To: musicman who wrote (5391 ) 6/19/1999 10:23:00 AM From: JanyBlueEyes Read Replies (5) | Respond to of 5736
8-K Filed Yesterday --------------------------- The SEC: What it is, What it Does. The SEC is an independent, nonpartisan, quasijudicial regulatory agency with responsibility for administering the federal securities laws. The purpose of these laws is to protect investors in securities markets that operate fairly and to ensure that investors have access to disclosure of all material information concerning publicly traded securities Definition of Form 8-K: A report of unscheduled material events or corporate changes which could be of importance to the shareholders or to the SEC. --------------------------- From the 8-K (Note: the filing is approximately 40 printed pages long. It details the distribution deal from top to bottom. I have taken some items out that are of particular interest imo): ITEM 5. OTHER EVENTS On June 7, 1999, Chromatics Color Sciences International Inc. (the "Company") executed a renewable, five-year agreement with Datex-Ohmeda, Inc. and its Ohmeda medical division ("DO") pursuant to which the Company appointed DO as the exclusive distributor in the United States of the Company's Colormate(Registered) Tlc BiliTest(Trade Mark) System for noninvasive monitoring of bilirubin infant jaundice in the hospital market, the non-consumer home healthcare market (in which the test is administered solely by a healthcare professional), the pediatrician, office market and clinics within all such markets . The agreement also applies to the Company's disposable calibration standard (Tlc Lensette(Trade Mark)) that is used to calibrate each measurement taken by the Colormate(Registered) Tlc BiliTest(Trade Mark) System and provides that the Company will share in the sales revenues for such product. Terms of the agreement include annual minimum market penetration performance standards and quantities for both the Colormate (Registered) Tlc BiliTest(Trade Mark) System and the Tlc calibration standards. In addition, the agreement grants DO negotiation rights for international marketing and distribution of the Company's monitoring system for the potential retail market and consumer home healthcare market where the test is not administered by a healthcare professional , subject to further required regulatory clearances for commericial use...... .....1. CCSI's Supply of Products. CCSI agrees to manufacture and ship or cause its manufacturing subcontractor to manufacture and ship the Products ordered by DO under a Firm Purchase Order during the Term of this Agreement in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement..... 5. Purchase Price. (a) Subject to the remaining provisions of this Section III, paragraph 5, the DO Purchase Price for each of the first two Performance Years shall be equal to the higher of (i) sixty percent (60%) of the Invoice Price for the Products or (ii) the Minimum Transfer Price for each Product set forth on Attachment A hereto. (b) The DO Purchase Price after the first two Performance Years shall be equal to the higher of (i) fifty percent (50%) of the Invoice Price for the Products , or (ii) the Minimum Transfer Price for each Product set forth on Attachment A hereto... ....DO Purchase Price for Device as described above: The higher of the Minimum Transfer Price or 60% of Invoice Price in Performance Years 1 & 2 or 50% of Invoice Price in Performance Years 3, 4 and 5 of this Agreement, as per the terms of the Agreement. e.g. If Invoice Price is $3000, then DO Purchase Price is: $1800 (60%) in Performance Years 1 & 2 of the Agreement; $1500 (50%) in Performance Years 3, 4 & 5 of the Agreement..... ...TLc Lensette(Trade Mark) Calibration Standards are used to calibrate the Device before each TLc BiliTest(Trade Mark) System measurement of a patient to ensure accuracy of the color measurement and includes a protective shield to prevent cross-contamination between patients. The TLc Lensette(Trade Mark) Calibration Standards are available packaged 25 per box (TLc LensPak(Trade Mark)).... DO Purchase Price for TLc Lensette(Trade Mark) Calibration Standards as described above: The higher of the Minimum Transfer Price or 60% of Invoice Price for Performance Years 1 & 2 or 50% of Invoice Price for Performance Years 3, 4 & 5 of this Agreement , as per the terms of the Agreement. e.g. If Invoice Price is $10, then DO Purchase Price is: $6 (60%) in Performance Years 1 & 2 of the Agreement; $5 (50%) in Performance Years 3, 4 & 5 of the Agreement.... Term. (a) The initial term of this Agreement shall begin on the date of this Agreement and shall end on October 7, 2004 (the "Initial Term"), unless earlier terminated in a manner expressly permitted hereunder. Subject to paragraph 1(b) of this Section VI below, in the event that the Annual Minimum Performances are satisfied (including purchasing the required quantities) during each of the applicable Performance Years (subject to paragraph 6(e) of Section III above), the Initial Term may be extended at DO's option for an additional term of five (5) years (the "Extended Term"), provided, however, that such Extended Term shall not apply to any Targeted Markets for which DO's rights to exclusively market and distribute the Products have been terminated by CCSI (and as of the end of the Initial Term remains terminated) as a result of DO having failed to satisfy the Cumulative Minimum Targeted Market Performances (subject to paragraph 6(e) of Section III above), for each of the applicable Performance Years......