---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001213900-23-072190"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001761696"
company_name: "Crown Electrokinetics Corp."
filed_at: "2023-08-30T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-11T02:02:39.077835+00:00"
event_type: "regulatory"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Crown Electrokinetics regains Nasdaq audit committee compliance after appointing Scott Hobbs

## Summary
- Received Audit Committee Notice for non-compliance with Nasdaq Rule 5605(c)(2) following director departures in Dec 2022.
- Appointed Scott Hobbs to Board and Audit Committee on August 22, 2023.
- Nasdaq Staff determined compliance regained, matter now closed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-23-072190
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001761696
- company_name: Crown Electrokinetics Corp.
- filed_at: 2023-08-30T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: regulatory
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1761696/000121390023072190/0001213900-23-072190-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1761696/000121390023072190/ea184278-8k_crownelec.htm

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## Key facts
- Listing & Compliance Notices
  Crown Electrokinetics Corp. received a nasdaq noncompliance notice notice regarding audit committee (rules 5605(c)(2)).
  - Exchange: nasdaq
  - Notice: noncompliance notice
  - Deficiency: audit committee
  - Rules: 5605(c)(2)
  source text: August 24, 2023, Crown Electrokinetics Corp. (the “Company”) received notice (the “Audit Committee Notice”) from the Listing Qualifications Department (the “Staff”) of The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) stating that the Company did not comply with Nasdaq’s audit committee composition requirement under Nasdaq Listing Rule 5605(c)(2) (the “Audit Committee Rule”) following the departure of directors in December 2022. The Audit Committee Rule requires that the Audit Committee of the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) be composed of at least three members, each of whom must meet indepen
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1761696/000121390023072190/0001213900-23-072190-index.htm

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