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Intangible Assets
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2012
Intangible Assets [Abstract]  
Intangible Assets

NOTE D — INTANGIBLE ASSETS

On January 6, 2012, we entered into a Master License Agreement (the "License Agreement") with Health Discovery Corporation, a Georgia corporation ("HDC"). We were granted an exclusive worldwide license to certain of HDC's "Licensed Patents" and "Licensed Know-How" (as defined in the License Agreement) to, among other things, use, develop, make, have made, sell, offer to sell, modify, and commercially exploit "Licensed Uses" (as defined in the License Agreement) and "Licensed Products" (as defined in the License Agreement), in the fields of laboratory testing, molecular diagnostics, clinical pathology, anatomic pathology and digital image analysis (excluding non-pathology-related radiologic and photographic image analysis) relating to the development, marketing production or sale of any "Laboratory Developed Tests" or LDTs (as defined in the License Agreement) or other products used for diagnosing, ruling out, predicting a response to treatment, and/or monitoring treatment of any or all hematopoietic and solid tumor cancers excluding cancers affecting the retina and breast cancer (collectively with certain other qualifications as defined in the License Agreement, the "Field" or "Field of Use").

The License Agreement allows us, among other things, to develop and sell, without limitation, any gene, gene-product or protein-based LDTs using HDC's technology in the Field and provides for sublicensing rights and the assignment of the License Agreement, in whole or in part, in our sole discretion. The License Agreement further provides us with access to certain HDC personnel and consulting resources in the fields of mathematics and in genetic and molecular test development. The Licensed Know-How also includes, among other things, certain tests, algorithms and computer software which have already been developed by HDC.

We have agreed to use our best efforts to commercialize certain products within one year of the date of the License Agreement, subject to two one-year extensions per product if needed, including LDTs for prostate, colon and pancreatic cancer and software to automate the interpretation of cytogenetics and flow cytometry (collectively, the "Initial Licensed Products").

 

If we have not generated $5.0 million of net revenue from products, services and sublicensing arrangements pursuant to the License Agreement within five years of the effective date, HDC may, at its option, revoke the exclusivity with respect to any one or more of the Initial Licensed Products, subject to certain conditions.

Upon the execution of the License Agreement, we paid HDC $1,000,000 in cash and issued to HDC 1,360,000 shares of our common stock which had a market value of $1,945,000 using the closing price of $1.43 per share for the Company's common stock on the OTCQB Market on January 6, 2012.

In addition, the License Agreement provides for milestone payments to HDC, in cash or stock, based on sublicensing revenue and revenue generated from products developed as a result of the License Agreement. Milestone payments are in increments of $500,000 for every $2,000,000 in GAAP revenue recognized by us up to a total of $5,000,000 in potential milestone payments. After $20,000,000 in cumulative GAAP revenue has been recognized by us, HDC will receive a royalty of (i) 6.5% (subject to adjustment under certain circumstances) of Net Revenue (as defined in the License Agreement) generated from all Licensed Uses except for the cytogenetics and flow cytometry interpretation system and (ii) a royalty of 50% of Net Revenue (after the recoupment of certain development and commercialization costs) that we derive from any sublicensing arrangements for the cytogenetics and flow cytometry interpretation system.

Unless sooner terminated pursuant to its terms, the License Agreement will remain in effect until the expiration of the last of the patents licensed under the License Agreement and the license for certain products related to a specific patent will extend for an additional one year after the expiration of such patent.

We recorded intangible assets of approximately $2.98 million related to this license agreement. The intangibles, which have alternative uses, were valued at fair value based on cost of the assets as we acquired the assets in an arms-length transaction. We have three classes of intangible assets as described in the following table:

 

Asset Category

   Fair Value     

Service Period

Support Vector Machine (SVM) technology

   $ 500,000       Acquisition date through weighted average patent expiration date

Laboratory developed test (LDT) technology

   $ 1,482,000       Acquisition date through the weighted average patent expiration date or period of economic benefit

Flow Cytometry and Cytogenetics technology

   $ 1,000,000       Acquisition date through the weighted average patent expiration date or period of economic benefit

We recorded approximately $14,000 in amortization expense of intangibles for the three months ended March 31, 2012 as a research and development expense in the consolidated statement of operations. We will record all amortization of intangibles in that category until the time that we have products, services or cost savings directly attributable to these intangible assets that would require that it be recorded in cost of goods sold. We have assumed no residual value for any of the three asset categories described above.