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Commitments and Contingencies
9 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Commitments and Contingencies  
Commitments and Contingencies

Note 10 - Commitments and Contingencies

Legal Proceedings

From time to time, we are subject to various legal proceedings arising in the ordinary course of business, including proceedings for which we have insurance coverage. There are no pending legal proceedings against the Company to the best of the Company’s knowledge as of the date hereof and to the Company’s knowledge no action, suit or proceeding has been threatened against the Company that we believe will have a material adverse effect to our business, financial position, results of operations, or liquidity.

Employment Agreements

As discussed in Note 8, On September 14, 2022 the Company’s Board of Directors approved the extension of Dr. Diwan’s employment agreement, and on October 6, 2022, the Company and Dr. Diwan executed an extension of his employment agreement for a period of one year from July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023 under the same general terms and conditions. The Company granted Dr. Anil Diwan an award of 10,204 shares of the Company’s Series A preferred stock. The shares will be deemed partially vested in quarterly installments following the grant date and fully vested on June 30, 2023.

License Agreements

The Company is dependent upon its license agreements with TheraCour (See Notes 1 and 4). If the Company lost the right to utilize any of the proprietary information that is the subject of the TheraCour license agreement on which it depends, the Company will incur substantial delays and costs in development of its drug candidates. On November 1, 2019, the Company entered into a VZV License Agreement with TheraCour for an exclusive license for the Company to use, promote, offer for sale, import, export, sell and distribute products for the treatment of VZV derived indications. Process development and related work will be performed by TheraCour under the same compensation terms as prior agreements between the parties, with no duplication of costs allowed.

On September 9, 2021, the Company entered into a COVID-19 License Agreement to use, promote, offer for sale, import, export, sell and distribute drugs that treat COVID-19 infections, using TheraCour’s proprietary as well as patented technology and intellectual property. The discovery of ligands and polymer materials as well as formulations, the chemistry and chemical characterization, as well as process development and related work will be performed by TheraCour under the same compensation terms as prior agreements between the parties, with no duplication of costs allowed.

On March 27, 2023 the Company entered into a License Agreement with Karveer Meditech, Pvt., Ltd., India, (Karveer) wherein the Company granted to Karveer a limited, non-transferable, exclusive license for the use, sale, or offer of sale in India of the Company’s two clinical test drug candidates titled as NV-CoV-2 and NV-CoV-2-R for the treatment of COVID in patients in India. Karveer has engaged in further drug development in India including sponsoring of drug candidates for human clinical trials in India and has acted as clinical trials manager for such clinical trials. Karveer shall provide NanoViricides with all reports of the clinical trials and the Company can use such reports for further advancement of the drug candidates with regulatory authorities outside India. In consideration, Karveer will be reimbursed by the Company for all direct and indirect costs incurred for the clinical trials and development activities with a customary clinical trials manager fee of thirty percent (30%) of such costs and applicable taxes. Upon commercial sales of any resulting approved drugs, Karveer will pay the Company a royalty of seventy (70)% percent of the final invoiced sales to unaffiliated third parties. No amounts were owed to Karveer as of March 31, 2023.