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Commitments and Contingencies
6 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2023
Commitments and Contingencies  
Commitments and Contingencies

Note 10 - Commitments and Contingencies

Legal Proceedings

From time to time, The Company is subject to various legal proceedings arising in the ordinary course of business, including proceedings for which The Company has 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 it believes will have a material adverse effect to its business, financial position, results of operations, or liquidity.

Employment Agreements

On October 6, 2023, the Company and Dr. Diwan, the Company’s President and Chief Executive Officer, executed an extension of his employment agreement for a period of one year from July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024 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, 2024.

On August 21, 2023, the Company’s Board of Directors approved the extension of the agreement with Meeta Vyas, Chief Financial Officer of the Company. On October 6, 2023, Company and Meeta Vyas signed an extension of the agreement for a period of one year from July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024 under the same general terms and conditions as the current agreement, except that she will be additionally compensated for up to 50% of all medical insurance costs, not to exceed $2,500 per month.

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 KMPL wherein the Company granted to KMPL 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. KMPL 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. KMPL 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, KMPL 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, KMPL will pay the Company a royalty of seventy (70%) percent of the final invoiced sales to unaffiliated third parties.