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COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
9 Months Ended
Apr. 30, 2015
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]  
COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
10.
COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
 
Leases. 
 
The Company is under an operating lease agreement for office space that expired in 2012 and continues on a month to month basis. The Company is also under an operating lease agreement for warehouse space that runs through September 2015 and requires for the payment of taxes, insurance and utilities. 
 
Generally, the lease agreements require the payment of base rent plus escalations for increases in building operating costs and real estate taxes. Rental expense for operating leases amounted $15,000 and $45,000 for the three and nine months ended April 30, 2015 and $21,000 and $56,000 for the three and nine months ended April 30, 2014
 
Product Development and Supply Agreement.
 
On September 4, 2007, the Company entered into a Product Development and Supply Agreement (the “Agreement”) with Sing Lin Technologies Co. Ltd., a company based in Taichung, Taiwan ("Sing Lin"). Pursuant to the Agreement, the Company consigned to Sing Lin the development and design of the next generation Exer-Rest and related devices. The Agreement commenced as of September 3, 2007 and had a term that extended three years from the acceptance by NIMS of the first run of production units. Thereafter, the Agreement automatically renewed for successive one year terms unless either party sent the other a notice of non-renewal. Either party was permitted to terminate the Agreement with ninety days prior written notice. Upon termination, each party’s obligations under the Agreement were to be limited to obligations related to confirm orders placed prior to the termination date.
 
Pursuant to the Agreement, Sing Lin designed, developed and manufactured the tooling required to manufacture the acceleration therapeutic platforms for a total cost to the Company of $471,000. Sing Lin utilized the tooling in the performance of its production obligations under the Agreement. The Company paid Sing Lin $150,000 of the tooling cost upon execution of the Agreement and $150,000 upon the Company’s approval of the product prototype concepts and designs. The balance of the final tooling cost became due and payable in September 2008 upon acceptance of the first units produced using the tooling, and was paid in full during the year ended July 31, 2009.
 
Under the now-terminated Agreement, the Company also granted Sing Lin the exclusive distribution rights for the products in certain countries in the Far East, including Taiwan, China, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia and certain other countries. Sing Lin agreed not to sell the Products outside its geographic areas in the Far East.
 
The Agreement provided for the Company to purchase approximately $2.6 million of Exer-Rest units within one year of the September 2008 acceptance of the final product. The Agreement further provided for the Company to purchase $4.1 million and $8.8 million of Exer-Rest products in the second and third years following such acceptance, respectively. These minimum purchase amounts were based upon 2007 product costs multiplied by volume commitments. Through April 30, 2015, the Company had paid Sing Lin $1.7 million in connection with orders placed through that date. Of this amount, $90,000 was previously included as advances to contract manufacturer. As of April 30, 2015, the Company has approximately $41,000 of payables due to Sing Lin. As of April 30, 2015 and July 31, 2014, aggregate minimum future purchases under the Agreement totaled approximately $13.9 million.
 
As of April 30, 2015, the Company had not placed orders sufficient to meet the first-year or second-year minimum purchase obligations under the Agreement. The Company notified Sing Lin in June 2010 that it was terminating the Agreement effective September 2010, and Sing Lin in July 2010 demanded that the Company place orders sufficient to fulfill the three year minimum purchase obligations in the Agreement. As of June 15, 2015, Sing Lin has not followed up on its July 2010 demand. There can be no assurance that Sing Lin will not attempt to enforce its remedies under the Agreement, or pursue other potential remedies.