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Commitments and Contingencies
6 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2013
Commitments and Contingencies [Abstract]  
Commitments and Contingencies
3.Commitments and Contingencies

Financial Covenants
In June 2010, we entered into a License and Escrow Agreement which granted a customer a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to certain intellectual property necessary for the potential manufacture and supply of AXP devices and certain AXP disposables. The license is for the sole and limited purpose of manufacturing and supplying the AXP and related disposables for use by the customer. The licensed intellectual property will be maintained in escrow and will be released to and used by the customer if and only if the Company defaults under the Agreement. Originally, default occurred if the Company (1) fails to meet certain positive cash flow metrics for each rolling quarterly measurement period except where the following two measures are met, (2) failure to meet cash balance and short-term investments of at least $6,000,000 at the end of any given month, or (3) failure to meet a quick ratio of 2 to 1 at the end of any given month.

On December 31, 2013 we amended and restated the License and Escrow Agreement to delete all of the financial covenants except the minimum cash and short-term investments balance covenant, (2) above, which was reduced to $2,000,000 at the end of any given month. We are in compliance with this covenant at January 31, 2014.
 
Contingencies
On April 11, 2013, we filed an answer and counter-claims in response to the complaint Harvest Technologies Corp. (Harvest) filed on October 24, 2012 against the Company in the case captioned as Harvest Technologies Corp. v. ThermoGenesis Corp., 12-cv-01354, U.S. District Court, District of Delaware (Wilmington), with the complaint being amended on February 15, 2013 to name the Company’s customer Celling Technologies, LLC as a defendant. In the complaint, Harvest contends that our Res-Q 60 System infringes certain Harvest patents. The counter-claims are based on anti-trust and other alleged improper conduct by Harvest and further seek declarations that the Res-Q 60 System does not infringe the patents and that the patents are invalid. The Company is vigorously defending itself against the Harvest claims, while aggressively pursuing its separate claims against Harvest. The Company is unable to ascertain the likelihood of any liability and has not made an accrual as of December 31, 2013.

During the three months ended September 30, 2012, we were notified by a third party who believes that the Res-Q system infringes upon certain of its US and European patents. The Company is in the process of gathering information; however, it has not yet collected enough information to assess the validity of the alleged infringement or estimate any potential financial impact; therefore, it has not made an accrual as of December 31, 2013.

Warranty
We offer a warranty on all of our products of one to two years, except disposable products which we warrant through their expiration date. We periodically assess the adequacy of our recorded warranty liabilities and adjust the amounts as necessary.

The warranty liability is included in other current liabilities in the unaudited balance sheet. The change in the warranty liability for the six months ended December 31, 2013 is summarized in the following table:

 
 
 
Balance at July 1, 2013
 
$
489,000
 
Warranties issued during the period
  
90,000
 
Settlements made during the period
  
(75,000
)
Changes in liability for pre-existing warranties during the period
  
(142,000
)
Balance at December 31, 2013
 
$
362,000