COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2012

Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]

Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Text Block]

11. COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

Operating Lease

On June 9, 2011, the Company entered into a new lease agreement (the “Lease’) to relocate its corporate headquarters to 60 Cutter Mill Road, Great Neck, New York.  The Lease is for a term of 5 years and two months commencing June 2011 and ending August 2016.  The rent increases annually during the term and ranges from approximately $2,800 per month during the first year to $3,200 per month during the fifth year.

Derivative Action

On November 7, 2011, the Company was sued as a nominal defendant in a stockholder derivative action, Alan R. Kahn v. Assaf Ran, et al., Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of Nassau, filed against the members of its Board of Directors (the “Board”). The plaintiff, who states that he was a stockholder of the Company at all pertinent times, alleges wrongdoing by the Board in a transaction in which Mr. Ran, our CEO and a director, was granted one million shares of the Company’s restricted stock in exchange for giving up his rights to options covering 490,000 shares of the Company’s common stock that he had held at the time of the transaction, as well as to seek future stock option grants from the Company. The plaintiff asserts that the Company was harmed by the transaction. The Board disagrees with the plaintiff’s allegations, has moved to dismiss the complaint, and if the case goes forward after the court rules on that motion, intends to defend vigorously against the plaintiff’s claims. The directors are insured under an officers’ and directors’ liability insurance policy which has a $75,000 self-insured retention that must be satisfied by the Company before the insurance policy will begin to pay defense costs. Because the action is a derivative claim alleging harm to the Company, any award would be paid to the Company, not by the Company, in the event that the plaintiff was successful on the merits of his claims.

The Company filed the motion to dismiss the complaint on January 27, 2012. The plaintiff filed a brief in opposition to the motion on March 2, 2012, and the Company filed a reply brief in support of the motion to dismiss on March 15, 2012. The court held oral argument on the motion to dismiss the complaint on April 19, 2012. We expect the court to issue a written ruling on the motion to dismiss in due course, but we cannot reliably predict how long it will take the court to do so.