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Agreement with Spriaso, LLC | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2015
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| (11) | Agreement with Spriaso, LLC
On July 23, 2013, the Company entered into an assignment/license and a services agreement with Spriaso, LLC (“Spriaso”), a related-party that is majority-owned by two current directors of Lipocine Inc. and two former directors of Lipocine Inc. Under the license agreement, the Company assigned and transferred to Spriaso all of the Company’s rights, title and interest in its intellectual property to develop products for the cough and cold field. In addition, Spriaso received all rights and obligations under the Company’s product development agreement with Nexgen. In exchange, the Company will receive a royalty of 20 percent of the net proceeds received by Spriaso, up to a maximum of $10 million. Spriaso also granted back to the Company an exclusive license to such intellectual property to develop products outside of the cough and cold field. Under the service agreement, the Company will provide facilities and up to 10 percent of the services of certain employees to Spriaso for a period of 18 months which expired January 23, 2015. Effective January 23, 2015, The Company entered into an amended services agreement with Spriaso in which the Company agreed to continue providing up to 10 percent of the services of certain employees to Spriaso at a rate of $230/hour for a period of six months resulting in the Company receiving reimbursements of $61,000 for the year ended December 31, 2015. The agreement was further amended on July 23, 2015 to continue providing services for an additional six months and was amended again on January 23, 2016 to continue providing services for an additional six months. The agreement may be extended upon written agreement of Spriaso and the Company. Spriaso filed its first NDA and as an affiliated entity of the Company it used up the one-time waiver for user fees for a small business submitting its first human drug application to the FDA. Spriaso is considered a variable interest entity under FASB Accounting Standards Codification ("ASC") Topic 810-10, Consolidations, however the Company is not the primary beneficiary and has therefore not consolidated Spriaso.

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