SEC Company Response from Sunworks, Inc. (SUNWQ) (CIK 0001172631) — Sep 29, 2005
Sunworks, Inc. (SUNWQ) (CIK 0001172631)
Date: Sept. 29, 2005 · CIK: 0001172631 · Accession: 0001065949-05-000103
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RICHARDSON
& ASSOCIATES
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
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September 27, 2005
VIA AIR COURIER
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Larry Spirgel, Assistant Director
United States Securities and Exchange Commission
Washington D.C. 20549
Mail Stop 3561
Re: MachineTalker, Inc. - Registration Statement on Form SB-2 Filed
on August 1, 2005 As Amended on September 23, 2005 - File
Number 333-127080
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Dear Mr. Spirgel:
Enclosed are three redlined copies and three clean copies of the above
referenced Registration Statement on Form SB-2. We have the following responses
to your comments, dated August 31, 2005, with respect to the Registration
Statement on Form SB-2 filed by MachineTalker, Inc. (the "Company"):
1. We have updated the financial statements included in our filing by
replacing the financial statements for the three months ended March 31, 2005 and
March 31, 2004 with financial statements for the six months ended June 30, 2005
and June 30, 2004 as required by Item 310(g) of Regulation S-B.
2. We are relying on Rule 415 and have added the Rule 415 box and
related paragraph concerning Rule 415 on the first page of our Registration
Statement on Form SB-2.
3. We have revised the prospectus cover page and page I-3 of the
prospectus to make clear that securities are approved for quotation on the OTC
Bulletin Board, not listed for trading.
4. We have deleted the second and third paragraphs on page I-1 to limit
our prospectus cover page to the information required by Item 501 of Regulation
S-B.
5. We have included a discussion of the Company's ability to continue
as a going concern and the limited extent of the Company's operations and
revenues and added the amount of the Company's net losses for the last two
fiscal years and periods in 2005 on page I-4.
6. On page I-3, we have removed the reference to "dumb" detector or
nodes, provided an easy-to-understand explanation of what we mean by "smart"
security networks, and included a concrete example of how a customer uses the
Company's product.
233 WILSHIRE BOULEVARD, SUITE 820, SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA 90401
TELEPHONE (310) 393-9992 FACSIMILE (310) 393-2004
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Larry Spirgel, Assistant Director
United States Securities and Exchange Commission
September 27, 2005
Page 2 of 5
7. We have revised our risk factor captions to reflect the risk
discussed in the text more accurately.
8. On page I-9, we have added a risk factor that discusses the
auditor's going concern qualification.
9. On page I-8, we have added a risk factor that discusses our
dependence on our limited number of large customers. We have also revised our
statement on page I-34 in management's discussion and analysis that the Company
expects revenue "to exceed operating costs in the foreseeable future because of
the adoption of [the Company's] product line by a significant customer" because
the Company has concluded that it cannot determine with sufficient accuracy if
or when revenue will exceed operating costs.
10. We have added the amount of revenues generated by the Company from
wireless control smart security system sales, and the date on which the
Company's first such sale occurred, to the risk factor previously entitled "We
have a limited operating history and cannot assure the acceptance of our smart
security network technology" on page I-6.
11. We have deleted the following phrase on page I-7 "While we have
filed a patent application for that technology and plan to file for patent and
copyright protection whenever warranted...."
12. We have added language to the risk factor on page I-7 previously
entitled "We may not be able to successfully develop or protect our proprietary
rights" to describe the Company's dependence on its smart security network
technology and the risk posed by not having the protection of a patent for the
technology.
13. We have added language to the risk factor on page I-11 previously
entitled "Our failure to meet our financial obligations could subject our
business to liens" to discuss the likelihood of such an occurrence.
14. We have deleted the attribution to the Commission of the
description of the market for penny stocks and patterns of abuse on page I-13.
15. We have added a paragraph to the section entitled "DILUTION" and a
column to the table in the section entitled "DILUTION" on page I-16 to show the
further dilution to investors incurred upon the exercise of the Company's
outstanding stock options and warrants.
16. None of the selling stockholders are broker-dealers or affiliates
of broker-dealers.
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Larry Spirgel, Assistant Director
United States Securities and Exchange Commission
September 27, 2005
Page 3 of 5
17. The natural person who has voting or investment control over BRP
Enterprises is Bruce Pennell.
18. We have added language to the beginning of the section entitled
"MACHINETALKER, INC." on page I-31 which describes the current status of the
Company's operations and its customer base. We have also revised the subsection
entitled "Field Sales Force" on page I-29 to reflect the Company's recent
decision to forgo a direct sales force in the near term and focus on being an
OEM provider.
19. We have also added language to the beginning of the section
entitled "MACHINETALKER, INC." on page I-31 which describes how the Company's
technology is being tested and utilized by customers.
20. We have revised the subsection entitled "History" on page I-32 to
include a sentence about the Company's prior obligation to file periodic reports
from 2002 until the time the Company filed its Form 15 in 2004, the Company's
failure to file such periodic reports, and the reasons for the Company's failure
to file such periodic reports.
21. We have removed the phrase "provisional patent" from the subsection
entitled "History" on page I-32, since the provisional patent, which is a notice
filing of an intent to file for a patent, has expired and the technology
underlying the provisional patent is not used by the Company in its business.
22. We have added a description of how a typical customer uses the
Company's product to the subsection entitled "History" on page I-32.
23. We have added a sentence to the subsection entitled "Proprietary
Technology" on page I-34 regarding the status of the Company's patent
application. The Company cannot estimate at this time how long the patent
application process will take because the Company has not yet received its first
office action from the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
24. We revised the subsections entitled "Application for Kellogg, Brown
& Root" and "NASA Project" on page I-37 to include descriptions of the material
terms of the Kellogg, Brown & Root agreement and NASA agreement, respectively.
25. We have modified the subsection entitled "Competition" to discuss
how the Company intends to compete with larger companies and how the Company's
security system is distinguishable from the competition. The Company does not
have the resources to investigate the relative size and market share of its
competitors.
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Larry Spirgel, Assistant Director
United States Securities and Exchange Commission
September 27, 2005
Page 4 of 5
26. We have modified the section entitled "Management's Discussion and
Analysis" to provide an analysis of the reasons for the changes in the financial
statements. As stated in our answer to Comment No. 9, the Company has concluded
that it cannot determine with sufficient accuracy if or when revenue will exceed
operating costs, so we have eliminated such references throughout the
prospectus. We have also added a discussion regarding the Company's ability to
continue as a going concern and the steps management intends to take to remove
the going concern qualification from the audit opinion.
27. We have disclosed the amounts of the milestone payments received by
the Company through the second quarter of 2005 and the names of the customers
from which the Company received such payments on pages I-37 and I-38 under
MACHINETALKER, INC. - Application for Kellogg, Brown & Root and NASA Project.
The Company believes that it appropriately recognized the milestone payments in
2004 and in the second quarter of 2005 because the Company delivered the
products for which it received payment and the earning process was completed.
28. We have removed the reference to June 2006 from the statement on
page I-48 that the Company is "currently incurring operating deficits which are
expected to continue until June 30, 2006." June 30, 2006 is not significant and
the Company has concluded that it cannot determine with sufficient accuracy for
the length of time that it will continue to incur operating deficits. We added a
discussion regarding the Company's planned capital expenditures for the next
twelve months on page I-48.
29. Mr. Nadler is not an executive officer of the Company. He is a key
employee. The Company currently has two executive officers, both of whom are
disclosed on the summary compensation table.
30. The Company's obligation to pay the portions of the executive
officers' salaries which the executive officers forwent in 2003 and 2004 was
extinguished when the officers made the decision to forego them. The Company has
no current or future obligation to pay any portion of the forwent salaries.
31. Mr. Nadler is not an executive officer of the Company. No officer
or director of the Company has been issued options. Accordingly, the table of
stock option grants described in Item 402(c) of Regulation S-B is not required.
32. We have removed the glossary from the prospectus.
33. We have revised page I-51 to include the Securities and Exchange
Commission's current address.
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Larry Spirgel, Assistant Director
United States Securities and Exchange Commission
September 27, 2005
Page 5 of 5
34. The transaction was reflected in the Statement of Cash Flows under
accrued expenses.
35. The Company's revenue recognition practices comply with Securities
and Exchange Commission (SEC) staff bulletin No. 104, "Revenue Recognition in
Financial Statements." Revenues are recognized at the time of shipment of
products, provided that evidence of an arrangement exists, title and risk of
loss have passed to the customer, fees are fixed or determinable, and collection
of the related receivable is reasonably assured.
36. We have revised the section entitled "RECENT SALES OF UNREGISTERED
SECURITIES" on page II-2 to reflect the types of services and providers of
services with respect to which shares of common stock have been issued by the
Company.
37. Mr. Roland Bryan is the Chief Financial Officer of the Company and
will be signing in the capacity of principal accounting officer or controller.
The signatures on page II-6 have been modified accordingly.
38. We have corrected the way in which the term prospectus is defined
in our opinion letter so that our date reference concerning the prospectus will
not have to be updated with each pre-effective amendment to the Registration
Statement.
39. We have submitted an application for confidential treatment to
redact information from the Kellogg, Brown & Root agreement filed as Exhibit
10.2 to the Registration Statement and have revised footnote 1 accordingly.
Yours very truly,
\s\ Mark J. Richardson, Esq.
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Mark J. Richardson, Esq.
for Richardson & Associates
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 27, 2005
Registration No. _______________
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
Amendment #1 to
FORM SB-2
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
MachineTalker, Inc.
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(Name of small business issuer in its charter)
Commission File Number:333-127080
Delaware 3823 01-0592299
(State or jurisdiction of (Primary Standard Industrial (I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization) Classification Code Number) Identification No.)
513 De La Vina Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101
(805) 957-1680
(Address and telephone number of principal executive offices)
513 De La Vina Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101
(Address of principal place of business or intended principal place of business)
Roland F. Bryan, 513 De La Vina Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101
(805) 957-1680
(Name, address and telephone number of agent for service)
Copies to:
RICHARDSON & ASSOCIATES
MARK J. RICHARDSON, Esq.
233 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 820
Santa Monica, California 90401
(310) 393-9992
Approximate date of proposed sale to the public: As soon as practicable after
the effective date of this registration statement.
If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant
to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list
the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective
registration statement for the same offering. [ ]
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If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under
the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act
registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement
for the same offering.[ ]
If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(d) under
the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act
registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement
for the same offering. [ ]
If delivery of the prospectus is expected to be made pursuant to Rule 434,
check the following box. [ ]
If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a
delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of
1933 check the following box. [X]
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