8-K

UNITEDSTATES

SECURITIESAND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington,D.C. 20549

FORM8-K

CURRENTREPORT

Pursuantto Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): August 14, 2020

DOCUMENTSECURITY SYSTEMS, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (585) 325-3610

NotApplicable

(Formername or former address, if changed since last report.)

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Item8.01 Other Events

As previously reported on a Form 8-K filed on May 22, 2020, management of Document Security Systems, Inc. (the “Company”) announced that it had committed to a restructuring plan to further reduce its operating expenses in response to the economic challenges and uncertainty resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and its potential permanent impact on the Company’s plastics business. As part of this restructuring, the management of the Company had decided to exit its plastic printing business line, which it operates under Plastic Printing Professionals, Inc. (“DSS Plastics”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, and to fully impair its goodwill related to DSS Plastics. Thereafter, the Company entered into negotiations with a third party to purchase substantially all of the assets of DSS Plastics. On August 14, 2020, the Company, DSS Plastics and this third party entered into an asset sale agreement for the sale of substantially all of the assets of DSS Plastics for $683,000 in cash, In addition, the Company is entitled to a potential additional earn-out payment of an aggregate amount of up to $517,000 based on future quarterly gross revenue of the business to be conducted by the buyer with the sold assets. The Company also licensed to the buyer on a royalty-free basis certain technology that support the sold assets.

In connection with the closing of this business line, and as previously reported in the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2020, the impact to the Company’s first quarter earnings of the goodwill impairment was approximately $685,000.

SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this Current Report on Form 8-K to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.