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RELATED PARTY TRANSACTION
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2014
Notes to Financial Statements  
NOTE 10. RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

A relative of Moshe Citronowicz, Bovie’s Senior Vice President, is considered a related party. Arik Zoran is a consultant of the Company doing business as AR Logic, Inc., which is a consulting firm owned by Arik Zoran, Mr. Citronowicz’s brother. During January 2011, we entered into a three year consulting services agreement with AR Logic that provides for a monthly retainer for engineering support for our existing generator product line and a separate hourly based fee structure for additional consulting related to new product lines. AR Logic was paid consulting fees of approximately $89,000 and $62,600 during the three months ended March 31, 2014 and 2013, respectively.

 

A second relative of Mr. Citronowicz is considered a related party. Yechiel Tsitrinovich is also a brother of Mr. Citronowicz, and acts as a consultant to the Company related to research and development of certain products. Mr. Tsitrinovich has a royalty contract with us related to the creation and design of a proprietary technology that is used in some of our generators. Mr. Tsitrinovich was paid a combination of consulting fees and royalties on previous product designs approximating $18,700 and $15,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2014 and 2013, respectively.