Quarterly report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

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3 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2011
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NOTE 10 – LICENSE AGREEMENT

 

On September 2, 2010, the Company entered into a multi-year exclusive worldwide License Agreement (“Agreement”) for its ProAlgaZyme ® product (“Product”) with a distributor of health and nutritional products, Zus Health, LLC (“Zus”) (this agreement was assigned by Zus to Ceptazyme, LLC (Zus’ successor).  Under the terms of the Agreement, Ceptazyme, LLC has the exclusive right to distribute the Product to customers and distributors worldwide, excluding pharmaceutical applications and food, supplement and medicinal ingredient applications outside of multi-level, network or affiliate marketing (“MLM”).  The Company reserved the right to market and sell isolates and natural and synthetic derivatives of the Product in pharmaceutical applications, as well as ingredient applications outside of MLM.  The Agreement prohibits the Company from selling ProAlgaZyme for the benefit of customers and distributors worldwide, other than for pharmaceutical and ingredient applications. The Company is also prohibited from selling any product in the MLM market.  In November, 2010, the Company received a payment of $255,000, as provided in the Agreement, for the exclusive distribution rights.  $242,500 of this payment has been recorded as deferred revenue, and is being amortized over seventeen years.  Our receipt of minimum payments under the Ceptazyme, LLC Agreement is subject to among other conditions our product meeting the FDA’s GRAS standard, which we are currently working on. The Agreement remains in effect until the expiration of the last patent with respect to the Product, subject to earlier termination as provided in the Agreement.  The minimum payment provisions under the Agreement have not been operative as we do not yet meet the GRAS standard.  We anticipate GRAS compliance by the end of 2011, at which time we expect to begin shipments under the contract.