UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 OR 15(d) of The Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported) June 21, 2012
OCULUS INNOVATIVE SCIENCES, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
| Delaware | 001-33216 | 68-0423298 | ||
| (State or other jurisdiction | (Commission | (IRS Employer | ||
| of incorporation) | File Number) | Identification No.) |
| 1129 N. McDowell Blvd, Petaluma, CA | 94954 | |
| (Address of principal executive offices) | (Zip Code) |
(707) 782-0792
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
Not applicable.
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)
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| Item 1.01 | Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement. |
In February 2011, we entered into a product option agreement with AmDerma Pharmaceuticals, LLC, the parent company of Quinnova Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and an alliance member of Amneal Enterprises, for the sale of the option to exclusively sell and distribute our proprietary Microcyn-based acne drug candidate. On June 23, 2011, AmDerma exercised its option to license rights to the drug candidate.
On June 21, 2012, we entered into a collaboration agreement with AmDerma (the “Collaboration Agreement”). Pursuant to the Collaboration Agreement, AmDerma is responsible for the development of a Microcyn-based acne drug candidate in the United States, including all activities required to gain regulatory approvals. AmDerma will also be responsible for all costs. Additionally, within one year of the first commercial sale by AmDerma, AmDerma shall identify at least one secondary indication that AmDerma will develop. If AmDerma declines to pursue such secondary indication, then the right to develop such secondary indication will revert back to us.
We granted AmDerma an exclusive, royalty-bearing perpetual license in the United States and India, with the right to sublicense and subcontract in certain circumstances, and a right of first refusal to expand the territory of the license to include the European Union, Canada, Brazil, and Japan. We retained rights to the “rest of world.”
This report contains forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements that express our intentions, beliefs, expectations, strategies, predictions or any other statements related to our future activities or future events or conditions. These statements are based on current expectations, estimates and projections about our business based, in part, on assumptions made by our management. These statements are not guarantees of future performances and involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Therefore, actual outcomes and results may differ materially from what is expressed or forecasted in the forward-looking statements due to numerous factors, including those risks discussed in our annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2012 and in other documents that we file from time to time with the Commission. Any forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which they are made, and we do not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this report, except as required by law.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| Oculus Innovative Sciences, Inc. | |
| (Registrant) | |
| Date:June 27, 2012 | |
| /s/ Robert Miller | |
| Name: Robert Miller | |
| Title: Chief Financial Officer |