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Commitments and Contingencies
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2014
Commitments and Contingencies [Abstract]  
COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

NOTE 11 — COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

 

Shares held for non-consenting shareholders – In connection with the Share Exchange agreement certain shareholders of Dandrit Denmark had not been identified or did not consent to the exchange of shares. In accordance with Section 70 of the Danish Companies Act and the Articles of Association of DanDrit Denmark, the Non-Consenting Shareholders that did not exchange the DanDrit Denmark equity interests owned by such Non-Consenting Shareholders for shares of the Company, will be entitled to receive up to 185,053 shares of common stock of the Company that each such Non-Consenting Shareholder would have been entitled to receive if such shareholder had consented to the Share Exchange. The 185,053 shares have been reflected as issued and outstanding in the accompanying financial statements.

 

Clinical Trial Agreement–On October 1, 2014 the Company’s subsidiary, DanDrit Biotech A/S signed a contract of collaboration with the University Hospital IRCCS “San Martino” - IST – National Institute for Cancer Research, known as the San Martino Hospital of Genoa. Dr. Alberto Sobrero, the Head of the Medical Oncology Unit at the San Martino Hospital, is principal investigator of the randomized multicenter study. The collaboration relates to a Phase III adjuvant study of DanDrit’s vaccine in patients with no evident disease (“NED”) stage IV colorectal cancer (“CRC”). The primary goal of the study is to evaluate the efficacy of DanDrit’s MelCancerVac® (“MCV”) in stage IV CRC patients rendered disease free after the completion of standard treatments in accordance with local practices.

 

Patient Name Use Program - On December 16, 2013, DanDrit Denmark entered into an agreement with a Dutch company (the “MCV Partner”) regarding a Patient Name Use Program (PNU) for the Company’s MCV.  This program will allow DanDritDenmark to sell MCV for a year of treatment (10 vaccines) to cancer patients through the MCV Partner.  The MCV Partner offers a worldwide online platform providing access to non-registered medicines for patients with life threatening diseases. The MCV Partner is a turnkey solution and will be in charge of regulatory, recruitment, logistics, and pharmacovigilance.   The Company will pay the MCV Partner a royalty on a country to country basis for 20 years on MCV sales sold under the agreement. Either party may terminate the agreement with 180 day written notice.

 

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) - The FDA has extensive regulatory authority over biopharmaceutical products (drugs and biological products), manufacturing protocols and procedures and the facilities in which they will be manufactured. Any new bio product intended for use in humans is subject to rigorous testing requirements imposed by the FDA with respect to product efficacy and safety, possible toxicity and side effects. FDA approval for the use of new bio products (which can never be assured) requires several rounds of extensive preclinical testing and clinical investigations conducted by the sponsoring pharmaceutical company prior to sale and use of the product. At each stage, the approvals granted by the FDA include the manufacturing process utilized to produce the product. Accordingly, the Company’s cell systems used for the production of therapeutic or bio therapeutic products are subject to significant regulation by the FDA under the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, as amended.

  

Product liability - The contract production services for therapeutic products offered exposes an inherent risk of liability as bio therapeutic substances manufactured, at the request and to the specifications of customers, could foreseeably cause adverse effects. The Company seeks to obtain agreements from contract production customers indemnifying and defending the Company from any potential liability arising from such risk. There can be no assurance, however, that the Company will be successful in obtaining such agreements in the future or that such indemnification agreements will adequately protect the Company against potential claims relating to such contract production services. The Company may also be exposed to potential product liability claims by users of its products. A successful partial or completely uninsured claim against the Company could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s operations.

 

Employment Agreements - The Company and its Subsidiary have employment agreements with officers of the Company.

 

Contingencies - The Company is from time to time involved in routine legal and administrative proceedings and claims of various types.  While any proceedings or claim contains an element of uncertainty, management does not expect a material impact on our results of operations or financial position.