Related Party Transactions | 9. RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS The Company signed a five year lease for office space in Miami, Florida with a company owned by Dr. Phillip Frost, who is the beneficial owner of more than 10% of the Company’s Common Stock. The rental payments under the Miami office lease, which commenced January 1, 2008 and expired on December 31, 2012, were approximately $1,250 per month and continued on a month-to-month basis. In February 2016, the office space rent was reduced to $0 per month. The Company did not record any rent expense related to the Miami lease for the three and six months ended January 31, 2017. The Company recorded rent expense related to the Miami lease of approximately $0 and $3,800 respectively, for the three and six months ended January 31, 2016. The Company signed a three year lease for warehouse space in Hialeah, Florida with a company jointly controlled by Dr. Frost and Dr. Jane Hsiao, the Company’s Chairman and Interim CEO. The rental payments under the Hialeah warehouse lease, which commenced February 1, 2009 and expired on January 31, 2012, were approximately $5,000 per month for the first year and were subsequently on a month-to-month basis following the expiration of the lease. As further described in Note 10, the Company vacated the Hialeah warehouse in September 2014 and entered into a new lease with an unrelated third party. The Company did not records any rent expense related to the Hialeah warehouse for the three and six months ended January 31, 2017 and 2016. Accounts payable related to the two leases above totaled approximately $191,000 as of January 31, 2017 and July 31, 2016. The Company has the Credit Facility and multiple notes payable outstanding to related parties, as more fully described in Note 6 to these consolidated financial statements. The Company incurred interest expense related to the Credit Facility of approximately $28,000 and $55,000 for the three and six months ended January 31, 2017 and 2016. The Company also incurred interest expense related to the promissory notes of approximately $20,000 and $40,000 for the three and six months ended January 31, 2017 and $7,000 and $14,000 for the three and six months ended January 31, 2016. Approximately $906,000 and $810,000 of accrued interest remained outstanding at January 31, 2017 and July 31, 2016, respectively. Dr. Hsiao, Dr. Frost and directors Steven Rubin and Rao Uppaluri are each stockholders, current or former officers and/or directors or former directors of TransEnterix, Inc. (formerly SafeStitch Medical, Inc.) (“TransEnterix”), a publicly-traded, medical device manufacturer, BioCardia, Inc. (“Biocardia”) (formerly known as Tiger X Medical, Inc.), Cogint, Inc. (“Cogint”) (formerly known as IDI, Inc.), a publicly-traded data fusion company and VBI Vaccines Inc, a vaccine development company. The Company’s Chief Financial Officer also served as the Chief Financial Officer of TransEnterix until October 2, 2013. The Company’s Chief Financial Officer continued as an employee of TransEnterix until March 3, 2014, during which he supervised the Miami based accounting staff of TransEnterix under a cost sharing arrangement whereby the total salaries of the Miami based accounting staff was shared by the Company and TransEnterix. Since December 2009, the Company’s Chief Legal Officer has served under a similar cost sharing arrangement as Corporate Counsel of Cogint, as the Chief Legal Officer of TransEnterix and as Chief Legal Officer of BioCardia through October 2016. The Company recorded to selling, general and administrative costs and expenses to account for the sharing of costs under these arrangements of $9,000 and $18,000, respectively, for the three and six months ended January 31, 2017, and $9,000 and $18,000, respectively, for the three and six months ended January 31, 2016. Accounts payable to TransEnterix related to these arrangements totaled approximately $1,000 and $1,200 at January 31, 2017 and July 31, 2016. |