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Note 5 - Long-lived Assets
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2017
Notes to Financial Statements  
Property, Plant, and Equipment and Intangible Assets [Text Block]
NOTE
5.
LONG-LIVED ASSETS
 
Property and Equipment
Property an
d equipment at
December 31, 2017
and
2016
consisted of the following:
 
 
 
Asset Descriptions
 
Useful Lives
(years)
   
December 31,
2017
   
December 31,
2016
 
Computer equipment
   
4
    $
41,839
    $
41,839
 
Lab equipment
   
5
     
8,655
     
8,655
 
Office equipment, furniture and fixtures
   
5
     
18,302
     
18,302
 
Leasehold improvements
 
 
lease term
     
10,088
     
-
 
Manufacturing equipment
   
7
     
1,400,114
     
783,075
 
Subtotal
   
 
     
1,478,998
     
851,871
 
Less: Accumulated depreciation
   
 
     
(91,123
)    
(67,237
)
Less: Impairment
   
 
     
(358,000
)    
(358,000
)
Total property and equipment, net
   
 
    $
1,029,875
    $
426,634
 
 
Depreciation for t
he years ended
December 31, 2017
and
2016
was
$23,886
and
$3,325,
respectively.
 
In early
2014,
management decided to sell certain manufacturing equipment that had
not
been placed in service. The equipment had an aggregate historical cost of
$783,075.
Based on estimated cash flows from the potential sale of the equipment, an impairment loss of
$358,000
was recorded during the year ended
December 31, 2013.
Management withdrew the equipment from sale and plans to start using and depreciating the equipment during the initiation of pre-commercialization manufacturing activities in
2017.
 
Goodwill and
Intangible Assets
We established goodwill and other intangible assets in
2017
in connection with the Merger. Our goodwill and other intangible assets as of
December 31, 2017
are as follows:
 
Trademarks
(definite-lived)
  $
100,000
 
IPR&D (indefinite-lived)
   
2,200,000
 
Goodwill (indefinite-lived)
   
2,061,022
 
     
4,361,022
 
Less:
Accumulated amortization trademarks
   
(5,952
)
Less:
Impairment – trademarks and IPR&D
   
(2,294,048
)
Total goodwill and intangible assets, net
  $
2,061,022
 
 
The Company
’s intangible asset for trademarks was related to the Locilex brand acquired from Dipexium. After assessing its resources and corporate strategy in
November 2017,
the Company has decided that it will
no
longer pursue the development of additional indications for Locilex and will instead focus all of its efforts and resources on the successful commercialization of Aspertec. As a result of this decision, the Company has decided to take the following actions with respect to Locilex:
 
 
submit paperwork to the FDA to put the Pexiganan IND in an inactive status
;
 
abandon the DPRX domain
;
 
terminate the facility storage contract with
a
third
party vendor and destroy existing active pharmaceutical ingredient product; and
 
cease paying patent renewal fees, allowing patents to expire
.
 
As a result of the strategic change
not
to pursue further development of Locilex, the Company believes that its IPR&D is impaired as of
October 31, 2017
and that the IPR&D ha
d
zero
fair value as of that date. The Company recognized an impairment loss in the
fourth
quarter of
$2.2
million. Additionally, the Company believes that its trademarks asset is impaired as of
October 31, 2017
and that the trademarks asset had a
zero
fair value as of that date. The Company recognized an impairment loss in the
fourth
quarter of approximately
$0.1
million (carrying value).
 
The Company has
not
identified any events or changes in circumstances that indicate that a potential impairment
of goodwill occurred as of
October 31, 2017.
As such, the Company believes goodwill is
not
impaired.