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Commitment and Contingencies

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Commitment and Contingencies
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2022
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]  
Commitments and Contingencies Commitments and Contingencies
Office Lease

The Company leases office space for its corporate headquarters, located at 11250 El Camino Real, Suite 100 San Diego, California 92130. The lease is effective from September 1, 2021 through October 31, 2023 and contains a renewal option for a two-year extension after the current expiration date. The Company does not expect that the renewal option will be exercised, and has therefore excluded the option from the calculation of the right of use asset and lease liability. The lease provides for two months of rent abatement and the initial monthly rent is $8,067 per month with annual increases of 3% commencing on November 1, 2022. The lease includes non-lease components (i.e., property management costs) that are paid separately from rent, based on actual costs incurred, and therefore were not included in the right-of-use asset and lease liability but are reflected as an expense in the period incurred. In calculating the present value of the lease payments, the Company has elected to utilize its incremental borrowing rate based on the lease term.

For the three months ended March 31, 2022, lease expense comprised of $22,675 in lease cost from the Company's non-cancellable operating lease.

The remaining lease term and discount rate related to the operating lease are presented in the following table:

March 31, 2022
Weighted-average remaining term – operating lease (in years)

1.58
Weighted-average discount rate – operating lease

12  %

Future minimum lease payments as of March 31, 2022 are presented in the following table:

Year:
2022 (remaining nine months) 73,089 
2023 83,093 
Total future minimum lease payments: 156,182 
Less imputed interest (14,675)
Total $ 141,507 
Reported as:

Operating lease liability $ 85,601 
Operating lease liability, net of current portion 55,906 
Total lease liability $ 141,507 

General Litigation and Disputes

From time to time, in the normal course of operations, the Company may be a party to litigation and other dispute matters and claims. Litigation can be expensive and disruptive to normal business operations. Moreover, the results of complex legal proceedings are difficult to predict. An unfavorable outcome to any legal matter, if material, could have a materially adverse effect on the Company’s operations or financial position, liquidity or results of operations.

As of March 31, 2022, the Company is party to a legal proceeding with a former employee alleging wrongful termination. While there is a reasonable possibility that a loss may have been incurred, due to the stage of the proceedings as of March 31, 2022, the Company is unable to make an estimate as to the amount of the contingency, as the legal proceeding is in the early stage of discovery. The Company is expensing the legal costs related to this proceeding as incurred.