900 and $4,224,000 in research and development with respect to our software products in 2016 and 2015, respectively. During 2016 and 2015, we capitalized an additional $0 and $12,000 of development investments incurred in the development of hopTo, respectively. During 2016 and 2015, we determined that an impairment of $15,500 and $182,400, respectively, existed with certain capitalized software development costs associated with our hopTo consumer product and recognized that cost as part of cost of revenue.

Competition

The software markets in which we participate are highly competitive. Competitive factors in our market space include price, product quality, functionality, product differentiation and the breadth and variety of product offerings and product features. We believe that our products offer certain advantages over our competitors, particularly in product performance and market positioning.

GO-Global competes with developers of conventional server-based software for the individual PC, as well as with other companies in the cloud computing software market and the application virtualization software market. We believe our principal competitors in the cloud computing software market include Citrix Systems, Inc., OpenText Communications, Ltd. and Microsoft Corporation. Citrix is an established leading vendor of virtualization software, OpenText is an established market leader for remote access to UNIX applications and Microsoft is an established leading vendor of Windows operating systems and services for servers.

Employees

As of March 20, 2017, we had a full-time equivalent of 15.5 total employees, including 3 in marketing, sales and support, 8.5 in research and development (which is inclusive of employees who may also perform customer service related activities), 3.5 in administration and finance and 0.5 in our patent group. We believe our relationship with our employees is good. None of our employees are covered by a collective bargaining agreement.

The risks and uncertainties described below could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations and could cause actual results to differ materially from our expectations. The risk factors described below include the considerable risks associated with the current economic environment and the related potential adverse effects on our financial condition and results of operations. You should read these risk factors in conjunction with “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” in Item 7 and our Consolidated Financial Statements and related notes in Item 8. There also may be other factors that we cannot anticipate or that are not described in this report generally because we do not currently perceive them to be material. Those factors could cause results to differ materially from our expectations.

Risks Related to Our Business

We have a history of operating losses and expect these losses to continue, at least for the near future.

We have experienced significant operating losses since we began operations. We incurred losses from operations before provision for income taxes of $1,850,100 and $4,387,400 for the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2015, respectively. We expect to report an operating loss on a consolidated basis for the year ended December 31, 2017. In subsequent reporting periods, if revenues grow more slowly than anticipated, or if aggregate operating expenses exceed expectations, we will continue to be unprofitable. Even if we become profitable, we may be unable to sustain such profitability.

Our revenue is typically generated from a limited number of significant customers.

A material portion of our revenue, all of which is currently derived from our GO-Global products, during any reporting period is typically generated from a limited number of significant customers, all of which are unrelated third parties. We categorize our customers into three broad categories for revenue recognition purposes: stocking resellers, non-stocking resellers and direct end users. If any of our significant non-stocking resellers or direct end users reduce their order level or fail to order during a reporting period, our revenue could be materially adversely impacted because we recognize revenue on sales to these customers upon product delivery, assuming all other revenue recognition criteria have been met.

Our significant stocking resellers are typically ISVs who have bundled our products with theirs to sell as Web-enabled versions of their products. These customers maintain inventories of our products for resale, and we do not recognize revenue until our products are resold to end users, assuming all other revenue recognition criteria have been met. If these customers decide to maintain a lower level of inventory in the future and/or they are unable to sell their inventory to end users as quickly as they have in the past, our revenue and business could be materially adversely impacted.

If we are unable to develop new products and enhancements to our existing products, our business, results of operations, financial condition, and cash flows could be materially adversely impacted.

The market for our products and services is characterized by:

Our future success depends on our ability to continually enhance our current products and develop and introduce new products that our customers choose to buy. If we are unable to satisfy our customers’ demands and remain competitive with other products that could satisfy their needs by introducing new products and enhancements, our business, results of operations, financial condition, and cash flows could be materially adversely impacted. Our future success could be hindered by, among other factors:

For example, sales of our GO-Global Windows Host software could be affected by the announcement from Microsoft of an intended release, and the subsequent actual release, of a new Windows-based operating system, or an upgrade to a previously released Windows-based operating system version. These new or upgraded systems may contain similar features to our products or they could contain architectural changes that would temporarily prevent our products from functioning properly within a Windows-based operating system environment.

Our operations consume cash and we will need to raise additional capital in the future to fund our continued operating needs.

As of December 31, 2016, our cash balance was $546,200, as compared with $1,777,300 as of December 31, 2015, a decrease of $1,231,100, or 69.3%. The decrease primarily resulted from cash we used in our operations.

We have incurred significant net losses since our inception. For the year ended December 31, 2016, the Company incurred a net loss of $1,852,900. At December 31, 2016, the Company had an accumulated deficit of $82,449,800 and a working capital deficit of $2,396,600. Due to our inability to date to generate meaningful revenue from our hopTo Work business and our continued estimation that revenue from this product is unlikely in any reasonable time frame, our cash resources may not be sufficient to fund our business for the next 12 months. The Company’s ability to continue as a going concern is dependent on our ability to continue to generate revenue from our legacy GO-Global business and to raise additional capital through the issuance of new equity, debt financing, or from the sale of certain assets to meet short and long-term operating requirements.

Based on our cash on hand as of December 31, 2016, and cash from operations of our legacy GO-Global business, we believe that we will have sufficient resources to meet only basic operations for the next twelve months, such as ongoing GO-Global business. Therefore, executing any operational plans for hopTo products would require new capital from issuances of debt or equity.

There can be no assurance of new revenue from new or existing product lines or additional capital from debt or equity issuances. In addition, issuances of new capital stock would dilute existing stockholders and may give the purchasers of new capital stock additional rights, preferences and privileges relative to existing stockholders. There can be no assurance that additional capital necessary for any execution of hopTo operations will be available on a timely basis, on reasonable terms or at all.

In the event that revenues from our current products or future products are not consistent with the levels assumed in our current operational plans and we are not able to secure new capital through issuances of debt or equity, we may need to reorganize our operations to continue to maintain our current business.

Sales of products within our GO-Global product families are likely to be our only source of revenue during 2017.

Due to financial constraints we gradually suspended all development and sales of hopTo products over the course of the second half of 2016 and believe that sales of products within our GO-Global product families, and related enhancements, will be our only source of revenue during 2017. The success, if any, of our new GO-Global releases may depend on a number of factors, including market acceptance of the new GO-Global releases and our ability to manage the risks associated with introducing such releases. Declines in demand for our GO-Global products could occur as a result of, among other factors:

If our customers do not continue to purchase GO-Global products as a result of these or other factors, our revenue would decrease and our results of operations, financial condition, and cash flows would be adversely affected.

The discontinuation of our hopTo Work business significantly reduces our growth potential.

As of the fourth quarter of 2016, we have effectively ceased all of our sales, marketing and R&D efforts for the hopTo products, and at this time we do not expect any meaningful revenues from these products in the foreseeable future. hopTo Work was our primary growth initiative. 

Accordingly, shareholders and prospective shareholders should not view our company as having growth potential.

Our operating results in one or more future periods are likely to fluctuate significantly and may fail to meet or exceed the expectations of investors.

Our operating results are likely to fluctuate significantly in the future on a quarterly and annual basis due to a number of factors, many of which are outside our control. Factors that could cause our operating results and therefore our revenues to fluctuate include the following, among other factors:

In addition, our royalty and license revenues are impacted by fluctuations in OEM licensing activity from quarter to quarter, which may involve one-time orders from non-recurring customers, or customers who order infrequently. Our expense levels are based, in part, on expected future orders and sales; therefore, if orders and sales levels are below expectations, our operating results are likely to be materially adversely affected. Additionally, because significant portions of our expenses are fixed, a reduction in sales levels may disproportionately affect our net financial results . Also, we may reduce prices and/or increase spending in response to competition or to pursue new market opportunities. Because of these factors, our operating results in one or more future periods may fail to meet or exceed the expectations of investors. In that event, the trading price of our common stock would likely be adversely affected.

We will encounter challenges in recruiting, hiring and retaining new personnel and/or replacements for any members of key management or other personnel who depart.

Our success and business strategy is dependent in large part on our ability to attract and retain key management and other personnel in certain areas of our business. If any of these employees were to leave, we would need to attract and retain replacements for them. We have lost employees, including at the officer level and in our new products engineering group, in the past. Without a successful replacement, the loss of the services of one or more key members of our management group and other key personnel could have a material adverse effect on our business.

With the exception of the employment agreement we entered into with our Chief Executive Officer during 2013, we do not have long-term employment agreements with any of our key personnel and any officer or other employee can terminate their relationship with us at any time. We may also need to add key personnel in the future in order to successfully implement our business strategies. The market for such qualified personnel is highly competitive and it includes other potential employers whose financial resources for such qualified personnel are more substantial than ours. Consequently, we could find it difficult to attract, assimilate or retain such qualified personnel in sufficient numbers to successfully implement our business strategies.

Our failure to adequately protect our proprietary rights may adversely affect us.

Our commercial success is dependent, in large part, upon our ability to protect our proprietary rights. We rely on a combination of patent, copyright and trademark laws, as well as trade secrets, confidentiality provisions and other contractual provisions to protect our proprietary rights. These measures afford only limited protection. We cannot assure you that measures we have taken or may take in the future will be adequate to protect us from misappropriation or infringement of our intellectual property. Despite our efforts to protect proprietary rights, it may be possible for unauthorized third parties to copy aspects of our products or obtain and use information that we regard as proprietary. In addition, the laws of some foreign countries do not protect our intellectual property or other proprietary rights as fully as do the laws of the United States. Furthermore, we cannot assure you that the existence of any proprietary rights will prevent the development of competitive products. The infringement upon, or loss of, any proprietary rights, or the development of competitive products despite such proprietary rights, could have a material adverse effect on our business.

Our business significantly benefits from strategic relationships and there can be no assurance that such relationships will continue in the future.

Our business and strategy relies to a significant extent on our strategic relationships with other companies. There is no assurance that we will be able to maintain or further develop any of these relationships or to replace them in the event any of these relationships are terminated. In addition, any failure to renew or extend any license between any third party and us may adversely affect our business.

We rely on indirect distribution channels for our products and may not be able to retain existing reseller relationships or develop new reseller relationships.

Our GO-Global products are primarily sold through several distribution channels. An integral part of our strategy is to strengthen our relationships with resellers such as OEMs, systems integrators, VARs, distributors and other vendors to encourage these parties to recommend or distribute our products and to add resellers both domestically and internationally. We currently invest, and intend to continue to invest, significant resources to expand our sales and marketing capabilities. We cannot assure you that we will be able to attract and/or retain resellers to market our products effectively. Our inability to attract resellers and the loss of any current reseller relationships could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition, and cash flows. Additionally, we cannot assure you that resellers will devote enough resources to provide effective sales and marketing support to our products.

The markets in which we participate are highly competitive and have more established competitors.

The markets we participate in with GO-Global are intensely competitive, rapidly evolving and subject to continuous technological changes. We expect competition to increase in each of these markets as other companies introduce additional competitive products. In order to compete effectively, we must continually develop and market new and enhanced products and market those products at competitive prices. As markets for our products continue to develop, additional companies, including companies in the computer hardware, software and networking industries with significant market presence, may enter the markets in which we compete and further intensify competition. A number of our current and potential competitors have longer operating histories, greater name recognition and significantly greater financial, sales, technical, marketing and other resources than we do. We cannot give any assurance that our competitors will not develop and market competitive products that will offer superior price or performance features, or that new competitors will not enter our markets and offer such products. We believe that we will need to invest significant financial resources in research and development to remain competitive in the future in each of the markets in which we compete. Such financial resources may not be available to us at the time or times that we need them, or upon terms acceptable to us, or at all. We cannot assure you that we will be able to establish and maintain a significant market position in the face of our competition and our failure to do so would adversely affect our business.

Risks Related to Our Common Stock

Our stock is thinly traded and its price has been historically volatile.

Our stock is thinly traded. As such, holders of our stock are subject to a high risk of illiquidity, e.g., you may not be able to sell as many shares at the price you would like, or you may not be able to purchase as many shares at the price you would like, due to the low average daily trading volume of our stock. Additionally, the market price of our stock has historically been volatile; it has fluctuated significantly to date. The trading price of our stock is likely to continue to be highly volatile and subject to wide fluctuations. Your investment in our stock could lose some or all of its value.

Future sales of our common stock could adversely affect its price and our future capital-raising activities, and could involve the issuance of additional equity securities, which would dilute current shareholder investments in our common stock and could result in lowering the trading price of our common stock.

We may sell securities in the public or private equity markets if and when conditions are favorable. Sales of substantial amounts of common stock, or the perception that such sales could occur, could adversely affect the prevailing market price of our common stock and our ability to raise capital. We may issue additional common stock in future financing transactions or as incentive compensation for our management team and other key personnel, consultants and advisors. Issuing any equity securities would be dilutive to the equity interests represented by our then-outstanding shares of common stock. The market price for our common stock could decrease as the market takes into account the dilutive effect of any of these issuances. Furthermore, we may enter into financing transactions and issue securities with rights and preferences senior to the rights and preferences of our common stock, and we may issue securities at prices that represent a substantial discount to the market price of our common stock. A negative reaction by investors and securities analysts to any discounted sale of our equity securities could result in a decline in the trading price of our common stock.

We have a significant number of outstanding warrants and options, and future sales of these shares could adversely affect the market price of our common stock.

As of December 31, 2016 and December 31, 2015, we had outstanding warrants for an aggregate of 698,119 and 1,411,619 shares of common stock, respectively, at weighted average exercise prices of $10.02 and $6.90 per share for the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2015, respectively. As of December 31, 2016 and December 31, 2015, we had outstanding options exercisable for an aggregate of 684,722 and 705,990 shares of common stock, respectively, at weighted average exercise prices of $2.64 and $2.63 per share, respectively. The holders may sell these shares exercisable under warrants or options in the public markets from time to time. In addition, as our stock price rises, more outstanding warrants and options will be “in-the-money” and the holders may exercise their warrants and options and sell a large number of shares. This could cause the market price of our common stock to decline.

Our common stock is quoted on the FINRA OTC Bulletin Board, which may have an unfavorable impact on our stock price and liquidity.

Our common stock is currently quoted under the symbol “HPTO” on the OTC Bulletin Board market (“OTCBB”) operated by FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) and on the OTC Markets Group QB tier (“OTCQB”). Neither the OTCBB nor the OTCQB is a “national securities exchange,” and in general, each is a significantly more limited market than the markets operated by the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. The quotation of our shares on the OTCBB and the OTCQB could result in a less liquid market being available for existing and potential stockholders to trade shares of our common stock, which could depress the trading price of our common stock and have a long-term adverse impact on our ability to raise capital in the future. Because of the limited trading market for our common stock, and because of the significant price volatility, investors may not be able to sell their shares of common stock when they want to do so.

Our stock may lose access to a viable trading market.

Given the increasing cost and resource demands of being a public company, we may decide to “go dark,” or cease filing with the SEC, by deregistering our securities, for a period of time until our assets and stockholder base are sufficient to warrant public trading again. During such time, there would be a substantial decrease in disclosure by us of our operations and prospects, and a substantial decrease in the liquidity in our common stock even though stockholders may still continue to trade our common stock in the OTC market or “pink sheets.” The market’s interpretation of a company’s motivation for “going dark” varies from cost savings, to negative changes in the firm’s prospects, to serving insider interests, which may affect the overall price and liquidity of a company’s securities.

We have never paid dividends on our common stock, and we do not anticipate paying any cash dividends in the foreseeable future.

We have never declared or paid dividends on our common stock, nor do we anticipate paying any cash dividends for the foreseeable future. We currently intend to retain future earnings, if any, to finance the operations and expansion of our business. Any future determination to pay cash dividends will be at the discretion of our Board of Directors and will be dependent upon the earnings, financial condition, operating results, capital requirements and other factors as deemed necessary by our Board of Directors.

FINRA’s sales practice requirements may also limit a stockholder’s ability to buy and sell our stock.

FINRA has adopted rules that require that in recommending an investment to a customer, a broker-dealer must have reasonable grounds for believing that the investment is suitable for that customer. Prior to recommending speculative low priced securities to their non-institutional customers, broker-dealers must make reasonable efforts to obtain information about the customer’s financial status, tax status, investment objectives and other information. Under interpretations of these rules, FINRA believes that there is a high probability that speculative low priced securities will not be suitable for at least some customers. FINRA’s requirements make it more difficult for broker-dealers to recommend that their customers buy our common stock, which may limit your ability to buy and sell our stock and have an adverse effect on the market for our shares.

Provisions in our Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation and Second Amended and Restated Bylaws and applicable Delaware law may prevent or discourage third parties or our stockholders from attempting to replace our management or influencing significant decisions.

Provisions in our Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation and Second Amended and Restated Bylaws may have the effect of delaying or preventing a change in control of our company or our management, even if doing so would be beneficial to our stockholders. These provisions include authorizing our Board of Directors to issue preferred stock without stockholder approval and limiting the persons who may call special meetings of stockholders and providing that stockholders cannot take action by written consent in lieu of a meeting. As a Delaware corporation, we are also subject to section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law which among other things, and subject to various exceptions, restricts certain business transactions between a corporation and a stockholder owning 15% or more of the corporation’s outstanding voting stock (“an interested stockholder”) for a period of three years from the date the stockholder becomes an interested stockholder unless our Board of Directors approved the holder’s acquisition of our stock in advance. Together, these charter and statutory provisions could make the removal of management more difficult and may discourage transactions that otherwise could involve payment of a premium over prevailing market prices for our common stock.

None.

Our corporate headquarters currently occupies approximately 2,514 square feet of office space in Campbell, California, under a lease that will expire in October 1, 2018. Rental of these premises will average approximately $9,200 per month over the remaining term of the lease. We are currently marketing this property for sublease.

Our domestic research and development team currently occupies approximately 2,527 square feet of office space in Concord, New Hampshire, under a lease that was to expire in August 2016. On August 31, 2016, we signed an amendment to extend the lease on a month-to-month basis and requiring six months notice from the lessor to terminate. Rent on the Concord facility continues at $4,000 per month for the current extension of the lease.

Our former corporate headquarters at 1919 S. Bascom Ave in Campbell, California is comprised of approximately 10,667 square feet of office space under a lease that will expire on October 31, 2018. Rental of these premises for the remaining term averages $39,600 per month. On August 11, 2015 we entered into a sublease agreement to sublease the entirety of the leased space at 1919 S. Bascom Avenue to a third party for the remainder of the master lease term.

We believe our current and future facilities will be adequate to accommodate our needs for the foreseeable future.

From time to time, we are party to various lawsuits, claims and other legal proceedings that arise in the ordinary course of our business. We are not currently a party to any legal proceedings that we believe would reasonably be expected to have a materially adverse effect on our business, financial condition or results of operations.

Not applicable.

PART II

Market Information

The following table sets forth, for the periods indicated, the high and low reported sales price of our common stock. Since March 27, 2003 our common stock has been quoted on the Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board. Our common stock is quoted under the symbol “HPTO.” The amounts reflected in the following table are also adjusted to reflect the impact of the Reverse Stock Split, which became effective in the stock market upon commencement of trading on January 28, 2016.

On March 20, 2017 there were approximately 141 holders of record of our common stock. Between January 1, 2017 and March 31, 2017 the high and low reported sales price of our common stock was $0.06 and $0.016, respectively, and on March 31, 2017 the closing price of our common stock was $0.021.

Dividends

We have never declared or paid dividends on our common stock, nor do we anticipate paying any cash dividends for the foreseeable future. We currently intend to retain future earnings, if any, to finance the operations and expansion of our business. Any future determination to pay cash dividends will be at the discretion of our Board of Directors and will be dependent upon the earnings, financial condition, operating results, capital requirements and other factors as deemed necessary by the Board of Directors.

Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities

None.

Item 6. Selected Financial Data

Not applicable for smaller reporting companies.

Update on HopTo Plans

As of Q4 2016, we have effectively ceased all of our sales, marketing and development efforts for the hopTo products, and at this time we do not expect any meaningful revenues from these products in the foreseeable future.

We continue to own all hopTo-related intellectual property including source-code, related patents, and the relevant trademarks. We continue to believe that we may be able to extract value from these assets and are currently working to do so at this time. For detailed information on the hopTo products and technologies, please refer to our Annual Report on form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2015, which was filed with the SEC on March 30, 2016 as well as our other SEC filings which are available at www.sec.gov.

Although there is no certainty as to timing or success of these efforts to extract value from these assets, and stockholders should not place any significant reliance on the outcome of such efforts unless and until definitive agreements are reached, this may include the sale of certain of our hopTo software products, the sale of patents, and the monetization of the GO-Global business or some combinations of these transactions. (See Note 2 to our Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements).

The following description of our business and business opportunities is expressly qualified by the preceding statement and the going concern disclosure in Note 2 to our Consolidated Financial Statements.

Introduction

We are developers of application publishing software which includes application virtualization software and cloud computing software for multiple computer operating systems including Windows, UNIX and several Linux-based variants. Our application publishing software solutions are sold under the brand name GO-Global, which is our sole revenue source at this time. GO-Global is an application access solution for use and/or resale by independent software vendors (“ISVs”), corporate enterprises, governmental and educational institutions, and others who wish to take advantage of cross-platform remote access and Web-enabled access to their existing software applications, as well as those who are deploying secure, private cloud environments.

Since 2012 we have also been developing several products in the field of software productivity for mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones, which have been marketed under the hopTo brand.

The hopTo products were originally marketed to consumers and were later also marketed to small and medium sized businesses and enterprise level customers under the name hopTo Work. hopTo Work allows customers to instantly transform their legacy applications to become touch friendly on modern mobile devices. During 2015 and 2016 we also worked to integrate hopTo Work with certain software products offered by Citrix Systems.

Over the years, we have also made significant investments in intellectual property (“IP”). We have filed many patents designed to protect the new technologies embedded in hopTo.

The following discussion should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and related notes provided in Item 8 “Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Critical Accounting Policies

Use of Estimates

The preparation of consolidated financial statements and related disclosures in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted (“GAAP”) in the United States requires management to make judgments, assumptions and estimates that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the period(s) being reported upon. Estimates are used for, but not limited to, the amount of stock-based compensation expense, the warrants liability, the amount of capitalized software development costs, the allowance for doubtful accounts, the estimated lives, valuation, and amortization of intangible assets (including capitalized software), depreciation of long-lived assets, post-employment benefits, and accruals for liabilities and taxes. While we believe that such estimates are fair, actual results could differ materially from those estimates.

Revenue Recognition

We market and license our products indirectly through channel distributors, ISVs, VARs (collectively “resellers”) and directly to corporate enterprises, governmental and educational institutions and others. Our product licenses are perpetual. We also separately sell maintenance contracts (which are comprised of license updates and customer service access), and other products and services.

Software license revenues are recognized when:

Revenue recognized on software arrangements involving multiple deliverables is allocated to each deliverable based on vendor-specific objective evidence (“VSOE”) or third party evidence of the fair values of each deliverable; such deliverables include licenses for software products, maintenance, private labeling fees, and customer training. We limit our assessment of VSOE for each deliverable to either the price charged when the same deliverable is sold separately, or the price established by management having the relevant authority to do so, for a deliverable not yet sold separately.

If sufficient VSOE of fair value does not exist, so as to permit the allocation of revenue to the various elements of the arrangement, all revenue from the arrangement is deferred until such evidence exists or until all elements are delivered. If VSOE of the fair value does not exist, and the only undelivered element is maintenance, then we recognize revenue on a ratable basis. If VSOE of the fair value of all undelivered elements exists but does not exist for one or more delivered elements, then revenue is recognized using the residual method. Under the residual method, the fair value of the undelivered elements is deferred and the remaining portion of the arrangement fee is recognized as revenue.

Certain resellers (“stocking resellers”) purchase product licenses that they hold in inventory until they are resold to the ultimate end user (an “inventory stocking order”). At the time that a stocking reseller places an inventory stocking order, we do not ship any product licenses to them, rather, the stocking reseller’s inventory is credited with the number of licenses purchased and the stocking reseller can resell (issue) any number of licenses from their inventory at any time. Upon receipt of an order to issue one or more licenses from a stocking reseller’s inventory (a “draw down order”), we will ship the license(s) in accordance with the draw down order’s instructions. We defer recognition of revenue from inventory stocking orders until the underlying licenses are sold and shipped to the end user, as evidenced by the receipt and fulfillment of the stocking reseller’s draw down order, assuming all other revenue recognition criteria have been met.

There are no rights of return granted to resellers or other purchasers of our software products.

We recognize revenue from maintenance contracts ratably over the related contract period, which generally ranges from one to five years.

All of our software licenses are sold in U.S. dollars.

Deferred Rent

The lease for our office at 1919 S. Bascom Avenue in Campbell, California, as amended, (See Note 8) contains free rent and predetermined fixed escalations in our minimum rent payments. On August 11, 2015 we entered into a sublease agreement to sublease the entirety of the leased space at 1919 S. Bascom Avenue to a third party (See Note 8).

On August 24, 2015 we entered into a lease agreement for office space at 51 E. Campbell Avenue in Campbell, California, which became effective on October 1, 2015 (See Note 8).

The leases for both the Company’s current office in Campbell, California and the subleased former office in Campbell, California contain free rent and predetermined fixed escalations in our minimum rent payments (See Notes 8 and 13). Rent expense related to these leases is recognized on a straight-line basis over the terms of the leases. Any difference between the straight-line rent amounts and amounts payable under the leases is recorded as part of deferred rent in current or long-term liabilities, as appropriate. The monthly rent payments due to the Company for the sublease of the office at 1919 S. Bascom Avenue fully offsets the rent payments due under the Company’s lease for that space.

Incentives that we received pursuant to the amended lease agreement for 1919 S. Bascom Avenue are recognized on a straight-line basis as a reduction to rent over the term of the lease. We record the unamortized portion of these incentives as a part of deferred rent in current or long-term liabilities, as appropriate.

Post-employment Benefits (Severance Liability)

Nonretirement postemployment benefits, including salary continuation, supplemental unemployment benefits, severance benefits, disability-related benefits and continuation of benefits such as health care benefits, are recognized as a liability and a loss when it is probable that the employee(s) will be entitled to such benefits and the amount can be reasonably estimated. The cost of termination benefits recognized as a liability and an expense includes the amount of any lump-sum payments and the present value of any expected future payments. During the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2015, we recorded $5,000 of severance expense for a staff employee and $42,100 of severance expense for a former vice president level employee, respectively. An aggregate $0 and $5,900 is reported as a severance liability at December 31, 2016 and 2015, respectively.

Long-Lived Assets

Long-lived assets, which consist primarily of capitalized software, are assessed for possible impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amounts may not be recoverable, whenever we have committed to a plan to dispose of the assets or, at a minimum, annually. Typically, for long-lived assets to be held and used, measurement of an impairment loss is based on the fair value of such assets, with fair value being determined based on appraisals, current market value, comparable sales value, and undiscounted future cash flows, among other variables, as appropriate. Assets to be held and used that are affected by an impairment loss are depreciated or amortized at their new carrying amount over their remaining estimated life; assets to be sold or otherwise disposed of are not subject to further depreciation or amortization. During 2016 and 2015, we determined that an impairment of $15,500 and $182,400, respectively, existed with certain capitalized software development costs associated with our hopTo Work product and recognized that cost as part of cost of revenue.

Software Development Costs

We capitalize software development costs incurred from the time technological feasibility of the software is established until the time the software is available for general release, in accordance with GAAP. Research and development costs and other computer software maintenance costs related to the software development are expensed as incurred. Upon the establishment of technological feasibility, related software development costs are capitalized. Such capitalized costs are subsequently amortized as costs of revenue over the shorter of three years or the remaining estimated useful life of the product. Software development costs, and amortization of such costs, are discussed further under “Results of Operations – Costs of Revenue.”

We make ongoing evaluations of the recoverability of its capitalized software projects by comparing the net amount capitalized for each product to the estimated net realizable value of the product. If such evaluations indicate that the unamortized software development costs exceed the net realizable value, we will write off the amount by which the unamortized software development costs exceed net realizable value.

During 2016 and 2015, we determined that certain capitalized software development costs associated with the hopTo consumer product totaling $15,500 and $182,400, respectively, should be written off as we do not anticipate monetization of that particular product during the time fame that the costs were scheduled to be amortized.

Allowance for Doubtful Accounts

We maintain an allowance for doubtful accounts that reflects our best estimate of potentially uncollectible trade receivables. The allowance is based on assessments of the collectability of specific customer accounts and the general aging and size of the accounts receivable. We regularly review the adequacy of our allowance for doubtful accounts by considering such factors as historical experience, credit worthiness, and current economic conditions that may affect a customer’s ability to pay. We specifically reserve for those accounts deemed uncollectible. We also establish, and adjust, a general allowance for doubtful accounts based on our review of the aging and size of our accounts receivable. The following table sets forth the details of the Allowance for Doubtful Accounts for the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2015:

Stock-Based Compensation

We apply the fair value recognition provisions of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Codification Subtopic (ASC) 718-10, “Compensation – Stock Compensation.” We estimated the fair value of each option grant made during the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2015 on the date of grant using a binomial model, with the assumptions set forth in the following table:

In estimating our stock price volatility for grants awarded during the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2015, we analyzed our historic volatility over a period of time equal in length to the expected option term for the option being issued. For grants made to newly hired employees the period of time over which we analyzed our historic volatility ended on the last day of the quarter during which the new employee was hired. We derived an annualized forfeiture rate by analyzing our historical forfeiture data, including consideration of the impact of certain non-recurring events, such as reductions in our work force. Our estimates of the expected option term and the estimated exercise factor were derived from our analysis of historical data and future projections. The approximate risk-free interest rate was based on the implied yield available on U. S. Treasury issues with remaining terms equivalent to our expected option term. We believe that each of these estimates is reasonable in light of the data we analyzed. However, as with any estimate, the ultimate accuracy of these estimates is only verifiable over time.

During 2016, we awarded 0 and 35,000 shares of restricted common stock to employees and the board of advisors, respectively. The valuation of the restricted common stock awards was based on the closing fair market value of our common stock on the grant date. For the awards made to the board of advisors, such fair market value was $1.65 per share. We later canceled the remaining total of 26,250 of unvested shares from these board of advisors in the three-month period ending September 30, 2016 as a result of our termination agreement entered with the members of the board of advisors. Total stock-based compensation expense for these unvested shares was $38,500.

During 2016, we did not grant any options to employees. During 2016, we accelerated the vesting of all 34,100 remaining unvested shares of restricted common stock granted to employees resulting in $77,000 of stock-based compensation expense which is included in the table below. The following table illustrates the non-cash stock-based compensation expense recorded, net of amounts capitalized, during the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2015 by income statement classification:

Fair Value of Financial Instruments

The fair value of the Company’s accounts receivable, accounts payable and other current liabilities approximate their carrying amounts due to the relative short maturities of these items.

The fair value of the Company’s warrants are determined in accordance with FASB ASC 820, “Fair Value Measurement,” which establishes a fair value hierarchy that prioritizes the assumptions (inputs) to valuation techniques used to price assets or liabilities that are measured at fair value. The hierarchy, as defined below, gives the highest priority to unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities and the lowest priority to unobservable inputs. The guidance for fair value measurements requires that assets and liabilities measured at fair value be classified and disclosed in one of the following categories:

As of December 31, 2016 and 2015, all of the Company’s $0 and $31,600 Warrants Liability reported at fair value, respectively, was categorized as Level 3 inputs (see Note 9).

Concentration of Credit Risk

Financial instruments, which potentially subject us to concentration of credit risk, consist principally of cash and trade receivables. We place cash and, when applicable, cash equivalents, with high quality financial institutions and, by policy, limit the amount of credit exposure to any one financial institution. As of December 31, 2016, we had approximately $330,400 of cash with financial institutions in excess of FDIC insurance limits. As of December 31, 2015, the Company had approximately $1,559,900 of cash with financial institutions in excess of FDIC insurance limits.

For the years ended December 31, 2016 and December 31, 2015, the Company considered the following to be its most significant customers:

Results of Operations

Set forth below is statement of operations data for the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2015 along with the dollar and percentage changes from 2015 to 2016 in the respective line items.

Revenue

Software Licenses

The table that follows summarizes software licenses revenue for the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2015, and calculates the change in dollars and percentage from 2015 to 2016 in the respective line item.

Our software revenue is entirely related to our GO-Global product line, and historically has been primarily derived from product licensing fees and service fees from maintenance contracts. The majority of this revenue has been earned, and continues to be earned, from a limited number of significant customers, most of whom are resellers. Many of our resellers purchase software licenses that they hold in inventory until they are resold to the ultimate end user (a “stocking reseller”). We defer recognition of revenue from these sales (on our Consolidated Balance Sheet under the caption “Deferred Revenue”) until the stocking reseller sells the underlying software licenses to the ultimate end user. Consequently, if any of our significant stocking resellers materially change the rate at which they resell our software licenses to the ultimate end user, our software licenses revenue could be materially impacted.

When a software license is sold directly to an end user by us, or by one of our resellers who does not stock licenses into inventory, revenue is recognized immediately upon shipment, assuming all other criteria for revenue recognition are met. Consequently, if any significant end user customer substantially changes its order level, or fails to order during the reporting period, whether the order is placed directly with us or through one of our non-stocking resellers, our software licenses revenue could be materially impacted.

Almost all stocking resellers maintain inventories of our Windows products; few stocking resellers maintain inventories of our UNIX products.

The decrease in Windows software licenses revenue for the year ended December 31, 2016, as compared with the prior year, was primarily due to lower license purchases from certain of our OEM partners during 2016. Certain of these OEM partners had placed unique large orders during same periods in the prior year.

Software licenses revenue from our UNIX/Linux products during 2016 is lower than during 2015 due to lower revenue from certain of our U.S. government customers which placed unique large orders during the prior year period and lower aggregate revenue from our resellers and end users, particularly our European telecommunications customers.

We expect aggregate GO-Global software license revenue in 2017 to be modestly lower than 2016 levels due to lower aggregate revenue from our stocking resellers and our European telecommunications customers. At the same time, we will seek to improve cash flow from the GO-Global business through cost control and other measures.

Software Service Fees

The table that follows summarizes revenue recognized derived from software service fees for the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2015, and calculates the changes in dollars and percentage from 2015 to 2016 in the respective line item.

The decrease in software service fees revenue attributable to our Windows products during 2016, as compared with 2015, was primarily due to the timing of customer renewal of maintenance contracts.

The decrease in service fees revenue attributable to our UNIX products for 2016, as compared with 2015, was primarily the result of the lower level of our UNIX product sales throughout the current and prior year and a decrease in maintenance contract renewals. The majority of this decrease was attributable to our European telecommunications customers, as discussed above.

We expect that software service fees for 2017 will be modestly lower than those for 2016 and will not decrease to the same extent as GO-Global software license revenue.

Other

The increase in other revenue for 2016, as compared with 2015, was primarily due to an increase in professional services and private labeling fees associated with certain of our GO-Global ISV Partners.

Costs of Revenue

Cost of revenue is comprised primarily of software service costs, which represent the costs of customer service. Also included in cost of revenue are software product costs, which are primarily comprised of the amortization of capitalized software development costs and costs associated with licenses to third party software included in our product offerings. We incur no significant shipping or packaging costs as virtually all of our deliveries are made via electronic means over the Internet.

Research and development costs for new product development, after technological feasibility is established, are recorded as “capitalized software” on our Consolidated Balance Sheet. Such capitalized costs are subsequently amortized to cost of revenue as a component of software product costs over the shorter of three years or the remaining estimated life of the products so capitalized. We capitalized $0 and $12,000 of software development costs during 2016 and 2015, respectively. Such costs were incurred in the development of hopTo, and were primarily comprised of employee costs and the cost of licenses to third party software used by hopTo. Amortization related to capitalized software development costs charged to costs of revenue was approximately $5,400 and $217,400 during 2016 and 2015, respectively. This amortization was separate from the impairment costs detailed below.

Cost of revenue for the year ended December 31, 2016 decreased by $446,800, or 73.3%, to $162,600 from $609,400 for 2015. Cost of revenue represented 4.1% and 12.2% of total revenue for the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2015, respectively.

Software Service Costs - Software service costs decreased during 2016, as compared with 2015, due to lower customer support costs associated with GoGlobal. We expect software service costs for 2017 to be modestly lower than those for 2016 as we have been able to reduce headcount costs in this area due to a lower level of effort required.

Software Product Costs - The decrease in software product costs for 2016, as compared with 2015, was due to lower amortization in capitalized software development cost and the write off of some impaired capitalized software development costs.

Write-Down of Capitalized Software Development Cost - During 2016 and 2015, Company wrote down the capitalized software development costs of $15,500 and $182,400, respectively. These costs were associated solely with the hopTo consumer product which we do not anticipate to monetize during the period in which these costs were scheduled to be amortized. These impairment costs are in addition to the amortization costs detailed above.

For the reasons outlined above, we expect 2017 costs of revenue to be lower than 2016 levels.

Selling and Marketing Expenses. Selling and marketing expenses primarily consist of employee costs (inclusive of non-cash stock-based compensation expense), outside services and travel and entertainment expenses.

Selling and marketing expenses for the year ended December 31, 2016 decreased by $813,800, or 51.2%, to $774,400 from $1,588,200 in 2015. Selling and marketing expenses for the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2015 represented approximately 19.4% and 31.9% of total revenue, respectively. The decrease in selling and marketing expenses during 2016, compared to 2015, was due to a combination of lower headcount and a decrease in advertising and promotional costs associated with hopTo Work as we have suspended sales and marketing activity for that product.

In the second half of 2016, we essentially eliminated our sales and marketing efforts for hopTo Work due to financial constraints. We also reduced our sales and marketing efforts in 2016 for GO-Global releases to a level that is consistent with our financial resources; accordingly, we expect 2017 sales and marketing expenses to be lower than 2016 levels.

General and Administrative Expenses. General and administrative expenses primarily consist of employee, amortization and depreciation, legal, accounting, other professional services (including those related to our patents, rent, travel and entertainment and insurance. Certain costs associated with being a publicly-held corporation are also included in general and administrative expenses, as well as bad debts expense.

General and administrative expenses for the year ended December 31, 2016 decreased by $377,400, or 12.0%, to $2,759,200 from $3,136,600 for 2015. General and administrative expenses for the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2015 represented approximately 69.0% and 63.0% of total revenue, respectively.

The decrease in general and administrative expense in 2016 was due to a combination of decreased rent expense associated with lower net operating leases, decreased legal expenses associated with activity related to our patents, lower stock compensation expense associated with the decrease of the stock price, and other lower costs associated with investor relations, and decreased outside services. These lower expenses were partially offset by accruals for potential liquidated damages resulting from delays in filing registration statements for shares and shares underlying warrants for certain of the private placements that the Company closed in prior periods. There were no such liquidated damages expenses recorded in 2015. While we believe that the applicable agreements, in most cases, provide exceptions or defenses to liquidated damages that may result in reduction or non-payment of such damages, we have chosen to accrue to the full extent potentially required by the registration rights agreements that contain liquidated damages provisions due to uncertainty of such matters.

In 2017, we intend to continue cost controls and to benefit from lower rent expense associated with our smaller headquarters location. We also intend to further reduce our general and administrative headcount and use of legal service to a level consistent with our financial resources. We therefore expect that our 2017 general and administrative costs will be lower than those for 2016.

Research and Development Expenses. Research and development expenses consist primarily of employee costs, payments to contract programmers, travel and entertainment for our engineers, and all rent for our leased engineering facilities.

Research and development expenses, net of amounts capitalized, decreased by $2,036,100, or 48.2%, to $2,187,900 for the year ended December 31, 2016 from $4,224,000 in the prior year. Research and development expenses for the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2015 represented approximately 54.7% and 84.8% of total revenue, respectively.

During 2016 and 2015, we capitalized $0 and $12,000 of software development costs associated with the development of hopTo, respectively, which, had they not met the criteria for capitalization, would have otherwise been expensed.

The decrease in research and development expense is primarily due to our suspension of development activity for hopTo products, resulting in lower employee costs associated with lower headcount, lower payments to contract programmers, and lower operating rent expense.

In 2017, we expect to maintain a level of research and development resource consistent with the second half of 2016. We therefore expect 2017 research and development expenses, net of capitalized software developments costs, to be lower than 2016 levels.

Change in Fair Value of Warrants Liability. During 2016 and 2015, we recognized a net change of $29,300 and $190,300 respectively, in the aggregate fair value of the warrant liability, net of amounts reclassified to equity in 2015 (See Note 9 to Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements). The change in fair value of warrants liability was approximately 0.7% and 3.8% of total revenues for the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2015, respectively. Such amounts resulted from price changes in the market value for our common stock and can vary from period to period due to the exercise and/or issuance of warrants accounted for under the liability method. For further information regarding our Warrants Liability, see Note 9 to the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

Income Taxes. For the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2015, we recorded a current tax provision for a foreign subsidiary of approximately $2,800 and $3,700, respectively. At December 31, 2016, we had approximately $63.3 million of federal net operating loss carryforwards, which will begin to expire in 2018. Also at December 31, 2016, we had approximately $6.9 million of California state net operating loss carryforwards available to reduce future taxable income, which began to expire in 2015. During the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2015, we did not utilize any of our federal and California net operating losses and have recorded a full valuation allowance against each of them.

At December 31, 2016, we had approximately $1.0 million of federal research and development tax credits, for which a full valuation allowance has been provided. Such tax credits will begin to expire in 2018.

Net Loss. As a result of the foregoing items, we reported a net loss of $1,852,900 for the year ended December 31, 2016, as compared with a net loss of $4,391,100 for 2015.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

Our reported net loss of $1,852,900 in 2016 included four significant non-cash items: depreciation and amortization of $94,600; impairment of capitalized software development costs of $15,500; stock-based compensation expense of $324,400; and a gain in the change in value of our warrants liability of $29,300.

We did not invest in capital expenditures and in capitalized software development cost during 2016.

We sold a combination of equipment and furniture with a net book value of $20,000 for $23,300 during 2016.

See the Update on hopTo Plans at the beginning of this section for a discussion on our plans.

We have incurred significant net losses since our inception. For the year ended December 31, 2016, the Company incurred a net loss of $1,852,900. At December 31, 2016, the Company had an accumulated deficit of $82,449,800 and a working capital deficit of $2,396,600. Due to our inability to date to generate meaningful revenue from our hopTo Work business and our continued estimation that revenue from this product is unlikely in any reasonable time frame, we have suspended all development and sales activity associated with the hopTo products. The Company’s ability to continue as a going concern is dependent on our ability to continue to generate revenue from our legacy GO-Global business, which continued to operate profitably throughout 2016, and to raise additional capital through the issuance of new equity, debt financing, or from the sale of certain assets to meet short and long-term operating requirements.

If the Company raises additional funds through the issuance of equity or convertible debt securities, the percentage ownership of our current shareholders could be reduced, and such securities might have rights, preferences or privileges senior to the Company’s common stock. Additional financing may not be available upon acceptable terms, or at all. If adequate funds are not available or are not available on acceptable terms, the Company may not be able to take advantage of prospective business endeavors or opportunities, which could significantly and materially restrict our operations. We are continuing to pursue external financing alternatives to improve our working capital position. If the Company is unable to obtain the necessary capital, the Company may have to cease operations.

These factors raise substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern. (See Note 2 to our Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements).

In order to maintain operations, we previously implemented significant expense reductions, including a limited number of employee layoffs primarily related to the hopTo product. During the three month period ended September 30, 2016, our CEO and CFO voluntarily agreed with our board of directors to defer 50% of their salary beginning September 1, 2016 until such time as the Company can reasonably pay such compensation upon approval by the board of directors.

Although maintaining our SEC filing status is a significant expense, we are considering all options to preserve value for shareholders, including potentially suspending or terminating our filing status, however we have not made any decision to do so.

We have worked extensively to explore additional sources of capital including the issuance of new shares, securing debt financing, and the sale of assets including certain of our software products and patents. Although this process is ongoing and we are in active discussions with multiple parties, there is no guarantee that they will result in transactions that are sufficient to provide the Company with the required liquidity to remove the substantial doubt as to our ability to continue as a going concern. We are also in discussions with some parties about the possibility of other strategic transactions although there is no guarantee that these discussions will result in an actual transaction.

Cash

As of December 31, 2016, cash was $546,200 as compared with $1,777,300 as of December 31, 2015, a decrease of $1,231,100, or 69.3%. The decrease primarily resulted from the cash consumed in our operations.

Accounts Receivable, net

At December 31, 2016 and 2015, we had $355,300 and $434,900, respectively, in accounts receivable, net of allowances totaling $7,700 and $17,300, respectively. The decrease in net accounts receivable was primarily due to lower sales during the three-month period ended December 31, 2016, as compared with same period ended December 31, 2015. We collect the significant majority of our quarter-end accounts receivable during the subsequent quarter; accordingly, increases or decreases in accounts receivable from one period to the next tends to be indicative of the trend in our sales from one period to the next. From time to time, we could have individually significant accounts receivable balances due us from one or more of our significant customers. If the financial condition of any of these significant customers should deteriorate, our operating results could be materially affected.

Working Capital

As of December 31, 2016, we had current assets of $940,200 and current liabilities of $3,310,800, which netted to a working capital deficit of $(2,396,600). Included in current liabilities was the current portion of deferred revenue of $1,759,000 and an accrual for potential liquidated damages of $571,100 (see Note 13).

Commitments and Contingencies

The following table discloses our contractual commitments for future periods, which consist entirely of leases for office space and is inclusive of our contractual commitments for our Campbell, California office, including the commitments under the lease amendment for 1919 S. Bascom Avenue. The table assumes that we will occupy all currently leased facilities for the full term of each respective lease:

Rent expense aggregated approximately $141,700 and $396,400 for the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2015, respectively.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

In December 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-20, Technical Corrections and Improvements to Topic 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (“ASU 2016-20”). ASU 2016-20 is intended to provide further technical corrections and improvements to ASU 2014-09 “Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606)”. This update provides specific amendments to thirteen separate issues, many of which are not applicable to the Company’s operation. The Company has reviewed the various amendments and does not believe that they will have any impact our consolidated financial statements beyond what we would expect from the adoption of ASU 2014-09.

In August 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-15, Statement of Cash Flows (Topic 230): Classification of Certain Cash Receipts and Cash Payments (“ASU 2016-15”). ASU 2016-15 clarifies whether eight specifically identified cash flow issues should be categorized as operating, investing or financing activities in the statement of cash flows. The guidance will be effective for the fiscal year beginning after December 15, 2017, including interim periods within that year. The Company is currently assessing the impact of this ASU on its consolidated financial statements.

In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-13, Financial Instruments – Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments (“ASU 2016-13”). ASU 2016-13 is intended to provide financial statement users with more useful information about expected credit losses on financial assets held by a reporting entity at each reporting date. The new standard replaces the existing incurred loss impairment methodology with a methodology that requires consideration of a broader range of reasonable and supportable forward-looking information to estimate all expected credit losses. This ASU is effective for fiscal years and interim periods within those years beginning after December 15, 2019 and early adoption is permitted for fiscal years and interim periods within those years beginning after December 15, 2018. The Company is currently assessing the impact of this ASU on its consolidated financial statements.

In May 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-12—Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606): Narrow-Scope Improvements and Practical Expedients. The amendments in ASU 2016-12 affect only some of the narrow aspects of Topic 606 including the collectability criterion, presentation of sales taxes and other similar taxes collected from customers, noncash consideration, and treatment of certain contract modifications at transition. Similar to ASU 2014-09, as discussed below, the effective date will be the first quarter of fiscal year 2018 with early adoption permitted in the first quarter of fiscal year 2017. We are currently evaluating the impact that adoption of this new standard will have on our consolidated financial statements.

In April 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-10—Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606): Identifying Performance Obligations and Licensing to clarify certain aspects of ASU 2014-09. The amendments in ASU 2016-10 are expected to reduce the cost and complexity of applying the guidance on identifying promised goods or services in contracts with customers and to improve the operability and understandability of licensing implementation guidance related to the entity’s intellectual property. Similar to ASU 2014-09, the effective date will be the first quarter of fiscal year 2018 with early adoption permitted in the first quarter of fiscal year 2017. We are currently evaluating the impact that adoption of this new standard will have on our consolidated financial statements.

In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-09—Compensation—Stock Compensation (Topic 718): Improvements to Employee Share-Based Payment Accounting. This update simplifies several aspects of the accounting for share-based payments, including immediate recognition of all excess tax benefits and deficiencies in the income statement, changing the threshold to qualify for equity classification up to the employees’ maximum statutory tax rates, allowing an entity-wide accounting policy election to either estimate the number of awards that are expected to vest or account for forfeitures as they occur, and clarifying the classification on the statement of cash flows for the excess tax benefit and employee taxes paid when an employer withholds shares for tax-withholding purposes. This guidance is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2016 including interim periods within that reporting period. We are currently evaluating the impact on our consolidated financial statements upon the adoption of this guidance.

In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-08—Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606): Principal versus Agent Considerations (Reporting Revenue Gross versus Net). This update seeks to further clarify the implementation guidance on principal versus agent considerations under the new revenue recognition standard, ASU 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers. Similar to ASU 2014-09, the effective date will be the first quarter of fiscal year 2018 with early adoption permitted in the first quarter of fiscal year 2017. We are currently evaluating the impact that adoption of this new standard will have on our consolidated financial statements.

In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842). Under this guidance, an entity is required to recognize right-of-use assets and lease liabilities on its balance sheet and disclose key information about leasing arrangements. This guidance offers specific accounting guidance for a lessee, a lessor and sale and leaseback transactions. Lessees and lessors are required to disclose qualitative and quantitative information about leasing arrangements to enable a user of the financial statements to assess the amount, timing and uncertainty of cash flows arising from leases. This guidance is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2018, including interim periods within that reporting period, and requires a modified retrospective adoption, with early adoption permitted. We are currently evaluating the impact on our consolidated financial statements upon the adoption of this guidance.

In November 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-17, Balance Sheet Classification of Deferred Taxes (“ASU 2015-17”). The ASU is part of the Board’s simplification initiative aimed at reducing complexity in accounting standards and requires companies to classify all deferred tax assets and liabilities, along with any related valuation allowance, as noncurrent on the balance sheet. Although ASU 2015-17 isn’t required for public companies to implement until fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2016 (and private companies until fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2017), early adoption is allowed. We have decided to adopt ASU 2015-17 early and have classified all of our deferred tax assets and liabilities as noncurrent on the balance sheet. We early adopted ASU 2015-17 as the Company considers this change an improvement in the usefulness of information provided to users of the Company’s financial statements. The Company applied the standard prospectively and did not retrospectively adjust any prior periods. Retrospective adjustments were immaterial to the Company’s total current assets and the adoption had no impact on our results of operation.

In August 2015, FASB issued ASU No. 2015-14 “Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606)” – Deferral of the Effective Date (“ASU 2015-14”). The purpose of this update is to defer the effective date of ASU 2014-09, detailed below, by one year. Therefore, ASU 2014-09 is now to be effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2017, including interim periods within such annual period.

In April 2015, FASB issued ASU No. 2015-05 “Intangibles—Goodwill and Other—Internal-Use Software (Subtopic 350-40): Customer’s Accounting for Fees Paid in a Cloud Computing Arrangement” (“ASU 2013-05”). The objective of ASU 2015-05 is to provide guidance to reporting entities in the accounting for fees paid in a cloud computing arrangement. Specifically, if a cloud computing arrangement includes a software license, then the entity should account for the software license element of the arrangement consistent with the acquisition of other software licenses. If a cloud computing arrangement does not include a software license, the entity should account for the arrangement as a service contract. The guidance will not change GAAP for an entity’s accounting for service contracts. The amendments in this ASU are effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2015, including interim periods within those annual periods. Therefore, ASU 2015-05 is now effective. Adoption of this standard has had no impact on our results of operations, cash flows or financial position as the Company has no cloud computing arrangements to which it applies.

In August 2014, FASB issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2014-15 “Preparation of Financial Statements - Going Concern (Subtopic 205-40).” Under U.S. GAAP, continuation of a reporting entity as a going concern is presumed as the basis for preparing financial statements unless and until the entity’s liquidation becomes imminent. Preparation of financial statements under this presumption is commonly referred to as the going concern basis of accounting. If and when an entity’s liquidation becomes imminent, financial statements should be prepared under the liquidation basis of accounting in accordance with Subtopic 205-30, Presentation of Financial Statements-Liquidation Basis of Accounting. Even when an entity’s liquidation is not imminent, there may be conditions or events that raise substantial doubt about the entity’s ability to continue as a going concern. In those situations, financial statements should continue to be prepared under the going concern basis of accounting, but the amendments in the update should be followed to determine whether to disclose information about the relevant conditions and events. . The amendments in this ASU are effective for the annual period ending after December 15, 2016, and for annual periods and interim periods thereafter. Therefore ASU 2014-15 is now effective. We have evaluated the going concern considerations in this ASU and have determined that it is appropriate to provide additional disclosure to our consolidated financial statements (see Note 2).

In May 2014, FASB issued ASU No. 2014-09 “Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606)” (“ASU 2014-09”). ASU 2014-09 is the end result of a joint project initiated by FASB and the International Accounting Standards Board (“IASB”). IASB is the body that sets International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”). The goal of FASB’s and IASB’s joint project was to clarify the principles for recognizing revenue and to develop a common revenue standard for U.S. GAAP and under IFRS. Specifically, ASU 2014-09:

The core principle of ASU 2014-09 is that an entity should recognize revenue to depict the transfer of promised goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the entity expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services. ASU 2014-09 is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2016, including interim periods within such annual period. Early adoption is not permitted. We are currently evaluating this ASU in order to determine whether or not its adoption will have a material impact on our results of operations, cash flows or financial position.

Not applicable for smaller reporting companies.

Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data

Index to Consolidated Financial Statements

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the Board of Directors and Shareholders of hopTo Inc.

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of hopTo Inc. and subsidiaries (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2016 and 2015 and the related consolidated statements of operations, shareholders’ equity (deficit) and cash flows for the years then ended. These consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these consolidated financial statements based on our audits.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements are free of material misstatement. The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of internal control over financial reporting. Our audits included consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the consolidated financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2016 and 2015, and the results of their operations and their cash flows for the years then ended, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared assuming the Company will continue as a going concern. As more fully described in Note 2 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company has incurred losses from operations, an accumulated deficit, a working capital deficit, and needs to raise additional funds to meet short and long-term operational requirements. These conditions raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. Management’s plans regarding those matters are also described in Note 2. The consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty. Our opinion is not modified with respect to this matter.

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Consolidated Balance Sheets

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Consolidated Statements of Operations

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Consolidated Statements of Shareholders’ Equity (Deficit)

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Consolidated Statements Of Cash Flows

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

1. Basis of Presentation

The Company. Our Board of Directors adopted an amendment to our Certificate of Incorporation changing our name from GraphOn Corporation to hopTo Inc. effective September 9, 2013. A Certificate of Amendment of Incorporation was filed with the Delaware Secretary of State implementing the name change. The amendment had been previously approved by our stockholders. Our headquarters are in Campbell, CA.

hopTo Inc., and its subsidiaries are developers of application publishing software which includes application virtualization software and cloud computing software for multiple computer operating systems including Windows, UNIX and several Linux-based variants.

The Company sells a family of products under the brand name GO-Global, which is a software application publishing business and is the Company’s sole revenue source at this time. GO-Global is an application access solution for use and/or resale by independent software vendors (“ISVs”), corporate enterprises, governmental and educational institutions, and others, who wish to take advantage of cross-platform remote access and Web-enabled access to their existing software applications, as well as those who are deploying secure, private cloud environments.

Since 2012 we have also been developing several products in the field of software productivity for mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones, which have been marketed under the hopTo brand. The hopTo products were originally marketed to consumers and were later also marketed to small and medium sized businesses and enterprise level customers under the name hopTo Work. hopTo Work allows customers to instantly transform their legacy applications to become touch friendly on modern mobile devices. During 2015 and 2016, we also worked to integrate hopTo Work with certain software products offered by Citrix Systems.

As of Q4 2016, we have effectively ceased all of our sales, marketing and R&D efforts for the hopTo products, and at this time we do not expect any meaningful revenues from these products in the foreseeable future.

We continue to own all hopTo-related IP including source-code, related patents, and the relevant trademarks. We continue to believe that we may be able to extract value from these assets and are currently working to do so at this time.

Over the years, the Company has also made significant investments in intellectual property (“IP”). It has filed many patents designed to protect the new technologies embedded in hopTo. As of March 31, 2017 52 patents have been granted by the USPTO and we have also received notice from the USPTO that one additional patent application has been allowed and will ultimately issue as a US patent in the next 30-45 days. Due to financial constraints on our operations, we have suspended patent prosecution activity other than to pay issuance fees for patents already approved by USPTO.

On January 27, 2016, we filed an amendment of our Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, to effect a 1-for-15 reverse stock split of our common stock (the “Reverse Stock Split”). The Reverse Stock Split became effective in the stock market upon commencement of trading on January 28, 2016. As a result of the Reverse Stock Split, every fifteen shares of our pre-Reverse Stock Split common stock were combined and reclassified into one share of our common stock. No fractional shares were issued in connection with the Reverse Stock Split, and cash paid to stockholders for potential fractional shares was insignificant. The number of shares of common stock subject to outstanding options, restricted stock units, warrants and convertible securities were also reduced by a factor of fifteen as of January 27, 2016. All historical share and per share amounts reflected throughout this report have been adjusted to reflect the Reverse Stock Split. The authorized number of shares and the par value per share of our common stock were not affected by the Reverse Stock Split.

2. Going Concern and Management’s Liquidity Plans

The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared in conformity with GAAP, assuming we will continue as a going concern, which contemplates the realization of assets and satisfaction of liabilities in the normal course of business. Accordingly, the consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments to reflect the possible future effects on the recoverability and classification of assets or the amounts and classification of liabilities that may result from the possible inability of the Company to continue as a going concern.

We have incurred significant net losses since our inception. For the year ended December 31, 2016, the Company incurred a net loss of $1,852,900. At December 31, 2016, the Company had an accumulated deficit of $82,449,800 and a working capital deficit of $2,396,600. Due to our inability to date to generate meaningful revenue from our hopTo Work business and our continued estimation that revenue from this product is unlikely in any reasonable time frame, our cash resources may not be sufficient to fund our business for the next 12 months. The Company’s ability to continue as a going concern is dependent on our ability to continue to generate revenue from our legacy GO-Global business and to raise additional capital through the issuance of new equity, debt financing, or from the sale of certain assets to meet short and long-term operating requirements.

If the Company raises additional funds through the issuance of equity or convertible debt securities, the percentage ownership of our current shareholders could be reduced, and such securities might have rights, preferences or privileges senior to the Company’s common stock. Additional financing may not be available upon acceptable terms, or at all. If adequate funds are not available or are not available on acceptable terms, the Company may not be able to take advantage of prospective business endeavors or opportunities, which could significantly and materially restrict our operations. We are continuing to pursue external financing alternatives to improve our working capital position. If the Company is unable to obtain the necessary capital, the Company may have to cease operations.

These factors raise substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern.

In order to maintain operations, we previously implemented significant expense reductions, including a limited number of employee layoffs, and continue to implement further costs and employment reductions. During the three month period ended September 30, 2016, our CEO and CFO voluntarily agreed with our board of directors to defer 50% of their salary beginning September 1, 2016 until such time as the Company can reasonably pay such compensation upon approval by the board of directors.

Although maintaining our SEC filing status is a significant expense, we are considering all options to preserve value for shareholders, including potentially suspending or terminating our filing status, however we have not made any decision to do so.

We have worked extensively to explore additional sources of capital including the issuance of new shares, securing debt financing, and the sale of assets including certain software products and patents. Although this process is ongoing and we are in active discussions with multiple parties, there is no guarantee that they will result in transactions that are sufficient to provide the Company with the required liquidity to remove the substantial doubt as to our ability to continue as a going concern. We are also in discussions with some parties about the possibility of other strategic transactions although there is no guarantee that these discussions will result in an actual transaction. The accompanying consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments that may result from the outcome of the uncertainties set forth above.

3. Significant Accounting Policies

Basis of Presentation and Use of Estimates. The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of hopTo Inc. and its subsidiaries (collectively, “we”, “us”, “our”, or “Company”); significant intercompany accounts and transactions are eliminated upon consolidation. The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“GAAP”) requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. These estimates include: the amount of stock-based compensation expense; the allowance for doubtful accounts; the estimated lives, valuation and amortization of intangible assets (including capitalized software); depreciation of long-lived assets; valuation of warrants; post-employment benefits; and accruals for liabilities and taxes. While the Company believes that such estimates are fair, actual results could differ materially from those estimates.

Cash Equivalents. The Company considers all highly liquid investments purchased with remaining maturities of three months or less to be cash equivalents. The Company had no cash equivalents at either December 31, 2016 or 2015.

Property and Equipment. Property and equipment are stated at cost. Depreciation is calculated using the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of the respective assets, between three and seven years. Amortization of leasehold improvements is calculated using the straight-line method over the lesser of the lease term or useful lives of the respective assets, between three and seven years.

Shipping and Handling. Shipping and handling costs are included in cost of revenue for all periods presented.

Software Development Costs. Under the criteria set forth in Financial Accounting Standards Board’s (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) 985-20, “Costs of Software to be Sold, Leased or Marketed,” development costs incurred in the research and development of new software products are expensed as incurred until technological feasibility, in the form of a working model, has been established, at which time such costs are capitalized until the product is available for general release to customers. The Company capitalized $0 and $12,000 of costs meeting the criteria incurred during 2016 and 2015, respectively. Such capitalized costs are subsequently amortized as costs of revenue over the shorter of three years or the remaining estimated useful life of the product. Amortization of capitalized computer software development costs is included in the product cost under cost of revenue in the consolidated statements of operations. The Company makes ongoing evaluations of the recoverability of its capitalized software projects by comparing the net amount capitalized for each product to the estimated net realizable value of the product. If such evaluations indicate that the unamortized software development costs exceed the net realizable value, the Company writes off the amount by which the unamortized software development costs exceed net realizable value (see Note 4).

Revenue Recognition. The Company markets and licenses products indirectly through channel distributors, independent software vendors (“ISVs”), value-added resellers (“VARs”) (collectively “resellers”) and directly to corporate enterprises, governmental and educational institutions and others. Its product licenses are perpetual. The Company also separately sells intellectual property licenses, maintenance contracts (which are comprised of license updates and customer service access), and other products and services.

Software license revenues are recognized when:

Revenue recognized on software arrangements involving multiple deliverables is allocated to each deliverable based on vendor-specific objective evidence (“VSOE”) or third party evidence of the fair values of each deliverable; such deliverables include licenses for software products, maintenance, private labeling fees, or customer training. The Company limits its assessment of VSOE for each deliverable to either the price charged when the same deliverable is sold separately or the price established by management having the relevant authority to do so, for a deliverable not yet sold separately.

If sufficient VSOE of fair value does not exist, so as to permit the allocation of revenue to the various elements of the arrangement, all revenue from the arrangement is deferred until such evidence exists or until all elements are delivered. If VSOE of the fair value does not exist and the only undelivered element is maintenance, then we recognize revenue on a ratable basis. If VSOE of the fair value of all undelivered elements exists but evidence does not exist for one or more delivered elements, then revenue is recognized using the residual method. Under the residual method, the fair value of the undelivered elements is deferred and the remaining portion of the arrangement fee is recognized as revenue.

Certain resellers (“stocking resellers”) purchase product licenses that they hold in inventory until they are resold to the ultimate end-user (an “inventory stocking order”). At the time that a stocking reseller places an inventory stocking order, no product licenses are shipped by the Company to the stocking reseller rather, the stocking reseller’s inventory is credited with the number of licenses purchased and the stocking reseller can resell (issue) any number of licenses from their inventory at any time. Upon receipt of an order to issue one or more licenses from a stocking reseller’s inventory (a “draw down order”), the Company will ship the licenses(s) in accordance with the draw down order’s instructions. The Company defers recognition of revenue from inventory stocking orders until the underlying licenses are sold and shipped to the end user, as evidenced by the receipt and fulfillment of the stocking reseller’s draw down order, assuming all other revenue recognition criteria have been met.

There are no rights of return granted to purchasers of the Company’s software products.

Revenue is recognized from maintenance contracts ratably over the related contract period, which generally ranges from one to five years.

All of the Company’s software licenses are denominated in U.S. dollars.

Deferred Rent. The leases for both the Company’s current office in Campbell, California and the subleased former office in Campbell, California contain free rent and predetermined fixed escalations in our minimum rent payments (See Notes 8 and 13). Rent expense related to these leases is recognized on a straight-line basis over the terms of the leases. Any difference between the straight-line rent amounts and amounts payable under the leases is recorded as part of deferred rent in current or long-term liabilities, as appropriate. The monthly rent payments due to the Company for the sublease of the office at 1919 S. Bascom Avenue fully offsets the rent payments due under the Company’s lease for that space.

Incentives received upon entering into the lease agreement are recognized on a straight-line basis as a reduction to rent over the term of the lease. The unamortized portion of these incentives are recorded as a part of deferred rent in current or long-term liabilities, as appropriate.

Post-employment Benefits (Severance Liability). Nonretirement postemployment benefits, including salary continuation, supplemental unemployment benefits, severance benefits, disability-related benefits and continuation of benefits such as health care benefits, are recognized as a liability and a loss when it is probable that the employee(s) will be entitled to such benefits and the amount can be reasonably estimated. The cost of termination benefits recognized as a liability and an expense includes the amount of any lump-sum payments and the present value of any expected future payments. During 2016 and 2015, we recorded severance expense of $5,000 for a former staff-level employee and $42,100 for a former vice-president level employee, respectively. An aggregate $0 is reported as a severance liability at both December 31, 2016 and 2015.

Allowance for Doubtful Accounts. The Company maintains an allowance for doubtful accounts that reflects our best estimate of potentially uncollectible trade receivables. Such allowance is based on assessments of the collectability of specific customer accounts and the general aging and size of the accounts receivable. We regularly review the adequacy of our allowance for doubtful accounts by considering such factors as historical experience, credit worthiness, and current economic conditions that may affect a customer’s ability to pay. We specifically reserve for those accounts deemed uncollectible. We also establish, and adjust, a general allowance for doubtful accounts based on our review of the aging and size of our accounts receivable. The following table illustrates the details of the Allowance for Doubtful Accounts for the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2015:

Income Taxes. In accordance with FASB ASC 740-10-05, “Income Taxes,” the Company performed a comprehensive review of uncertain tax positions as of December 31, 2016. In this regard, an uncertain tax position represents the expected treatment of a tax position taken in a filed tax return, or planned to be taken in a future tax return, that has not been reflected in measuring income tax expense for financial reporting purposes.

The Company and one or more of its subsidiaries are subject to United States federal income taxes, as well as income taxes of multiple state and foreign jurisdictions. The Company and its subsidiaries are no longer subject to U.S. federal, state and local, or non-U.S. income tax examinations by tax authorities for years prior to 2011. There are no tax examinations currently underway for any of the Company’s or its subsidiaries’ tax returns for years subsequent to 2010.

The Company’s policy for deducting interest and penalties is to treat interest as interest expense and penalties as taxes. The Company had not accrued any amount for the payment of interest or penalties related to any uncertain tax positions at either December 31, 2016 or 2015, as its review of such positions indicated that such potential positions were minimal.

Under FASB ASC 740-10-05, “Income Taxes,” deferred income taxes are recognized for the tax consequences of temporary differences between the financial statement and income tax bases of assets, liabilities and net loss carryforwards using enacted tax rates. Valuation allowances are established, when necessary, to reduce deferred tax assets to the amount that is more likely than not expected to be realized. Realization is dependent upon future pre-tax earnings, the reversal of temporary differences between book and tax income, and the expected tax rates in effect in future periods.

Fair Value of Financial Instruments. The fair value of the Company’s accounts receivable, accounts payable and other current liabilities approximate their carrying amounts due to the relative short maturities of these items.

The fair value of the Company’s warrants are determined in accordance with FASB ASC 820, “Fair Value Measurement,” which establishes a fair value hierarchy that prioritizes the assumptions (inputs) to valuation techniques used to price assets or liabilities that are measured at fair value. The hierarchy, as defined below, gives the highest priority to unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities and the lowest priority to unobservable inputs. The guidance for fair value measurements requires that assets and liabilities measured at fair value be classified and disclosed in one of the following categories:

As of December 31, 2016 and 2015, all of the Company’s $0 and $31,600 Warrants Liability reported at fair value, respectively, were categorized as Level 3 inputs (see Note 9).

Derivative Financial Instruments. The Company currently does not have a material exposure to either commodity prices or interest rates; accordingly, it does not currently use derivative instruments to manage such risks. The Company evaluates all of its financial instruments to determine if such instruments are derivatives or contain features that qualify as embedded derivatives. All derivative financial instruments are recognized in the balance sheet at fair value. Changes in fair value are recognized in earnings if they are not eligible for hedge accounting or in other comprehensive income if they qualify for cash flow hedge accounting.

Long-Lived Assets. Long-lived assets are assessed for possible impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amounts may not be recoverable, whenever the Company has committed to a plan to dispose of the assets or, at a minimum, annually. Typically, for long-lived assets to be held and used, measurement of an impairment loss is based on the fair value of such assets, with fair value being determined based on appraisals, current market value, comparable sales value, and undiscounted future cash flows, among other variables, as appropriate. Assets to be held and used affected by an impairment loss are depreciated or amortized at their new carrying amount over their remaining estimated life; assets to be sold or otherwise disposed of are not subject to further depreciation or amortization. During 2016 and 2015, we determined that there was an impairment of $15,500 and $182,400, respectively, associated with certain capitalized software development expense (see Note 4).

Loss Contingencies. The Company is subject to the possibility of various loss contingencies arising in the ordinary course of business. The Company considers the likelihood of the loss or impairment of an asset or the incurrence of a liability as well as its ability to reasonably estimate the amount of loss in determining loss contingencies. An estimated loss contingency is accrued when it is probable that a liability has been incurred or an asset has been impaired and the amount of the loss can be reasonably estimated. The Company regularly evaluates current information available to it to determine whether such accruals should be adjusted. No such loss contingency was recorded during the year ended December 31, 2016.

Stock-Based Compensation. The Company applies the fair value recognition provisions of FASB ASC 718-10, “Compensation – Stock Compensation.”

Valuation and Expense Information Under FASB ASC 718-10

The Company recorded stock-based compensation expense of $324,400 and $757,500 in the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2015, respectively. No expense was capitalized related to software development. As required by FASB ASC 718-10, the Company estimates forfeitures of employee stock-based awards and recognizes compensation cost only for those awards expected to vest. Forfeiture rates are estimated based on an analysis of historical experience and are adjusted to actual forfeiture experience as needed.

During 2016, we awarded 35,000 shares of restricted common stock to seven members of our board of advisors. The valuation of the restricted common stock awards was based on the closing fair market value of our common stock on the grant date. For these awards, such fair market value was $1.65 per share. These shares were canceled in the three month period ended September 2016.

For all options granted during 2016 and 2015, the Company set the exercise price equal to the closing fair market value of the Company’s common stock as of the date of grant. We did not issue any options during 2016.

The following table illustrates the non-cash stock-based compensation expense recorded during the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2015 by income statement classification:

The Company estimated the fair value of each option grant made during the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2015 on the date of grant using a binomial model, with the assumptions set forth in the following table:

The estimated annualized forfeiture rate was based on an analysis of historical data and considered the impact of events such as work force reductions we carried out in previous years. The expected term of our stock-based awards was based on historical award holder exercise patterns and considered the market performance of our common stock and other items. The estimated exercise factor was based on an analysis of historical data; historical exercise patterns; and a comparison of historical and current share prices. The approximate risk free interest rate was based on the implied yield available on U.S. Treasury issues with remaining terms equivalent to our expected term on our stock-based awards.

The Company used the average historical volatility of its daily closing price for a period of time equal in length to the expected option term for the option being issued. The period of time over which historical volatility was measured ended on the last day of the quarterly reporting period during which the stock-based award was made.

The Company does not anticipate paying dividends on its common stock for the foreseeable future.

Earnings Per Share of Common Stock. FASB ASC 260-10, “Earnings Per Share,” provides for the calculation of basic and diluted earnings per share. Basic earnings per share includes no dilution and is computed by dividing loss attributable to common shareholders by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding for the period. Diluted earnings per share reflects the potential dilution of securities by adding other common stock equivalents, including common stock options, warrants, and unreleased (unvested) restricted stock awards in the weighted average number of common shares outstanding for a period, if dilutive. Potentially dilutive securities are excluded from the computation if their effect is antidilutive. For the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2015, 1,382,841 and 2,224,195 shares of common stock equivalents were excluded from the computation of diluted earnings per share, respectively, since their effect would be antidilutive.

Comprehensive Loss. FASB ASC 220-10, “Reporting Comprehensive Income,” establishes standards for reporting comprehensive income and its components in a financial statement that is displayed with the same prominence as other financial statements. Comprehensive income, as defined, includes all changes in equity (net assets) during the period from non-owner sources. Examples of items to be included in comprehensive income, which are excluded from net income, include foreign currency translation adjustments and unrealized gain/loss of available-for-sale securities. The individual components of comprehensive income (loss) are reflected in the consolidated statement of operations. For the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2015, there were no changes in equity (net assets) from non-owner sources.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements.

In December 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-20, Technical Corrections and Improvements to Topic 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (“ASU 2016-20”). ASU 2016-20 is intended to provide further technical corrections and improvements to ASU 2014-09 “Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606)”. This update provides specific amendments to thirteen separate issues, many of which are not applicable to the Company’s operation. The Company has reviewed the various amendments and does not believe that they will have any impact our consolidated financial statements beyond what we would expect from the adoption of ASU 2014-09.

In August 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-15, Statement of Cash Flows (Topic 230): Classification of Certain Cash Receipts and Cash Payments (“ASU 2016-15”). ASU 2016-15 clarifies whether eight specifically identified cash flow issues should be categorized as operating, investing or financing activities in the statement of cash flows. The guidance will be effective for the fiscal year beginning after December 15, 2017, including interim periods within that year. The Company is currently assessing the impact of this ASU on its consolidated financial statements.

In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-13, Financial Instruments – Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments (“ASU 2016-13”). ASU 2016-13 is intended to provide financial statement users with more useful information about expected credit losses on financial assets held by a reporting entity at each reporting date. The new standard replaces the existing incurred loss impairment methodology with a methodology that requires consideration of a broader range of reasonable and supportable forward-looking information to estimate all expected credit losses. This ASU is effective for fiscal years and interim periods within those years beginning after December 15, 2019 and early adoption is permitted for fiscal years and interim periods within those years beginning after December 15, 2018. The Company is currently assessing the impact of this ASU on its consolidated financial statements.

In May 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-12—Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606): Narrow-Scope Improvements and Practical Expedients. The amendments in ASU 2016-12 affect only some of the narrow aspects of Topic 606 including the collectability criterion, presentation of sales taxes and other similar taxes collected from customers, noncash consideration, and treatment of certain contract modifications at transition. Similar to ASU 2014-09, as discussed below, the effective date will be the first quarter of fiscal year 2018 with early adoption permitted in the first quarter of fiscal year 2017. We are currently evaluating the impact that adoption of this new standard will have on our consolidated financial statements.

In April 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-10—Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606): Identifying Performance Obligations and Licensing to clarify certain aspects of ASU 2014-09. The amendments in ASU 2016-10 are expected to reduce the cost and complexity of applying the guidance on identifying promised goods or services in contracts with customers and to improve the operability and understandability of licensing implementation guidance related to the entity’s intellectual property. Similar to ASU 2014-09, the effective date will be the first quarter of fiscal year 2018 with early adoption permitted in the first quarter of fiscal year 2017. We are currently evaluating the impact that adoption of this new standard will have on our consolidated financial statements.

In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-09—Compensation—Stock Compensation (Topic 718): Improvements to Employee Share-Based Payment Accounting. This update simplifies several aspects of the accounting for share-based payments, including immediate recognition of all excess tax benefits and deficiencies in the income statement, changing the threshold to qualify for equity classification up to the employees’ maximum statutory tax rates, allowing an entity-wide accounting policy election to either estimate the number of awards that are expected to vest or account for forfeitures as they occur, and clarifying the classification on the statement of cash flows for the excess tax benefit and employee taxes paid when an employer withholds shares for tax-withholding purposes. This guidance is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2016 including interim periods within that reporting period. We are currently evaluating the impact on our consolidated financial statements upon the adoption of this guidance.

In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-08—Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606): Principal versus Agent Considerations (Reporting Revenue Gross versus Net). This update seeks to further clarify the implementation guidance on principal versus agent considerations under the new revenue recognition standard, ASU 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers. Similar to ASU 2014-09, the effective date will be the first quarter of fiscal year 2018 with early adoption permitted in the first quarter of fiscal year 2017. We are currently evaluating the impact that adoption of this new standard will have on our consolidated financial statements.

In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842). Under this guidance, an entity is required to recognize right-of-use assets and lease liabilities on its balance sheet and disclose key information about leasing arrangements. This guidance offers specific accounting guidance for a lessee, a lessor and sale and leaseback transactions. Lessees and lessors are required to disclose qualitative and quantitative information about leasing arrangements to enable a user of the financial statements to assess the amount, timing and uncertainty of cash flows arising from leases. This guidance is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2018, including interim periods within that reporting period, and requires a modified retrospective adoption, with early adoption permitted. We are currently evaluating the impact on our consolidated financial statements upon the adoption of this guidance.

In November 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-17, Balance Sheet Classification of Deferred Taxes (“ASU 2015-17”). The ASU is part of the Board’s simplification initiative aimed at reducing complexity in accounting standards and requires companies to classify all deferred tax assets and liabilities, along with any related valuation allowance, as noncurrent on the balance sheet. Although ASU 2015-17 isn’t required for public companies to implement until fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2016 (and private companies until fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2017), early adoption is allowed. We have decided to adopt ASU 2015-17 early and have classified all of our deferred tax assets and liabilities as noncurrent on the balance sheet. We early adopted ASU 2015-17 as the Company considers this change an improvement in the usefulness of information provided to users of the Company’s financial statements. The Company applied the standard prospectively and did not retrospectively adjust any prior periods. Retrospective adjustments were immaterial to the Company’s total current assets and the adoption had no impact on our results of operation.

In August 2015, FASB issued ASU No. 2015-14 “Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606)” – Deferral of the Effective Date (“ASU 2015-14”). The purpose of this update is to defer the effective date of ASU 2014-09, detailed below, by one year. Therefore, ASU 2014-09 is now to be effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2017, including interim periods within such annual period.

In April 2015, FASB issued ASU No. 2015-05 “Intangibles—Goodwill and Other—Internal-Use Software (Subtopic 350-40): Customer’s Accounting for Fees Paid in a Cloud Computing Arrangement” (“ASU 2013-05”). The objective of ASU 2015-05 is to provide guidance to reporting entities in the accounting for fees paid in a cloud computing arrangement. Specifically, if a cloud computing arrangement includes a software license, then the entity should account for the software license element of the arrangement consistent with the acquisition of other software licenses. If a cloud computing arrangement does not include a software license, the entity should account for the arrangement as a service contract. The guidance will not change GAAP for an entity’s accounting for service contracts. The amendments in this ASU are effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2015, including interim periods within those annual periods. Therefore, ASU 2015-05 is now effective. Adoption of this standard has had no impact on our results of operations, cash flows or financial position as the Company has no cloud computing arrangements to which it applies.

In August 2014, FASB issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2014-15 “Preparation of Financial Statements - Going Concern (Subtopic 205-40).” Under U.S. GAAP, continuation of a reporting entity as a going concern is presumed as the basis for preparing financial statements unless and until the entity’s liquidation becomes imminent. Preparation of financial statements under this presumption is commonly referred to as the going concern basis of accounting. If and when an entity’s liquidation becomes imminent, financial statements should be prepared under the liquidation basis of accounting in accordance with Subtopic 205-30, Presentation of Financial Statements-Liquidation Basis of Accounting. Even when an entity’s liquidation is not imminent, there may be conditions or events that raise substantial doubt about the entity’s ability to continue as a going concern. In those situations, financial statements should continue to be prepared under the going concern basis of accounting, but the amendments in the update should be followed to determine whether to disclose information about the relevant conditions and events. The amendments in this ASU are effective for the annual period ending after December 15, 2016, and for annual periods and interim periods thereafter. Therefore ASU 2014-15 is now effective. We have evaluated the going concern considerations in this ASU and have determined that it is appropriate to provide additional disclosure to our consolidated financial statements (see Note 2).

In May 2014, FASB issued ASU No. 2014-09 “Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606)” (“ASU 2014-09”). ASU 2014-09 is the end result of a joint project initiated by FASB and the International Accounting Standards Board (“IASB”). IASB is the body that sets International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”). The goal of FASB’s and IASB’s joint project was to clarify the principles for recognizing revenue and to develop a common revenue standard for U.S. GAAP and under IFRS. Specifically, ASU 2014-09:

The core principle of ASU 2014-09 is that an entity should recognize revenue to depict the transfer of promised goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the entity expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services. ASU 2014-09 is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2016, including interim periods within such annual period. Early adoption is not permitted. We are currently evaluating this ASU in order to determine whether or not its adoption will have a material impact on our results of operations, cash flows or financial position.

4. Capitalized Software Development Costs

Capitalized software development costs as of December 31, 2016 and 2015 consisted of the following:

During 2016 and 2015, we capitalized $0 and $12,000, respectively, of software development costs associated with hopTo. Such costs were the cost of licenses to third party software used by hopTo.

Amortization of capitalized software development costs is a component of costs of revenue. Capitalized software development costs amortization aggregated $5,400 and $217,500 during the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2015, respectively.

During 2016 and 2015, we determined that an impairment of $15,500 and $182,400, respectively, existed with certain capitalized software development costs associated with our hopTo consumer product and recognized that cost as part of cost of revenue.

5. Property and Equipment

Property and equipment as of December 31, 2016 and 2015 consisted of the following:

Aggregate property and equipment depreciation expense for the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2015 was $89,200 and $117,300 respectively. During 2016 and 2015, we did not capitalize any property and equipment. During 2016, we retired equipment with costs of $55,000 and furniture and fixtures with costs of $43,300. During 2015, we did not retire any assets. The $98,300 total in assets retired in 2016 had total remaining book value of $20,000.

6. Accrued Expenses

Accrued expenses as of December 31, 2016 and 2015 consisted of the following:

7. Severance Liability

In August of 2015 we agreed to provide a terminated employee a lump sum payment $15,000 and six months of medical coverage payments which ended on March 2, 2016.

As of December 31, 2016 and 2015, $0 and $5,900 remained outstanding associated with this severance liability, respectively.

8. Deferred Rent

We amended our office lease during 2013. On February 1, 2014, we moved our corporate offices to a different building within the same office complex owned and operated by our landlord on South Bascom Avenue in Campbell, California, where our corporate offices had been located prior to February 1, 2014. Since the new space is controlled by the same landlord, we considered the lease amendment to be a modification to our preexisting lease; accordingly, we are amortizing the remaining balance in deferred rent immediately prior to February 1, 2014 over the remaining term of the modified amended lease. Additionally, our landlord provided us with $106,600 of leasehold improvements on the new space that we are amortizing over the remaining term of the amended lease. All of the prior leasehold improvements that had not been previously amortized were accelerated and recognized in their entirety from the time of the amendment through January 2014, prior to the move.

On August 11, 2015, we entered into a sublease agreement to sublease the entirety of the South Bascom office space to a third party. The term of the sublease extends through the end of our office lease term for that space and the monthly rent payments due to hopTo fully offset the monthly rent payments due to the landlord under hopTo’s lease for that space.

On August 24, 2015, we entered into a new office lease for our corporate headquarters at 51 E. Campbell Avenue, Campbell, California which became effective on October 1, 2015, is better suited to our California operations and results in significant monthly savings. We were required to pre-pay a portion of the lease commitment in the form of a deposit which was recorded as deferred rent during 2015.

As of December 31, 2016 deferred rent was:

As of December 31, 2015 deferred rent was: