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Commitments and Contingencies | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2013
Commitments and Contingencies | (6) Commitments and Contingencies The Company has or is subject to the following commitments and contingencies: Employment Agreements The Company maintains employment agreements with several executive employees. Most of these agreements provide for payments to be made under certain conditions related to a change in control of the Company and entitle the employee to wages and certain benefits payments not exceeding one calendar year from the date of termination without cause or by the employee for good reason. The agreements may be terminated at any time by the Company with or without cause upon written notice to the employee. Operating Lease On February 8, 2008, the Company entered into a lease agreement for approximately 15,000 square feet of newly constructed office facilities in Broomfield, Colorado. The office location serve d as the Company’s primary business office. In June 2011, the Company and its landlord amended the lease mutually agreeing for the Company to relocate to another suite, comprising approximately 4,500 square feet, within the same building. The original five year term of the Lease remained unchanged. The Company’s facility lease which would have originally expired in June 2013 was extended by a letter of extension through September 30 2013. Rent expense under this lease for the nine months ended September 30, 2013 and 2012 was $44,000 and $36,000, respectively, and was $559,000 from Inception through September 30, 2013. Effective August, 1, 2013 the Company entered into a lease agreement for approximately 5,300 square feet of office facilities in Westminster, Colorado that has serve d as the Company’s primary business office since October 1, 2013. Below is a summary of the future minimum lease payments committed for the Company’s facility in Westminster, Colorado as of September 30, 2013:
201 3 | $ |  | 19,000 |
2014 |  | 78,000 |
2015 |  | 8 1,000 |
2016 |  | 62,000 |
Total future minimum lease payments | $ |  | 240,000 |
Cardiovascular Pharmacology and Engineering Consultants, LLC, or CPEC Under the terms of its strategic license agreement with CPEC, a licensing subsidiary of Indevus Pharmaceuticals Inc. (a wholly owned subsidiary of Endo Pharmaceuticals), holding ownership rights to certain clinical trial data of Gencaro, the Company will incur milestone and royalty obligations upon the occurrence of certain events. In August 2008, the Company paid CPEC a milestone payment of $500,000 based on the July 31, 2008 submission of its NDA to the FDA. If the FDA grants marketing approval for Gencaro, the agreement provides that the Company will owe CPEC another milestone payment of $8.0 million within six months after FDA approval. The agreement also states that the Company has the obligation to make milestone payments of up to $5.0 million in the aggregate upon regulatory marketing approval in Europe and Japan. The agreement states that the Company’s royalty obligation ranges from 12.5% to 25% of revenue from the related product based on achievement of specified product sales levels, including a 5% royalty that CPEC is obligated to pay under its original license agreement for Gencaro. The Company has the right to buy down the royalties to a range of 12.5% to 17% by making a payment to CPEC within six months of regulatory approval.

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