Current Report Filing (8-k)
December 20 2016 - 11:03AM
Edgar (US Regulatory)
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM
8-K
CURRENT
REPORT
Pursuant
to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
Securities
Exchange Act of 1934
December
14, 2016
22nd
Century Group, Inc.
(Exact
Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)
Nevada
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001-36338
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98-0468420
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(State or Other Jurisdiction of
Incorporation)
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(Commission File Number)
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(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
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9530 Main Street
Clarence, New York
(Address of Principal Executive Office)
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14031
(Zip Code)
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Registrant’s telephone number, including
area code:
(716) 270-1523
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Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended
to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:
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Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the
Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)
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Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the
Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)
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Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b)
under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))
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Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c)
under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))
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Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive
Agreement.
On December 14, 2016,
a wholly-owned subsidiary of 22nd Century Group, Inc. (collectively, the “Company”), entered into (i) a Research Funding
Agreement with The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia, a not-for-profit Virginia educational institutional of the
Commonwealth of Virginia (the “University”), and (ii) an Exclusive License Agreement with the University of Virginia
Patent Foundation d/b/a University of Virginia Licensing & Ventures Group, a Virginia non-profit corporation (“UVA LVG”).
Under the Research Funding Agreement, the Company will scientifically collaborate with the University and provide approximately
$1,100,000 in funding to the University over a period of three (3) years for new multi-year research and development activities
between the Company and the University relating to the creation of unique industrial hemp plants with optimized traits for commercial
uses and medical study, with all work being done under all necessary federal and state licenses and permits. Under the Exclusive
License Agreement, the Company has been granted the exclusive rights to commercialize all results of this collaboration with the
University in consideration of the payment of royalties by the Company to UVA LVG from the net sales received by the Company from
its commercialization of the results of this collaboration.
The foregoing summaries
of the terms of the Research Funding Agreement and the Exclusive License Agreement are subject to, and qualified in their entirety
by, such documents which are expected to be filed as exhibits to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended
December 31, 2016.
Item 7.01. Regulation FD Disclosure.
On December 20, 2016,
the Company issued a press release announcing the above-described matter. A copy of the press release is furnished as Exhibit 99.1
and is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 9.01(d). Financial Statements and
Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits
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99.1
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Press release, dated December 20, 2016.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned
hereunto duly authorized.
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22nd Century Group, Inc.
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/s/ Thomas L. James
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Date: December 20, 2016
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Thomas L. James
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Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
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