Quarterly report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

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13.  Other Current Liabilities

 

In September 2007, the Company entered into a Development and License Agreement (the “Development Agreement”) with UTC Power Corporation (“UTCP”), a division of United Technologies Corporation. The Development Agreement engaged UTCP to fund and support the Company’s continued development and commercialization of the Company’s 200 kilowatt (“C200”) microturbine. Pursuant to the terms of the Development Agreement, UTCP contributed $12.0 million in cash and approximately $0.8 million of in-kind services toward the Company’s efforts to develop the C200. In return, the Company pays to UTCP an ongoing royalty of 10% of the sales price of the C200 sold to customers other than UTCP until the aggregate of UTCP’s cash and in-kind services investment has been recovered and, thereafter, the royalty will be reduced to 5% of the sales price. In August 2009, the Development Agreement was assigned by UTCP to Carrier Corporation (“Carrier”).

 

The Company recorded the benefits from this Development Agreement as a reduction of research and development (“R&D”) expenses. In-kind services performed by UTCP under the cost-sharing program were recorded as consulting expense within R&D expenses. Funding in excess of expenses incurred was recorded in Other Current Liabilities. The program concluded in June 2009 and, therefore, there was no funding in excess of expenses recorded in Other Current Liabilities as of December 31, 2011. The reduction of R&D expenses was recognized on a percentage of completion basis, limited by the amount of funding received and/or earned based on milestone deliverables.

 

On January 14, 2011, the Company entered into an amendment to the Development Agreement with Carrier. The amendment amends the royalty payment from a certain percentage of the sales prices to a predetermined fixed rate for each microturbine system covered by the amendment. Carrier earned $0.9 million and $0.5 million in royalties for C200 and C1000 Series system sales during the three months ended December 31, 2011 and 2010, respectively. Carrier earned $2.2 million and $1.4 million in royalties for C200 and C1000 system sales during the nine months ended December 31, 2011 and 2010, respectively. Earned royalties of $0.9 million and $1.7 million were unpaid as of December 31, 2011 and March 31, 2011, respectively, and are included in accounts payable and accrued expenses in the accompanying balance sheets.