---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001072613-25-000266"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NTIP"
cik: "0001065078"
company_name: "NETWORK-1 TECHNOLOGIES, INC."
filed_at: "2025-04-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T20:39:35.489909+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Network-1 acquires advanced security patent portfolio including 8 US patents, 1 international patent

## Summary
- Portfolio includes 8 issued US patents, 11 pending US apps, 5 pending int'l apps; filed as early as 2018, terms to 2038.
- Technologies cover smart home IoT interoperability, quantum-resistant security, and Internet transport layer security.
- Acquired from IoT and M2M Technologies, LLC, managed by inventor John Nix (Creator of the Year 2016).
- Network-1 will prosecute pending applications and file new patents based on original inventions; price not disclosed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001072613-25-000266
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NTIP
- cik: 0001065078
- company_name: NETWORK-1 TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-04-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1065078/000107261325000266/0001072613-25-000266-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1065078/000107261325000266/form8k.htm

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