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RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2014
Notes to Financial Statements  
Note 9 - RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

Related-Party Convertible Notes

 

 As more fully described in Note 5, above, to these consolidated financial statements, on November 14, 2008, the Company entered into a series of convertible promissory notes (the “Related-Party Convertible Notes”), aggregating $110,000, with certain officers and members of the Company’s Board of Directors, including S. James Miller, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, and Charles AuBuchon. The Related-Party Convertible Notes bear interest at 7.0% per annum and were originally due February 14, 2009.  

 

 In conjunction with the issuance of the Related-Party Convertible Notes, the Company issued an aggregate of 149,996 warrants to the note holders to purchase common stock of the Company. All such warrants were exercised, on a cashless basis, between October and November 2013.

 

 The Company did not repay the Related-Party Convertible Notes on the due date. In August 2009, the Company received from the Related-Party Convertible Note holders a waiver of default and extension of the Maturity Date to January 31, 2010. As consideration for the waiver and note extension, the Company issued to the Related-Party Convertible Note holders warrants to purchase an aggregate of 150,000 shares of the Company’s common stock. The warrants have an exercise price of $0.50 per share and expire on August 25, 2014, of which warrants to purchase 136,364 shares of common stock were outstanding and exercisable as of December 31, 2013.

 

  On January 21, 2013, the holders of the Related-Party Convertible Notes agreed to extend the due date on their respective convertible notes to be due and payable not later than June 30, 2014; however, the Related-Party Convertible Notes will be callable at any time, at the option of the note holder, prior to June 30, 2014. During the year ended December 31, 2013, a Related Party Convertible Note holder elected to convert the principal amount of $10,000 of their respective Related-Party Convertible Note into 18,182 shares of common stock. 

 

 Lines of Credit

 

 In March 2013, the Company entered into a new unsecured line of credit agreement with available borrowings of up to $2,500,000 (the “Line of Credit”). The Line of Credit was extended by an existing shareholder and member of our Board of Directors (the “Holder”).  In March 2014, the Line of Credit’s borrowing was increased to an aggregate total of $3,500,000 (the “Amendment”). Pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Amendment, the Holder has the right to convert up to $2.5 million of the outstanding balance of the Line of Credit into shares of the Company's common stock for $0.95 per share. Any remaining outstanding balance will be convertible into shares of the Company's common stock for $2.25 per share. 

 

As consideration for the initial Line of Credit, the Company issued to the Holder a warrant (“Line of Credit Warrant”) exercisable for 1,052,632 shares of the Company’s common stock. The Line of Credit Warrant has a term of two years from the date of issuance and an exercise price of $0.95 per share.  As consideration for entering into the Amendment, the Company issued to the Holder an additional warrant (“Amendment Warrant”) exercisable for 177,778 shares of the Company’s common stock. The Amendment Warrant expires on March 27, 2015 and has an exercise price of $2.25 per share.

 

In April 2014, the Company and Holder entered into a further amendment to the Line of Credit to decrease the available borrowings to $3.0 million (the “Second Amendment”).  Contemporaneous with the execution of the Second Amendment, the Company entered into a new unsecured line of credit with available borrowings of up to $500,000 with a second member of the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Second Holder”), which amount would be convertible into shares of the Company’s common stock for $2.25 per share. As a result of these amendments, total available borrowings under aggregate Lines of Credit available to the Company remain unchanged at a total of $3,500,000. The Holder also assigned and transferred to the Second Holder one-half of the 177,778 Amendment Warrants issued by the Company to the Holder to purchase shares of the Company’s common stock, originally granted to the Holder upon execution of the Amendment.

 

Borrowings under the Lines of Credit accrue interest at a rate of 8% per annum and are due in March 2015.  Advances under the credit facilities are made at the Company’s request. The Lines of Credit shall terminate, and no further advances shall be made, upon the earlier of March 2015 or such date that the Company consummates a debt and/or equity financing resulting in net proceeds to the Company of at least $3.5 million. In the event of such financing, the outstanding balance under the terms of the Lines of Credit shall be due and payable upon demand.

 

The Company estimated the fair value of the Line of Credit Warrants and the Amendment Warrants using the Black-Scholes option pricing model using the following assumptions: term of two years for the Line of Credit warrants issued March 2013 and a term of one year for the Amendment Warrants issued in March 2014, a risk free interest rate of 2.58%, a dividend yield of 0%, and volatility of 79% for the Line of Credit Warrant and 74% for the Amendment Warrant. The Company recorded the fair value of the Line of Credit Warrants and the Amendment Warrants as deferred financing fees of approximately $707,000 to be amortized over the life of the Lines of Credit.

 

             The Company evaluated the Lines of Credit and determined that the instrument contains a contingent beneficial conversion feature, i.e. an embedded conversion right that enables the holder to obtain the underlying common stock at a price below market value. The beneficial conversion feature is contingent as the terms of the conversion do not permit the Company to compute the number of shares that the holder would receive if the contingent event occurs (i.e. future borrowings under the Lines of Credit). The Company has considered the accounting for this contingent beneficial conversion feature using the guidance in ASC 470, Debt. The guidance in ASC 470 states that a contingent beneficial conversion feature in an instrument shall not be recognized in earnings until the contingency is resolved. The beneficial conversion features of future borrowings under the Lines of Credit will be measured using the intrinsic value calculated at the date the contingency is resolved using the exercise price and trading value of the Company’s common stock at the date the Lines of Credit were issued (commitment date). Such amounts could range from $0 to approximately $500,000 depending on the amount borrowed by the Company under the Lines of Credit.

 

             As of March 31, 2014, no advances were made under the Lines of Credit.