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Patent Licenses
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2013
Goodwill And Intangible Assets Disclosure [Abstract]  
Patent Licenses

4. Patent Licenses

On December 31, 2003, LCT entered into an Option to License Intellectual Property agreement with Advanced Cell Technology, Inc. (“ACT”) for patent rights and paid ACT $340,000 in option and license fees. On February 13, 2004, LCT and ACT amended the Option agreement and LCT paid ACT additional option fees of $22,500 for fees related to registering ACT’s patents in selected international countries.

On May 14, 2004, LCT amended the licensing agreement with ACT for the exclusive worldwide patent rights for the following ACT technologies: UMass IP, ACT IP and Infigen IP. The additional license fees paid were $400,000.

On February 7, 2013, the Company and ACT entered into Amended and Restated License Agreements (the “Amendment”) for the purpose of completely amending and restating the terms of the license agreements. Under the terms of the Amendment, the Company acquired exclusive world-wide rights to all human therapeutic uses and cosmetic uses from ATC and Infigen’s early work on parthenogenic-derived embryonic stem cells, as well as certain rights to patents covering Single Blastomere technology.

Pursuant to the Amendment, all minimum R&D requirements and all milestone payments due to ACT under the Exclusive License Agreement have been eliminated. The Company will no longer pay any royalties under the ACT IP Agreement and Infigen IP Agreement. The obligation to pay royalties that ranged from 6%-12% under the UMass IP Agreement has been reduced to 0.25% of the net sales of products using technology covered by the UMass IP Agreement; and the obligation to pay a minimum annual license fee of $150,000 has been reduced to $75,000 annually, payable in two installments to ACT. Total license fees paid were $75,000 and $150,000, for the years ended December 31, 2013 and 2012, respectively.

As of December 31, 2013, the total amounts capitalized related to the acquired ACT licenses were $747,000, and $1,970,000 related to other patent acquisition costs.

At December 31, 2013, future amortization expense related to the intangible assets subject to amortization is expected to be as follows (in thousands):

 

     Amount  

2014

   $ 62   

2015

     62   

2016

     62   

2017

     62   

2018

     62   

Thereafter

     1,897   
  

 

 

 

Total

   $ 2,207