INTANGIBLE ASSETS

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2013

INTANGIBLE ASSETS

INTANGIBLE ASSETS

NOTE 4 – INTANGIBLE ASSETS

On December 31, 2012, the Company entered into a stock purchase agreement to acquire Eleven Blade Solutions, Inc. (Eleven Blade) which was accounted for as an asset acquisition.  As a result of this transaction, the Company recorded $10.8 million of intangible assets in the form of intellectual property rights, non-compete agreements with the former employees, owners and consultants of Eleven Blade and the associated deferred tax liabilities.  The Company also agreed to pay the previous owners of Eleven Blade future cash consideration contingent on certain product sales over the next five years.  The amount of contingent future consideration payable to the previous owners of Eleven Blade is capped at $25 million and is not estimable at this time.

The useful lives of the intellectual property rights and non-compete agreements are 20 years and 3 years, respectively.  As a result of this transaction, estimated future amortization expense as disclosed in Note 7 of the 2012 Form 10-K has been revised as follows (in thousands):

2013	$	1,048
2014	$	935
2015	$	906
2016	$	713
2017	$	691
Thereafter	7,927
	$	12,220