Stockholders' Equity (Deficit)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2015

Stockholders Equity Note [Abstract]

Stockholders' Equity Note Disclosure [Text Block]

7. Stockholders’ Equity (Deficit)

On March 16, 2015, the Company issued and sold 78,787,880 shares of common stock in a private placement at a price of $0.165 per share, for aggregate proceeds of $13.0 million. In conjunction with this private placement, the Company issued an aggregate of warrants to purchase 19,696,971 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $0.215 per share to the purchasers of the common stock. The Company paid $833,000 in fees to its placement agents, along with the issuance of warrants to purchase 4,727,273 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $0.215 per share. The Company valued these warrants as liability instruments and recorded a liability of $4,211,000 as of March 16, 2015. In the first quarter of 2015, the Company recorded $213,000 of other expenses representing the portion of the initial warrant value of the placement agent warrants related to the initial fair value of the warrants issued to the purchasers of the common stock. The remainder of the initial fair value of the warrants of $3,998,000 was treated as a reduction of additional paid-in-capital. In addition, $218,000 of the fees paid to its placement agent were expensed as other expenses in the quarter ended March 31, 2015 as they also represented issuance costs related to the initial fair value of the warrants issued to the purchasers of the common stock.