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Employee Stock Benefit Plans
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2011
Employee Stock Benefit Plans  
Employee Stock Benefit Plans
Note 12
(c) Employee Stock Benefit Plans
 
The Company has two active, stock-based compensation plans available to grant, among other things, incentive and non-qualified stock options, as well as restricted and unrestricted shares of stock, to employees, directors and third-party service-providers. Under the 2005 Equity Compensation Plan, a maximum of 650,000 shares of the Company's common stock have been reserved for issuance. At June 30, 2011, 233,582 shares were available for future grants under this plan. Under the Outside Director Plan 29,913 shares were available for issuance as of June 30, 2011. The other stock options plans are frozen and no further grants will be made from them.
 
Stock option activity under all of the Company's share-based compensation plans for the six months ended June 30, 2011 was as follows:
 
   
Number of Options
  
Weighted Average Exercise Price
 
Outstanding, January 1, 2011
  70,661  $28.70 
Granted
  -   - 
Exercised
  (166)  6.24 
Cancelled
  (2,626)  138.20 
Outstanding, June 30, 2011
  67,869  $22.96 
Options exercisable at June 30, 2011
  49,218  $31.27 
 
At June 30, 2011, there was $1,952,650 of total unrecognized compensation cost related to non-vested option grants and stock awards that is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 7.68 years. The intrinsic value of options outstanding and exercisable at June 30, 2011 was not significant.
 
The Company uses the Black-Scholes option-pricing model to estimate fair value of grants of stock options with the following weighted average assumptions:
 
Assumptions for Option Grants
Three Months Ended June 30, 2010
 
Six Months Ended June 30, 2010
 
(unaudited)
 
(unaudited)
Risk-free interest rate
3.21%
 
3.67%
Volatility
83.62%
 
84.31%
Expected dividend yield
0%
 
0%
Expected life
8.1 years
 
8.1 years
Estimated forfeiture rate
17%
 
17%
 
The Company calculates expected volatility for a share-based grant based on historic daily stock price observations of its common stock during the period immediately preceding the grant that is equal in length to the expected term of the grant. For estimating the expected term of share-based grants made in the periods ended June 30, 2010, the Company has adopted the simplified method. The Company has used historical data to estimate expected employee behaviors related to option exercises and forfeitures and included these expected forfeitures as a part of the estimate of expense as of the grant date.
 
With respect to both grants of options and awards of restricted stock, the risk-free rate of interest is based on the U.S. Treasury rates appropriate for the expected term of the grant or award.

On January 3, 2011, the Company awarded 8,000 shares of restricted stock to its board directors. These restricted shares will vest over a one-year period. In addition, on January 28, 2011, the Company awarded 8,000 shares of stock to members of its Scientific Advisory Board for services performed. The Company determined the fair value of the awards to be the fair value of the Company's common stock on the date of issuance less the value paid for the award.
 
On March 30, 2011, the Company awarded 200,000 shares of restricted stock to two of its senior executives. These restricted shares have a purchase price of $0.01 per share and the shares will vest, and no longer be subject to the Company's right of repurchase, over a 10-year period. The awards had provisions such that the vesting of the awards would accelerate upon a change of control and that would oblige the Company, in accordance with the executives' employment agreements, to pay the executives a tax gross-up on excise taxes that may be triggered by the accelerated vesting. On July 4, 2011, these restricted stock awards were amended to remove the accelerated vesting upon a change in control and corresponding tax gross-up provisions, and to recast the vesting period for unvested shares over a three-year period from the closing date of the merger, with a notable exception: each executive could elect to vest that number of shares that could be vested without causing excise taxes under Sec. 4999 of the Code to be imposed on the executive. The amended grant of July 4 would take effect, and thus supersede the March 30 grant, if and only if the merger should be effected. If the merger should not be effected, then the March 30 grant would continue in force. On August 11, 2011, the executives and the Company amended the terms of the July 4 grant to clarify one particular: that the executives, if they elect to vest a portion of the shares at the closing of the merger, are not obliged to vest the maximum number of shares that will not cause excise taxes to be imposed, but they have liberty to vest a lesser number, and therefore may recognize a lesser amount of income.
 
In April 4, 2011 and June 2, 2011, the Company awarded 39,000 shares of restricted stock to various employees of the Company. These restricted shares have a purchase price of $0.01 per share and the shares will vest, and no longer be subject to the Company's right of repurchase, over a five-year period. The Company determined the fair value of the awards to be the fair value of the Company's common stock on the date of issuance less the value paid for the award.
 
On May 17, 2011 and June 30, 2011, the Company awarded 5,432 and 3,408 shares of common stock, respectively, for payment of board fees earned for the first and second quarters of 2011. The Company determined the fair value of the awards to be the fair value of the Company's common stock on the date of issuance less the value paid for the award.
 
The Company's board of directors has approved, subject to stockholder approval, amendments to the 2005 Equity Compensation Plan and Outside Director Plan, in connection with the merger transaction described in Note 16, Subsequent Event. The amendments increase the number of shares of the Company's common stock reserved for issuance under the plans to 3,000,000 shares and 120,000 shares, respectively, and make certain other changes to the plans.
 
Compensation expense for the three months ended June 30, 2011 included $41,929 from stock and stock options grants and $59,234 from restricted stock awards. Compensation expense for the three months ended June 30, 2010 included $103,278 from stock options grants and $54,082 from restricted stock awards.
 
Compensation expense for the six months ended June 30, 2011 included $61,520 from stock and stock options grants and $78,043 from restricted stock awards. Compensation expense for the six months ended June 30, 2010 included $185,069 from stock options grants and $108,163 from restricted stock awards.
 
Compensation expense is presented as part of the operating results in selling, general and administrative expenses. For stock granted to consultants, an additional selling, general and administrative expense in the amount of $0 and $46,000 was recognized during the three and six months ended June 30, 2011, respectively. For stock options granted to consultants an additional selling, general and administrative expense in the amount of $9,519 and $83,284 was recognized during the three and six months ended June 30, 2010, respectively.