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Legal
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2015
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]  
Legal Matters and Contingencies [Text Block]
12.    Legal
 
The Company is involved from time to time in claims which arise in the ordinary course of business. In the opinion of management, the Company has made adequate provision for potential liabilities, if any, arising from any such matters. However, litigation is inherently unpredictable, and the costs and other effects of pending or future litigation, governmental investigations, legal and administrative cases and proceedings (whether civil or criminal), settlements, judgments and investigations, claims and changes in any such matters, and developments or assertions by or against the Company relating to intellectual property rights and intellectual property licenses, could have a material adverse effect on its business, financial condition and operating results.
  
On May 21, 2015, Horizon Pharma Ireland Limited, HZNP Limited and Horizon Pharma USA, Inc. (collectively, “Horizon”) filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey against the Company alleging infringement of certain United States patents in relation to the Company’s submission to the FDA of an ANDA seeking FDA approval to market diclofenac topical solution 2% w/w before the expiration of the patents asserted in the complaint. On June 30, 2015, Horizon filed another complaint in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey against the Company alleging infringement of another United States Patent in relation to the Company’s submission of the same ANDA.
 
On July 21, 2015, the Company filed an answer, affirmative defenses and counterclaims in to the first complaint filed by Horizon alleging that the patents asserted in that complaint, as well as the patent asserted in the second complaint filed by Horizon, are invalid and not infringed by the Company.
 
Given that the Company is a specialty generic pharmaceutical company, the Company believes that the claims made by Horizon are ordinary course. Moreover, the Company believes that its counterclaims and defenses have merit, but based on the early stage of these cases, the Company is unable to predict the outcome at this time.