Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2011
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements
Nature of Operations [Text Block]	1. Business AND BASIS OF PRESENTATION Competitive Technologies, Inc. ("CTTC") and its majority-owned subsidiary, Vector Vision, Inc. ("VVI"), (collectively, "we" or "us") provide patent and technology licensing and commercialization services throughout the world, with concentrations in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, with respect to a broad range of life and physical sciences, electronics, and nanotechnologies originally invented by individuals, corporations and universities. Within the current portfolio of technologies, one technology has been the main focus of our business during both the 2011 fiscal year and the five-month transition period ending December 31, 2010: the Calmare Pain Therapy medical device. The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of CTTC, and VVI. Inter-company accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. For the five months ended December 31, 2010, the consolidated financial statements included the accounts of CTT Trading Company, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CTTC which was dissolved in December 2010. The Company has incurred operating losses since fiscal 2006. During the year ended December 31, 2011 and the five months ended December 31, 2010, we had a significant concentration of revenues from our pain therapy medical device technology. We continue to seek revenue from new technologies or products to mitigate the concentration of revenues, and replace revenues from expiring licenses. At current reduced spending levels, the Company may not have sufficient cash flow to fund operating expenses beyond third quarter fiscal 2012. These conditions raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. The financial statements do not include adjustments to reflect the possible future effect of the recoverability and classification of assets or amounts and classifications of liabilities that may result from the outcome of this uncertainty. The Company's continuation as a going concern is dependent upon its developing other recurring revenue streams sufficient to cover operating costs. If necessary, we will meet anticipated operating cash requirements by further reducing costs, issuing debt or equity, and/or pursuing sales of certain assets and technologies while we pursue licensing and distribution opportunities for our remaining portfolio of technologies. The Company does not have any significant individual cash or capital requirements in the budget going forward. There can be no assurance that the Company will be successful in such efforts. Failure to develop a recurring revenue stream sufficient to cover operating expenses would negatively affect the Company’s financial position. In fiscal 2010, the Company incorporated revenue from the sale of inventory to its revenue stream. That source of revenue is expected to continue into fiscal 2011 and into the future as sales of its Calmare pain therapy medical device and other products are added to its portfolio of technologies and products. Our liquidity requirements arise principally from our working capital needs, including funds needed to find and obtain new technologies or products, and protect and enforce our intellectual property rights, if necessary. We fund our liquidity requirements with a combination of cash on hand and cash flows from operations, if any, including royalty legal awards, and if needed, with short-term debt and equity financing. At December 31, 2011, we had $100,000 of outstanding debt. During the year ended December 31, 2011, the Company entered into a Factoring Agreement with Versant Funding, LLC ("Versant") to accelerate receivable collection and better manage cash flow. Under the Factoring Agreement the Company will sell to Versant certain of the Company's accounts receivables. For those accounts receivable the Company tenders to Versant and Versant chooses to purchase, Versant will advance 75% of the face value to the Company, and will submit a percentage of the remainder to the Company upon collection on the account. The percentage is based on the time it takes Versant to collect on the account. As part of the Factoring Agreement, the Company and Versant entered into a Security Agreement whereby the Company granted Versant a security interest in certain of the Company’s assets to secure the Company’s performance of the representations made with respect to the purchase of the accounts receivable. At December 31, 2011, we had no amount due from factor and no outstanding advances from the factor. On December 2, 2008, the Company received notice from the NYSE Amex, then known as NYSE Alternext US LLC (the "Exchange"), notifying us that the staff of the Exchange Corporate Compliance Department had determined that the Company’s Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended July 31, 2008 did not meet continued listing standards as set forth in Part 10 of the Exchange Company Guide, and the Company has therefore become subject to the procedures and requirements of Section 1009 of the Exchange Company Guide. As noted in Section 1003 of the Exchange Company Guide, companies with stockholders' equity of less than $2 million, and losses from continuing operations and net losses in two out of its three most recent fiscal years, or with stockholders' equity of less than $4 million and losses from continuing operations and net losses in three out of its four most recent fiscal years are non-compliant. We were only non-compliant with the stockholders’ equity component. Despite the Company's efforts to regain compliance, as required by the Exchange's rules, on June 4, 2010 the Exchange notified CTTC that the Exchange intended to file a delisting application with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) to strike the listing of CTTC’s securities from the Exchange pursuant to Section 1009(d) of the NYSE Amex Company Guide. The Company filed an appeal of the delisting determination and requested an oral hearing before a Listing Qualifications Panel of the Exchange (“the Panel”). That hearing was held on August 25, 2010. On August 30, the Company announced that the Panel had affirmed the Exchange Staff’s determination to delist the Company’s securities. On September 3, 2010, the Company’s securities began trading on the OTCQB marketplace under the ticker symbol CTTC. On October 5, 2010, the Company’s securities began trading on the OTC market's top tier, the OTCQX. The Company acquired the exclusive, worldwide rights to the "Scrambler Therapy™" technology in 2007. The Company's agreement with Giuseppe Marineo, the inventor of "Scrambler Therapy" technology, and Delta Research and Development ("Delta"), authorizes CTTC to manufacture and sell worldwide the device developed from the patented "Scrambler Therapy" technology. The "Scrambler Therapy" technology is patented in Italy and applications for patents have been filed in the U.S. and internationally and are pending approval. The Calmare® device has CE Mark certification from the European Union as well as U.S. FDA 510(k) clearance. CTTC's partner, GEOMC Co., Ltd. of Korea, is manufacturing the product commercially for worldwide distribution. Sales of these devices are expected to provide a significant proportion of the Company’s revenue for the next several years.

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2011

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements

1. Business AND BASIS OF PRESENTATION

Competitive Technologies, Inc. ("CTTC") and its majority-owned subsidiary, Vector Vision, Inc. ("VVI"), (collectively, "we" or "us") provide patent and technology licensing and commercialization services throughout the world, with concentrations in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, with respect to a broad range of life and physical sciences, electronics, and nanotechnologies originally invented by individuals, corporations and universities.

Within the current portfolio of technologies, one technology has been the main focus of our business during both the 2011 fiscal year and the five-month transition period ending December 31, 2010: the Calmare Pain Therapy medical device.

The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of CTTC, and VVI. Inter-company accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. For the five months ended December 31, 2010, the consolidated financial statements included the accounts of CTT Trading Company, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CTTC which was dissolved in December 2010.

The Company has incurred operating losses since fiscal 2006. During the year ended December 31, 2011 and the five months ended December 31, 2010, we had a significant concentration of revenues from our pain therapy medical device technology. We continue to seek revenue from new technologies or products to mitigate the concentration of revenues, and replace revenues from expiring licenses. At current reduced spending levels, the Company may not have sufficient cash flow to fund operating expenses beyond third quarter fiscal 2012. These conditions raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. The financial statements do not include adjustments to reflect the possible future effect of the recoverability and classification of assets or amounts and classifications of liabilities that may result from the outcome of this uncertainty.

The Company's continuation as a going concern is dependent upon its developing other recurring revenue streams sufficient to cover operating costs. If necessary, we will meet anticipated operating cash requirements by further reducing costs, issuing debt or equity, and/or pursuing sales of certain assets and technologies while we pursue licensing and distribution opportunities for our remaining portfolio of technologies. The Company does not have any significant individual cash or capital requirements in the budget going forward. There can be no assurance that the Company will be successful in such efforts. Failure to develop a recurring revenue stream sufficient to cover operating expenses would negatively affect the Company’s financial position.

In fiscal 2010, the Company incorporated revenue from the sale of inventory to its revenue stream. That source of revenue is expected to continue into fiscal 2011 and into the future as sales of its Calmare pain therapy medical device and other products are added to its portfolio of technologies and products.

Our liquidity requirements arise principally from our working capital needs, including funds needed to find and obtain new technologies or products, and protect and enforce our intellectual property rights, if necessary. We fund our liquidity requirements with a combination of cash on hand and cash flows from operations, if any, including royalty legal awards, and if needed, with short-term debt and equity financing. At December 31, 2011, we had $100,000 of outstanding debt.

During the year ended December 31, 2011, the Company entered into a Factoring Agreement with Versant Funding, LLC ("Versant") to accelerate receivable collection and better manage cash flow. Under the Factoring Agreement the Company will sell to Versant certain of the Company's accounts receivables. For those accounts receivable the Company tenders to Versant and Versant chooses to purchase, Versant will advance 75% of the face value to the Company, and will submit a percentage of the remainder to the Company upon collection on the account. The percentage is based on the time it takes Versant to collect on the account. As part of the Factoring Agreement, the Company and Versant entered into a Security Agreement whereby the Company granted Versant a security interest in certain of the Company’s assets to secure the Company’s performance of the representations made with respect to the purchase of the accounts receivable. At December 31, 2011, we had no amount due from factor and no outstanding advances from the factor.

On December 2, 2008, the Company received notice from the NYSE Amex, then known as NYSE Alternext US LLC (the "Exchange"), notifying us that the staff of the Exchange Corporate Compliance Department had determined that the Company’s Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended July 31, 2008 did not meet continued listing standards as set forth in Part 10 of the Exchange Company Guide, and the Company has therefore become subject to the procedures and requirements of Section 1009 of the Exchange Company Guide. As noted in Section 1003 of the Exchange Company Guide, companies with stockholders' equity of less than $2 million, and losses from continuing operations and net losses in two out of its three most recent fiscal years, or with stockholders' equity of less than $4 million and losses from continuing operations and net losses in three out of its four most recent fiscal years are non-compliant. We were only non-compliant with the stockholders’ equity component.

Despite the Company's efforts to regain compliance, as required by the Exchange's rules, on June 4, 2010 the Exchange notified CTTC that the Exchange intended to file a delisting application with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) to strike the listing of CTTC’s securities from the Exchange pursuant to Section 1009(d) of the NYSE Amex Company Guide. The Company filed an appeal of the delisting determination and requested an oral hearing before a Listing Qualifications Panel of the Exchange (“the Panel”). That hearing was held on August 25, 2010. On August 30, the Company announced that the Panel had affirmed the Exchange Staff’s determination to delist the Company’s securities. On September 3, 2010, the Company’s securities began trading on the OTCQB marketplace under the ticker symbol CTTC. On October 5, 2010, the Company’s securities began trading on the OTC market's top tier, the OTCQX.

The Company acquired the exclusive, worldwide rights to the "Scrambler Therapy™" technology in 2007. The Company's agreement with Giuseppe Marineo, the inventor of "Scrambler Therapy" technology, and Delta Research and Development ("Delta"), authorizes CTTC to manufacture and sell worldwide the device developed from the patented "Scrambler Therapy" technology. The "Scrambler Therapy" technology is patented in Italy and applications for patents have been filed in the U.S. and internationally and are pending approval. The Calmare® device has CE Mark certification from the European Union as well as U.S. FDA 510(k) clearance. CTTC's partner, GEOMC Co., Ltd. of Korea, is manufacturing the product commercially for worldwide distribution. Sales of these devices are expected to provide a significant proportion of the Company’s revenue for the next several years.