Marketable Securities and Fair Value Measurements (Details 1) (USD $)	9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2014
Assumptions used to estimate the fair values of the common stock warrants
Risk-free interest rate	1.43%
Expected volatility	78.00%
Expected life	4 years
Dividend yield	$ 0
OncoSec common stock warrants [Member]
Assumptions used to estimate the fair values of the common stock warrants
Expected volatility	85.00%
Dividend yield	$ 0
OncoSec common stock warrants [Member] \| Minimum [Member]
Assumptions used to estimate the fair values of the common stock warrants
Risk-free interest rate	0.58%
Expected life	2 years
OncoSec common stock warrants [Member] \| Maximum [Member]
Assumptions used to estimate the fair values of the common stock warrants
Risk-free interest rate	0.83%
Expected life	2 years 6 months

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Amount of dividends expected to be paid to holders of the underlying shares or contracted instruments over the term of the instruments life.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 820

-SubTopic 10

-Section 50

-Paragraph 2

-Subparagraph (e)

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Period the instrument, asset or liability is expected to be outstanding, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Measure of dispersion, in percentage terms (for instance, the standard deviation or variance), for a given stock price.

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Risk-free interest rate assumption used in valuing an instrument.

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