Related Party Transactions

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2012

Related Party Transactions [Abstract]

Related Party Transactions

16.  Related Party Transactions

Tamalpais Partners LLC

Steven Ledger, the Chairman of our Board of Directors, is the founder and managing partner of Tamalpais Partners LLC, a business consulting firm. On February 1, 2012, we entered into a consulting agreement with Tamalpais under which Tamalpais will provide us with advisory services focused on capital and business issues, including assistance on raising capital, mergers, acquisitions, business development and investor relations/positioning. We pay Tamalpais $6,000 per month during the term of this agreement, which runs for one year, beginning February 1, 2012. During the three-month period ended June 30, 2012, we paid Tamalpais $18,000 for services rendered, and $30,000 for the six-month period ended June 30, 2012. We had no amounts due them as of June 30, 2012.

ipCapital Group, Inc.

On October 11, 2011, we engaged ipCapital Group, Inc., an affiliate of John Cronin, who is one of our directors, to provide assistance in the execution of our strategic decision to significantly strengthen, grow, and commercially exploit our intellectual property assets. On January 30, 2012, we entered into a third addendum to our engagement agreement with ipCapital to provide additional services related to identifying and extracting additional new inventions, and to draft new invention disclosures, among other opportunities. We anticipate that costs for these additional services, if performed, will in the aggregate, be between $50,000 and $100,000. Should we choose to utilize all of the services contained within the engagement agreement, as amended, the total amount of all services provided under the engagement agreement, as amended, would, in the aggregate, be $540,000.

During the three and six-month periods ended June 30, 2012, we received an aggregate of $30,000 and $130,000, respectively, of new invention extraction and disclosure drafting services from ipCapital of which we paid $100,000. The unpaid balance of $30,000 was reported in accounts payable as of June 30, 2012. We received no such services from ipCapital due either the three or six-month period ended June 30, 2011.