SEC Company Response from COMPETITIVE TECHNOLOGIES INC (CIK 0000102198) — Mar 18, 2005
COMPETITIVE TECHNOLOGIES INC (CIK 0000102198)
Date: March 18, 2005 · CIK: 0000102198 · Accession: 0001104659-05-012033
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781-8650
[Seyfarth Shaw
Letterhead]
areich@seyfarth.com
March 18, 2005
Securities and Exchange Commission
Judiciary Plaza
450 Fifth Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20549-0405
Re: Competitive Technologies,
Inc.
Post Effective Amendment to Form S-1 on Form S-3 (File No. 333-113751)
Form 10-K for the year ended July 31, 2004 (File No. 1-08696)
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen:
On behalf of Competitive Technologies, Inc. (the “Company”) we
are responding to the comments set forth in the letter of the Division of
Corporation Finance of the Securities and Exchange Commission dated March 16,
2005 (the “Comment Letter”).
The answers to the questions raised in the Comment Letter are discussed
below. The comments contained in the
Comment Letter have been set forth in this letter and precede the respective
responses.
Post-Effective Amendment to Form
S-1 on Form S-3
Fusion Capital Transaction — page
12
1. We note that your agreement with Fusion Capital Fund II,
LLC, spans at least twenty months from the February 25, 2004 date of
engagement. As the transaction has not
yet been completed, it appears that the selling shareholder has purchased the
shares with an intent to distribute, which requires that the registrant be
eligible to do a primary offering on Form S-3.
As you are not eligible to use Form S-3 for a primary offering, you do
not appear to be in a position to convert your Form S-1 registration statement
to Form S-3 at this time.
Supplementally, provide us with a detailed analysis as to why you
believe you are eligible to convert post-effectively to Form S-3.
The
Company is eligible to convert post-effectively to Form S-3 because the Company
meets the transaction requirements for a primary offering. As of February 14, 2005 (a date within sixty
(60) days of the filing of the Form S-3), the aggregate market value of the
voting and non-
voting common equity held by non-affiliates of the
Company was $91,675,412, based on a closing price of $13.68 and 6,701,419 outstanding
shares of the Company’s voting and non-voting common stock held by
non-affiliates on such date. In
addition, the common stock which is subject to the registration statement on
Form S-3 (File no. 333-113751) is being offered for cash by Fusion Capital Fund
II, LLC as “underwriter” within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933. As a result of the foregoing, the Company is
eligible to convert post-effectively to Form S-3.
Form 10-K for the year ended July
31, 2004
Retained Royalties From Other
Sources, page 8
2. Supplementally, tell us whether the new “relationships
with Asian companies, especially Korean companies” to which you refer in the
first paragraph include companies located in North Korea, South Korea, or
both. We may have further comment upon
reviewing your response.
The Company understands your comment and
will revise its future filings to clarify that the Company’s relationship with
Korean companies only includes companies in South Korea and not North Korea.
In connection with our response to the
comments raised in the Comment Letter, we have attached to this letter a letter
from the Company including a request for acceleration of the effective date of
the registration statement and the acknowledgments that you have
requested. If you have any questions or
comments with respect to any of the issues raised in this letter or if you
require any additional information, please contact the undersigned at (312)
781-8650 or Marc J. Mangoubi at (312) 781-8632.
Very truly yours,
SEYFARTH SHAW LLP
By:
/s/ Allan J.
Reich
cc: Competitive Technologies,
Inc.
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