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SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2015
Subsequent Events [Abstract]  
SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

NOTE 10 — SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

 

On July 9, 2015, the Company entered into a lease with Century Park, a California limited partnership, pursuant to which Ritter will lease approximately 2,780 square feet of office space in Los Angeles, California. The lease provides for a term of sixty-one (61) months, commencing on the later of October 1, 2015 or the date of substantial completion of certain tenant improvements provided for under the lease. The Company will pay no rent for the first month of the term and base rent of $9,174 per month for months 2 through 13 of the term, with increasing base rent for each twelve month period thereafter under the term of the lease to a maximum of $10,325.42 per month for months 50 through 61. The base rent payments do not include the Company’s proportionate share of any operating expenses, including real estate taxes. The Company has the option to extend the term of the lease for one five-year term, provided that the rent would be subject to market adjustment at the beginning of the renewal term.

 

Effective July 24, 2015, the Company entered into an amended Clinical Supply and Cooperation Agreement (the “Amended Supply Agreement”) with Ricerche Sperimentali Montale SpA (“Ricerche”) and Inalco SpA (collectively, “RSM”). The Amended Supply Agreement amends certain terms of the Clinical Supply and Cooperation Agreement, dated December 16, 2009, amended on September 25, 2010 (the “Existing Supply Agreement”).

 

Under the Existing Supply Agreement, RSM granted Ritter an exclusive worldwide option in a specified field and territory to assignment of all right, title and interest to a purified Galacto-oligosaccharides product (“Improved GOS”), the composition of matter of the Improved GOS and any information relating to the Improved GOS, including certain specified technical information and other intellectual property rights (the “Improved GOS IP”). Pursuant to the amended terms, the Company may exercise the option by paying RSM $800,000 within ten days after the effective date of the Amended Supply Agreement. The Company exercised the option on July 30, 2015 and RSM is transferring the Improved GOS IP to the Company. Under the terms of the existing agreement, if a further option payment due in the future is not made, the Company may be required to return the Improved GOS IP to RSM.

 

The Amended Supply Agreement also provides that the Company must pay RSM $400,000 within 10 days following FDA approval of a new drug application for the first product owned or controlled by the Company using Improved GOS as its active pharmaceutical ingredient. In addition, the Company agreed to purchase 350 kilos of Improved GOS for the sum of $250 per kilo for clinical supply of Improved GOS instead of $2,000 per kilo as under the Existing Supply Agreement. 

 

In consideration for RSM entering into the Amended Supply Agreement, the Company will issue 100,000 shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Shares”), to RSM. The Shares are to be issued within 90 days of the effective date of the Amended Supply Agreement pursuant to a stock purchase agreement to be negotiated by the parties in good faith. The stock purchase agreement is to include a lock-up agreement by RSM in favor of the Company pursuant to which RSM will not be able to sell the Shares for a period ending on the earlier of (i) the public release by the Company of the final results of its Phase 2b/3 clinical trial of RP-G28 and (ii) the filing of its Form 10-Q with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the fiscal quarter in which the Company receives the results of its Phase 2b/3 clinical trial of RP-G28. The Company has not issued the shares to RSM as of August 4, 2015.