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Stock-based Compensation
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2012
Stock-based Compensation  
Stock-based Compensation

14. Stock-based Compensation

        The Company has the following stock-based compensation plans as of December 31, 2012 under which equity awards have been granted to employees, directors and consultants:

  •            2003 Long-Term Incentive Plan; and
  •            2011 Equity Incentive Plan.

        The 2011 Equity Incentive Plan replaced the 2003 Long-Term Incentive Plan when the board of directors approved the new plan on November 7, 2011. As of December 31, 2012, an aggregate of approximately 4,671,000 shares have been authorized for issuance under the Company's stock-based compensation plans, with approximately 3,899,000 options outstanding. The number of common shares available for granting of future awards to employees and directors under these plans was approximately 79,000 at December 31, 2012.

        2003 Long-Term Incentive Plan—The Company's 2003 Long-Term Incentive Plan (the "Incentive Plan") provides for the granting of incentive stock options and nonqualified options to key employees, directors and consultants of the Company. The exercise price of the incentive stock options, as determined by the board of directors, must be at least 100% (110% in the case of incentive stock options granted to a stockholder owning in excess of 10% of the Company's common stock) of the common stock fair value as of the date of the grant. The provisions of the Incentive Plan limit the exercise of incentive stock options, but in no case may the exercise period extend beyond ten years from the date of grant (five years in the case of incentive stock options granted to a stockholder owning in excess of 10% of the Company's common stock). Stock options generally vest over a four-year period. Certain options contain explicit performance conditions. The Company authorized approximately 2,016,000 shares of common stock for issuance under the Incentive Plan.

        2011 Equity Incentive Plan—The Company's 2011 Equity Incentive Plan (the "Equity Plan") provides for the granting of incentive stock options and nonqualified options to key employees, directors and consultants of the Company. The exercise price of the incentive stock options, as determined by the board of directors, must be at least 100% (110% in the case of incentive stock options granted to a stockholder owning in excess of 10% of the Company's common stock) of the common stock fair value as of the date of the grant. The provisions of the Incentive Plan limit the exercise of incentive stock options, but in no case may the exercise period extend beyond ten years from the date of grant (five years in the case of incentive stock options granted to a stockholder owning in excess of 10% of the Company's common stock). Stock options generally vest over a four-year period. Certain options contain explicit performance conditions. The Company has authorized approximately 2,655,000 shares of common stock for issuance under the Equity Plan. In addition, the shares remaining available for issuance under the Incentive Plan were assumed as shares authorized under the Equity Plan.

        The Company has historically granted stock options at exercise prices not less than the fair value of its common stock as determined by its board of directors, with input from management. The Company's board of directors has historically determined, with input from management, the estimated fair value of the Company's common stock on the date of grant based on a number of objective and subjective factors, including:

  • the prices at which the Company sold shares of convertible preferred stock;
  • the superior rights and preferences of securities senior to the Company's common stock at the time of each grant;

    the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event such as a public offering or sale of the Company;

    the Company's historical operating and financial performance and the status of its research and product development efforts; and

    achievement of enterprise milestones, including entering into collaboration and license agreements.

        The Company's board of directors also considered valuations provided by management in determining the fair value of its common stock. The valuations have been used to estimate the fair value of common stock as of each option grant date listed and in calculating stock-based compensation expense. The Company's board of directors has consistently used the most recent valuation provided by management for determining the fair value of common stock unless a specific event occurs that necessitates an interim valuation.

        The valuations utilized are based on the guidance from the Valuation of Privately-Held-Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation that was developed by staff of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and a task force comprising representatives from the appraisal, preparer, public accounting, venture capital, and academic communities. The valuations utilize PWERM, which considers the value of preferred and common stock based upon the probability-weighted present value of expected future net cash flows, considering each of the possible future events, as well as the rights and preferences of each share class. PWERM is complex as it requires numerous assumptions relating to potential future outcomes of equity, hence, the use of this method can be applied: (1) when possible future outcomes can be predicted with reasonable certainty; and (2) when there is a complex capital structure (i.e., several classes of preferred and common stock). The Company utilized the fair value of common stock derived from the March 31, 2012 valuation for purposes of the April 11, 2012 and May 24, 2012 option grants and the fair value of common stock derived from the June 30, 2012 valuation for purposes of the August 27, 2012 option grants. The Company concluded, for purposes of the April 11, 2012 and May 24, 2012 grants, that there were no significant changes to the assumptions used in the PWERM model between March 31, 2012 and April 11, 2012 and May 24, 2012 that would impact the fair value of the common stock. The Company concluded, for purposes of the August 27, 2012 grant, that there were no significant changes to the assumptions used in the PWERM model between June 30, 2012 and August 27, 2012 that would impact the fair value of the common stock. The Company also used this methodology to estimate the fair value of preferred stock, which was used in the preferred stock extinguishment, and to determine the fair value of shares of series A-6 convertible preferred stock due to Nordic.

        The Company uses the Black-Scholes option-pricing model to estimate the grant date fair value of its employee stock options. The weighted-average assumptions used in the Black-Scholes option-pricing model and the resulting weighted-average estimated grant date fair values of its employee stock options were as follows for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011, and 2010:

 
  Year Ended December 31,  
 
  2012   2011   2010  

Expected term (years)

    6.25     6.25     6.25  

Volatility

    60 %   60 %   58 %

Expected dividend yield

    0 %   0 %   0 %

Risk-free interest rates

    1.10 %   1.35 %   1.92 %

        A summary of stock option activity for the year ended December 31, 2012 is as follows:

 
  Shares   Weighted-Average
Exercise Price
(in dollars
per share)
  Weighted-Average
Contractual Life
(In Years)
  Aggregate
Intrinsic
Value
 

Options outstanding at December 31, 2011

    3,950   $ 2.94              

Granted

    218     4.22              

Exercised

    (222 )   1.26              

Cancelled

    (47 )   3.70              
                   

Options outstanding at December 31, 2012

    3,899   $ 3.10     8.07     8,578  
                   

Options exercisable at December 31, 2012

    1,652   $ 2.31     6.90     4,942  
                   

Options vested or expected to vest at December 31, 2012

    3,729   $ 3.07     8.03     8,317  
                   

        The weighted-average grant-date fair value of options granted during 2012, 2011 and 2010 was $2.36, $2.07 and $0.60, respectively. The total grant-date fair value of stock options that vested during the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011 was approximately $1.5 million and $0.4 million, respectively. The aggregate intrinsic value of options exercised (i.e., the difference between the market price at exercise and the price paid by employees to exercise the option) during the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011 was $0.9 million and $0.2 million, respectively.

        The following table summarizes stock-based compensation expense by financial statement line (in thousands):

 
  Years Ended  
 
  December 31,
2012
  December 31,
2011
  December 31,
2010
 

Research and development

  $ 338   $ 118   $ 37  

General and administrative

    1,457     186     97  
               

Share-based compensation expense included in operating expenses

  $ 1,795   $ 304   $ 134  

       During the year ended December 31, 2012, there were no options or stock awards granted to the Company's Board of Directors. During the years ended December 31, 2011 and 2010, the Company's board of directors granted approximately 317,000 and 258,000 stock options, respectively, to board members of the Company. During the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010, the Company recorded approximately $483.0 thousand, $131.0 thousand and $34.0 thousand of stock-based compensation expense related to awards granted its board of directors and non-employees, respectively.

        As of December 31, 2012, there was approximately $4.3 million of total unrecognized compensation expense related to unvested employee share-based compensation arrangements, which is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of approximately three years.