4. NOTES PAYABLE

9 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2014

Debt Disclosure [Abstract]

NOTES PAYABLE

Notes payable consist of the following:

	December 31, 2014				March 31, 2014
	Principal Balance		Accrued Interest		Principal Balance		Accrued Interest
12% Notes payable	$	22,500	$	45,562	$	185,000	$	353,813
10% Note payable		–		–		5,000		6,375
Directors’ Note(s)		–		–		200,000		14,516
Total	$	22,500	$	45,562	$	390,000	$	374,704

During the nine months ended December 31, 2014, we recorded interest expense of $27,021 related to the contractual interest rates of our notes payable, which is included in interest and other debt expenses on our condensed consolidated statements of operations. Accrued interest is included in other current liabilities on our condensed consolidated balance sheets (see Note 8).

12% NOTES

From August 1999 through May 2005, we entered into various borrowing arrangements for the issuance of notes payable from private placement offerings (the "12% Notes"). In December 2014, we paid off in full six of the remaining eight 12% Notes with payments of $453,750, representing $150,000 in principal and $303,750 of accrued interest.

In December 2014, at the request of another note holder, we paid one-half of the $25,000 principal on his note and one-half of the $50,625 in accrued interest on his note for a total payment in December 2014 of $37,813. As part of that arrangement, the holder agreed that his note was no longer in default. In January 2015, we paid off the remaining one-half of that note in the amount of $37,813 (see Note 15).

In January 2015, we paid off the last remaining 12% Note with a payment of $30,250, representing $10,000 in principal and $20,250 of accrued interest (see Note 15).

10% NOTES

In December 2014, we paid off the remaining 10% Note with a payment of $11,750 representing principal of $5,000 and accrued interest of $6,750.

DIRECTORS’ NOTES

In July 2013, we borrowed $400,000 from two of our directors under two 90 day notes for $200,000 each bearing 10% interest (the “Notes”). At the discretion of the holders, if not paid off by October 9, 2013, the noteholders were entitled to (i) convert the principal and accrued interest under the Notes into shares of common stock at $0.088 per share (the “Conversion Price”) and (ii) receive warrants to purchase common stock equal to 50% of the principal converted under the Notes, with an exercise price of $0.132 per share. Additionally, there was a provision for a penalty interest rate of 12%.

That potential conversion price and warrant exercise price were based on the same pricing mechanism that we have used in prior equity unit financings since March 2012 (see Note 6) which are based on 80% of the then current market price of our common stock and with the warrant exercise price based on 120% of the same then current market price. We initially reserved 6,931,818 shares of common stock to support the conversion of the Notes and accrued interest in full as well as the exercise of the warrants in full (should such conversion and/or issuance occur).

During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2014, the principal of $200,000 and accrued interest of $9,367 were paid on one of the Notes, which extinguished all potential common stock and warrant issuance provisions related to that Note.

During the nine months ended December 31, 2014, the holder of the second Note converted the principal of $200,000 and accrued interest of $20,349 into 2,503,966 shares of our common stock per the conversion formula of the Note (see Note 6).