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Employment Arbitration. On June 10, 2014, the Company announced that it had terminated Cxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx as its Chief Executive Officer and as an employee of the Company for cause, effective June 9, 2014, and that Mx. Xxxxxxxx had also been removed from his position as Chairman of the Board of Directors. On June 17, 2014, Mx. Xxxxxxxx wrote to the Company stating that he had retained counsel to represent him in connection with an alleged wrongful termination of his employment. On July 28, 2014, Mx. Xxxxxxxx resigned from the Board and the boards of directors of the Company’s subsidiaries. In 2014, the Company and Mx. Xxxxxxxx entered into a tolling agreement with respect to his alleged employment claims pending resolution of a securities class action and shareholder litigation. The securities class action was resolved in November 2017 and the derivatives litigation was resolved in June 2018. On August 28, 2018, counsel for Mx. Xxxxxxxx filed a demand for arbitration, captioned Cxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx v. Ocean Power Technologies, Inc., Case No. 00-00-0000-0000, before the American Arbitration Association in New Jersey. The demand names Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. as the respondent and alleges various claims and seeks declaratory relief and permanent injunction. The demand seeks damages in the amount of $5 million for compensatory and punitive damages, plus interest and attorneys’ fees as well as certain equitable relief. On November 8, 2018, the Company through counsel responded to the demand for arbitration, denied all allegations, and asserted various affirmative defenses. On April 5, 2019, a three-member arbitration panel scheduled the discovery process to run from April 12, 2019 until November 9, 2019. A pre-hearing case management conference was held on October 14, 2019. The hearing is set for December 9-11 and 16-18, 2019 in Princeton, New Jersey. The Company has not accrued any provision related to this matter since it cannot reasonably estimate the loss contingency. Tide Runner Marine, Inc. Lawsuit On June 13, 2018, Tide Runner Marine, Inc. (“Tide Runner”) filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey captioned Tide Runner Marine, Inc. v. Ocean Power Technologies, Inc., Case No. 1:18-cv-10496. The complaint names the Company as defendant and alleges claims for breach of contract, unjust enrichment, conversion, and fraud, negligent and/or reckless misrepresentation all as associated with the removal of a Company mooring system off the coas.

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