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Dec. 31, 2011
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11. Licenses The Company has two license agreements with the University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. ("UFRF") for their technologies. The Company issued 29,997 shares of common stock as partial consideration in 1998. The license agreements provide for, among other things, the Company to make minimum annual research expenditures of $1,000,000 and to adhere to specific milestones. Beginning in 2005, the Company was required to pay minimum royalties on product sales of $50,000 annually per agreement. If the Company fails to perform certain of its obligations, UFRF may terminate the license agreements. The Company's milestones are in compliance with UFRF and the Company had $25,000 of royalties payable to UFRF recorded in the accompanying balance sheets in accounts payable and accrued expenses at December 31, 2011 and 2010, respectively. In December 2011, the Company completed an exclusive licensing agreement with Texas A&M University (College Station, TX) ("Texas A&M") for access to new analogs of the lantibiotic Mutacin 1140 (MU1140) and other lantibiotics with improved pharmacological properties and structural features. Under the terms of the license agreement, we made an initial payment of five thousand dollars ($5,000) to Texas A&M. We must also pay to Texas A&M a royalty of five percent (5%) of net sales of products that include the licensed technology, subject to royalty stacking provisions with a two percent (2%) minimum royalty. Additionally, in order to maintain the exclusive license, commencing in 2014 and each year thereafter (up to our first sale of products using the licensed technology), we must pay Texas A&M $15,000 as minimum consideration for the continuation of the license agreement. Once we commence the sale of products that include the technology we license from Texas A&M we must pay a minimum annual amount of $100,000 to Texas A&M and every year thereafter through the expiration of the Agreement. However, once sales begin, any royalty payments we make on net sales will be credited against the $100,000 required maintenance payment. |