Class Of Warrant Or Right, Consideration Transferred In Excess Of Fair Value

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Class of Warrant or Right, Exercisable

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The number of trading days considered for determination of exercise price of warrants.

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Class Of Warrant Or Right, Fair Value Of Consideration Transferred To Settle Warrants

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Class Of Warrant Or Right, Fair Value Of Consideration Transferred To Settle Warrants, Common Stock

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Class Of Warrant Or Right, Fair Value Of Consideration Transferred To Settle Warrants, Promissory Note

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Class Of Warrant Or Right, Number Of Employees Issued Stock In Transaction

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The price over which 80% of the arithmetic average of the two lowest dollar volume-weighted average prices of a share of common stock on the NASDAQ Capital Market during the applicable Reset Period immediately preceding the applicable Reset Date to date to release converted additional shares is determined.

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Exercise price per share or per unit of warrants or rights outstanding.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 505
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 3
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=109259400&loc=d3e21475-112644

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Number of securities into which the class of warrant or right may be converted. For example, but not limited to, 500,000 warrants may be converted into 1,000,000 shares.

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Number of warrants or rights outstanding.

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The number of shares issued or sold by the subsidiary or equity method investee per stock transaction.

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Value of outstanding derivative securities that permit the holder the right to purchase securities (usually equity) from the issuer at a specified price.

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Value of input used to measure outstanding warrant and right embodying unconditional obligation requiring redemption by transferring asset at specified or determinable date or upon event certain to occur.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 820
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
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Period between issuance and expiration of outstanding warrant and right embodying unconditional obligation requiring redemption by transferring asset at specified or determinable date or upon event certain to occur, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Warrants - Additional Information (Details) $ / shares in Units, $ in Millions				12 Months Ended
	Apr. 22, 2020 USD ($) $ / shares shares	Apr. 21, 2020 USD ($)	Sep. 27, 2019 $ / shares shares	Dec. 31, 2018 employee	Sep. 30, 2020 $ / shares shares	Dec. 31, 2019 $ / shares shares	Nov. 30, 2019 shares	Nov. 05, 2019 shares	Sep. 30, 2019
Price Volatility
Class of Warrant or Right
Warrants fair value estimate volatility (in percentage)			0.960						0.970
Warrant Exchange
Class of Warrant or Right
Common stock exchanged for Series A Warrants (in shares)	21,900,000
Warrants \| Level 3
Class of Warrant or Right
Fair value of warrants \| $		$ 1.1
Series A Warrants
Class of Warrant or Right
Initial exercise price (in USD per share) \| $ / shares	$ 7.13
Warrants and rights outstanding, term	60 months
Number of common shares in to which the warrants are exercisable (in shares)	8,800,000
Fair value of consideration transferred to settle warrants \| $	$ 13.6
Consideration transferred, common stock \| $	8.6
Consideration transferred, Warrant Exchange Promissory Notes \| $	$ 5.0
Fair value of consideration transferred to settle warrants in excess of fair value of warrants \| $		$ 12.5
Series B Warrants
Class of Warrant or Right
Initial exercise price (in USD per share) \| $ / shares			$ 0.01
Number of common shares in to which the warrants are exercisable (in shares)			8,000,000.0				12,600,000
Warrants, exercise price determination, number of trading days			10 days
Number of warrants outstanding (in shares)					0	1,000
Series C Warrants
Class of Warrant or Right
Initial exercise price (in USD per share) \| $ / shares			$ 7.13
Number of common shares in to which the warrants are exercisable (in shares)			50,000,000.0
Number of warrants outstanding (in shares)					0	1,000
Price over which trading price of common stock as quoted on the Nasdaq Capital Market was considered for the release of converted additional shares (in USD per share) \| $ / shares			$ 1.20
Series C Warrants \| Maximum
Class of Warrant or Right
Number of common shares in to which the warrants are exercisable (in shares)			50,000,000.0					20,000,000.0
Former Ocugen Warrants
Class of Warrant or Right
Initial exercise price (in USD per share) \| $ / shares					$ 5.67	$ 5.67
Number of employees issued warrants \| employee				2
Class of warrant or right, exercisable (in shares)					900,000	900,000