SUBSEQUENT EVENTS | 9 Months Ended |
Nov. 30, 2013 |
Subsequent Events [Abstract] | ' |
Note 7. SUBSEQUENT EVENTS | ' |
License Agreements |
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On December 7, 2013, we entered into two separate worldwide exclusive license agreements with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (“MIT”) and its David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT and its Department of Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, a division of Yeshiva University (“Einstein”), and Montefiore Medical Center (“Montefiore” and, together with MIT and Einstein, the “Licensors”). The diagnostic license agreement (the “Diagnostic License Agreement”) covers pending patent applications, patent disclosures, and technology surrounding discoveries of alternatively spliced mRNA and protein isoform markers for the diagnosis and prognosis of cancer through the epithelial to mesenchymal transition (“EMT”) in epithelial solid tumor cancers. The therapeutic license agreement (the “Therapeutic License Agreement” and, together with the Diagnostic License Agreement, the “License Agreements”) covers pending patent applications, patent disclosures, and technology surrounding discoveries of alternatively spliced mRNA and protein isoform markers for the treatment and/or prevention of cancer through the EMT in epithelial solid tumor cancers. The License Agreements call for certain customary payments such as a license signing fee, reimbursement of patent expenses, annual license maintenance fees, milestone payments, and the payment of royalties on sales of products or services covered under the agreement. The intellectual property covered by the License Agreements includes International Patent Application number WO 2012/116248 A1 entitled “Alternatively Spliced mRNA Isoforms as Prognostic and Therapeutic Tools for Metastatic Breast Cancer and Other Invasive/Metastatic Cancers”, by Christopher B. Burge, Wu Albert Cheng, John Condeelis, Frank B. Gertler, Maja Oktay and Irina M. Sharpiro. |
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In accordance with the terms of the Diagnostic License Agreement, we paid a license signing fee of $15,000 in connection with entering into the Diagnostic License Agreement and in accordance with the terms of the Therapeutic License Agreement, we paid a license signing fee of $5,000 in connection with entering into the Therapeutic License Agreement. Pursuant to the License Agreements, we are required to make a series of annual minimum royalty or “license maintenance” payments for each license beginning on January 1, 2015. For a period of five years on each anniversary, we are required to make additional payments in amounts that gradually increase each year. The payments are $10,000 in 2015, $15,000 in 2016, $25,000 in 2017, $37,500 in 2018 and $50,000 in 2019. We are required to make additional payments of $50,000 every year each license is in effect thereafter. The license maintenance fee pursuant to the Therapeutic License Agreement shall not be due for as long as the Diagnostic License Agreement is in effect. Additionally, these annual license maintenance payments will be credited to running royalties due on net sales earned in the same calendar year. |
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Stock Option Issuances |
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On December 16, 2013, the Company granted an aggregate of 740,000 non-qualified stock options to the Company’s employees and consultants pursuant to the terms set forth in the Company’s Amended and Restated 2012 Omnibus Securities Incentive Plan. The 740,000 granted options have an exercise price of $1.50 per share and expire on December 16, 2023. 100,000 options vest immediately and 640,000 options vest upon the Company achieving certain milestones, which to date, have not been achieved. |
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Warrant Issuance |
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On December 17, 2013, the Company entered into a consulting agreement whereby the Company issued to the consultant 17,500 common stock purchase warrants with a term of four years and an exercise price equal to $2.50 per share. |
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2013 Note Amendments |
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On December 31, 2013, the Company entered into certain amendments to its outstanding 2013 Notes with the holders of an aggregate of $1,387,000 principal amount of 2013 Notes (the “Amendments”), whereby the holders of the 2013 Notes extended the maturity date of the 2013 Notes to June 30, 2014 from December 31, 2013. In consideration for entering into the Amendments, the Company (i) reduced the conversion price of the 2013 Notes to $1.50 per share from $2.50 per share, (ii) reduced the exercise price of an aggregate of 128,700 warrants issued in connection with the issuance of the 2013 Notes to $2.10 per share from $3.00 per share, (iii) issued an aggregate of 92,468 common stock purchase warrants with an exercise price of $2.10 per share and a term of four years, and (iv) issued an aggregate of 92,468 shares of the Company’s common stock. |
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Additionally, the Company has agreed to repay the principal amount of $100,000 plus accrued interest of 2013 Notes to a holder thereof. |
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Additional 2014 Notes |
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On January 14, 2014, the Company accepted subscriptions pursuant to separate Convertible Note and Warrant Purchase Agreements entered into with certain accredited investors identified therein for the issuance and sale in a private placement consisting of, in the aggregate: (a) $700,000 of convertible promissory notes (the “Additional 2014 Notes”) convertible into shares of the Company’s common stock and (b) four-year warrants to purchase up to 116,667 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $2.10 per share. |
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The Additional 2014 Notes bear interest at the rate of 8% per annum, mature on June 30, 2014 and rank pari passu to the Company’s issued and outstanding convertible promissory notes and senior to the Company’s issued and outstanding equity securities. Upon the closing by the Company of an equity or equity based financing or a series of equity or equity based financings (a “Qualified Financing”) resulting in gross proceeds to the Company of at least $5,000,000 in the aggregate, and the Company, prior to or concurrent with the completion of the Qualified Financing (the “Qualified Financing Threshold Amount”), the outstanding principal amount of the Additional 2014 Notes, together with all accrued and unpaid interest thereunder (the “Outstanding Balance”), shall automatically convert into such securities, including warrants of the Company, as are issued in the Qualified Financing, the amount of which shall be determined in accordance with the following formula: (the Outstanding Balance as of the closing of the Qualified Financing) x (1.15) / (the per security price of the securities sold in the Qualified Financing). For purposes of determining whether the Qualified Financing Threshold Amount has been satisfied, such amount shall include (i) the Outstanding Balance of the Additional 2014 Notes (each pursuant to the formula stated above) then outstanding, and (ii) the outstanding principal amount of the 2013 Notes and 2014 Notes together with all accrued and unpaid interest thereunder (pursuant to the same formula as stated above and therein). Following the issuance date of the Additional 2014 Notes, the lenders shall have the right, at their option, to convert the Outstanding Balance into shares of common stock at a conversion price of $1.50 per share. |
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