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GENERAL
6 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2013
GENERAL [Abstract]  
GENERAL
NOTE 1:-GENERAL
 
a.
Pluristem Therapeutics Inc., a Nevada corporation, was incorporated on May 11, 2001. Pluristem Therapeutics Inc. has a wholly owned subsidiary, Pluristem Ltd. (the "Subsidiary"), which is incorporated under the laws of the State of Israel. Pluristem Therapeutics Inc. and the Subsidiary are referred to as "Pluristem" or the "Company".

b.
The Company is a bio-therapeutics company developing standardized cell therapy products from human placenta for the treatment of multiple disorders. The Company has sustained operating losses and expects such losses to continue in the foreseeable future. The Company's accumulated losses aggregated to $98,362 through December 31, 2013. The Company plans to continue to finance its operations with sales of equity securities, entering into licensing technology agreements such as the United Therapeutics Corporation ("United Therapeutics") and CHA Bio&Diostech ("CHA") agreements, and from grants to support its R&D activity. In the longer term, the Company plans to finance its operations from revenues from sales of products.

c.
License Agreements:

On June 19, 2011, the Subsidiary entered into an exclusive license agreement ("the License Agreement") with United Therapeutics for the use of its PLX cells to develop and commercialize a cell-based product for the treatment of Pulmonary Hypertension ("PAH").  The License Agreement provides that United Therapeutics will receive exclusive worldwide license rights for the development and commercialization of the Company's PLX cell-based product to treat PAH.  The License Agreement provides for the following consideration payable to the Company: (i) an upfront payment of $7,000 paid in August 2011, which includes a $5,000 non-refundable upfront payment and a $2,000 advance payment on the development; (ii) up to $37,500 upon reaching certain regulatory milestones with respect to the development of a product to treat PAH; (iii) reimbursement of up to $10,000 of certain of the Company expenses if the Company establishes a manufacturing facility in North America upon meeting certain status; (iv) reimbursement of certain costs in connection with the development of the product; and (v) following commercialization of the product, royalties and the purchase of commercial supplies of the developed product from the Company at a specified margin over the Company's cost. On August 2, 2011, the License Agreement became effective following the consent of the Office of the Chief Scientist of Israel ("OCS") within the Israeli Ministry of Economy. Revenues for the three and six month periods ended December 31, 2013 and 2012, are derived from the license agreement.

On June 26, 2013, the Subsidiary entered into an exclusive license and commercialization agreement (the "CHA Agreement") with CHA Bio&Diostech ("CHA"), for conducting clinical trials and commercialization of Pluristem's PLX-PAD product in South Korea in connection with two indications: the treatment of Critical Limb Ischemia, and Intermediate Claudication (the "Indications"). Under the terms of the CHA Agreement, CHA will receive exclusive rights in South Korea for conducting clinical trials with respect to the Indications, at the sole expense of CHA. 

The first clinical study to be performed as part of the CHA Agreement will be a Phase II trial in Intermittent Claudication. This study was approved in November 2013 by South Korea's Ministry of Food and Drug Safety.

Upon the first regulatory approval for a PLX product in South Korea, Pluristem and CHA will establish a joint venture to be co-owned by the parties. The purpose of the joint venture will be to commercialize PLX cell products in South Korea. Additionally, Pluristem will be able to use the data generated by CHA to pursue the development of PLX product candidates outside of South Korea.

In December 2013, as part of the CHA Agreement, Pluristem and CHA executed the mutual investment pursuant to which Pluristem issued 2,500,000 shares of its common stock in consideration for 1,011,504 shares of CHA, which reflects total consideration to each of Pluristem and CHA of approximately $10,414.
 
Each party has agreed to hold the other party's shares for at least one year before selling any of such shares. The parties also agreed to give an irrevocable proxy to the other party's management with respect to the voting power of the shares issued.
 
Investment in CHA shares are presented as "Marketable securities" and classified as available for sale (Note 3).