EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval) is a government database created and maintained by the United States (US) Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).  EDGAR performs automated collection, validation, indexing, acceptance, and forwarding of submissions by companies and others who are required by law to file forms with the SEC.  EDGAR's primary purpose is to benefit investors, corporations, and the public by accelerating the receipt, acceptance, dissemination, and analysis of time-sensitive corporate information filed with the SEC.

Not all documents filed by US listed (publicly traded) companies with the SEC are available on EDGAR.  Listed companies were phased into EDGAR by filing over a three-year period, ending May 6, 1996.  After that date, all public domestic companies are required to make their filings on EDGAR, except for filings made on paper because of a hardship exemption.  Third-party filings with respect to these companies, such as tender offers and Schedules 13D, are filed on EDGAR. 

License agreements regarded to be material are submitted as exhibits to primary SEC filings, such as 10-K reports.  However, a high frequency of the license agreements submitted to EDGAR has the royalty rate (or other form of compensation) redacted--i.e., the royalty rate and other sensitive information are deleted from the exhibit before its filing into EDGAR.  We make a diligent and good faith effort to retrieve all the Edgar filings in which the royalty rate is not redacted.  You can obtain more information about EDGAR by visiting the link below:

www.sec.gov