SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2016

Notes to Financial Statements

SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Intangible Assets

The Company’s intangible assets consist of technology licenses and are carried at the legal cost to obtain them. Intangible assets are amortized using the straight-line method over the estimated useful life. Useful lives on technology licenses are 5 to 15 years.

Impairments

The Company assesses the impairment of its intangible assets whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that their carrying value may not be recoverable in accordance with ASC Topic 360-10-35, “Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived Assets.” The determination of related estimated useful lives and whether or not these assets are impaired involves significant judgments, related primarily to the future profitability and/or future value of the assets. The Company records an impairment charge if it believes an investment has experienced a decline in value that is other than temporary.

Management has determined that no impairments were required as of June 30, 2016 and December 31, 2015, respectively.

Fair Value Measurements

The Company has various financial instruments that must be measured at fair value on a recurring basis, including certain marketable securities and derivatives. Certain assets and liabilities are measured at fair value on a non-recurring basis. These assets and liabilities are not measured at fair value on an ongoing basis, but are subject to fair value adjustments only in certain circumstances.  During the six months ended June 30, 2016, the Company valued the Amended 2014 Notes (see Note 4) at fair value in connection with a modification in terms that was accounted for as a Debt Extinguishment. The Amended 2014 Notes were recorded at fair value on the date of the modification and are not subsequently adjusted to fair value.

The Company groups its assets and liabilities measured at fair value, in three levels based on the markets in which the assets and liabilities are traded and the reliability of the assumptions used to determine fair value.  Fair value is defined as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date (an exit price).

Financial instruments with readily available active quoted prices or for which fair value can be measured from actively quoted prices generally will have a higher degree of market price observability and a lesser degree of judgment used in measuring fair value.

The three levels of the fair value hierarchy are as follows:

Level 1 – Valuation is based on quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.  Valuations are obtained from readily available pricing sources for market transactions involving identical assets or liabilities.

Level 2 – Valuation is based on observable inputs other than Level 1 prices, such as quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities; quoted prices in markets that are not active; or other inputs that are observable or can be corroborated by observable market data for substantially the full term of the assets or liabilities.

Level 3 – Valuation is based on unobservable inputs that are supported by little or no market activity and that are significant to the fair value of the assets or liabilities.  Level 3 assets and liabilities include financial instruments whose value is determined using pricing models, discounted cash flow methodologies, or similar techniques, as well as instruments for which the determination of fair value requires significant management judgment or estimation.

In certain cases, the inputs used to measure fair value may fall into different levels of the fair value hierarchy.  In such cases, an instrument’s level within the fair value hierarchy is based on the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement.  The Company’s assessment of the significance of a particular input to the fair value measurement in its entirety requires judgment, and considers factors specific to the financial instrument.

The Company recognizes transfers between levels at the end of the reporting period as if the transfers occurred on the last day of the reporting period.

Assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis at June 30, 2016 are summarized below:

	June 30, 2016
	Level 1		Level 2		Level 3		Fair Value
Current Liabilities:
Derivative liabilities	$	-	$	-	$	1,649,010	$	1,649,010

Assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis at December 31, 2015 are summarized below:

	December 31, 2015
	Level 1			Level 2			Level 3			Fair Value
Current Liabilities:
Derivative liability		$	-		$	-		$	1,526,060		$	1,526,060

The following table sets forth the changes in the estimated fair value for our Level 3 classified derivative liability:

	Six Months Ended		Six Months Ended
	June 30, 2016		June 30, 2015
Fair value at beginning of period	$	1,526,060	$	1,354,319
Embedded conversion feature – Amended 2014 Notes		945,951		-
Embedded conversion feature – 2016 Notes		73,825		-
Embedded conversion feature - Amended 2014 Notes converted		(15,271)		-
Change in fair value		(881,555)		274,024
Fair value at end of period	$	1,649,010	$	1,628,284

Revenue Recognition

From time to time the Company enters into licensing agreements, the terms of which may include grants of licenses, or options to obtain licenses, to our intellectual property and research and development activities. Payments under these arrangements typically include one or more of the following: non-refundable, up-front license fees; funding of research and/or development efforts; amounts due upon the achievement of specified objectives; and/or royalties on future product sales.

The Company recognizes milestone payments as revenue in their entirety upon the achievement of a substantive milestone if the consideration earned from the achievement of the milestone (i) is consistent with performance required to achieve the milestone or the increase in value to the delivered item, (ii) relates solely to past performance and (iii) is reasonable relative to all of the other deliverables and payments within the arrangement.  Amounts received contractually designated to fund further research are recorded as a reduction to research and development expenses when the Company has satisfied all performance obligations to the licensee and expenses for specified development activities have been incurred.   

Recently Issued Accounting Standards

In August 2014, the FASB issued ASU 2014-15 “Disclosure of Uncertainties about an Entity’s Ability to Continue as a Going Concern.” The core principle of the guidance is that an entity’s management should evaluate whether there are conditions or events, considered in the aggregate, that raise substantial doubt about the entity’s ability to continue as a going concern within one year after the date that the financial statements are available to be issued. When management identifies conditions or events that raise substantial doubt about an entity’s ability to continue as a going concern, management should consider whether its plans that are intended to mitigate those relevant conditions or events that will alleviate the substantial doubt are adequately disclosed in the footnotes to the financial statements. This guidance will be effective for the annual period ending after December 15, 2016, and for annual periods and interim periods thereafter.

In November 2015, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2015-17, “Balance Sheet Classification of Deferred Taxes” (“ASU 2015-17”) which requires that deferred tax liabilities and assets be classified as noncurrent on the balance sheet.  The current requirement that deferred tax liabilities and assets of a tax-paying component of an entity be offset and presented as a single amount is not affected by this guidance.  ASU 2015-17 is effective for annual and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2016 but early application is permitted and the guidance may be applied either prospectively to all deferred tax liabilities and assets or retrospectively to all periods presented. 

In April 2015, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (the “FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2015-03, 'Interest - Imputation of Interest (Subtopic 835-30): Simplifying the Presentation of Debt Issuance Costs”. ASU 2015-03 is intended to simplify the presentation of debt issuance costs. These amendments require that debt issuance costs related to a recognized debt liability be presented in the balance sheet as a direct deduction from the carrying amount of that debt liability, consistent with debt discounts. The recognition and measurement guidance for debt issuance costs are not affected by the amendments in this ASU. This new guidance is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2015.  The Company adopted ASU 2015-03 on January 1, 2016 and applied the standard retrospectively.

In January 2015, FASB issued ASU 2015-01 “Income Statement - Extraordinary and Unusual Items (Subtopic 225-20): Simplifying Income Statement Presentation by Eliminating the Concept of Extraordinary Items”. This ASU removes the concept of an extraordinary item.  Subtopic 225-20, Income Statement - Extraordinary and Unusual Items, required that an entity separately classify, present, and disclose extraordinary events and transactions. Presently, an event or transaction is presumed to be an ordinary and usual activity of the reporting entity unless evidence clearly supports its classification as an extraordinary item.  If an event or transaction meets the criteria for extraordinary classification, an entity is required to segregate the extraordinary item from the results of ordinary operations and show the item separately in the income statement, net of tax, after income from continuing operations. The entity also is required to disclose applicable income taxes and either present or disclose earnings-per-share data applicable to the extraordinary item.  The amendments in this ASU are effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2015.  The Company adopted this standard on January 1, 2016.  The adoption of this ASU did not have a material impact on the Company’s condensed consolidated financial statements.

In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02, “Leases”, which requires a lessee to recognize lease liabilities for the lessee’s obligation to make lease payments arising from a lease, measured on a discounted basis, and right-of-use assets, representing the lessee’s right to use, or control the use of, specified assets for the lease term.  Additionally, the new guidance has simplified accounting for sale and leaseback transactions.  Lessor accounting is largely unchanged.  The ASU is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018.  Early application is permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of adopting this ASU on the financial statements.

In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-09, “Compensation – Stock Compensation”. The areas for simplification in this update involve several aspects of the accounting for share-based payment transactions, including the income tax consequences, classification of awards as either equity or liabilities, and classification on the statement of cash flows. For public entities, the amendments in this update are effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2016, and interim periods within those annual periods. Early adoption is permitted in any interim or annual period. If an entity early adopts the amendments in an interim period, any adjustments should be reflected as of the beginning of the fiscal year that includes that interim period. An entity that elects early adoption must adopt all of the amendments in the same period. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of adopting this ASU on the financial statements.