2.4.0.8112 - Disclosure - Investment in a Joint Venturetruefalsefalse1falsefalsefalseP01_01_2013To06_30_2013http://www.sec.gov/CIK0000868278duration2013-01-01T00:00:002013-06-30T00:00:001true1us-gaap_InvestmentsInAndAdvancesToAffiliatesScheduleOfInvestmentsAbstractus-gaap_truenadurationfalsefalsefalsefalsefalsefalsefalsefalse1falsefalsefalse00falsefalsefalsexbrli:stringItemTypestringfalse02false2us-gaap_InvestmentsInAndAdvancesToAffiliatesScheduleOfInvestmentsTextBlockus-gaap_truenadurationfalsefalsefalsefalsefalsefalsefalsefalseverboseLabel1falsefalsefalse00 <div style="clear:both; FONT-FAMILY:Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 10pt;MARGIN: 0pt 0px; FONT: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif "> <div style="clear:both;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman,serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" align="justify"><b>Note 6 – Investment in a Joint Venture</b></div> <div style="clear:both;TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman,serif; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" align="justify"><b><font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">  </font></b></div> <div style="clear:both;TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman,serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-style-link: RS Body Text Char" align="justify"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">On March 22, 2010, we, PSI Parent, PSI and the Joint Venture entered into the LLC Agreement of the Joint Venture and additional related agreements for the purpose of developing and commercializing, for worldwide distribution and sale, a wide range of non-prescription remedies using PSI Parent’s proprietary patented TPM. </font></div> <div style="clear:both;TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman,serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-style-link: RS Body Text Char" align="justify"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </font></div> <div style="clear:both;TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman,serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-style-link: RS Body Text Char" align="justify"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">In connection with the LLC Agreement, PSI Parent granted to us, pursuant to the terms of a License Agreement, dated March 22, 2010 (the “Original License Agreement”), (i) an exclusive, royalty-free, world-wide (subject to certain limitations), paid-up license to exploit OTC drugs and certain other products that embody certain of PSI Parent’s TPM-related patents and related know-how (collectively, the “PSI Technology”) and (ii) a non-exclusive, royalty-free, world-wide (subject to certain limitations), paid-up license to exploit certain compounds that embody the PSI Technology for use in a product combining one or more of such compounds with an OTC drug or in a product that is part of a regimen that includes the application of an OTC drug. </font></div> <div style="clear:both;TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman,serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-style-link: RS Body Text Char" align="justify"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </font></div> <div style="clear:both;TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman,serif; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" align="justify"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The Joint Venture is managed by a four-person Board of Managers, with two managers appointed by each member.  The LLC Agreement contains other normally found terms in such arrangements, including provisions relating to governance of the Joint Venture, indemnification obligations of the Joint Venture, allocation of profits and losses, the distribution of funds to the members and restrictions on transfer of a member’s interest. </font></div> <div style="clear:both;TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman,serif; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" align="justify"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </font></div> <div style="clear:both;TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman,serif; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" align="justify"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Pursuant to the Original License Agreement, we issued <font style=" FONT-SIZE: 10pt">1,440,000</font> shares of our Common Stock having an aggregate value of approximately $<font style=" FONT-SIZE: 10pt">2.6</font> million to PSI Parent (such shares, the “PSI Shares”), and made a one-time payment to PSI Parent of $<font style=" FONT-SIZE: 10pt">1.0</font> million. </font></div> <div style="clear:both;TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman,serif; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" align="justify"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </font></div> <div style="clear:both;TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman,serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-style-link: RS Body Text Char" align="justify"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">In accordance with a Contribution Agreement, dated March 22, 2010 (the “Contribution Agreement”), by and among us, PSI Parent, PSI, and the Joint Venture, we transferred, conveyed and assigned to the Joint Venture all of our rights, title and interest in, to and under the Original License Agreement, and the Joint Venture assumed, and undertook to pay, discharge and perform when due, all of our liabilities and obligations under and arising pursuant to the Original License Agreement (such actions, collectively, the “Assignment and Assumption”). </font></div> <div style="clear:both;TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman,serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-style-link: RS Body Text Char" align="justify"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </font></div> <div style="clear:both;TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman,serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-style-link: RS Body Text Char" align="justify"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Pursuant to the Contribution Agreement and in order to reflect the Assignment and Assumption, we, PSI Parent and the Joint Venture entered into an Amended and Restated License Agreement, dated March 22, 2010 (the “Amended License Agreement”), which amends and restates the Original License Agreement to reflect that the Joint Venture is the licensee thereunder and which otherwise contains substantially the same terms as the Original License Agreement.  The Joint Venture has the right to grant one or more sub-licenses of the rights granted under the Amended License Agreement to one or more third parties for reasonable consideration in any part of the applicable territory.  The Amended License Agreement provides that PSI Parent shall not, directly or through third parties, exploit the covered intellectual property during the term thereof, subject to certain limitations.  The Amended License Agreement will remain in effect until the expiration of the last to expire of the patents included within the PSI Technology or any extensions thereof.  Either party may terminate the Amended License Agreement upon written notice to the other party in the event of certain events involving bankruptcy or insolvency.  The Amended License Agreement also contains, among other things, provisions concerning the treatment of confidential information, the ownership of intellectual property and indemnification obligations.</font></div> <div style="clear:both; FONT-FAMILY:Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 10pt;TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <font style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">  </font></div> <div style="clear:both;TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman,serif; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" align="justify"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Pursuant to the LLC Agreement, we and PSI each own a <font style=" FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> 50</font>% membership interest in the Joint Venture.  PSI Parent will conduct and oversee much of the product development, formulation, testing and other research and development needed by the Joint Venture, and we will oversee much of the production, distribution, sales and marketing.  The LLC Agreement provides that each member may be required, from time to time and subject to certain limitations, to make capital contributions to the Joint Venture to fund its operations, in accordance with agreed upon budgets for products to be developed.  Specifically, we contributed in Fiscal 2010 $<font style=" FONT-SIZE: 10pt">500,000</font> in cash as initial capital and we are committed to fund up to $<font style=" FONT-SIZE: 10pt">2.0</font> million, subject to agreed upon budgets (which have not been established to date), toward the initial development and marketing costs of new products for the Joint Venture.  The newly formed Joint Venture has not engaged in any financial transactions, other than organizational expenses and general market and initial product evaluation and analysis.  At June 30, 2013, cash and cash equivalents includes $381,000 which is expected to be used by the Joint Venture to fund future product development initiatives currently under consideration by PSI Parent, PSI and us.</font></div> <div style="clear:both;TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman,serif; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" align="justify"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </font></div> <div style="clear:both;TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman,serif; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" align="justify"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Our determination is that the Joint Venture qualifies as a VIE and that we are the primary beneficiary.  As a consequence, we have consolidated the Joint Venture financial statements beginning with the quarter ended March 31, 2010.  In Fiscal 2010, we recorded the $<font style=" FONT-SIZE: 10pt">3.6</font> million payment noted above representing the estimated fair value to acquire the product license as an intangible asset.   We currently estimate the expected remaining useful life of the product license to be approximately <font style=" FONT-SIZE: 10pt">13.75</font> years which we will begin amortizing the cost of intangible asset once product commercialization is completed with PSI Parent and the OTC drug products begin to ship to our retail customers.  Since inception, the newly formed Joint Venture has not engaged in any financial transactions, other than certain organizational expenses and general market and product evaluation and analysis.  Furthermore, the liabilities and other obligations incurred, if any, by the Joint Venture is without recourse to us and do not create a claim on our general assets. </font></div> <div style="clear:both;TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman,serif; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" align="justify"><b><font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">  </font></b></div> <div style="clear:both;TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman,serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-style-link: RS Body Text Char" align="justify"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Due to multiple factors affecting our capital position, including the payment we made in December 2012 under the Settlement Agreement (see Note 3) and some of the product market research performed, we expect to modify the Joint Venture’s product development plans to stagger and/or defer into future periods certain product development initiatives due to the pre-commercialization investments required.  We expect to continue pre-commercialization research and product development initiatives during the latter half of Fiscal 2013.  Furthermore, we do not expect that the Joint Venture will derive any meaningful revenues, if any, until its commercialization efforts are completed which is not expected to occur until at the earliest the latter half of Fiscal 2014 when we traditionally seek to launch new products.</font></div> </div> falsefalsefalsenonnum:textBlockItemTypenaThe entire disclosure for the information summarizing investments in and advances to majority-owned subsidiaries, other controlled companies, and other affiliates. 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