Marketable Investment Securities (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2015

Investments, Debt and Equity Securities [Abstract]

Available-for-sale Securities [Table Text Block]

The amortized cost, gross unrealized holding gains, gross unrealized holding losses, and fair value for available-for-sale securities by major security type and class of security at December 31, 2015 were as follows:

			Gross		Gross
			unrealized		unrealized
	Amortized		holding		holding		Aggregate
	Cost		gains		losses		fair value

Government notes	$	802,862	$	-	$	(750)	$	802,112
Corporate bonds and notes		24,005,458		594		(32,744)		23,973,308

	$	24,808,320	$	594	$	(33,494)	$	24,775,420

Schedule Of Available For Sale Securities Debt Maturities [Table Text Block]

There were no marketable investment securities held as of December 31, 2014. Maturities of debt securities classified as available-for-sale securities at December 31, 2015 are as follows:

	Amortized		Aggregate fair
	Cost		value
Due within one year	$	24,407,539	$	24,375,168
Due after one year through five years		400,781		400,252
Due after five years		-		-
	$	24,808,320	$	24,775,420

- Definition

Tabular disclosure of available-for-sale securities which includes, but is not limited to, changes in the cost basis and fair value, fair value and gross unrealized gain (loss), fair values by type of security, contractual maturity and classification, amortized cost basis, contracts to acquire securities to be accounted for as available-for-sale, debt maturities, transfers to trading, change in net unrealized holding gain (loss) net of tax, continuous unrealized loss position fair value, aggregate losses qualitative disclosures, other than temporary impairment (OTTI) losses or other disclosures related to available for sale securities.

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