TEARLAB
CORPORATION
(Exact
name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware
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000-50789
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59-3434771
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(State
or other jurisdiction
of
incorporation)
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(Commission
File Number)
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(IRS.
Employer
Identification
No.)
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150
La Terraza Blvd., Ste 101
Escondido,
California 92025
(Address
of principal executive offices)
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Michael
Marquez
Chief
financial Officer
855-832-7522
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Check
the appropriate box to indicate the rule pursuant to which this form is being filed, and provide the period to which the information
in this form applies:
[X]
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Rule
13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13p-1) for the reporting period from January 1 to December 31, 2019.
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Introduction
TearLab
Corporation (“TearLab”) develops, manufactures, and markets a proprietary tear testing platform, the TearLab®
Osmolarity System that enables eye care practitioners to test for highly sensitive and specific biomarkers using nanoliters of
tear film at the point-of-care.
Section
1502 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the “Act”) requires TearLab to perform certain
procedures and disclose information about the use and origin of “conflict minerals” if these minerals are deemed to
be necessary to the functionality or production of a product manufactured or contracted to be manufactured by TearLab. The minerals
covered by these rules include tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold.
The
minerals listed as conflict minerals are necessary to the functionality or production of certain of TearLab’s products.
Components and subassemblies that are made in part using those minerals listed as conflict minerals are sourced from a global
supply base that includes distributors, value-added resellers, original equipment manufacturers, original design manufacturers
and contract manufacturers.
Section
1 - Conflict Minerals Disclosure
Item
1.01 Conflict Minerals Disclosure and Report
In
accordance with the Act, TearLab has performed a “reasonable country of origin inquiry” on minerals that were in TearLab’s
supply chain after January 1, 2019 to determine whether these minerals were sourced from the Democratic Republic of Congo or adjoining
countries (the “Covered Countries”) or come from recycled or scrap sources. TearLab has concluded in, good faith,
that during 2019:
a)
it has manufactured and contracted to manufacture products to which some of the minerals listed as conflict minerals are necessary
to the functionality or production of such products; and
b)
based on a “reasonable country of origin inquiry,” TearLab is unable to conclude whether or not the origin of its
necessary conflict minerals were from the Covered Countries.
TearLab
performed its due diligence procedures from January 1, 2019 through December 31, 2019 to determine the origin of the conflict
minerals used in the production of its product offerings across all product lines. TearLab’s due diligence procedures included
building conflict minerals awareness across the company’s supply base and by surveying all direct material suppliers that
were known to or may have provided products to TearLab containing metal and/or conflict minerals.
In
accord with Rule 13p-l under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, TearLab has filed this Form SD and the associated Conflict Minerals
Report. Both reports are posted (and publicly available) on TearLab’s website: www.TearLab.com (http://www.tearlab.com/investor/sec.htm)
Item
1.02 Exhibit
Section
2 – Exhibits
Item
2.01 Exhibits
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 duly authorized undersigned.
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TEARLAB
CORPORATION
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Dated:
June 1, 2020
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By:
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/s/
Michael Marquez
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Michael
Marquez
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Chief
Financial Officer
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