---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-22-025528"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PRKR"
cik: "0000914139"
company_name: "PARKERVISION INC"
filed_at: "2022-11-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-22T16:33:12.407333+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# ParkerVision expands board to 5, appoints Sanford M. Litvack as independent director

## Summary
- Board increased from 4 to 5 members; Litvack fills new vacancy as Class I director.
- Litvack has patent litigation experience; served as DOJ antitrust chief and at Disney/Hewlett Packard.
- Granted nonqualified stock options for 600,000 shares at $0.20, vesting over eight equal quarterly installments starting Jan 27, 2023.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-22-025528
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PRKR
- cik: 0000914139
- company_name: PARKERVISION INC
- filed_at: 2022-11-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/914139/000143774922025528/0001437749-22-025528-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/914139/000143774922025528/prkr20221101_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-22-025528
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-22-025528.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-22-025528.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Sanford M. Litvack was appointed as director at PARKERVISION INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: director
  source text: Effective the same date, the Board appointed Sanford M. Litvack to fill the newly created vacancy on the Company’s board of directors.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/914139/000143774922025528/0001437749-22-025528-index.htm

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