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Stockholders' Equity
 12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2013
Stockholders' Equity [Abstract]  
Stockholders' Equity
9.    Stockholders’ Equity
On February 29, 2012, the Company filed a Certificate of Correction with the Secretary of State of Delaware effectively reducing the amount of its authorized shares from 848,000,000 shares of Common Stock and 2,000,000 shares of Preferred Stock to 70,000,000 shares of Common Stock and 1,000,000 shares of Preferred Stock. This correction reflects the new capital structure of the Company following its 1-for-25 reverse split that became effective at the close of business on March 25, 2011.
 
On May 1, 2012, the Company began trading its common stock on the NASDAQ Stock Market under the trading symbol NEON.
 
Common Stock
 
During the year ended December 31, 2013, warrant holders (excluding our CEO, CFO and member of our Board of Directors) exercised warrants to purchase 1,815,368 shares of common stock using the cashless exercise provision allowed in the warrant and received 1,384,719 shares of our common stock. In addition, warrant holders exercised warrants to purchase 429,536 shares of common stock and paid a cash exercise price ranging between $1.00 and $3.13 per share for total cash proceeds of approximately $714,000.
 
On February 26, 2013, David Brunton, our CFO, exercised warrants to purchase 320,000 shares of common stock using the cashless exercise provision allowed in the warrant and received 266,228 shares of our common stock.
 
On August 12, 2013, Thomas Eriksson, our CEO, exercised warrants to purchase 400,000 shares of common stock using the cashless exercise provision allowed in the warrant and received 326,608 shares of our common stock.
 
On August 12, 2013, Per Bystedt, the Chairman of our Board of Directors (“Board”), exercised warrants to purchase 387,773 shares of common stock using the cashless exercise provision allowed in the warrant and received 316,624 shares of our common stock.
 
On August 12, 2013, Phenning Holdings Ltd, a company controlled by Per Bystedt, the Chairman of our Board, exercised warrants to purchase 227,661 shares of common stock using the cashless exercise provision allowed in the warrant and received 182,890 shares of our common stock.
 
On August 12, 2013, Davisa Ltd, a company controlled by Mats Dahlin, a member of our Board, exercised warrants to purchase 215,724 shares of common stock using the cashless exercise provision allowed in the warrant and received 176,143 shares of our common stock.
 
On August 12, 2013, John Reardon, a member of our Board, exercised warrants to purchase 80,000 shares of common stock using the cashless exercise provision allowed in the warrant and received 65,322 shares of our common stock.
 
On September 16, 2013, we issued 1,168,939 shares of our common stock to investors in connection with an equity financing transaction in which we raised approximately $7.7 million and received approximately $6.9 million in cash, net of underwriting commissions, direct offering costs including legal, audit and other regulatory costs of approximately $0.8 million.
 
On March 16, 2012, John Reardon, a member of our board of directors, exercised a warrant to purchase 200,000 shares of common stock using the net exercise provision allowed in the warrant and received 174,798 shares of our common stock.
 
 During the year ended December 31, 2012, warrant holders (excluding members of our board of directors) exercised warrants to purchase 361,000 shares of common stock using the net exercise provision allowed in the warrant and received 235,144 shares of our common stock. Warrant holders exercised warrants to purchase 17,500 shares of common stock and paid a cash exercise price of $3.13 per share for total proceeds of $54,775. In addition, during 2012 a warrant holder exercised a warrant to purchase 122,238 shares of common stock and paid a cash exercise price of $1.38 per share for total proceeds of $168,668.
 
During the year ended December 31, 2011, the Company issued a total of 5,408,657 shares of common stock as a result of the conversion of approximately $2.7 million of the Senior Convertible Secured Notes – 2009 and 2010 private placement financing transactions debt principal and accrued interest.
 
During the year ended December 31, 2011, the Company received proceeds of approximately $515,000 from the exercise of 493,426 warrants for shares of common stock.
 
During the year ended December 31, 2011, we issued the note holders of Senior Convertible Secured Notes- 2007 31,570 shares of our common stock pursuant to the debt-for-equity repayment plan and retired the remaining note principal balance and accrued interest totaling $86,000 on April 26, 2011.
 
During the year ended December 31, 2011, the Company issued 60,000 shares of common stock and issued a 3-year warrant to purchase 20,000 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $2.00 per share in satisfaction of certain accrued expenses totaling $120,000.
 
On April 25, 2011, Davisa Ltd (a company controlled by Mats Dahlin, a member of our Board) exercised warrants to purchase 50,000 shares of common stock. The Company recorded an additional $50,000 as stock based compensation to compensate Davisa Ltd by waiving the $1.00 exercise price and issued 50,000 shares of our common stock to Davisa Ltd for services provided in connection with the private placement of convertible notes and warrants in the March 2011 financing transaction.
 
During the year ended December 31, 2011, the Company issued 27,851 shares of unregistered common stock to note holders of the Senior Convertible Secured Notes – 2011 private placement financing transaction in lieu of cash for their $69,628 accrued interest payment that was due June 30, 2011 (see Note 6).
 
During the year ended December 31, 2011, we issued the note holders of Senior Convertible Secured Notes- 2011 a total of 1,844,814 shares of our common stock and retired the note principal balance and accrued interest totaling $4.6 million. Included in the total shares issued of 1,844,814 is 99,461 shares of common stock issued for bonus interest (as determined) totaling $399,000.
 
During the year ended December 31, 2011, we issued 3.0 million shares of our common stock to investors who completed an equity financing transaction that closed on December 13, 2011 in which we raised $12.0 million and received $11.2 million in cash, net of direct selling costs but before other direct offering costs of approximately $0.4 million.
 
Preferred Stock
 
On March 21, 2013, Series A Preferred stockholders exchanged 83 shares of Series A Preferred stock for 39,790 shares of our common stock, eliminating all Series A Preferred shares outstanding.
 
On February 27, 2013, Series B Preferred stockholders exchanged 4 shares of Series B Preferred stock for 528 shares of our common stock.
 
On March 21, 2013, Series B Preferred stockholders exchanged 8 shares of Series B Preferred stock for 929 shares of our common stock.
 
During the year ended December 31, 2012, Series B Preferred stockholders exchanged 19 shares of Series B Preferred stock for 2,509 shares of our common stock.
 
During the year ended December 31, 2011, Series A Preferred stockholders exchanged 82.79 shares of Series A Preferred stock for 39,790 shares of our common stock, and Series B Preferred stockholders exchanged 26.04 shares of Series B Preferred stock for 6,282 shares of our common stock.
 
The terms of the Series A and Series B Preferred stock are as follows:
 
      ●      Dividends and Distributions.
     
 
Series A Preferred:
The holders of shares of Series A Preferred stock were entitled to participate with the holders of our common stock with respect to any dividends declared on the common stock in proportion to the number of shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of the shares of Series A Preferred stock held by them.
     
 
Series B Preferred:
The holders of shares of Series B Preferred stock are entitled to participate with the holders of our common stock with respect to any dividends declared on the common stock in proportion to the number of shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of the shares of Series B Preferred stock held by them.
     
      ●      Liquidation Preference.
     
 
Series A Preferred:
In the event of any liquidation, dissolution, or winding up of our operations, either voluntary or involuntary, subject to the rights of any other series of Preferred stock to be established by the Board of Directors (the “Senior Preferred Stock”), the holders of Series A Preferred stock shall be entitled to receive, after any distribution to the holders of Senior Preferred Stock and prior to and in preference to any distribution to the holders of common stock, $0.001 for each share of Series A Preferred stock then outstanding.
     
 
Series B Preferred:
In the event of any liquidation, dissolution, or winding up of our operations, either voluntary or involuntary, subject to the rights of the Series A Preferred stock and Senior Preferred Stock, the holders of Series B Preferred stock shall be entitled to receive, after any distribution to the holders of Senior Preferred Stock and prior to and in preference to any distribution to the holders of common stock, $0.001 for each share of Series B Preferred stock then outstanding.
     
 
    ●     Voting
 
The holders of shares of Series A Preferred stock and Series B Preferred stock shall have one vote for each share of Series A Preferred stock and Series B Preferred stock held by them.
 
      ●      Conversion
 
Initially, each share of Series A Preferred stock and each share of Series B Preferred stock was convertible into one share of our common stock.  Any modification to the conversion rate requires shareholder approval (see below). On March 31, 2009, our shareholders approved a resolution to increase the authorized share capital, and to increase the conversion ratio to 480.63 shares of common stock for each share of Series A Preferred stock and to 132.07 shares of our common stock for each shares of Series B Preferred stock, thus completing the restructuring begun in December 2008.  
 
Conversion of Preferred Stock Issued to Common Stock
On April 24, 2009, we initiated the process of allowing the shareholders of our preferred stock to convert the Series A and B Preferred stock to shares of our common stock. In order to convert the preferred stock to common stock each preferred stock shareholder is required to submit the preferred stock certificate to our transfer agent and request conversion to common stock. The conversion to common stock is not mandatory and shareholders who own preferred stock may choose not to convert their preferred stock to shares of our common stock.  The following table summarizes the amounts at December 31, 2013:
 
 
Shares of Preferred Stock Not Exchanged as of December 31, 2013
 
 
Conversion Ratio
 
 
Shares of Common Stock after Conversion of all Outstanding Shares of Preferred Stock Not yet Exchanged at December 31, 2013
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Series B preferred stock
 
 
83
 
 
 
132.07
 
 
 
10,962