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| INTANGIBLE ASSETS | NOTE 4. INTANGIBLE ASSETS
The following table summarizes the Company’s intangible assets as of and for the periods ended March 31, 2026 and 2025:
On June 17, 2024, the Company and Nostrum Laboratories Inc. (“Nostrum”) entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement (the “Asset Purchase Agreement”), pursuant to which Nostrum was obligated to (i) sell to the Company all of its rights in and to the approved abbreviated new drug applications (ANDAs) for generic Norco® (Hydrocodone Bitartrate and Acetaminophen tablets, USP CII), generic Percocet® (Oxycodone Hydrochloride and Acetaminophen, USP CII), and generic Dolophine® (Methadone Hydrochloride tablets), each a “Product”, and (ii) grant to the Company a royalty-free, non-exclusive perpetual license to use the manufacturing technology, proprietary information, processes, techniques, protocols, methods, know-how, and improvements necessary or used to manufacture each Product in accordance with the applicable ANDA, in exchange for $900,000 in cash (the “Transaction”). The Asset Purchase Agreement includes customary representations and warranties and various customary covenants. The closing of the Transaction occurred on June 21, 2024.
ELITE PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. AND SUBSIDIARY NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
During the year ended March 31, 2026, the Company determined indicators of impairment occurred related to the Loxapine intangible asset, an ANDA product, and recorded impairment expense of $557,973. Additionally, the patent related to the Company’s abuse deterrent opioid technology expired during the year ended March 31, 2026, before marketing authorization was obtained from the FDA, and as such the Company impaired this intangible asset in full in the amount of $289,039.
During the year ended March 31, 2025, the Company determined indicators of impairment occurred related to the Dantrolene and Phentermine intangible assets, both ANDA products, and recorded impairment expense of $1,603,426.
* Patent application costs were incurred in relation to the Company’s abuse deterrent opioid technology. Amortization of the patent costs would have begun upon the issuance of marketing authorization by the FDA. During the year ended March 31, 2026, these costs were impaired in full as discussed above.
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