Commitments and Contingencies

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2011

Commitments and Contingencies

Commitments and Contingencies

10. Commitments and Contingencies

Caliper’s commitments and contingencies are disclosed within Note 11 to the consolidated financial statements included in Caliper’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2010 filed with the SEC on March 11, 2011.  There have not been any material changes to Caliper’s commitments and contingencies during the current period, except as follows.

On December 11, 2009, Caliper entered into a Stock Purchase Agreement (the “Stock Purchase Agreement”) with Taconic Farms, Inc., (“Taconic”), a New York corporation. The Stock Purchase Agreement provided for the sale of Caliper’s XenBio operations to Taconic for a purchase price of approximately $10.8 million, which included $9.7 million in cash together with $1.1 million which was placed into an escrow account until April 30, 2011. On April 18, 2011, Caliper received notice from Taconic regarding a claim for indemnification by Taconic for various potential contingent losses that may be suffered by Taconic and for which, if such losses are actually realized by Taconic, Taconic believes Caliper would have an obligation to indemnify Taconic under the terms of the Stock Purchase Agreement. Under the terms of the Stock Purchase Agreement, Caliper’s maximum liability for any such losses actually suffered by Taconic, and for which Caliper is determined to be responsible, is $3.0 million.  Caliper believes that the $1.1 million placed into escrow will likely remain in escrow until this issue is further clarified or otherwise resolved.

On August 9, 2006, Stanford University provided Xenogen Corporation (“Xenogen”) with the results of an audit performed pursuant to the exclusive license agreement between Stanford and Xenogen. The audit report, which was prepared by a third party consultant, asserted certain claims of underpayments by Xenogen to Stanford during the period from 2002 through March 31, 2006 based upon a different interpretation of the scope of imaging products that are subject to the royalty provisions of the license than Xenogen had used for the calculation of royalties since the beginning of this licensing arrangement in 1997. Upon review of the audit report, Caliper determined that additional royalties of $71,000 were owed to Stanford, and paid this obligation in 2006. In July 2011, Caliper and Stanford entered into an agreement to resolve all remaining disputes regarding the audit report and how the terms of the license agreement would be interpreted by the parties going forward.  As a result of the agreement, no current payment was made to Stanford for past licensing or royalties.  However, the original agreement was modified to increase the prospective royalty rate, effective July 1, 2011, for purposes of calculating any future payments to Stanford from sublicensing revenue received by Caliper.