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Income Taxes (Tables)
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2012
Income Taxes [Abstract]  
Schedule of Income Tax Provision (Benefit)

The actual income tax provision differs from the expected income tax provision computed at the federal statutory rate as follows:

             
    December 31,
     2012   2011   2010
Statutory federal tax benefit   $ (1,604,648 )    $ (1,291,175 )    $ (11,848,754 ) 
State income tax, net of federal benefit     (19,918 )      (232,489 )      (1,284,265 ) 
Other permanent differences     4,975       22,101       607,981  
Foreign rate differential     (80,292 )      (50,173 )      2,492,478  
Rate change     388,656       -       -  
Lobbying costs     122,204       -       -  
Write-off of expired/forfeited options and conversion of notes     193,605       391,826       3,071,189  
Canada transfer pricing and expiring attributes     -       (8,965,832 )      -  
Expiration (reversal of expiration) of net operating losses     -       (4,745,271 )      5,053,927  
Other     1,393,366       732,322       309,840  
Subtotal     397,948       (14,138,691 )      (1,597,604 ) 
Decrease (increase) in valuation allowance     (202,451 )      14,138,691       1,597,604  
Income tax expense   $ 195,497     $ -     $ -
Schedule of Deferred Tax Assets and Liabilities

Our net deferred tax assets consisted of the following:

         
    December 31,
     2012   2011
Net operating loss carry forwards   $ 58,334,073     $ 62,873,360  
Fixed assets/intangibles     114,826       49,389  
Research and development credits/loss carry forwards     3,278,995       3,291,651  
Stock based compensation     3,047,573       2,611,770  
Accrued expenses and other     2,789,776       1,368,036  
Total deferred tax assets     67,565,243       70,194,206  
Deferred tax liabilities:
                 
Intercompany bad debt     (3,978,944 )      (6,209,959 ) 
Total deferred tax liabilities     (3,978,944 )      (6,209,959 ) 
Net deferred tax assets     63,586,299       63,984,247  
Less: valuation allowance     (63,781,796 )      (63,984,247 ) 
Net deferred tax assets   $ (195,497 )    $ -