Risk Factors.
−Removed: Investing in our common stock involves
−Removed: a high degree of risk.
−Removed: You should carefully consider the risks and uncertainties described below and the other information in this
−Removed: Quarterly Report, including our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and the related notes, as well as our other
−Removed: public filings with the SEC, before making an investment in our common stock.
−Removed: Our business, financial condition, results of operations
−Removed: and prospects could be materially and adversely affected if any of these risks occurs, and as a result, the market price of our
−Removed: common stock could decline and you could lose all or part of your investment.
−Removed: This Quarterly Report also contains forward-looking
−Removed: statements that involve risks and uncertainties.
−Removed: See “Forward-Looking Statements.”
−Removed: Our actual results could differ
−Removed: materially and adversely from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of certain factors, including those
−Removed: set forth below.
−Removed: Risks Related to Our Business
−Removed: Our long-term growth depends on our
−Removed: ability to enhance our products, expand our product indications and develop, acquire and commercialize additional product offerings.
−Removed: Our industry is highly competitive and
−Removed: subject to rapid change and technological advancements.
−Removed: Competition intensifies as technical advances in each field are made and
−Removed: become more widely known.
−Removed: We can give no assurance that others will not develop products, services and processes with significant
−Removed: advantages over the products, services and processes that we offer or are seeking to develop.
−Removed: It is, therefore, important to our
−Removed: business that we continue to enhance our existing product offerings, expand our product indications and develop or otherwise introduce
−Removed: and successfully commercialize new products.
−Removed: Developing, acquiring and commercializing products is expensive and time-consuming
−Removed: and could divert management’s attention away from our core business.
−Removed: Even if we are successful in developing additional products,
−Removed: the success of any new product offering or enhancements to any of our existing products will depend on several factors, including
−Removed: our ability to:
−Removed: properly identify and anticipate physician and patient needs;
−Removed: develop and introduce new products and product enhancements in a timely manner;
−Removed: distinguish our products from those of our competitors;
−Removed: develop an effective and dedicated sales and marketing team;
−Removed: enter into successful agreements with commercial partners, independent sales agents and other third
−Removed: parties where it is beneficial for us to do so;
−Removed: adequately protect our intellectual property, avoid infringing, misappropriating or otherwise violating
−Removed: the intellectual property rights of third parties and obtain and maintain necessary intellectual property licenses from third parties;
−Removed: demonstrate, if required, the safety and efficacy of new products with data from pre-clinical studies
−Removed: and clinical trials;
−Removed: obtain the necessary regulatory clearances or approvals for new products, product enhancements
−Removed: and expanded indications;
−Removed: maintain full compliance with FDA, European Union Medical Devices regulations and other regulatory
−Removed: requirements applicable to new devices or products or modifications of existing devices or products;
−Removed: provide adequate training to potential users of our products;
−Removed: receive adequate coverage and reimbursement for our products;
−Removed: otherwise compete effectively against products and enhancements developed by our competitors.
−Removed: If we are not successful in expanding our
−Removed: indications and developing, acquiring and commercializing new products and product enhancements, our ability to increase our net
−Removed: sales may be impaired, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: In addition, our research and development efforts may require a substantial investment of time and resources before we are adequately
−Removed: able to determine the commercial viability of a new product, technology or other innovation.
−Removed: Even if we are able to successfully develop
−Removed: and commercialize new product offerings or enhancements, they may be quickly rendered obsolete by changing customer preferences
−Removed: or the introduction by our competitors of products embodying new technologies or features and/or otherwise not produce sales in
−Removed: excess of the costs of development, any of which could also materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and
−Removed: results of operations.
−Removed: Furthermore, to the extent we seek to enhance our products and broaden our product portfolio through acquisitions
−Removed: or other commercial transactions, we will be subject to additional risks.
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−Removed: We regularly evaluate opportunities
−Removed: to make acquisitions of, investments in, and licenses or other commercial arrangements involving, other companies or technologies,
−Removed: and to enter into other strategic transactions.
−Removed: These transactions entail significant risks.
−Removed: A substantial portion of our net
−Removed: sales is generated through our commercial partners and independent sales agents, which subjects us to various risks.
−Removed: We currently rely on the efforts of our
−Removed: commercial partners and independent sales agents to generate a substantial portion of our net sales, and we expect to continue
−Removed: to rely on these third parties to generate a substantial portion of our net sales in the future while we work to grow our direct
−Removed: As a result, the impairment or termination of these relationships for any reason, or the failure of these parties
−Removed: to diligently sell our products and comply with applicable laws and regulations, could materially and adversely affect our ability
−Removed: to generate revenue and profits.
−Removed: Because our commercial partners and independent sales agents control the relationships with our
−Removed: end customers, if our relationship with any commercial partner or independent sales agent ends, we will likely also lose our relationship
−Removed: with their customers.
−Removed: Furthermore, our success is partially dependent on the willingness and ability of the sales representatives
−Removed: and other employees of our commercial partners and independent sales agents to diligently sell our products.
−Removed: However, we cannot
−Removed: guarantee that they will be successful in marketing our products.
−Removed: In addition, because our commercial partners and independent
−Removed: sales agents do not sell our products exclusively, they may focus their sales efforts and resources on other products that produce
−Removed: better margins or greater commissions for them or are incorporated into a broader strategic relationship with a partner.
−Removed: we do not control the sales representatives and other employees of our commercial partners, we cannot guarantee that our sales
−Removed: processes, regulatory compliance and other priorities will be consistently communicated and executed.
−Removed: In addition, we do not have
−Removed: staff in many of the areas covered by our commercial partners and independent sales agents, which makes it particularly difficult
−Removed: for us to monitor their performance.
−Removed: While we may take steps to mitigate the risks associated with noncompliance by our commercial
−Removed: partners and independent sales agents, there remains a risk that they will not comply with regulatory requirements or our requirements
−Removed: and policies.
−Removed: Actions by the sales representatives and other employees of our commercial partners and independent sales agents
−Removed: that are beyond our control could result in flat or declining sales in that territory, harm to the reputation of our company or
−Removed: our products or legal liability, any of which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results
−Removed: of operations.
−Removed: In addition to the risk of losing customers, the operation of local laws and our agreements with our commercial
−Removed: partners and independent sales agents would make it difficult for us to replace a commercial partner or independent sales agent
−Removed: we feel is underperforming.
−Removed: In order to increase our sales, particularly
−Removed: with respect to our Core Products, we intend to develop relationships and arrangements with additional commercial partners and/or
−Removed: independent sales agents, which we may not be able to do on commercially reasonable terms or at all.
−Removed: If we are unable to establish
−Removed: new commercial partner and independent sales agent relationships and maintain our relationships with our existing commercial partners
−Removed: and independent sales agents, in each case, on commercially reasonable terms, we will be unable to increase sales of our products
−Removed: and our business, financial condition and results of operations could be materially and adversely affected.
−Removed: In addition, certain of our commercial
−Removed: partners may, from time to time, account for a significant portion of our net sales and/or accounts receivable.
−Removed: Sales to Surgalign
−Removed: Holdings, one of our commercial partners, accounted for 11% of our net sales during the nine months ended September 30, 2020
−Removed: and represented 10% of our accounts receivable as of September 30, 2020.
−Removed: Sales to Medtronic, also one of our commercial partners,
−Removed: accounted for 16% of our net sales during the nine months ended September 30, 2020 and represented 29% of our accounts receivable
−Removed: as of September 30, 2020.
−Removed: The loss of one or more significant commercial partners, or a material reduction in their purchases
−Removed: of our products, would adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: We are also subject to the
−Removed: risk that any such commercial partner will experience financial difficulties that prevent them from making payments to us on a
−Removed: timely basis or at all.
−Removed: Our revenue and profitability could
−Removed: be materially and adversely affected if we fail to maintain our relationships with our existing contract manufacturing customers
−Removed: and enter into agreements with new contract manufacturing customers, or if existing contract manufacturing customers reduce purchases
−Removed: of our products.
−Removed: Our relationships with these customers also subject us to certain risks.
−Removed: contract manufacturing operations are an important component of our business, enabling us to utilize as much as possible of the
−Removed: human biological material from which we produce our core orthopedic/spinal repair and soft tissue reconstruction products, leverage
−Removed: our existing overhead and improve our cash flow.
−Removed: In addition, we have historically generated a significant portion of our total
−Removed: net sales from sales of our Non-Core Products, which is composed primarily of purchases from our contract manufacturing customers.
−Removed: Sales of our Non-Core Product sales which represented approximately 14.1% and 30.1% of our total net sales for the nine months
−Removed: ended September 30, 2020 and 2019 respectively, and this decrease largely resulted from a reduction in volume of products
−Removed: purchased by one significant contract customer following the expiration of its contract.
−Removed: As a result, if we are unable to maintain
−Removed: our relationships with our existing contract manufacturing customers and establish relationships with new contract manufacturing
−Removed: customers on terms that are favorable to us, or if our existing contract manufacturing customers materially reduce their purchases
−Removed: of our products, our sales and profitability may be further adversely affected.
−Removed: In addition, although we have invested,
−Removed: and expect to continue to invest, significant time and resources cultivating our relationships with these customers, these relationships
−Removed: subject us to certain risks.
−Removed: For example, our contract manufacturing customers may use their experience with our products to develop
−Removed: their own solutions, which they may be able to produce at a lower cost than the price they pay for our products.
−Removed: This is particularly
−Removed: true given that many of our customers are large, established companies that may be able to achieve greater economies of scale in
−Removed: manufacturing and production and/or experience synergies from vertical integration.
−Removed: In addition, our contract manufacturing customers
−Removed: routinely audit and inspect our facilities, processes and practices to ensure that our manufacturing process and products meet
−Removed: their internal standards and applicable regulatory standards.
−Removed: To date, we have passed all such audits and inspections.
−Removed: we may not do so in the future, and any failure to perform to our customers’
−Removed: satisfaction in these audits could significantly
−Removed: harm our relationships with them and our reputation, which could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition
−Removed: and results of operations.
−Removed: Furthermore, the need to comply with our customers’
−Removed: internal requirements could result in increased
−Removed: development, manufacturing, warranty and administrative costs.
−Removed: A significant increase in these costs could adversely affect our
−Removed: business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: There is also a risk that we may be unable to supply products in the quantities
−Removed: and of the quality required by these customers within their required timeframes, which would also jeopardize our relationships
−Removed: Disagreements or disputes may also arise from time to time.
−Removed: Any of these events, to the extent they cause our customers
−Removed: to reduce purchases of our products or terminate their relationships with us, could have a material adverse effect on our business,
−Removed: financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: In addition, our sales to these customers
−Removed: may be impacted by changes in their buying habits over which we have no control.
−Removed: Such changes may be driven by, among other things,
−Removed: changes in market share, cyclicality, inventory reductions, spending patterns, cost-cutting measures, product development activity
−Removed: and timelines and changes in supply chain management, as well as the impact of general economic conditions.
−Removed: These customers may
−Removed: also experience financial difficulties or other problems that may prevent them from making payments to us on a timely basis or
−Removed: Any of these events could cause our operating results to fluctuate from period to period, make it more difficult for us
−Removed: to manage our inventory and production schedules and otherwise adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of
−Removed: We plan to expand our direct sales
−Removed: force, and if we are unable to successfully expand, manage and maintain our direct sales force, we may not be able to generate
−Removed: greater market share and revenue growth.
−Removed: Prior to the CorMatrix Acquisition, we
−Removed: had a very small direct sales force and sold our Core Products primarily through independent sales agents or to other companies
−Removed: for resale or incorporation into their products.
−Removed: Though our orthopedic/spinal repair products are now primarily sold through our
−Removed: commercial partners, we currently utilize our direct sales force to sell CanGaroo and our cardiovascular products, as well as our
−Removed: SimpliDerm product.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2020, our direct sales organization consisted of 25 sales representatives, who are
−Removed: focused on increasing market access and market penetration by selling our products, managing our commercial partners, who assist
−Removed: in selling CanGaroo, and providing technical assistance.
−Removed: Our operating results are directly dependent upon the efforts of these
−Removed: If our direct sales force fails to adequately promote, market and sell our products and effectively manage and assist
−Removed: our commercial partners, our net sales may be adversely affected.
−Removed: In addition, in order to expand our network
−Removed: of hospital and physician customers, drive deeper penetration in our current accounts and provide additional technical assistance
−Removed: to our commercial partners, we plan to expand the size and geographic scope of our direct sales force.
−Removed: This growth may require
−Removed: us to split or adjust existing sales territories, which may adversely affect our ability to retain customers in those territories.
−Removed: Additionally, our future success will depend largely on our ability to continue to hire, train, retain and motivate skilled sales
−Removed: personnel with significant industry experience and technical knowledge of regenerative medicine and related products.
−Removed: competition for their services is high, we cannot assure you we will be able to hire and retain additional personnel on favorable
−Removed: or commercially reasonable terms, if at all.
−Removed: Failure to hire or retain qualified sales personnel would prevent us from expanding
−Removed: our business and generating additional revenue.
−Removed: In addition, it typically takes a substantial period of time before newly hired
−Removed: sales personnel are effective.
−Removed: Though we currently utilize commercial partners and independent sales agents to sell certain of
−Removed: our products, there is no guarantee that we will be able to establish relationships with additional parties, or that our existing
−Removed: commercial partners and independent sales agents will purchase or otherwise commercialize any products we may seek to introduce
−Removed: in the future.
−Removed: If we are unable to expand our sales and marketing capabilities, we may not be able to effectively commercialize
−Removed: our products, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: We are working to grow our direct
−Removed: sales force for certain of our products, which may result in higher fixed costs and may slow our ability to reduce costs in the
−Removed: face of a sudden decline in demand for our products.
−Removed: A key component of our growth involves
−Removed: expanding the size and geographic scope of our direct sales force.
−Removed: A direct sales force may subject us to higher fixed costs than
−Removed: those of other companies that market competing products primarily through third parties due to the costs that we will bear associated
−Removed: with employee benefits, training and managing sales personnel.
−Removed: As a result, we could be at a competitive disadvantage relative
−Removed: to competitors who rely more heavily on third parties to market and sell their products.
−Removed: Additionally, these fixed costs may slow
−Removed: our ability to reduce costs in the face of a sudden decline in demand for our products, which could have a material adverse effect
−Removed: on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: We have incurred operating losses
−Removed: since our inception, expect to continue to incur significant expenses and operating losses in the future, and may not be able to
−Removed: achieve or sustain profitability.
−Removed: We have incurred net losses since our inception
−Removed: For the years ended December 31, 2018 and 2019, we had net losses of 
−Removed: $11.6 million and $11.9 million, respectively,
−Removed: and for the nine months ended September 30, 2019 and 2020, we had net losses of 
−Removed: $9.1 million and $13.0 million, respectively.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2020, we had an accumulated deficit of 
−Removed: $74.9 million.
−Removed: To date, we have financed our operations
−Removed: primarily through private placements of our convertible preferred stock, amounts borrowed under our credit facilities and sales
−Removed: of our products.
−Removed: We have devoted the majority of our resources to acquisition and integration, manufacturing costs, research and
−Removed: development, clinical activity and investing in our commercial infrastructure through our direct sales force and commercial partners
−Removed: in order to expand our presence and to promote awareness and adoption of our products.
−Removed: We expect that our operating expenses will
−Removed: continue to increase as we grow our sales organization, expand our product development and clinical and research activities, and
−Removed: incur additional costs associated with being a public company.
−Removed: As a result, we expect to continue to incur operating losses in
−Removed: the future and may never achieve profitability.
−Removed: Furthermore, even if we do achieve profitability, we may not be able to sustain
−Removed: or increase profitability on an ongoing basis.
−Removed: If we do not achieve or sustain profitability, it will be more difficult for us
−Removed: to finance our business and accomplish our strategic objectives, either of which would have a material adverse effect on our business,
−Removed: financial condition and results of operations and cause the market price of our Class A common stock to decline.
−Removed: failure of our products to significantly penetrate existing or new markets would negatively affect our business, financial condition
−Removed: and results of operations.
−Removed: Our business has been, and may continue
−Removed: to be, adversely affected by the outbreak of the novel strain of coronavirus disease, COVID-19, and may be adversely affected by
−Removed: any future pandemic, epidemic or outbreak of an infectious disease in the United States or worldwide.
−Removed: If a pandemic, epidemic or outbreak of
−Removed: an infectious disease occurs in the United States or worldwide, our business may be adversely affected.
−Removed: In December 2019,
−Removed: a novel strain of coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, was identified in Wuhan, China.
−Removed: Since then, SARS-CoV-2, and the resulting disease, COVID-19,
−Removed: has spread to most countries and all 50 states within the United States.
−Removed: The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted our business,
−Removed: financial condition and results of operations by significantly decreasing and delaying the number of procedures performed using
−Removed: our products, and we expect the pandemic to continue to negatively impact our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: Similar to the general trend in elective and other surgical procedures, the number of procedures performed using our products has
−Removed: decreased significantly as healthcare organizations in the United States have prioritized the treatment of patients with COVID-19
−Removed: or have otherwise altered their operations to prepare for and respond to the pandemic.
−Removed: For example, in the United States, governmental
−Removed: authorities have recommended, and in certain cases required, that elective, specialty and other non-emergency procedures and appointments
−Removed: be suspended or canceled in order to avoid patient exposure to medical environments and the risk of potential infection with the
−Removed: novel coronavirus, and to focus limited resources and personnel capacity on the treatment of COVID-19 patients.
−Removed: Beginning in March 2020,
−Removed: a significant number of procedures using our products have been postponed or cancelled, which has negatively impacted sales of
−Removed: our products.
−Removed: Decreases in procedures have been most prevalent in regions experiencing significant outbreaks, while healthcare
−Removed: organizations in other regions have continued to undertake procedures using our products at reduced levels as compared to before
−Removed: the pandemic.
−Removed: The COVID-19 pandemic could also adversely impact the initiation, continuation and completion of our clinical trials
−Removed: by, for example, delaying procedures using our products or reducing the number of patients, healthcare providers or clinical facilities
−Removed: available or willing to participate in the clinical trials.
−Removed: These delays could result in increased costs, delays in advancing our
−Removed: product development, delays in testing the effectiveness of our technology or termination of the clinical studies altogether.
−Removed: measures and challenges will likely continue for the duration of the pandemic, which is uncertain, and may continue to reduce our
−Removed: net sales and negatively impact our business, financial condition and results of operations while the pandemic continues.
−Removed: even after the pandemic ultimately subsides, we anticipate there will be a substantial backlog of patients seeking procedures and
−Removed: appointments for a variety of medical conditions and, as a result, patients seeking procedures performed using our products will
−Removed: have to navigate limited provider capacity.
−Removed: We believe this limited capacity of providers, hospitals and other healthcare facilities
−Removed: could have a significant adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations during and following the
−Removed: COVID-19 pandemic.
−Removed: Numerous state and local jurisdictions,
−Removed: including those where our facilities are located, have imposed, and others in the future may impose, “shelter-in-place”
−Removed: orders, quarantines, executive orders and similar government orders and restrictions for their residents to control the spread
−Removed: Such orders or restrictions have resulted in reduced operations at our manufacturing facilities, travel restrictions
−Removed: and cancellation of events and have restricted the ability of our sales representatives and those of our commercial partners and
−Removed: independent sales agents to attend procedures in which our products are used, among other effects, thereby significantly and negatively
−Removed: impacting our operations.
−Removed: Other disruptions or potential disruptions include restrictions on the ability of our sales representatives
−Removed: and other personnel, and those of our commercial partners and independent sales agents, to travel and access customers for training
−Removed: and case support;
−Removed: inability of our suppliers to manufacture and deliver to us on a timely basis or at all;
−Removed: delays in our ability
−Removed: to obtain medical records for tissue donors, which we need in order to release our products;
−Removed: disruptions in our production schedule
−Removed: and ability to manufacture and assemble products;
−Removed: inventory shortages or obsolescence;
−Removed: delays in actions of regulatory bodies;
−Removed: delays in clinical trials and studies;
−Removed: diversion of or limitations on employee resources that would otherwise be focused on the
−Removed: operations of our business, including because of sickness of employees or their families or the desire of employees to avoid contact
−Removed: with groups of people;
−Removed: delays in growing or reductions in our direct sales force, including through delays in hiring, lay-offs,
−Removed: furloughs or other losses of sales representatives;
−Removed: restrictions in our ability to ship our products to customers;
−Removed: business adjustments
−Removed: or disruptions of certain third parties, including suppliers, medical institutions and clinical investigators with whom we conduct
−Removed: negative impact on our customers’
−Removed: credit profiles, which may adversely impact our future collection experience;
−Removed: and additional government requirements or other incremental mitigation efforts that may further impact our or our suppliers’
−Removed: capacity to manufacture our products.
−Removed: The extent, to which the COVID-19 pandemic or any future pandemic, epidemic or outbreak of
−Removed: an infectious disease impacts our business, will depend on future events and developments, which are highly uncertain and cannot
−Removed: be predicted, including the severity and spread of the disease and the effectiveness of actions to contain the disease or treat
−Removed: its impact, among others.
−Removed: As new information regarding COVID-19 continues to emerge, it is difficult to predict what impact this
−Removed: disease will ultimately have on our business.
−Removed: Adverse changes in general domestic
−Removed: and global economic conditions and instability and disruption of credit markets, including as a result of the current COVID-19
−Removed: pandemic or any other outbreak of an infectious disease, could adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations
−Removed: and liquidity.
−Removed: We are subject to risks arising from adverse
−Removed: changes in general domestic and global economic conditions, including any recession, economic slowdown or disruption of credit
−Removed: While the potential economic impact brought by, and the duration of, any pandemic, epidemic or outbreak of an infectious
−Removed: disease, including COVID-19, may be difficult to assess or predict, the current COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in, and may continue
−Removed: to result in, significant disruption of global financial markets.
−Removed: These events, and any financial crisis that may occur in the
−Removed: future, could make it more difficult and more expensive for hospitals and health systems to obtain credit, which may contribute
−Removed: to pressures on their operating margins.
−Removed: As a result, hospitals and health systems may curtail and reduce capital and overall spending,
−Removed: which may have a significant adverse effect on our business.
−Removed: In addition, the current economic downturn that has resulted from
−Removed: the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted and may continue to result in, and any economic downturn that may occur in the future may also
−Removed: result in, higher unemployment and a reduction in the number of individuals covered by private insurance, which may result in an
−Removed: increase in the cost of uncompensated care for hospitals.
−Removed: Higher unemployment may also result in a shift in reimbursement patterns
−Removed: as unemployed individuals switch from private plans to public plans such as U.S.
−Removed: Medicaid or Medicare.
−Removed: As economic conditions deteriorate
−Removed: and unemployment increases, any significant shift in coverage for the unemployed may have an unfavorable impact on our business.
−Removed: In addition, the current COVID-19 pandemic
−Removed: and any other disruption in the capital and credit markets could impede our access to capital, which could be further adversely
−Removed: affected if we are unable to maintain our current credit ratings.
−Removed: Should we have limited access to additional financing sources,
−Removed: we may need to defer capital expenditures or seek other sources of liquidity, which may not be available to us on acceptable terms
−Removed: Similarly, if our suppliers face challenges in obtaining credit or other financial difficulties, they may be unable
−Removed: to provide the materials required to manufacture our products.
−Removed: All of these factors related to global economic conditions, which
−Removed: are beyond our control, could adversely impact our business, financial condition, results of operations and liquidity.
−Removed: Our future growth depends on physician
−Removed: awareness of the distinctive characteristics, benefits, safety, clinical efficacy and cost-effectiveness of our products.
−Removed: We focus our sales, marketing and training
−Removed: efforts on physicians, surgeons and other healthcare professionals.
−Removed: The acceptance of our products depends in part on our ability
−Removed: to educate these individuals as to the distinctive characteristics, benefits, safety, clinical efficacy and cost-effectiveness
−Removed: of our products compared to alternative products, procedures and therapies.
−Removed: We support our direct sales force, commercial partners
−Removed: and independent sales agents through in-person educational programs and online medical educational materials, among other things.
−Removed: We also produce marketing materials, including materials outlining our products, for our sales teams using printed, video and multimedia
−Removed: However, our efforts to educate physicians, surgeons and other healthcare professionals regarding our products may not
−Removed: be successful, particularly in markets in which we rely exclusively on the efforts of our commercial partners and independent sales
−Removed: A failure to educate physicians and surgeons may impair our ability to achieve market acceptance of our products and adversely
−Removed: affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: Our success depends on the continued
−Removed: and future acceptance of our products by the medical community.
−Removed: Even if we are able to increase awareness
−Removed: of our products among healthcare professionals, there can be no assurance that this will translate into greater acceptance of our
−Removed: products by the medical community.
−Removed: We believe physicians, surgeons and other healthcare professionals will only adopt our products
−Removed: if they determine, based on experience, clinical data and published peer reviewed journal articles, that the use of our products
−Removed: in a particular procedure is a favorable alternative to other available methods.
−Removed: Physicians also are more interested in using cost-effective
−Removed: products as they face increasing cost-containment pressure.
−Removed: In general, physicians may be slow to change their medical treatment
−Removed: practices and adopt our products for a variety of reasons, including, among others:
−Removed: their lack of experience using our products;
−Removed: lack of evidence supporting additional patient benefits from use of our products over conventional
−Removed: pressure to contain costs;
−Removed: preference for other treatment modalities or our competitors’
−Removed: perceived liability risks generally associated with the use of new products and procedures;
−Removed: limited availability of coverage and/or reimbursement from third-party payors;
−Removed: the time that must be dedicated to learning how to use our products.
−Removed: The degree of market acceptance of our
−Removed: products will continue to depend on a number of factors, some of which are outside of our control, including, among other things:
−Removed: the actual and perceived safety and efficacy of our products;
−Removed: the potential and perceived advantages of our products over alternative treatments;
−Removed: clinical data and the clinical indications for which our products are approved;
−Removed: product labeling or product insert requirements of the FDA, the European Union or other regulatory
−Removed: authorities, including any limitations or warnings contained in approved labeling;
−Removed: the cost of using our products relative to the use of our competitors’
−Removed: products or alternative
−Removed: treatment modalities;
−Removed: relative convenience and ease of administration;
−Removed: the strength of marketing and distribution support;
−Removed: the timing of market introduction of competitive products;
−Removed: publicity concerning our products or competing products and treatments;
−Removed: our reputation and the reputation of our products;
−Removed: the prevalence and severity of any adverse events patients experience involving our products;
−Removed: the shelf life of our products and our ability to manage the logistics of the end-user supply chain;
−Removed: sufficient and readily accessible third-party insurance coverage and reimbursement for procedures
−Removed: incorporating our products.
−Removed: In addition, we believe recommendations
−Removed: for, and support of our products by, influential physicians are essential for market acceptance and adoption.
−Removed: If we do not receive
−Removed: this support (e.g., because we are unable to demonstrate favorable long-term clinical data or otherwise), physicians and hospitals
−Removed: may not use our products, which would significantly impair our ability to increase our sales and prevent us from achieving and
−Removed: sustaining profitability.
−Removed: Unfavorable results from any of our
−Removed: pre-clinical studies or clinical trials, comparative effectiveness, economic or other studies, or from similar trials or studies
−Removed: conducted by others, may negatively affect the use or adoption of our products by physicians, hospitals and payors, which could
−Removed: have a negative impact on the market acceptance of our products and their profitability.
−Removed: We regularly conduct a variety of pre-clinical
−Removed: studies and clinical trials, comparative effectiveness studies and economic and other studies of our products in an effort to generate
−Removed: clinical and real-world outcomes and cost effectiveness data in order to obtain product approval and drive further penetration
−Removed: in the markets we serve.
−Removed: If a clinical study conducted by us or a third party fails to demonstrate statistically significant results
−Removed: supporting performance, use benefits or compelling health or economic outcomes from using our products, physicians may elect not
−Removed: to use our products.
−Removed: Furthermore, in the event of an adverse clinical study outcome, our products may not achieve “standard-of-care”
−Removed: status, where they exist, for the conditions in question, which could deter the adoption of our products.
−Removed: Also, if serious adverse
−Removed: events are reported during the conduct of a study, it could affect continuation of the study, product approval or clearance and
−Removed: product adoption.
−Removed: In addition, U.S.
−Removed: and foreign regulatory authorities routinely conduct audits of clinical studies and such audits
−Removed: may result in adverse regulatory actions.
−Removed: If we are unable to develop a body of statistically significant evidence from our clinical
−Removed: study program, whether due to adverse results or the inability to complete properly designed studies, domestic and international
−Removed: public and private payors could refuse to cover procedures using our products, limit the manner in which they cover our products
−Removed: or reduce the price they are willing to pay or reimburse for procedures using our products.
−Removed: Any of these events could have a negative
−Removed: impact on market acceptance of procedures using our products and their profitability, which could have a material adverse effect
−Removed: on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: We will need to continue to expand
−Removed: our organization, and managing growth may be more difficult than we expect.
−Removed: Managing our growth may be more difficult
−Removed: than we expect.
−Removed: We anticipate that a period of significant expansion will be required to penetrate and service the markets for
−Removed: our existing and anticipated future products and to continue to develop new products.
−Removed: This expansion will place a significant strain
−Removed: on our management, operational and financial resources.
−Removed: To manage the expected growth of our operations and personnel, we must
−Removed: both modify our existing operational and financial systems, procedures and controls and implement new systems, procedures and controls.
−Removed: We must also expand our finance, administrative and operations staff.
−Removed: Management may be unable to hire, train, retain, motivate
−Removed: and manage necessary personnel or to identify, manage and exploit existing and potential strategic relationships and market opportunities.
−Removed: If we fail to meet these challenges effectively, there may be an adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results
−Removed: of operations.
−Removed: We regularly evaluate opportunities
−Removed: to make acquisitions of, investments in, and licenses or other commercial arrangements involving, other companies or technologies,
−Removed: and to enter into other strategic transactions.
−Removed: These transactions entail significant risks.
−Removed: Our success depends, in part, on our ability
−Removed: to continually enhance and broaden our product offerings in response to changing customer demands, competitive pressures and advances
−Removed: in technologies.
−Removed: Accordingly, although we have no current commitments with respect to any acquisition or investment, we regularly
−Removed: review potential acquisitions of, investments in, and licenses or other commercial arrangements involving, complementary businesses,
−Removed: products or technologies instead of developing them ourselves.
−Removed: In addition, in regularly evaluating our financial and operating
−Removed: performance, we may decide to sell one or more of our product lines or another portion of our business.
−Removed: Opportunities to engage
−Removed: in these transactions may not be readily available to us at commercially reasonable prices, on other terms acceptable to us or
−Removed: Even if such opportunities are available, these transactions involve significant risks.
−Removed: In connection with one or more
−Removed: of these transactions, we may:
−Removed: issue additional equity securities that would dilute the value of your investment in us;
−Removed: use cash that we may need in the future to operate our business;
−Removed: incur debt that could have terms unfavorable to us or that we might be unable to repay;
−Removed: structure the transaction in a manner that has unfavorable tax consequences, such as a stock purchase
−Removed: that does not permit a step-up in the tax basis for the assets acquired;
−Removed: incur asset impairment or other acquisition-related charges, or unforeseen costs, expenditures
−Removed: be unable to realize the anticipated benefits, such as increased revenues, cost savings or synergies
−Removed: from additional sales of existing or newly acquired products;
−Removed: experience dissynergies in shared functions following a divestment of any portion of our business;
−Removed: be unable to successfully integrate, operate, maintain and manage any newly acquired operations;
−Removed: divert management’s attention from the existing business to integrate, operate, maintain
−Removed: and manage any newly acquired operations and personnel, or to manage the complexities involved in separating divested operations,
−Removed: services, products and personnel;
−Removed: be unable to secure the services of key employees related to an acquisition or, in the case of
−Removed: a divestiture, lose one or more of our key employees;
−Removed: face increased scrutiny and review of our company and operations from government and other regulatory
−Removed: otherwise be unable to succeed in the marketplace with the acquisition.
−Removed: The occurrence of any of the above could
−Removed: materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: Furthermore, business acquisitions
−Removed: also involve the risk of unknown liabilities associated with the acquired business, which could be material.
−Removed: Such liabilities could
−Removed: include lack of compliance with government regulations that could subject us to investigation, civil and criminal sanctions, litigation
−Removed: and/or other actions that make it impossible to realize the anticipated benefits of the transaction.
−Removed: For example, we may acquire
−Removed: a company that was not compliant with FDA quality requirements or was making payments or other forms of remuneration to physicians
−Removed: to induce them to use their products.
−Removed: Incurring unknown liabilities or the failure to complete or realize the anticipated benefits
−Removed: of an acquisition, investment or other commercial arrangement, whether resulting from one or more of the factors described above
−Removed: or otherwise, could have a material and adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: New lines of business and new products
−Removed: and services may subject us to additional risks.
−Removed: From time to time, we may implement or
−Removed: acquire new lines of business or introduce new products and services within our existing business lines.
−Removed: There are risks and uncertainties
−Removed: associated with these efforts, particularly in instances where the markets are not fully developed or are evolving.
−Removed: In developing
−Removed: and commercializing new lines of business and new products and services, we may invest significant time and resources.
−Removed: factors, such as regulatory compliance obligations, competitive alternatives, lack of market acceptance and shifting market preferences,
−Removed: may also affect the successful implementation of a new line of business or a new product or service.
−Removed: Failure to successfully plan
−Removed: for and manage these risks in the development and implementation of new lines of business or new products or services could have
−Removed: a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: We face significant and continuing
−Removed: competition from other companies, some of which have longer operating histories, more established products and/or greater resources
−Removed: than we do, which could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: We operate in highly competitive markets
−Removed: that are characterized by intense competition, subject to rapid change and significantly affected by new product introductions,
−Removed: technological advancements and other market activities of industry participants.
−Removed: Our competitors have historically dedicated, and
−Removed: will continue to dedicate, significant resources to promote their products and to develop new products that compete with ours.
−Removed: Customers in our target markets consider many factors when selecting a product, including product efficacy, ease of use, price,
−Removed: availability of payor coverage and adequate third-party reimbursement for procedures using the product, customer support services
−Removed: for technical-, clinical- and reimbursement-related matters and customer preference for, and loyalty to, particular products or
−Removed: a particular manufacturer.
−Removed: We expect competition to remain intense as competitors introduce additional competing products and enhancements
−Removed: to their existing products, and continue expanding into geographic markets where we currently operate or plan to expand.
−Removed: introductions or enhancements by competitors, which may have advanced technology, better features or lower pricing, may make our
−Removed: products obsolete or less competitive.
−Removed: As a result, we will be required to devote continued efforts and financial resources to
−Removed: develop and commercialize new products and enhancements to our existing products, deliver cost-effective clinical outcomes, manage
−Removed: our costs and expand our geographic reach.
−Removed: Many of our current and potential competitors
−Removed: have longer operating histories and substantially greater financial, technical, marketing, sales, distribution and other resources
−Removed: than we do, which may prevent us from achieving significant market penetration or improved operating results.
−Removed: Certain competitors’
−Removed: products, such as competitors of SimpliDerm, are subject to a simpler reimbursement process than are our products.
−Removed: may also be able to leverage their market share and other resources to set prices at a level below that which is profitable for
−Removed: These companies may also enjoy other competitive advantages, including, without limitation:
−Removed: greater company, product and brand recognition;
−Removed: better quality and greater volume of clinical data;
−Removed: more effective marketing to and education of physicians and other healthcare professionals;
−Removed: greater control of key intellectual property and more expansive portfolios of intellectual property
−Removed: more experience in obtaining and maintaining regulatory clearances or approvals for products and
−Removed: product enhancements;
−Removed: more established relationships with hospitals and other healthcare providers, physicians, suppliers,
−Removed: customers and third-party payors;
−Removed: additional lines of products, and the ability to bundle products to offer greater incentives to
−Removed: gain a competitive advantage;
−Removed: more established sales, marketing and worldwide distribution networks;
−Removed: better product support and service;
−Removed: superior product safety, reliability and durability;
−Removed: more effective pricing and revenue strategies;
−Removed: more effective clinical training programs.
−Removed: Our ability to achieve and maintain profitability
−Removed: will depend, in part, on our ability to develop or acquire proprietary products that reach the market in a timely manner, receive
−Removed: adequate coverage and reimbursement for procedures using our products, and are safer and more effective than their alternatives,
−Removed: as well as our ability to otherwise compete effectively on the factors listed above.
−Removed: If we are unable to do so, our sales and/or
−Removed: margins will decrease, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: Pricing pressure as a result of cost-containment
−Removed: efforts of our customers, purchasing groups, third-party payors and governmental organizations could adversely affect our sales
−Removed: and profitability.
−Removed: Medical technology companies, healthcare
−Removed: systems and group purchasing organizations, or GPOs, have intensified competitive pricing pressure as a result of industry trends
−Removed: and new technologies.
−Removed: Rising healthcare costs have resulted in numerous cost reform initiatives by legislators, regulators and
−Removed: third-party payors.
−Removed: This cost reform has triggered a consolidation trend in the healthcare industry to aggregate purchasing power
−Removed: and, as a result, purchasing decisions are increasingly shifting to hospitals, integrated delivery networks, or IDNs, and other
−Removed: hospital groups, and away from individual surgeons and physicians.
−Removed: Many existing and potential facility customers for our products
−Removed: within the United States are members of GPOs and IDNs, including accountable care organizations or public-based purchasing organizations,
−Removed: and our business is partly dependent on contracts with these organizations.
−Removed: Purchases of our products can be contracted under national
−Removed: tenders or with larger hospital GPOs.
−Removed: GPOs and IDNs negotiate pricing arrangements with healthcare product manufacturers and distributors
−Removed: and offer the negotiated prices to affiliated hospitals and other members.
−Removed: GPOs and IDNs typically award contracts on a category-by-category
−Removed: basis through a competitive bidding process and, at any given time, we are typically in various stages of responding to bids and
−Removed: negotiating and renewing GPO and IDN agreements.
−Removed: Bids are generally solicited from multiple manufacturers or service providers
−Removed: with the intention of obtaining lower pricing.
−Removed: Due to the highly competitive nature of the bidding process and the GPO and IDN
−Removed: contracting processes in the United States, we may not be able to obtain or maintain contract positions with major GPOs and IDNs
−Removed: across our product portfolio.
−Removed: Furthermore, GPO and IDN contracts are typically terminable without cause upon 60 to 90 days’
−Removed: In addition, while having a contract with a major purchaser for a given product category can facilitate sales, there can
−Removed: be no guarantee that sales volumes for those products will be maintained.
−Removed: For example, GPOs and IDNs are increasingly awarding
−Removed: contracts to multiple suppliers for the same product category and, even when we are the sole contracted supplier of a GPO or IDN
−Removed: for a certain product category, members of the GPO or IDN are generally free to purchase from other suppliers.
−Removed: If we are unable
−Removed: to maintain and renew our contracts with our current GPO and IDN customers and negotiate contracts with new customers on favorable
−Removed: terms, or if sales volumes under these agreements decline, our business, financial condition and results of operations could be
−Removed: materially and adversely affected.
−Removed: In addition, most of our customers purchase
−Removed: our products directly and then bill third-party payors for procedures using those products.
−Removed: Because there is typically no separate
−Removed: reimbursement for supplies used in surgical procedures, the additional cost associated with the use of our products can affect
−Removed: the profit margin of the hospital or surgery center where the procedure is performed.
−Removed: Some of our target customers may be unwilling
−Removed: to adopt our products in light of the additional associated cost or may negotiate for lower pricing.
−Removed: Further, any decline in the
−Removed: amount payors are willing to reimburse our customers for procedures using our products, including those as a result of healthcare
−Removed: reform initiatives, could make it difficult for existing customers to continue using or to adopt our products and could create
−Removed: additional pricing pressure for us.
−Removed: In addition to these competitive forces, we continue to see pricing pressure as hospitals introduce
−Removed: new pricing structures into their contracts and agreements, including fixed price formulas, capitated pricing and episodic or bundled
−Removed: payments intended to contain healthcare costs.
−Removed: If we are forced to lower the price we charge for our products, our margins will
−Removed: decrease, which could impair our ability to grow our business and have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition
−Removed: and results of operations and impair our ability to grow our business.
−Removed: Outside the United States, centralized
−Removed: governmental healthcare authorities may exert pricing pressures in an effort to lower healthcare costs.
−Removed: Implementation of healthcare
−Removed: reforms and competitive bidding contract tenders may limit the price or the level at which reimbursement is provided for our products
−Removed: and adversely affect both our pricing flexibility and the demand for our products.
−Removed: Healthcare providers may respond to such cost-containment
−Removed: pressures by substituting lower-cost products or other therapies for our products.
−Removed: Our failure to offer acceptable prices to these
−Removed: customers could adversely affect our sales and profitability in these markets.
−Removed: We expect that market demand, government
−Removed: regulation, third-party coverage and reimbursement policies and societal pressures will continue to change the healthcare industry
−Removed: worldwide, resulting in further business consolidations and alliances among our customers, which may exert further downward pressure
−Removed: on the prices for our products.
−Removed: The processing of human and porcine
−Removed: tissue for our products is technically complex, requiring high levels of quality control and precision, which subjects us to increased
−Removed: production risks.
−Removed: We manufacture our human and porcine tissue
−Removed: products using technically complex processes requiring specialized facilities, highly specific raw materials, skill and diligence
−Removed: by our personnel and other production constraints.
−Removed: The complexity of these processes, as well as strict company and government
−Removed: standards for the manufacture and storage of our products, subjects us to production risks.
−Removed: In addition to ongoing production risks,
−Removed: process deviations or unanticipated effects of approved process changes may result in non-compliance with regulatory requirements,
−Removed: including stability requirements or specifications.
−Removed: For example, our bone allograft products FiberCel, ViBone and OsteGro V, must
−Removed: be shipped and maintained within a specified temperature range.
−Removed: If environmental conditions deviate from that range, our products’
−Removed: remaining shelf-lives could be impaired or their safety and efficacy could be adversely affected, making them unsuitable for use.
−Removed: The occurrence of this or any other actual or suspected production or distribution problem can lead to lost inventories, customer
−Removed: returns and, in some cases, recalls, with consequential damage to our reputation and customer relationships and the risk of product
−Removed: The investigation and remediation of any potential or identified problems can cause production delays and result in
−Removed: substantial additional expenses and lost revenue.
−Removed: In addition, we may experience difficulties in scaling up processing and production
−Removed: of our human and porcine tissue products, including problems related to yields, quality control and assurance, tissue availability,
−Removed: adequacy of control policies and procedures and availability of skilled personnel.
−Removed: Furthermore, developing and maintaining our
−Removed: production capabilities has required, and will continue to require, the investment of significant resources, and we cannot guarantee
−Removed: that we will be able to achieve economies of scale.
−Removed: If we are unable to process and produce our human tissue products on a timely
−Removed: basis, at acceptable quality and costs and in sufficient quantities, or if we experience technological problems, delays in production,
−Removed: failure in the storage of our products or other loss of supply, our business would be materially and adversely affected.
−Removed: Performance issues, service interruptions
−Removed: or price increases by our shipping carriers could adversely affect our business, harm our reputation and impair our ability to
−Removed: provide our products on a timely basis or at all.
−Removed: Expedited, reliable shipping is essential
−Removed: to our operations.
−Removed: We rely heavily on providers of transport services for reliable, timely and secure point-to-point transport
−Removed: of our products to our customers and for tracking of these shipments.
−Removed: Should a carrier encounter delivery performance issues such
−Removed: as loss, delays, damage or destruction of any of our products, it would be costly to replace these products in a timely manner
−Removed: and such occurrences may damage our reputation and lead to decreased demand for our products and increased cost and expense to
−Removed: our business.
−Removed: This risk is particularly high with respect to FiberCel, ViBone and OsteGro V, which must be shipped and maintained
−Removed: within a specified temperature range.
−Removed: In addition, any significant increase in shipping rates could adversely affect our operating
−Removed: margins and results of operations.
−Removed: Similarly, strikes, severe weather, natural disasters, equipment malfunctions or other service
−Removed: interruptions affecting the delivery services we use, would impair our ability to process orders for our products on a timely basis
−Removed: or at all, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: If our facilities are damaged or
−Removed: become inoperable, we will be unable to continue to research, develop and supply our products and, as a result, there will be an
−Removed: adverse effect on our business until we are able to secure new facilities and rebuild our inventory.
−Removed: We do not have redundant facilities.
−Removed: perform most of our research and development activity and manufacture our tissue-based products at our facility in Richmond, California.
−Removed: The SIS ECM biomaterial used in our medical device products are manufactured by Cook Biotech Incorporated, or Cook Biotech, at
−Removed: their facility in West Lafayette, Indiana and converted to a finished product at our facility in Roswell, Georgia.
−Removed: approvals of our products are limited to one or more specifically approved manufacturing facilities.
−Removed: As a result, if we fail to
−Removed: produce enough of a product at a facility, or if any of our production facilities were to be shut down or otherwise become unavailable
−Removed: for any reason, finding alternative manufacturing capabilities and obtaining the necessary regulatory approvals would require a
−Removed: considerable amount of time and expense and would cause a significant disruption in service to our customers.
−Removed: Disruption to our facilities could arise
−Removed: for a variety of reasons, including technical, labor or other difficulties, equipment malfunction, contamination due to a COVID-19
−Removed: infection or otherwise, the failure of our employees to follow specific protocols and procedures, the destruction of, or damage
−Removed: to, any facility (as a result of a natural or man-made disaster, including, but not limited to, a tornado, flood, fire, power outage
−Removed: or other event), quality control issues or other reasons.
−Removed: Any disruption in the operation of our facilities as a result of any
−Removed: of the above could impair our product development and commercialization efforts and result in lost sales, lost customers and harm
−Removed: to our reputation, any of which would negatively impact our growth prospects and profitability and have a material adverse effect
−Removed: on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: In addition, certain of these events, such as natural or man-made
−Removed: disasters, would cause us to incur additional losses, including the time and expense required to repair and/or replace our equipment
−Removed: and to rebuild our inventory.
−Removed: Although we possess insurance for damage to our property and the disruption of our business, this
−Removed: insurance may not be sufficient to cover all of our potential losses and may not continue to be available to us on acceptable terms
−Removed: Because we depend upon a limited
−Removed: number of third-party suppliers and manufacturers and, in certain cases, exclusive suppliers for products essential to our business,
−Removed: we may incur significant product development costs and experience material delivery delays if we lose any significant supplier,
−Removed: which could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: We obtain some of our raw materials from
−Removed: a limited group of suppliers and rely on a single supplier to source the SIS ECM biomaterial used to manufacture CanGaroo and our
−Removed: cardiovascular products for reasons of quality assurance, cost-effectiveness, availability or constraints resulting from regulatory
−Removed: requirements.
−Removed: For us to be successful, our suppliers must be able to provide us with products and components in substantial quantities,
−Removed: in compliance with regulatory requirements, in accordance with agreed upon specifications, at acceptable costs and on a timely
−Removed: Our efforts to maintain a continuity of supply and high quality and reliability may not be successful on a timely basis
−Removed: Manufacturing disruptions experienced by our suppliers may jeopardize our supply of finished products.
−Removed: Due to the stringent
−Removed: regulations and requirements of the FDA and other similar non-U.S.
−Removed: regulatory agencies regarding the manufacture of our products,
−Removed: we may not be able to quickly establish additional or replacement sources for certain raw materials.
−Removed: A change in suppliers could
−Removed: require significant effort or investment in circumstances where the items supplied are integral to product performance or incorporate
−Removed: unique technology.
−Removed: Transitioning to a new supplier could be time-consuming and expensive, may result in interruptions in our operations
−Removed: and product delivery, could affect the performance specifications of our products or could require that we modify the design of
−Removed: those systems.
−Removed: A reduction or interruption in manufacturing,
−Removed: or an inability to secure alternative sources of raw materials or components, could have a material and adverse effect on our business,
−Removed: financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.
−Removed: One or more of our suppliers may refuse to extend us credit with respect
−Removed: to our purchasing or leasing of equipment, supplies, products or components, or may only agree to extend us credit on significantly
−Removed: less favorable terms or subject to more onerous conditions.
−Removed: This could significantly disrupt our ability to purchase or lease required
−Removed: equipment, supplies, products and components in a cost-effective and timely manner, and could have a material adverse effect on
−Removed: our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: Any casualty, natural disaster or other disruption of any of our sole-source
−Removed: suppliers’
−Removed: operations, for example due to a COVID-19 infection of employees of the supplier, or any unexpected loss of any
−Removed: existing exclusive supply contract, could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: In addition, if a change in manufacturer results in a significant change to any product, a new 510(k) clearance from the FDA
−Removed: or similar international regulatory authorization may be necessary before we implement the change, which could cause substantial
−Removed: Certain of our products are dependent
−Removed: on the availability of tissue from human donors, and any disruption in supply could adversely affect our business, financial condition
−Removed: and results of operations.
−Removed: The products we manufacture for the orthopedic/spinal
−Removed: repair and soft tissue reconstruction markets, as well as our contract manufacturing products, require that we obtain human tissue.
−Removed: The success of our business depends, in part, on the availability of tissue from human donors.
−Removed: Any inability to obtain tissue from
−Removed: our sources will interfere with our ability to effectively meet demand for these products.
−Removed: The recovery of human tissue for our
−Removed: products is very labor-intensive, and it is, therefore, difficult to maintain a steady supply stream.
−Removed: In addition, the availability
−Removed: of acceptable donors is relatively limited and may be impacted by regulatory changes, general public opinion of the donation process
−Removed: and the reputation of our company and the third-party procurement firms with which we partner to manage the donation process.
−Removed: reports or other negative publicity concerning both improper methods of tissue recovery from donors and disease transmission from
−Removed: donated tissue, including bones and dermis, may limit widespread acceptance of our products.
−Removed: Unfavorable reports of improper or
−Removed: illegal tissue recovery practices, both in the United States and internationally, as well as incidents of improperly processed
−Removed: tissue leading to transmission of disease, may broadly affect the rate of future tissue donation and market acceptance of allograft
−Removed: technologies and donated tissue use.
−Removed: Potential patients may not be able to distinguish our products, technologies and tissue recovery
−Removed: and processing procedures from others engaged in tissue recovery.
−Removed: In addition, unfavorable reports about us or any of our third-party
−Removed: procurement firms may make families of potential donors or donors themselves, from whom we are required to obtain consent before
−Removed: processing tissue, reluctant to agree to donate tissue to for-profit tissue processors.
−Removed: Any disruption in the supply of any human
−Removed: tissue component could materially harm our ability to manufacture our products until a new source of supply, if any, could be found.
−Removed: We may be unable to find a sufficient alternative supply channel within a reasonable period of time, on commercially reasonable
−Removed: terms or at all, which would have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: Increased prices for raw materials
−Removed: used in our products could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: Our profitability is affected by the prices
−Removed: of the raw materials used in the manufacture of our products.
−Removed: These prices may fluctuate based on a number of factors beyond our
−Removed: control, including changes in supply and demand, general economic conditions, labor costs, delivery costs, competition, import
−Removed: duties, excises and other indirect taxes, currency exchange rates and government regulation.
−Removed: Due to the highly competitive nature
−Removed: of the healthcare industry and the cost containment efforts of our customers and third-party payors, we may be unable to pass along
−Removed: cost increases for key components or raw materials through higher prices to our customers.
−Removed: If the cost of key components or raw
−Removed: materials increases, and we are unable to fully recover these increased costs through price increases or offset these increases
−Removed: through other cost reductions, we could experience lower margins and profitability.
−Removed: Significant increases in the prices of raw
−Removed: materials that cannot be recovered through productivity gains, price increases or other methods could adversely affect our business,
−Removed: financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: If we are not able to accurately
−Removed: forecast demand for our products and manage our inventory, our margins could decrease and we could lose sales, either of which
−Removed: could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: While we must maintain sufficient inventory
−Removed: levels to operate our business successfully and meet customer demand for our products, we must be careful to avoid amassing excess
−Removed: To ensure adequate inventory supply, we must forecast inventory needs and place orders with our suppliers based on our
−Removed: estimates of future demand for our products.
−Removed: Demand for our products can change rapidly and unexpectedly, including during the
−Removed: time between when raw materials are ordered from our suppliers and the finished product is offered for sale.
−Removed: Our ability to accurately
−Removed: forecast demand for our products could be negatively affected by a number of factors, many of which are beyond our control, including
−Removed: our failure to accurately manage our expansion strategy, product introductions by competitors, an increase or decrease in customer
−Removed: demand for our products or for products of our competitors, our failure to accurately forecast customer acceptance of new products,
−Removed: unanticipated changes in general market conditions, reimbursement or regulatory matters and weakening of economic conditions.
−Removed: levels that exceed the demand for our products may result in inventory write-downs or write-offs, which would adversely affect
−Removed: our gross margins.
−Removed: For example, in 2019, our launch of SimpliDerm resulted in reduced demand for certain of our other dermis inventory
−Removed: and resulted in inventory write-downs.
−Removed: Conversely, if we underestimate demand for our products, additional supplies of raw materials
−Removed: or additional manufacturing capacity may not be available when required on terms that are acceptable to us or at all, and suppliers
−Removed: or our third-party manufacturer may not be able to allocate sufficient capacity in order to meet our increased requirements.
−Removed: a result, we may not be able to meet customer demand for our products, resulting in lost sales and potential damage to our reputation
−Removed: and customer relationships, any of which would adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: In addition, while we seek to maintain
−Removed: sufficient levels of inventory in order to protect ourselves from supply interruptions, our products generally have a shelf life
−Removed: of two to three years.
−Removed: We are, therefore, subject to the risk that a portion of our inventory will become obsolete or expire, which
−Removed: could have a material adverse effect on our profitability and cash flows due to the resulting inventory impairment charges and
−Removed: costs required to replace such inventory.
−Removed: If hospitals and other healthcare
−Removed: providers are unable to obtain coverage or adequate reimbursement for procedures performed with our products, it is unlikely our
−Removed: products will be widely used.
−Removed: In the United States, the commercial success
−Removed: of our existing products and any products we may develop or acquire in the future will depend, in part, on the extent to which
−Removed: governmental payors at the federal and state levels, including Medicare and Medicaid, private health insurers and other third-party
−Removed: payors, provide coverage and establish adequate reimbursement levels for procedures utilizing our products.
−Removed: Hospitals and other
−Removed: healthcare providers that purchase our products for treatment of their patients generally rely on third-party payors to pay for
−Removed: all or part of the costs and fees associated with our products as part of a “bundled”
−Removed: rate for the associated procedures.
−Removed: The existence of coverage and adequate reimbursement for procedures using our products by government and private payors is critical
−Removed: to market acceptance of our existing and future products.
−Removed: Neither hospitals nor surgeons are likely to use our products if they
−Removed: do not receive adequate reimbursement for the procedures utilizing our products.
−Removed: Many private payors currently base their
−Removed: reimbursement policies on the coverage decisions and payment amounts determined by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services,
−Removed: or CMS, which administers the Medicare program.
−Removed: Others may adopt different coverage or reimbursement policies for procedures performed
−Removed: with our products, while some governmental programs, such as Medicaid, have reimbursement policies that vary from state to state,
−Removed: some of which may not pay for the procedures performed with our products in an adequate amount, if at all.
−Removed: Because the Medicare
−Removed: and Medicaid programs are increasingly used as models for how private payors and other governmental payors develop their coverage
−Removed: and reimbursement policies, a Medicare national or local non-coverage decision, denying coverage for procedures using one or more
−Removed: of our products, could result in private and other third-party payors also denying coverage.
−Removed: Third-party payors also may deny reimbursement
−Removed: for procedures using our products if they determine that a product used in a procedure was not medically necessary, was not used
−Removed: in accordance with cost-effective treatment methods, as determined by the third-party payor, or was used for an unapproved use.
−Removed: Unfavorable coverage or reimbursement decisions by government programs or private payors underscore the uncertainty that our products
−Removed: face in the market and could have a material adverse effect on our business.
−Removed: Many hospitals and clinics in the United
−Removed: States belong to GPOs, which typically incentivize their hospital members to make a relatively large proportion of purchases of
−Removed: similar products from a limited number of vendors that have contracted to offer discounted prices.
−Removed: Such contracts often include
−Removed: exceptions for purchasing certain innovative new technologies, however.
−Removed: Accordingly, the commercial success of our products may
−Removed: also depend to some extent on our ability to either negotiate favorable purchase contracts with key group purchasing organizations
−Removed: and/or persuade hospitals and clinics to purchase our product “off contract.”
−Removed: The healthcare industry in the United States
−Removed: has experienced a trend toward cost containment as government and private payors seek to control healthcare costs by paying service
−Removed: providers lower rates.
−Removed: While it is expected that hospitals will be able to obtain coverage for procedures using our products, the
−Removed: level of payment available to them for such procedures may change over time.
−Removed: State and federal healthcare programs, such as Medicare
−Removed: and Medicaid, closely regulate provider payment levels and have sought to contain, and sometimes reduce, payment levels.
−Removed: payors frequently follow government payment policies and are likewise interested in controlling increases in the cost of medical
−Removed: In addition, some payors are adopting pay-for-performance programs that differentiate payments to healthcare providers based
−Removed: on the achievement of documented quality-of-care metrics, cost efficiencies or patient outcomes.
−Removed: These programs are intended to
−Removed: provide incentives to providers to deliver the same or better results while consuming fewer resources.
−Removed: As a result of these programs,
−Removed: and related payor efforts to reduce payment levels, hospitals and other providers are seeking ways to reduce their costs, including
−Removed: the amounts they pay to medical device manufacturers.
−Removed: We may not be able to sell our products profitably if third-party payors
−Removed: deny or discontinue coverage or reduce their levels of payment below that which we project, or if our production costs increase
−Removed: at a greater rate than payment levels.
−Removed: Adverse changes in payment rates by payors to hospitals could adversely impact our ability
−Removed: to market and sell our products and negatively affect our financial performance.
−Removed: In international markets, medical device
−Removed: regulatory requirements and healthcare payment systems vary significantly from country to country, and many countries have instituted
−Removed: price ceilings on specific product lines.
−Removed: We cannot assure you that our products will be considered cost-effective by international
−Removed: third-party payors, that reimbursement will be available or, if available, that the third-party payors’
−Removed: reimbursement policies
−Removed: will not adversely affect our ability to sell our products profitably.
−Removed: Any failure to receive regulatory or reimbursement approvals
−Removed: would negatively impact market acceptance of our products in any international markets in which those approvals are sought.
−Removed: We face the risk of product liability
−Removed: claims and may not be able to obtain or maintain adequate product liability insurance.
−Removed: Our business exposes us to the risk of
−Removed: product liability claims that are inherent in the manufacturing, processing, investigating and marketing of medical devices and
−Removed: human and animal tissue products.
−Removed: We are, and may in the future be, subject to product liability claims and lawsuits, including
−Removed: potential class actions or mass tort claims, alleging that our products have resulted or could result in an unsafe condition or
−Removed: Product liability claims may be made by patients and their families, healthcare providers or others selling our products.
−Removed: Product liability claims may include, among other things, allegations of defects in manufacturing, defects in design, a failure
−Removed: to warn of dangers inherent in the product, negligence, strict liability or a breach of warranties.
−Removed: We may be subject to such claims
−Removed: even if the apparent injury is due to the actions of others or the pre-existing health of the patient.
−Removed: For example, we rely on
−Removed: physicians and other healthcare providers to properly and correctly use our products.
−Removed: If these physicians or other healthcare providers
−Removed: are not properly trained or are negligent in using our products, the capabilities of our products may be diminished or the patient
−Removed: may suffer critical injury.
−Removed: In addition, we may be subject to product liability claims, as well as a number of other risks, as
−Removed: a result of physicians and other healthcare providers using our products “off-label.”
−Removed: See “—
−Removed: or off-label use of our products may harm our reputation in the marketplace, result in injuries that lead to product liability
−Removed: suits or result in costly investigations, fines or sanctions by regulatory bodies if we are deemed to have engaged in the promotion
−Removed: of these uses, any of which could be costly to our business.
−Removed: Defending a lawsuit, regardless of merit,
−Removed: could be costly, divert management attention and result in adverse publicity, which could result in the withdrawal of, or reduced
−Removed: acceptance of, our products in the market.
−Removed: If we cannot successfully defend against product liability claims, we could incur substantial
−Removed: liability and costs.
−Removed: In addition, regardless of merit or eventual outcome, product liability claims may result in:
−Removed: harm to our business reputation;
−Removed: investigations by regulators;
−Removed: significant legal costs;
−Removed: distraction of management’s attention from our primary business;
−Removed: substantial monetary awards to patients or other claimants;
−Removed: loss of revenue;
−Removed: exhaustion of any available insurance and our capital resources;
−Removed: decreased demand for our products.
−Removed: Although we have product liability insurance
−Removed: that we believe is adequate, this insurance is subject to deductibles and coverage limitations, and we may not be able to maintain
−Removed: this insurance.
−Removed: Also, it is possible that claims could exceed the limits of our coverage or be excluded from coverage under our
−Removed: policy, and may increase the cost of maintaining our coverage.
−Removed: If we are unable to maintain product liability insurance at an acceptable
−Removed: cost or on acceptable terms with adequate coverage or otherwise protect ourselves against potential product liability claims, or
−Removed: if we underestimate the amount of insurance we need, we could be exposed to significant liabilities, which may harm our business.
−Removed: One or more product liability claims could have a significant adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of
−Removed: We bear the risk of warranty claims
−Removed: on our products.
−Removed: We bear the risk of warranty claims on
−Removed: our products.
−Removed: We may not be successful in claiming recovery under any warranty or indemnity provided to us by our suppliers or
−Removed: vendors in the event of a successful warranty claim against us by a customer, and any recovery from such supplier or vendor may
−Removed: not be adequate.
−Removed: Furthermore, we may not have any, or have an adequate, warranty provided by our supplier.
−Removed: In addition, warranty
−Removed: claims brought by our customers related to third-party components may arise after our ability to bring corresponding warranty claims
−Removed: against such suppliers expires, which could result in costs to us.
−Removed: Defects, failures or quality issues
−Removed: associated with our products could lead to product recalls or safety alerts, adverse regulatory actions, litigation, including
−Removed: product liability claims, and negative publicity, any of which may erode our competitive advantage and market share and have a
−Removed: material adverse effect on our reputation, business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: Quality is extremely important to us and
−Removed: our customers due to the serious and costly consequences of product failure.
−Removed: Quality and safety issues may occur with respect to
−Removed: any of our products, and our future operating results will depend on our ability to maintain an effective quality control system
−Removed: and effectively train and manage our workforce with respect to our quality system.
−Removed: The development, manufacture and control of
−Removed: our products are subject to extensive and rigorous regulation by numerous government agencies, including the FDA, the Competent
−Removed: Authorities of the European Union and similar foreign agencies.
−Removed: Compliance with these regulatory requirements, including but not
−Removed: limited to the FDA’s Quality System Regulation, or QSR, current Good Manufacturing Practices, or GMPs and adverse events/recall
−Removed: reporting requirements in the United States and other applicable regulations worldwide, is subject to continual review and is monitored
−Removed: rigorously through periodic inspections by the FDA and foreign regulatory authorities.
−Removed: If we fail to comply with our reporting
−Removed: obligations, the FDA, the Competent Authorities of the European Union or other regulatory authority could take action, including
−Removed: issuance of warning letters and/or untitled letters, administrative actions, criminal prosecution, imposition of civil monetary
−Removed: penalties, revocation of our device clearance, seizure of our products or delay in the clearance of future products.
−Removed: The FDA and foreign regulatory authorities
−Removed: may also require post-market testing and surveillance to monitor the performance of approved products.
−Removed: Our facilities and those
−Removed: of our suppliers, commercial partners and independent sales agents are also subject to periodic regulatory inspections.
−Removed: FDA or a foreign authority were to conclude that we have failed to comply with any of these requirements, it could institute a
−Removed: wide variety of enforcement actions, ranging from a public warning letter to more severe sanctions, such as product recalls or
−Removed: seizures, withdrawals, monetary penalties, consent decrees, injunctive actions to halt the manufacture or distribution of products,
−Removed: import detentions of products made outside the United States, export restrictions, restrictions on operations or other civil or
−Removed: criminal sanctions.
−Removed: Civil or criminal sanctions could be assessed against our officers, employees, or us.
−Removed: Any adverse regulatory
−Removed: action, depending on its magnitude, may restrict us from effectively manufacturing, marketing and selling our products.
−Removed: If our products do not function as designed,
−Removed: or are designed improperly, we or the third-party manufacturer of such products may withdraw such products from the market, whether
−Removed: by choice or as a result of regulatory requirements.
−Removed: In August 2019, we recalled and discarded certain production lots of
−Removed: CanGaroo from the market due to suture breakage.
−Removed: In January 2018, we recalled five of our allograft tissue implants because
−Removed: a pre-sterilized donor culture should have been disqualified, each of which had a negative effect on our business, financial condition
−Removed: and results of operations.
−Removed: Any product recall we or a third-party manufacturer may conduct in the future, whether voluntary or
−Removed: required, may have also negatively affect our business financial condition and results of operations, and this effect may be material.
−Removed: In addition, we cannot predict the results
−Removed: of future legislative activity or future court decisions, any of which could increase regulatory requirements, subject us to government
−Removed: investigations or expose us to unexpected litigation.
−Removed: Any regulatory action or litigation, regardless of the merits, may result
−Removed: in substantial costs, divert management’s attention from other business concerns and place additional restrictions on our
−Removed: sales or the use of our products.
−Removed: In addition, negative publicity, including regarding a quality or safety issue, could damage
−Removed: our reputation, reduce market acceptance of our products, cause us to lose customers and decrease demand for our products.
−Removed: actual or perceived quality issues may also result in issuances of physician’s advisories against our products or cause us
−Removed: to conduct voluntary recalls.
−Removed: Any product defects or problems, regulatory action, litigation, negative publicity or recalls could
−Removed: disrupt our business and have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: Our operating results may fluctuate
−Removed: significantly from quarter to quarter and year to year due to the seasonality of our business, as well as a variety of other factors,
−Removed: many of which are outside of our control.
−Removed: Our quarterly and annual results of operations
−Removed: may vary significantly in the future, and period-to-period comparisons of our operating results may not be meaningful.
−Removed: the results of any one quarter or other period should not be relied upon as an indication of our future performance.
−Removed: Our quarterly
−Removed: and annual financial results may fluctuate as a result of a variety of factors, many of which are outside our control and, as a
−Removed: result, may not fully reflect the underlying performance of our business.
−Removed: One such factor includes seasonal variations in our sales.
−Removed: We have experienced and may in the future experience higher sales in the fourth quarter as hospitals in the United States increase
−Removed: their purchases of our products to coincide with the end of their budget cycles.
−Removed: Satisfaction of patient deductibles through the
−Removed: course of the year also results in increased sales later in the year.
−Removed: In general, our first quarter usually has lower sales than
−Removed: the preceding fourth quarter as patient deductibles are re-established with the new year, thereby increasing their out-of-pocket
−Removed: Other factors that may cause fluctuations
−Removed: in our quarterly and annual results include, among other things:
−Removed: the timing of medical procedures using our products;
−Removed: the announcement or introduction of new products by our competitors;
−Removed: failure of government health benefit programs and private health plans to cover our products or
−Removed: to timely and adequately reimburse the users of our products;
−Removed: the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, or any other pandemic, epidemic or outbreak of an infectious
−Removed: disease in the United States or worldwide that impacts the number of procedures being performed;
−Removed: the rate of reimbursement for procedures using our products by government and private insurers;
−Removed: whether our products are granted pass-through reimbursement status or included in the “bundled”
−Removed: reimbursement structure;
−Removed: changes in purchasing patterns by our commercial partners or customers, or the loss of any significant
−Removed: customer or group of customers;
−Removed: our ability to upgrade and develop our systems and infrastructure to accommodate growth;
−Removed: the amount and timing of operating costs and capital expenditures relating to the expansion of
−Removed: our business, operations and infrastructure;
−Removed: changes in, or enactment of, new laws or regulations promulgated by federal, state or local governments;
−Removed: changes in our supply or manufacturing costs;
−Removed: cost containment initiatives or policies developed by government and commercial payors that create
−Removed: financial incentives not to use our products;
−Removed: our inability to demonstrate that our products are cost-effective or superior to competing products;
−Removed: our ability to develop new products;
−Removed: the degree of competition in our industry and any changes in the competitive landscape;
−Removed: discovery of product defects during the manufacturing process;
−Removed: initiation of a government investigation into potential non-compliance with laws or regulations,
−Removed: or the initiation of a voluntary or involuntary recall with respect to one or more of our products;
−Removed: sanctions imposed by federal or state governments due to non-compliance with laws or regulations;
−Removed: general economic conditions as well as economic conditions specific to the healthcare industry.
−Removed: We have based our current and future expense
−Removed: levels largely on our investment plans and estimates of future events, although certain of our expense levels are, to a large extent,
−Removed: We may be unable to adjust spending in a timely manner to compensate for any unexpected revenue shortfall.
−Removed: any significant shortfall in sales relative to our planned expenditures would have an immediate adverse effect on our business,
−Removed: results of operations and financial condition.
−Removed: Further, as a strategic response to changes in the competitive environment or to
−Removed: changes in laws and regulations, we may from time to time make certain pricing, service or marketing decisions (e.g., reduce prices)
−Removed: that could have a material and adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: Due to the foregoing
−Removed: factors, our revenue and operating results are and will remain difficult to forecast.
−Removed: Our indebtedness and our Revenue
−Removed: Interest Obligation to Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated may limit our flexibility in operating our business and adversely affect
−Removed: our financial health and competitive position.
−Removed: of September 30, 2020, we had $19.7 million of indebtedness outstanding, consisting of 
−Removed: $19.7 million outstanding under
−Removed: our Term Loan Facility (as defined under Part I, Item 2.
−Removed: “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial
−Removed: Condition and Results of Operations —
−Removed: Liquidity and Capital Resources —
−Removed: Credit Facilities”) (net of 
−Removed: million of unamortized discount and deferred financing costs), $5.9 million outstanding under our Revolving Credit Facility (as
−Removed: defined under Part I, Item 2.
−Removed: “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of
−Removed: Operations —
−Removed: Liquidity and Capital Resources —
−Removed: Credit Facilities”) (with $2.1 million of additional borrowings
−Removed: available thereunder), $3.0 million outstanding pursuant to a promissory note under the Paycheck Protection Program of the Coronavirus
−Removed: Aid, Relief and Economic Stability Act, or the CARES Act (the “PPP Loan”), and a $1.4 million promissory note payable
−Removed: to one of our suppliers.
−Removed: In addition, we are party to a royalty agreement with Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated, or Ligand,
−Removed: pursuant to which we assumed a restructured, long-term obligation to Ligand (the “Revenue Interest Obligation”), that
−Removed: requires us to pay Ligand 5.0% of future sales of the products we acquired from CorMatrix (as well as products substantially similar
−Removed: to those products), subject to annual minimum payments of 
−Removed: $2.75 million and certain milestone payments if sales of the
−Removed: acquired products exceed certain thresholds.
−Removed: See Part I, Item 2.
−Removed: “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of
−Removed: Financial Condition and Results of Operations — Critical Accounting Policies and Significant Judgment
−Removed: and Estimates  — Revenue Interest Obligation.”
−Removed: In order to service this indebtedness and
−Removed: our Revenue Interest Obligation, and any additional indebtedness or other long-term obligations we may incur in the future, we
−Removed: need to generate sufficient levels of cash from our operating activities.
−Removed: Our ability to generate cash is subject, in part, to
−Removed: our ability to successfully execute our business strategy, as well as general economic, financial, competitive, regulatory and
−Removed: other factors beyond our control.
−Removed: We cannot assure you that our business will be able to generate sufficient levels of cash from
−Removed: operations or that future borrowings or other financings will be available to us in an amount sufficient to enable us to service
−Removed: our indebtedness, satisfy our obligations under the Revenue Interest Obligation and fund our other liquidity needs.
−Removed: To the extent
−Removed: we are required to use cash from operations or the proceeds of any future financing to service our indebtedness and satisfy our
−Removed: obligations under the Revenue Interest Obligation instead of funding working capital, capital expenditures or other general corporate
−Removed: purposes, we will be less able to plan for, or react to, changes in our business, industry and in the economy generally.
−Removed: place us at a competitive disadvantage compared to our competitors that have less indebtedness.
−Removed: In addition, the agreements governing our
−Removed: Term Loan Facility and Revolving Credit Facility contain, and any agreements evidencing or governing other future indebtedness
−Removed: may also contain, certain covenants that limit our ability to engage in certain transactions that may be in our long-term best
−Removed: Subject to certain limited exceptions, these covenants limit our ability to, among other things:
−Removed: incur additional indebtedness;
−Removed: incur certain liens;
−Removed: pay dividends or make other distributions on equity interests;
−Removed: enter into agreements restricting their subsidiaries’
−Removed: ability to pay dividends;
−Removed: redeem, repurchase or refinance subordinated indebtedness;
−Removed: consolidate, merge or sell or otherwise dispose of their assets;
−Removed: make investments, loans, advances, guarantees and acquisitions;
−Removed: enter into transactions with affiliates;
−Removed: amend or modify their governing documents;
−Removed: amend or modify certain material agreements;
−Removed: alter the business conducted by them and their subsidiaries;
−Removed: enter into sale and leaseback transactions.
−Removed: In addition to these covenants, the agreements
−Removed: governing our Term Loan Facility and Revolving Credit Facility also contain a financial covenant, which is tested on a monthly
−Removed: basis, and requires us to achieve a specified minimum net product revenue (as defined therein) for the preceding 12-month period.
−Removed: While we were in compliance with all covenants under these agreements as of September 30, 2020, we have had past breaches
−Removed: requiring waivers and there can be no guarantee that we will not breach these covenants in the future.
−Removed: Our ability to comply with
−Removed: these covenants may be affected by events and factors beyond our control.
−Removed: In the event that we breach one or more covenants, our
−Removed: lenders may choose to declare an event of default and require that we immediately repay all amounts outstanding, terminate any
−Removed: commitment to extend further credit and foreclose on the collateral granted to them to collateralize such indebtedness.
−Removed: The occurrence
−Removed: of any of these events could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: In addition, we may be able to incur significant
−Removed: additional indebtedness in the future.
−Removed: Although the agreements governing our Term Loan Facility and Revolving Credit Facility contain
−Removed: restrictions on the incurrence of additional indebtedness by us, such restrictions are subject to a number of qualifications and
−Removed: exceptions, and the indebtedness incurred in compliance with these restrictions could be substantial.
−Removed: Also, these restrictions
−Removed: do not prohibit us from incurring obligations that do not constitute indebtedness as defined therein.
−Removed: To the extent that we incur
−Removed: additional indebtedness or such other obligations, the risks associated with our substantial indebtedness described above will
−Removed: We may be unable to obtain forgiveness
−Removed: of the PPP Loan, in whole or in part, in accordance with the provisions of the CARES Act, which could adversely affect our financial
−Removed: In May 2020, we entered into a promissory
−Removed: note with Silicon Valley Bank, or SVB, under the Paycheck Protection Program of the CARES Act pursuant to which SVB agreed to make
−Removed: a loan to us in the amount of approximately $3.0 million.
−Removed: The PPP Loan matures in May 2022, bears interest at a rate of 1.0%
−Removed: per annum and requires no payments during the first six months from the date of the loan.
−Removed: The PPP Loan is unsecured and guaranteed
−Removed: by the Small Business Administration, or the SBA.
−Removed: Under the terms of the PPP Loan, the principal amount of the loan may be forgiven
−Removed: to the extent it is used for qualifying expenses as described in the CARES Act and we otherwise request forgiveness in accordance
−Removed: with the terms of the PPP Loan and the requirements of the SBA.
−Removed: While we expect to request that a significant portion of the principal
−Removed: amount of the PPP Loan be forgiven and to comply with all corresponding requirements, we cannot guarantee that we will be successful
−Removed: in obtaining forgiveness of all or any part of such principal amount.
−Removed: We will be required to repay any principal amount of the
−Removed: PPP Loan that is not forgiven, together with accrued and unpaid interest, in equal monthly installments prior to the maturity date
−Removed: of the loan, which would further restrict our operating and financial flexibility.
−Removed: Our future capital needs are uncertain
−Removed: and we may need to raise funds in the future, and such funds may not be available on acceptable terms or at all.
−Removed: We believe that the net proceeds from our
−Removed: IPO, together with our existing cash and our availability under our Revolving Credit Facility, will enable us to fund our operating
−Removed: expenses and capital expenditure requirements through 2022.
−Removed: However, we have based these estimates on assumptions that may prove
−Removed: to be incorrect, and we could spend our available financial resources much faster than we currently expect.
−Removed: Any future funding
−Removed: requirements will depend on many factors, including, among other things:
−Removed: continued patient, physician and market acceptance of our products;
−Removed: the scope, rate of progress and cost of our current and future pre-clinical studies and clinical
−Removed: the cost of our research and development activities and the cost of commercializing new products
−Removed: or technologies;
−Removed: the cost and timing of expanding our sales and marketing capabilities;
−Removed: the cost of filing and prosecuting patent applications and maintaining, defending and enforcing
−Removed: our patent or other intellectual property rights;
−Removed: the cost of defending, in litigation or otherwise, any claims that we infringe, misappropriate
−Removed: or otherwise violate third-party patents or other intellectual property rights;
−Removed: the cost and timing of additional regulatory approvals;
−Removed: costs associated with any product recall that may occur;
−Removed: the effect of competing technological and market developments;
−Removed: the expenses we incur in manufacturing and selling our products;
−Removed: the costs of developing and commercializing new products or technologies;
−Removed: the extent to which we acquire or invest in products, technologies and businesses, although we
−Removed: currently have no commitments or agreements relating to any of these types of transactions;
−Removed: the costs of operating as a public company;
−Removed: unanticipated general, legal and administrative expenses;
−Removed: the effects on any of the above of the current COVID-19 pandemic or any other pandemic, epidemic
−Removed: or outbreak of infectious disease.
−Removed: In addition, our operating plan may change
−Removed: as a result of any number of factors, including those set forth above and other factors currently unknown to us, and we may need
−Removed: additional funds sooner than anticipated.
−Removed: Any additional equity or debt financing that we raise may contain terms that are not
−Removed: favorable to us or our stockholders.
−Removed: If we raise additional funds by selling additional shares of our common stock or other securities
−Removed: convertible (directly or indirectly) into or exercisable or exchangeable for shares of our common stock, the issuance of such securities
−Removed: will result in dilution to our stockholders.
−Removed: The price per share at which we sell additional shares of our common stock, or securities
−Removed: convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for shares of our common stock, in future transactions may be higher or lower than
−Removed: the price per share paid by you.
−Removed: Furthermore, investors purchasing any securities we may issue in the future may have rights superior
−Removed: to your rights as a holder of our common stock.
−Removed: In addition, any future debt financing
−Removed: into which we enter may impose upon us covenants that restrict our operations, including limitations on our ability to incur liens
−Removed: or additional debt, pay dividends, repurchase our common stock, make certain investments and engage in certain merger, consolidation
−Removed: or asset sale transactions.
−Removed: If we raise additional funds through collaboration and licensing arrangements with third parties, it
−Removed: may be necessary to relinquish some rights to our technologies or our products, or grant licenses on terms that are not favorable
−Removed: Furthermore, we cannot be certain that
−Removed: additional funding will be available to us on acceptable terms, if at all.
−Removed: If we do not have, or are not able to obtain, sufficient
−Removed: funds, we may have to delay development or commercialization of our products or license to third parties the rights to commercialize
−Removed: products or technologies that we would otherwise seek to commercialize.
−Removed: We also may have to reduce marketing, customer support
−Removed: or other resources devoted to our products or cease operations.
−Removed: Any of these factors could harm our business, financial condition
−Removed: and results of operations.
−Removed: Security breaches, loss of or damage
−Removed: to data, system failures and other disruptions could compromise sensitive information related to our business or our customers’
−Removed: patients, or prevent us from accessing critical information and expose us to liability, which could adversely affect our business
−Removed: and our reputation.
−Removed: In the ordinary course of our business,
−Removed: we may become exposed to, or collect and store, sensitive data, including procedure-based information and legally protected health
−Removed: information, credit card, and other financial information, insurance information and other potentially personally identifiable
−Removed: We also store sensitive intellectual property and other proprietary business information.
−Removed: Regardless of any precautions
−Removed: we may take, our information technology, or IT, and infrastructure, and that of our technology partners and providers, may be vulnerable
−Removed: to cyberattacks by hackers or viruses or breaches due to employee error, malfeasance or other disruptions.
−Removed: We rely extensively
−Removed: on IT systems, networks and services, including internet sites, data hosting and processing facilities and tools, physical security
−Removed: systems and other hardware, software and technical applications and platforms, some of which are managed, hosted, provided and/or
−Removed: used by third parties or their vendors, to assist in conducting our business.
−Removed: A significant breakdown, invasion, corruption, destruction
−Removed: or interruption of critical information technology systems or infrastructure, by our workforce, others with authorized access to
−Removed: our systems or unauthorized persons could negatively impact operations.
−Removed: The ever-increasing use and evolution of technology, including
−Removed: cloud-based computing, creates opportunities for the unintentional dissemination or intentional destruction of confidential information
−Removed: stored in our or our third-party providers’
−Removed: systems, portable media or storage devices.
−Removed: We could also experience a business
−Removed: interruption, theft of confidential information or reputational damage from industrial espionage attacks, malware or other cyber-attacks,
−Removed: which may compromise our system infrastructure or lead to data leakage, either internally or at our third-party providers.
−Removed: Unauthorized disclosure of sensitive or
−Removed: confidential patient or employee data, including personally identifiable information, whether through breach of computer systems,
−Removed: systems failure, employee negligence, fraud or misappropriation, or otherwise, or unauthorized access to or through our information
−Removed: systems and networks, whether by our employees or third parties, could result in negative publicity, legal liability and damage
−Removed: to our reputation.
−Removed: Unauthorized disclosure of personally identifiable information could also expose us to sanctions for violations
−Removed: of data privacy laws and regulations around the world.
−Removed: Although we have general liability and cybersecurity insurance coverage,
−Removed: our insurance may not cover all claims, continue to be available to us on reasonable terms or be sufficient in amount to cover
−Removed: one or more large claims;
−Removed: additionally, the insurer may disclaim coverage as to any claim.
−Removed: The successful assertion of one or more
−Removed: large claims against us that exceed or are not covered by our insurance coverage or changes in our insurance policies, including
−Removed: premium increases or the imposition of large deductible or co-insurance requirements, could have a material adverse effect on our
−Removed: business, prospects, operating results and financial condition.
−Removed: Despite our security measures, there can
−Removed: be no assurance that our efforts will prevent breakdowns or breaches to our or our third-party providers’
−Removed: databases or systems,
−Removed: or any resulting unauthorized access to, or disclosure and use of, non-public or other legally protected information.
−Removed: social engineering and other attacks upon IT systems are increasing in their frequency, levels of persistence, sophistication and
−Removed: intensity, and are being conducted by sophisticated and organized groups and individuals with a wide range of motives and expertise.
−Removed: In addition to unauthorized access to or acquisition of personal information, confidential information, intellectual property or
−Removed: other sensitive information, such attacks could include the deployment of harmful malware and ransomware, and may use a variety
−Removed: of methods, including denial-of-service attacks, social engineering and other means, to attain such unauthorized access or acquisition
−Removed: or otherwise affect service reliability and threaten the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information.
−Removed: techniques used to obtain unauthorized access, disable or degrade service, or sabotage systems change frequently and often are
−Removed: not foreseeable or recognized until launched against a target, we may be unable to anticipate these techniques or to implement
−Removed: adequate preventative measures.
−Removed: Any such breakdowns or breaches, or resulting access, disclosure, or other loss of information,
−Removed: could significantly disrupt our business and result in legal claims or proceedings, liability under laws that protect the privacy
−Removed: of personal information, and damage to our reputation, any of which could have a material and adverse effect on our business, financial
−Removed: condition and results of operations.
−Removed: Our success depends on our ability
−Removed: to retain and motivate key management personnel and other employees and consultants, to attract, retain and motivate additional
−Removed: qualified personnel and to effectively navigate changes in our senior management team.
−Removed: Our success depends to a significant extent
−Removed: on our ability to attract, retain and motivate key management personnel and other employees and consultants for our business, including
−Removed: scientific, technical and sales and marketing personnel.
−Removed: There is currently a shortage of skilled executives and other personnel
−Removed: in our industry, which is likely to continue.
−Removed: As a result, competition for skilled personnel is intense and the turnover rate can
−Removed: We may not be able to attract and retain personnel on acceptable terms, given the competition among numerous regenerative
−Removed: medicine and other healthcare companies, for individuals with similar skill sets.
−Removed: Many of the companies that we compete against
−Removed: for qualified personnel have substantially greater financial and other resources and different risk profiles than we do.
−Removed: also provide more diverse opportunities, better chances for career advancement and/or more attractive compensation.
−Removed: Some of these
−Removed: characteristics may be more appealing to high quality candidates than what we can offer.
−Removed: Furthermore, in order to offer attractive
−Removed: compensation, we may need to increase the level of cash compensation that we pay to them, which will reduce funds available for
−Removed: research and development and support of our commercialization and sales growth objectives.
−Removed: There can be no assurance that we will
−Removed: have sufficient cash available to offer our employees and consultants attractive compensation or that we will realize any corresponding
−Removed: benefits from the payment of such compensation.
−Removed: We are also vulnerable to the risk that these individuals may take actions, either
−Removed: within or outside the scope of their duties, that intentionally or unintentionally tarnish our brand and reputation or otherwise
−Removed: adversely affect our business.
−Removed: We also cannot prevent our senior management team from terminating their employment with us.
−Removed: the services of any member of our senior management team could materially harm our business until a suitable replacement is found,
−Removed: and such replacement may not have equal experience and capabilities.
−Removed: In addition, we do not maintain “key person”
−Removed: policies on the lives of any of our management team or other employees.
−Removed: The inability to recruit or a loss of the services of any
−Removed: executive, key employee or consultant may impede the progress of our research, development, commercialization and sales growth
−Removed: objectives, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and our ability
−Removed: to grow our business.
−Removed: In addition, we have recently added a new
−Removed: Chief Financial Officer, Chief Commercial Officer and Chief Medical Officer.
−Removed: These changes, and any other changes to our senior
−Removed: management team we experience in the future, subject us to a number of additional risks, including risks pertaining to the coordination
−Removed: of responsibilities and tasks, the creation of new management systems and processes, differences in management style, effects on
−Removed: corporate culture and the need for transfer of historical knowledge.
−Removed: If our management team does not work together harmoniously,
−Removed: efficiently allocate responsibilities between themselves and implement and abide by effective controls, our operations will be
−Removed: adversely affected.
−Removed: Our sales into foreign markets expose
−Removed: us to risks associated with international sales and operations.
−Removed: Though we have historically focused our
−Removed: market development and commercial activities primarily in the United States, we have obtained marketing registrations, developed
−Removed: commercial and distribution capabilities and are currently selling CanGaroo and our cardiovascular products in several countries
−Removed: outside the United States primarily through independent sales agents.
−Removed: Our international sales subject us to additional risks as
−Removed: compared to those we face in the United States.
−Removed: The sale and shipment of our products across
−Removed: international borders subject us to extensive U.S.
−Removed: and foreign governmental trade, import and export and customs regulations and
−Removed: laws, including but not limited to, the Export Administration Regulations and trade sanctions against embargoed countries, which
−Removed: are administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control within the Department of the Treasury, or OFAC, as well as the laws and
−Removed: regulations administered by the Department of Commerce.
−Removed: These regulations limit our ability to market, sell, distribute or otherwise
−Removed: transfer our products or technology to prohibited countries or persons.
−Removed: Compliance with these regulations and laws
−Removed: is costly, and failure to comply with applicable legal and regulatory obligations could adversely affect us in a variety of ways
−Removed: that include, but are not limited to, significant criminal, civil and administrative penalties, including imprisonment of individuals,
−Removed: monetary fines, denial of export privileges, seizure of shipments and restrictions on certain business activities.
−Removed: to comply with applicable legal and regulatory obligations could also result in the disruption of our distribution and sales activities.
−Removed: These risks may limit or disrupt our sales
−Removed: and commercialization efforts outside the United States, restrict the movement of funds or result in the deprivation of contractual
−Removed: rights or the taking of property by nationalization or expropriation without fair compensation.
−Removed: Operating in international markets
−Removed: also requires significant management attention and financial support, and, as a result, will divert these resources away from our
−Removed: other operations.
−Removed: We are subject to anti-bribery, anti-corruption
−Removed: and anti-money laundering laws, including the U.S.
−Removed: Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, as well as export control laws, customs laws,
−Removed: sanctions laws and other laws governing our operations.
−Removed: If we fail to comply with these laws, we could be subject to civil or criminal
−Removed: penalties, other remedial measures and legal expenses, any of which would adversely affect our business, financial condition and
−Removed: results of operations.
−Removed: We currently are and, as we increase our
−Removed: international presence and global sales, will increasingly be, exposed to trade and economic sanctions and other restrictions imposed
−Removed: by the United States, the European Union and other governments and organizations.
−Removed: Departments of Justice, Commerce, State
−Removed: and Treasury and other federal agencies and authorities have a broad range of civil and criminal penalties they may seek to impose
−Removed: against corporations and individuals for violations of economic sanctions laws, export control laws, the U.S.
−Removed: Foreign Corrupt Practices
−Removed: Act, or the FCPA, and other federal statutes and regulations, including those established by OFAC.
−Removed: In addition, the U.K.
−Removed: Act of 2010, or the Bribery Act, prohibits both domestic and international bribery, as well as bribery across both private and
−Removed: public sectors.
−Removed: An organization that “fails to prevent bribery”
−Removed: by anyone associated with the organization can be charged
−Removed: under the Bribery Act unless the organization can establish the defense of having implemented “adequate procedures”
−Removed: to prevent bribery.
−Removed: Under these laws and regulations, as well as other anti-corruption laws, anti-money laundering laws, export
−Removed: control laws, customs laws, sanctions laws and other laws governing our operations, various government agencies may require export
−Removed: licenses, may seek to impose modifications to business practices, including cessation of business activities in sanctioned countries
−Removed: or with sanctioned persons or entities and modifications to compliance programs, which may increase compliance costs, and may subject
−Removed: us to fines, penalties and other sanctions.
−Removed: A violation of these laws or regulations would negatively affect our business, financial
−Removed: condition and results of operations.
−Removed: As our international operations increase,
−Removed: we expect to implement policies and procedures designed to ensure compliance by us and our directors, officers, employees, representatives,
−Removed: consultants and agents with the FCPA, OFAC restrictions, the Bribery Act and other export control, anti-corruption, anti-money-laundering
−Removed: and anti-terrorism laws and regulations.
−Removed: We cannot assure you, however, that any such policies and procedures will be sufficient
−Removed: or that directors, officers, employees, representatives, consultants and agents have not engaged, and will not engage, in conduct
−Removed: for which we may be held responsible, nor can we assure you that our business partners have not engaged, and will not engage, in
−Removed: conduct that could materially affect their ability to perform their contractual obligations to us or result in our being held liable
−Removed: for such conduct.
−Removed: Violations of the FCPA, OFAC restrictions, the Bribery Act or other export control, anti-corruption, anti-money
−Removed: laundering and anti-terrorism laws or regulations may result in severe criminal or civil sanctions, and we may be subject to other
−Removed: liabilities, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: Our officers, employees, independent
−Removed: contractors, principal investigators, consultants, commercial partners and independent sales agents may engage in misconduct or
−Removed: activities that are improper under other laws and regulations, which would create liability for us.
−Removed: We are exposed to the risk that our officers,
−Removed: employees, independent contractors (including contract research organizations, or CROs), principal investigators, consultants,
−Removed: commercial partners and independent sales agents may engage in fraudulent conduct or other illegal activity and/or may fail to
−Removed: disclose unauthorized activities to us.
−Removed: Misconduct by these parties could include, but is not limited to, intentional, reckless
−Removed: and/or negligent failures to comply with the laws and regulations of the FDA and its foreign counterparts, including, but not limited
−Removed: to, those relating to the manufacture, processing, packing, holding, investigating or distributing in commerce of medical devices,
−Removed: biological products and/or HCT/Ps, requiring the reporting of true, complete and accurate information to such regulatory bodies
−Removed: (including any safety problems associated with the use of our products), and relating to the conduct of clinical trials and the
−Removed: protection of human research subject.
−Removed: In particular, companies involved in the
−Removed: manufacture of medical products are subject to laws and regulations intended to ensure that medical products that will be used
−Removed: in patients are safe and effective, and specifically that they are not adulterated or contaminated, that they are properly labeled,
−Removed: and have the identity, strength, quality and purity that which they are represented to possess.
−Removed: Further, companies involved in
−Removed: the research and development of medical products are subject to extensive laws and regulations intended to protect research subjects
−Removed: and ensure the integrity of data generated from clinical trials and of the regulatory review process.
−Removed: Any misconduct in any of
−Removed: these areas, whether by our own employees or by contractors, vendors, business associates, consultants or other entities acting
−Removed: as our agents, could result in regulatory sanctions, criminal or civil liability and serious harm to our reputation.
−Removed: always possible to identify and deter misconduct, and the precautions we take to detect and prevent this activity may not be effective
−Removed: in preventing such conduct, mitigating risks, or reducing the chance of governmental investigations or other actions or lawsuits
−Removed: stemming from a failure to comply with these laws or regulations.
−Removed: If any such investigations or other actions or lawsuits are instituted
−Removed: against us, those actions could have a significant impact on our business, financial condition and results of operations, including,
−Removed: without limitation, the imposition of significant fines and other sanctions that may materially impair our ability to run a profitable
−Removed: Even if we are successful in defending against the imposition of any such fines or other sanctions, we could be required
−Removed: to incur substantial legal fees and other costs, and management’s attention will be diverted from our core business operations,
−Removed: either of which would negatively affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: Our ability to use certain tax attributes
−Removed: to offset future income tax liabilities may be subject to limitations.
−Removed: We have certain net operating losses and
−Removed: other tax attributes, including net operating loss carryforwards (“NOLs”) for federal income tax purposes of approximately
−Removed: $32.1 million and state NOLs of approximately $10.5 million as of December 31, 2019.
−Removed: If not utilized, $17.6 million of our
−Removed: NOLs will begin to expire for federal income tax purposes beginning in 2036, and our state NOLs will expire beginning in 2030.
−Removed: Our ability to utilize our federal NOLs will depend on our future income, and there is a risk that our NOLs could expire unused
−Removed: and be unavailable to offset future income tax liabilities, which could adversely affect our operating results.
−Removed: In addition, our ability to utilize our
−Removed: NOLs may be subject to an annual limitation under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or the Code.
−Removed: In general, under
−Removed: Sections 382 and 383 of the Code, a corporation that undergoes an “ownership change”
−Removed: is subject to limitations on its
−Removed: ability to utilize its pre-change NOLs or tax credits to offset future taxable income.
−Removed: If we undergo an ownership change or have
−Removed: previously undergone an ownership change, our ability to utilize federal NOLs or tax credits could be limited by Sections 382 and
−Removed: 383 of the Code.
−Removed: Additionally, future changes in our stock ownership, many of which are outside of our control, could result in
−Removed: an ownership change under Sections 382 and 383 of the Code.
−Removed: Our state NOLs or credits may also be impaired under state tax law.
−Removed: Accordingly, we may not be able to utilize a material portion of our federal and state NOLs or credits.
−Removed: Our ability to utilize
−Removed: our NOLs or credits is conditioned upon our attaining profitability and generating U.S.
−Removed: federal and state taxable income.
−Removed: allowances have been provided for all deferred tax assets related to our federal and state NOLs.
−Removed: In addition, other tax attributes, such
−Removed: as interest carryforwards, are also subject to various limits on their use under the Code.
−Removed: We have established valuation allowances
−Removed: for our interest carry forwards to reflect these limitations and their anticipated impact on our ability to utilize these tax attributes
−Removed: following the adoption of the December 2017 tax reform legislation known as H.R.
−Removed: 1, commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and
−Removed: Jobs Act, or the TCJA, in the United States.
−Removed: Changes in tax laws, unfavorable
−Removed: resolution of tax contingencies or exposure to additional income tax liabilities could have a material impact on our results of
−Removed: operations or financial condition.
−Removed: We are subject to income taxes as well
−Removed: as non-income based taxes in the United States.
−Removed: We may from time to time be subject to tax audits in various jurisdictions.
−Removed: authorities may disagree with certain positions we have taken and assess additional taxes.
−Removed: We regularly assess the likely outcomes
−Removed: of any tax audits to which we are subject in order to determine the appropriateness of our tax provision and have established contingency
−Removed: reserves for material, known tax exposures.
−Removed: However, the calculation of such tax exposures involves the application of complex
−Removed: tax laws and regulations in many jurisdictions, as well as interpretations as to the legality under state aid rules of the
−Removed: European Union of tax advantages granted in certain jurisdictions.
−Removed: Therefore, there can be no assurance that we will accurately
−Removed: predict the outcomes of any tax audits to which we may be subject or that issues raised by tax authorities will be resolved at
−Removed: a financial cost that does not exceed our related reserves and the actual outcomes of any such audit could have a material impact
−Removed: on our results of operations or financial condition.
−Removed: Changes in tax laws and regulations, or
−Removed: their interpretation and application, in the jurisdictions where we are subject to tax, could materially impact our effective tax
−Removed: For example, changes in tax law implemented by the TCJA became effective in 2018 and 2019, and we expect the U.S.
−Removed: to continue to issue future notices and regulations under the TCJA.
−Removed: Certain provisions of the TCJA and the regulations issued thereunder
−Removed: could have a significant impact on our future results of operations as could interpretations made by us in the absence of regulatory
−Removed: guidance and judicial interpretations.
−Removed: In addition, in 2018, we established valuation allowances against certain deferred tax assets
−Removed: (including interest carry forwards) to reflect certain limitations on these assets and their anticipated impact on our ability
−Removed: to utilize these tax assets following the adoption of the TCJA.
−Removed: We are continuing to examine the impact of TCJA.
−Removed: As the expected
−Removed: impact of certain aspects of the legislation is unclear and subject to change, we note that the TCJA could adversely affect our
−Removed: business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: Additionally, the U.S.
−Removed: Congress, government
−Removed: agencies in jurisdictions outside the United States where we do business and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development,
−Removed: or OECD, have recently focused on issues related to the taxation of multinational corporations.
−Removed: One example is in the area of “base
−Removed: erosion and profit shifting,”
−Removed: where profits are claimed to be earned for tax purposes in low-tax jurisdictions, or payments
−Removed: are made between affiliates from a jurisdiction with high tax rates to a jurisdiction with lower tax rates.
−Removed: The OECD has released
−Removed: several components of its comprehensive plan to create an agreed set of international rules for fighting base erosion and
−Removed: profit shifting.
−Removed: As a result, the tax laws in the United States and other countries, in which we do business, could change on a
−Removed: prospective or retroactive basis and any such changes could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition and results
−Removed: of operations.
−Removed: As we conduct clinical studies designed
−Removed: to generate long-term data on some of our existing products, the data we generate may not be consistent with our existing data
−Removed: and may demonstrate less favorable safety or efficacy.
−Removed: We are currently collecting and plan to
−Removed: continue collecting long-term clinical data regarding the quality, safety and effectiveness of some of our existing products.
−Removed: clinical data collected and generated as part of these studies will further strengthen our clinical evaluation concerning safety
−Removed: and performance of these products.
−Removed: We believe that this additional data will help with the marketing of our products by providing
−Removed: surgeons and physicians with additional confidence in their long-term safety and efficacy.
−Removed: If the results of these clinical studies
−Removed: are negative, these results could reduce demand for our products and significantly reduce our ability to achieve expected net sales.
−Removed: We do not expect to undertake such studies for all of our products and will only do so in the future where we anticipate the benefits
−Removed: will outweigh the costs and risks.
−Removed: For these reasons, surgeons and physicians could be less likely to purchase our products than
−Removed: competing products for which longer-term clinical data are available.
−Removed: Also, we may not choose or be able to generate the comparative
−Removed: data that some of our competitors have or are generating and we may be subject to greater regulatory and product liability risks.
−Removed: If we are unable to or determined not to collect sufficient long-term clinical data supporting the quality, safety and effectiveness
−Removed: of our existing products, our business, financial condition and results of operations could be adversely affected.
−Removed: Our estimates of market opportunity
−Removed: and forecasts of market and sales growth may prove to be inaccurate, and even if the markets in which we compete achieve the forecasted
−Removed: growth, our business could fail to grow at similar rates, if at all.
−Removed: Market opportunity estimates and growth
−Removed: forecasts are inherently uncertain.
−Removed: Our estimates of the annual total addressable markets for our products are based on a number
−Removed: of internal and third-party estimates and assumptions, including, without limitation, the number of implantable electronic device
−Removed: procedures and orthopedic/spinal repair procedures, as well as the number of procedures using biologic products annually in the
−Removed: United States.
−Removed: While we believe our assumptions and the data underlying our estimates are reasonable, these assumptions and estimates
−Removed: may not be correct and the conditions supporting our assumptions or estimates may change at any time, thereby reducing the predictive
−Removed: accuracy of these underlying factors.
−Removed: As a result, our estimates of the annual total addressable market for any of our products
−Removed: may prove to be incorrect.
−Removed: If the actual number of procedures, the price at which we are able to sell any of our products, or the
−Removed: annual total addressable market is smaller than we have estimated, it may impair our sales growth and have an adverse impact on
−Removed: our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: Risks Related to Government Regulation
−Removed: The regulatory approval and clearance
−Removed: processes of the FDA and comparable foreign authorities are lengthy, time consuming and inherently unpredictable, and if we are
−Removed: ultimately unable to obtain regulatory approval or other marketing authorizations for our products and product candidates, our
−Removed: business will be substantially harmed.
−Removed: The medical device and biologics industries
−Removed: are regulated extensively by governmental authorities, principally the FDA, the E.U.
−Removed: legislative bodies, and corresponding state
−Removed: and foreign regulatory agencies and authorities.
−Removed: The time required to obtain approval, clearance, certification of conformity or
−Removed: other marketing authorizations from the FDA, European Union Notified Bodies, and comparable foreign authorities is unpredictable
−Removed: but can often take many years following the commencement of clinical trials and depends upon numerous factors, including the substantial
−Removed: discretion of the regulatory authorities.
−Removed: In addition, policies, regulations, or the type and amount of clinical data necessary
−Removed: to gain clearance or approval may change during the course of a product candidate’s clinical development and may vary among
−Removed: jurisdictions.
−Removed: Before we can market or sell a new medical
−Removed: device or a new use of or a claim for or significant modification to an existing medical device in the United States, we must obtain
−Removed: either clearance from the FDA under Section 510(k) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, or FDCA, or approval
−Removed: of an application for premarket approval, or PMA, unless an exemption applies.
−Removed: In the United States, we have obtained 510(k) premarket
−Removed: clearance from the FDA to market products such as our CanGaroo, VasCure, ProxiCor and Tyke products.
−Removed: In the 510(k) premarket
−Removed: clearance process, the FDA must determine that a proposed device is “substantially equivalent”
−Removed: to a device legally
−Removed: on the market, known as a “predicate”
−Removed: device, with respect to intended use, technology and safety and effectiveness,
−Removed: in order to clear the proposed device for marketing.
−Removed: Clinical data is sometimes required to support a finding of substantial equivalence.
−Removed: Under certain conditions, a medical device is required to be approved under a PMA before it may be legally marketed.
−Removed: The PMA pathway
−Removed: requires an applicant to demonstrate the safety and effectiveness of the device based, in part, on extensive data, including, but
−Removed: not limited to, technical, nonclinical, clinical trial, manufacturing and labeling data.
−Removed: The PMA process is typically required
−Removed: for devices that are deemed to pose the greatest risk, such as life-sustaining, life-supporting or implantable devices.
−Removed: some devices are automatically subject to the PMA pathway regardless of the level of risk they pose because they have not previously
−Removed: been classified into a lower risk class by the FDA.
−Removed: Manufacturers of these devices may request that FDA review such devices in
−Removed: accordance with the de novo classification procedure, which allows a manufacturer whose novel device would otherwise require
−Removed: the submission and approval of a PMA prior to marketing to request down-classification of the device on the basis that the device
−Removed: presents low or moderate risk.
−Removed: If the FDA agrees with the down classification based on a de novo submission, the FDA will
−Removed: authorize the device for marketing.
−Removed: This device type can then be used as a predicate device for future 510(k) submissions.
−Removed: The process of obtaining regulatory clearances
−Removed: or approvals, or completing the de novo classification process, to market a medical device can be costly and time consuming,
−Removed: and we may not be able to successfully obtain pre-market reviews on a timely basis, if at all.
−Removed: If the FDA requires us to go through
−Removed: a lengthier, more rigorous examination for our products than we expect, our product introductions or modifications could be delayed
−Removed: or canceled, which could cause our sales to decline.
−Removed: Further, even where a PMA is not required, we cannot assure you that we will
−Removed: be able to obtain 510(k) clearances with respect to such product candidates or modifications to previously cleared products.
−Removed: The FDA or any foreign regulatory bodies
−Removed: can delay, limit or deny approval or clearance of our product candidates or require us to conduct additional nonclinical or clinical
−Removed: testing or abandon a program for many reasons, including:
−Removed: the FDA or the applicable foreign regulatory agency’s disagreement with the design or implementation
−Removed: of our clinical trials;
−Removed: negative or ambiguous results from our clinical trials or results that may not meet the level of
−Removed: statistical significance required by the FDA or comparable foreign regulatory agencies for approval;
−Removed: serious and unexpected drug or device-related side effects experienced by participants in our clinical
−Removed: trials or by individuals using devices similar to our products or natural product candidates;
−Removed: our inability to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the FDA or the applicable foreign regulatory
−Removed: body that our product candidates are safe and effective for their intended uses, or in the case of the 510(k) clearance process,
−Removed: that our product candidate is substantially equivalent to a predicate device;
−Removed: the FDA’s or the applicable foreign regulatory agency’s disagreement with the interpretation
−Removed: of data from pre-clinical studies or clinical trials;
−Removed: our inability to demonstrate the clinical and other benefits of our product candidates outweigh
−Removed: any safety or other perceived risks;
−Removed: the FDA’s or the applicable foreign regulatory agency’s requirement for additional
−Removed: pre-clinical studies or clinical trials;
−Removed: the FDA’s or the applicable foreign regulatory agency’s disagreement regarding the
−Removed: formulation, labeling or the specifications of our products or future product candidates;
−Removed: the FDA’s or the applicable foreign regulatory agency’s failure to approve the manufacturing
−Removed: processes or facilities of third-party manufacturers with which we contract;
−Removed: the potential for approval or clearance policies or regulations of the FDA or the applicable foreign
−Removed: regulatory agencies to significantly change in a manner rendering our clinical data insufficient for approval.
−Removed: Of the large number of products in development,
−Removed: only a small percentage successfully complete the FDA or foreign regulatory approval processes and are commercialized.
−Removed: approval or marketing authorization process, as well as the unpredictability of future clinical trial results, may result in our
−Removed: failing to obtain regulatory clearance, approval or other marketing authorization to market our product candidates, which would
−Removed: significantly harm our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: Even if we eventually complete clinical
−Removed: testing and receive approval or clearance of an FDA or foreign marketing application for our product candidates, the FDA or the
−Removed: applicable foreign regulatory agency may grant clearance, approval or other marketing authorization contingent on the performance
−Removed: of costly additional clinical trials, including post-market clinical trials.
−Removed: The FDA or the applicable foreign regulatory agency
−Removed: also may clear, approve or authorize for marketing a product candidate for a more limited indication or patient population than
−Removed: we originally requested, and the FDA or applicable foreign regulatory agency may not approve or authorize the labeling that we
−Removed: believe is necessary or desirable for the successful commercialization of a product candidate.
−Removed: Any delay in obtaining, or inability
−Removed: to obtain, applicable regulatory clearance, approval or other marketing authorization would delay or prevent commercialization
−Removed: of that product candidate and would materially adversely impact our business and prospects.
−Removed: Our products may cause or contribute
−Removed: to adverse medical events or be subject to failures or malfunctions that we are required to report to the FDA, and if we fail to
−Removed: do so, we would be subject to sanctions that could harm our reputation, business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: The discovery of serious safety issues with our products, or a recall of our products either voluntarily or at the direction of
−Removed: the FDA or another governmental authority, could have a negative impact on us.
−Removed: Some of our marketed products are subject
−Removed: to Medical Device Reporting, or MDR, obligations, which require that we report to the FDA or the Competent Authorities of the European
−Removed: Union, any incident in which our products may have caused or contributed to a death or serious injury, or in which our products
−Removed: malfunctioned and, if the malfunction were to recur, it could likely cause or contribute to a death or serious injury.
−Removed: of our obligation to report under the MDR regulations is triggered by the date we become aware of the adverse event as well as
−Removed: the nature of the event.
−Removed: We may fail to report adverse events of which we become aware within the prescribed timeframe.
−Removed: also fail to recognize that we have become aware of a reportable adverse event, especially if it is not reported to us as an adverse
−Removed: event or if it is an adverse event that is unexpected or removed in time from the use of our product.
−Removed: If we fail to comply with
−Removed: our reporting obligations, the FDA, or the Competent Authorities of the European Union, could take action, including warning letters,
−Removed: untitled letters, administrative actions, criminal prosecution, imposition of civil monetary penalties, revocation of our device
−Removed: clearance or approval, seizure of our products or delay in clearance or approval of future products.
−Removed: The FDA, the Competent Authorities of the
−Removed: European Union, and foreign regulatory bodies have the authority to require the recall of commercialized products in the event
−Removed: of material deficiencies or defects in design or manufacture of a product or in the event that a product poses an unacceptable
−Removed: risk to health.
−Removed: The FDA’s authority to require a recall must be based on a finding that there is reasonable probability that
−Removed: the device could cause serious injury or death.
−Removed: We may also choose to voluntarily recall a product if any material deficiency is
−Removed: A government-mandated or voluntary recall by us could occur as a result of an unacceptable risk to health, component failures,
−Removed: malfunctions, manufacturing defects, labeling or design deficiencies, packaging defects or other deficiencies or failures to comply
−Removed: with applicable regulations.
−Removed: Product defects or other errors may occur in the future.
−Removed: Depending on the corrective action we take
−Removed: to redress a product’s deficiencies or defects, the FDA may require, or we may decide, that we will need to obtain new clearances
−Removed: or approvals for the device before we may market or distribute the corrected device.
−Removed: Seeking such clearances or approvals may delay
−Removed: our ability to replace the recalled devices in a timely manner.
−Removed: Moreover, if we do not adequately address problems associated with
−Removed: our devices, we may face additional regulatory enforcement action, including FDA warning letters, product seizure, injunctions,
−Removed: administrative penalties or civil or criminal fines.
−Removed: Companies are required to maintain certain
−Removed: records of recalls and corrections, even if they are not reportable to the FDA.
−Removed: We may initiate voluntary withdrawals or corrections
−Removed: for our products in the future that we determine do not require notification of the FDA.
−Removed: If the FDA disagrees with our determinations,
−Removed: it could require us to report those actions as recalls, and we may be subject to enforcement action.
−Removed: A future recall announcement
−Removed: could harm our reputation with customers, potentially lead to product liability claims against us and negatively affect our sales.
−Removed: Any corrective action, whether voluntary or involuntary, as well as defending ourselves in a lawsuit, will require the dedication
−Removed: of our time and capital, distract management from operating our business and may harm our reputation and financial results.
−Removed: Modifications to our medical device
−Removed: products may require new 510(k) clearances or other marketing authorizations, and if we make modifications to such products
−Removed: without obtaining requisite marketing authorization, we may be required to cease marketing or recall the modified products until
−Removed: clearances or other marketing authorizations are obtained.
−Removed: Any modification to a cleared or approved
−Removed: medical device that could significantly affect its safety or effectiveness, or that would constitute a major change in its intended
−Removed: use, design or manufacture, requires a new 510(k) clearance or, possibly, approval of a PMA.
−Removed: The FDA requires every manufacturer
−Removed: to make this determination in the first instance, but the FDA may review any manufacturer’s decision.
−Removed: The FDA may not agree
−Removed: with our decisions regarding whether new clearances or approvals are necessary.
−Removed: We may make modifications or add features to any
−Removed: of our product candidates that are cleared under the 510(k) clearance process in the future that we believe do not require
−Removed: a new 510(k) clearance or approval of a PMA.
−Removed: If the FDA disagrees with our determination and requires us to submit new 510(k) notifications
−Removed: or PMA applications for modifications to our products for which we have concluded that new clearances or approvals are unnecessary,
−Removed: we may be required to cease marketing or to recall the modified product until we obtain clearance or approval, and we may be subject
−Removed: to significant regulatory fines or penalties.
−Removed: In addition, the FDA may not approve or clear our products for the indications that
−Removed: are necessary or desirable for successful commercialization or could require clinical trials to support any modifications.
−Removed: delay or failure in obtaining required clearances or approvals for such changes would adversely affect our ability to introduce
−Removed: new or enhanced products in a timely manner, which in turn would harm our future growth.
−Removed: Any of these actions would harm our operating
−Removed: The misuse or off-label use of our
−Removed: products may harm our reputation in the marketplace, result in injuries that lead to product liability suits or result in costly
−Removed: investigations, fines or sanctions by regulatory bodies if we are deemed to have engaged in the promotion of these uses, any of
−Removed: which could be costly to our business.
−Removed: Our currently marketed products have been
−Removed: cleared by the FDA for specific indications.
−Removed: For example, our SimpliDerm product has been labeled for use to repair or replace
−Removed: damaged or inadequate integumental tissue and our CanGaroo envelope is intended to securely hold an implantable electronic device
−Removed: to create a stable environment when implanted in the body.
−Removed: We train our marketing personnel and direct sales force to not promote
−Removed: our devices for uses outside of the FDA-approved indications for use, known as “off-label uses.”
−Removed: We cannot, however,
−Removed: prevent a physician from using our products off-label, when in the physician’s independent professional medical judgment,
−Removed: he or she deems it appropriate.
−Removed: There may be increased risk of injury to patients if physicians attempt to use our products off-label.
−Removed: Furthermore, the use of our products for indications other than those authorized by the FDA or by any foreign regulatory body may
−Removed: not effectively treat such conditions, which could harm our reputation in the marketplace among physicians and patients.
−Removed: If the FDA or any foreign regulatory body
−Removed: determines that our promotional materials or training constitute promotion of an off-label use, it could request that we modify
−Removed: our training or promotional materials or subject us to regulatory or enforcement actions, including the issuance or imposition
−Removed: of an untitled letter, which is used for violators that do not necessitate a warning letter, injunction, seizure, civil fine or
−Removed: criminal penalties.
−Removed: It is also possible that other federal, state or foreign enforcement authorities might take action under other
−Removed: regulatory authority, such as false claims laws, if they consider our business activities to constitute promotion of an off-label
−Removed: use, which could result in significant penalties, including, but not limited to, criminal, civil and administrative penalties,
−Removed: damages, fines, disgorgement, exclusion from participation in government healthcare programs and the curtailment of our operations.
−Removed: In addition, physicians may misuse our
−Removed: products or use improper techniques if they are not adequately trained, potentially leading to injury and an increased risk of
−Removed: product liability.
−Removed: If our devices are misused or used with improper technique, we may become subject to costly litigation by our
−Removed: customers or their patients.
−Removed: As described above, product liability claims could divert management’s attention from our core
−Removed: business, harm our reputation, be expensive to defend and result in sizeable damage awards against us that may not be covered by
−Removed: Failure to comply with post-marketing
−Removed: regulatory requirements could subject us to enforcement actions, including substantial penalties, and might require us to recall
−Removed: or withdraw a product from the market.
−Removed: We are subject to ongoing and pervasive
−Removed: regulatory requirements governing, among other things, the manufacture, marketing, advertising, medical device reporting, sale,
−Removed: promotion, import, export, registration and listing of devices.
−Removed: For example, we must submit periodic reports to the FDA as a condition
−Removed: of receiving 510(k) clearances and other marketing authorizations.
−Removed: These reports include information about failures and certain
−Removed: adverse events associated with the device after its clearance.
−Removed: Failure to submit such reports, or failure to submit the reports
−Removed: in a timely manner, could result in enforcement action by the FDA.
−Removed: Following its review of the periodic reports, the FDA might
−Removed: ask for additional information or initiate further investigation.
−Removed: The regulations to which we are subject
−Removed: are complex and have become more stringent over time.
−Removed: Regulatory changes could result in restrictions on our ability to continue
−Removed: or expand our operations, and higher than anticipated costs or lower than anticipated sales.
−Removed: Even after we have obtained the proper
−Removed: regulatory clearance to market a device, we have ongoing responsibilities under FDA regulations and applicable foreign laws and
−Removed: The FDA, state and foreign regulatory authorities have broad enforcement powers.
−Removed: Our failure to comply with applicable
−Removed: regulatory requirements could result in enforcement action by the FDA, state or foreign regulatory authorities, which may include
−Removed: any of the following sanctions:
−Removed: untitled letters or warning letters;
−Removed: fines, injunctions, consent decrees and civil penalties;
−Removed: recalls, termination of distribution, administrative detention or seizure of our products;
−Removed: customer notifications or repair, replacement or refunds;
−Removed: operating restrictions or partial suspension or total shutdown of production;
−Removed: delays in or refusal to grant our requests for future clearances or approvals or foreign marketing
−Removed: authorizations of new products, new intended uses or modifications to existing products;
−Removed: withdrawals or suspensions of our current 510(k) clearances, resulting in prohibitions on
−Removed: sales of our products;
−Removed: FDA refusal to issue certificates to foreign governments needed to export products for sale in
−Removed: other countries;
−Removed: criminal prosecution.
−Removed: Any of these sanctions could result in
−Removed: higher than anticipated costs or lower than anticipated sales and have a material adverse effect on our reputation, business, financial
−Removed: condition and results of operations.
−Removed: In addition, the FDA may change its clearance
−Removed: policies, adopt additional regulations or revise existing regulations, or take other actions, which may prevent or delay clearance
−Removed: or approval of our future products under development or impact our ability to modify our currently cleared products on a timely
−Removed: Such policy or regulatory changes could impose additional requirements upon us that could delay our ability to obtain new
−Removed: clearances or approvals, increase the costs of compliance or restrict our ability to maintain our clearances of our current products.
−Removed: Over the last several years, the FDA has proposed reforms to its 510(k) clearance process, and such proposals could include
−Removed: increased requirements for clinical data and a longer review period, or could make it more difficult for manufacturers to utilize
−Removed: the 510(k) clearance process for their products.
−Removed: For example, in November 2018, FDA officials announced steps that the
−Removed: FDA intends to take to modernize the premarket notification pathway under Section 510(k) of the FDCA.
−Removed: Among other things,
−Removed: the FDA announced that it planned to develop proposals to drive manufacturers utilizing the 510(k) pathway toward the use
−Removed: of newer predicates.
−Removed: These proposals included plans to potentially sunset certain older devices that were used as predicates under
−Removed: the 510(k) clearance pathway, and to potentially publish a list of devices that have been cleared on the basis of demonstrated
−Removed: substantial equivalence to predicate devices that are more than 10 years old.
−Removed: These proposals have not yet been finalized or adopted,
−Removed: and the FDA may work with Congress to implement such proposals through legislation.
−Removed: Accordingly, it is unclear the extent to which
−Removed: any proposals, if adopted, could impose additional regulatory requirements on us that could delay our ability to obtain new 510(k) clearances,
−Removed: increase the costs of compliance or restrict our ability to maintain our current clearances, or otherwise create competition that
−Removed: may negatively affect our business.
−Removed: More recently, in September 2019,
−Removed: the FDA finalized guidance describing an optional “safety and performance based”
−Removed: premarket review pathway for manufacturers
−Removed: “certain, well-understood device types”
−Removed: to demonstrate substantial equivalence under the 510(k) clearance
−Removed: pathway by showing that such device meets objective safety and performance criteria established by the FDA, thereby obviating the
−Removed: need for manufacturers to compare the safety and performance of their medical devices to specific predicate devices in the clearance
−Removed: The FDA is developing a list of device types appropriate for the “safety and performance based”
−Removed: will continue to develop product-specific guidance documents that identify the performance criteria for each such device type,
−Removed: as well as the testing methods recommended in the guidance documents, where feasible.
−Removed: The FDA may establish performance criteria
−Removed: for classes of devices for which we or our competitors seek or currently have received clearance, and it is unclear the extent
−Removed: to which such performance standards, if established, could impact our ability to obtain new 510(k) clearances or otherwise
−Removed: create competition that may negatively affect our business.
−Removed: In addition, FDA regulations and guidance
−Removed: are often revised or reinterpreted by the FDA in ways that may significantly affect our business and our products.
−Removed: Any new statutes,
−Removed: regulations or revisions or reinterpretations of existing regulations may impose additional costs or lengthen review times of any
−Removed: future products or make it more difficult to obtain clearance or approval for, manufacture, market or distribute our products.
−Removed: We cannot determine what effect changes in regulations, statutes, legal interpretation or policies, when and if promulgated, enacted
−Removed: or adopted may have on our business in the future.
−Removed: Such changes could, among other things, require:
−Removed: additional testing prior to
−Removed: obtaining clearance or approval;
−Removed: changes to manufacturing methods;
−Removed: recall, replacement or discontinuance of our products;
−Removed: or additional
−Removed: record keeping.
−Removed: The FDA’s and other regulatory authorities’
−Removed: policies may change and additional government regulations may be promulgated that could prevent, limit or delay regulatory clearance
−Removed: or approval of our product candidates.
−Removed: We cannot predict the likelihood, nature or extent of government regulation that may arise
−Removed: from future legislation or administrative action, either in the United States or abroad.
−Removed: If we are slow or unable to adapt to changes
−Removed: in existing requirements or the adoption of new requirements or policies, or if we are not able to maintain regulatory compliance,
−Removed: we may lose any marketing approval that we may have obtained and we may not achieve or sustain profitability.
−Removed: Our HCT/P products are subject to
−Removed: extensive government regulation, and our failure to comply with these requirements could cause our business to suffer.
−Removed: In the United States, we sell human tissue-derived
−Removed: bone allografts, such as ViBone, FiberCel and OsteGro V, which are referred to by the FDA as HCT/Ps.
−Removed: Certain HCT/Ps are regulated
−Removed: by the FDA solely under Section 361 of the Public Health Service Act, or PHSA, and are referred to as “Section 361
−Removed: HCT/Ps,”
−Removed: while other HCT/Ps are subject to FDA’s regulatory requirements applicable to medical devices or biologics.
−Removed: Section 361 HCT/Ps do not require 510(k) clearance, PMA approval, biologics license application, or BLA, or other premarket
−Removed: authorization from FDA before marketing.
−Removed: We believe our HCT/Ps are regulated solely under Section 361 of the PHSA and, therefore,
−Removed: we have not sought or obtained 510(k) clearance, PMA approval, or licensure through a BLA.
−Removed: The FDA could disagree with our
−Removed: determination that our human tissue products are Section 361 HCT/Ps and could determine that these products are biologics
−Removed: requiring a BLA or medical devices requiring 510(k) clearance or PMA approval, and could require that we cease marketing such
−Removed: products and/or recall them pending appropriate clearance, approval or license from the FDA.
−Removed: For example, in public comments, the
−Removed: FDA has suggested that the use of human-derived acellular dermal matrices, such as SimpliDerm, may not be considered HCT/Ps when
−Removed: utilized in breast reconstruction procedures.
−Removed: As a result, we may be required to conduct clinical studies and/or seek approval
−Removed: of a PMA before we are able to market SimpliDerm for use in breast reconstruction.
−Removed: Even though we believe that our HCT/Ps
−Removed: are not subject to premarket approval or review, HCT/Ps are subject to donor eligibility and screening, Good Tissue Practices,
−Removed: product labeling and post-market reporting requirements.
−Removed: If we or our suppliers fail to comply with these requirements, we could
−Removed: be subject to FDA enforcement action, including, for example, warning letters, fines, injunctions, product recalls or seizures
−Removed: and, in the most serious cases, criminal penalties.
−Removed: The clinical trial process is lengthy
−Removed: and expensive with uncertain outcomes.
−Removed: We have limited data and experience regarding the safety and efficacy of our products.
−Removed: of earlier studies may not be predictive of future clinical trial results, or the safety or efficacy profile for such products.
−Removed: Clinical testing is difficult to design
−Removed: and implement, can take many years, can be expensive and carries uncertain outcomes.
−Removed: The long-term effects of using our products
−Removed: in a large number of patients have not been studied, and the results of short-term clinical use of such products do not necessarily
−Removed: predict long-term clinical benefits or reveal long-term adverse effects.
−Removed: The results of pre-clinical studies and
−Removed: clinical trials of our products conducted to date and ongoing or future studies and trials of our current, planned or future products
−Removed: may not be predictive of the results of later clinical trials, and interim results of a clinical trial do not necessarily predict
−Removed: final results.
−Removed: Our interpretation of data and results from our clinical trials do not ensure that we will achieve similar results
−Removed: in future clinical trials.
−Removed: In addition, pre-clinical and clinical data are often susceptible to various interpretations and analyses,
−Removed: and many companies that have believed their products performed satisfactorily in pre-clinical studies and earlier clinical trials
−Removed: have, nonetheless, failed to replicate results in later clinical trials.
−Removed: Products in later stages of clinical trials may fail to
−Removed: show the desired safety and efficacy despite having progressed through nonclinical studies and earlier clinical trials.
−Removed: can occur at any stage of clinical testing.
−Removed: Our clinical studies may produce negative or inconclusive results, and we may decide,
−Removed: or regulators may require us, to conduct additional clinical and non-clinical testing in addition to those we have planned.
−Removed: The initiation and completion of any of
−Removed: clinical studies may be prevented, delayed or halted for numerous reasons.
−Removed: We may experience delays in our ongoing clinical trials
−Removed: for a number of reasons, which could adversely affect the costs, timing or successful completion of our clinical trials, including
−Removed: related to the following:
−Removed: we may be required to submit an investigational device exemption, or IDE, application to the FDA,
−Removed: which must become effective prior to commencing certain human clinical trials of medical devices, and the FDA may reject our IDE
−Removed: application and notify us that we may not begin clinical trials;
−Removed: regulators and other comparable foreign regulatory authorities may disagree as to the design or
−Removed: implementation of our clinical trials;
−Removed: regulators and/or IRBs, or other reviewing bodies may not authorize us or our investigators to
−Removed: commence a clinical trial or to conduct or continue a clinical trial at a prospective or specific trial site;
−Removed: we may not reach agreement on acceptable terms with prospective CROs and clinical trial sites,
−Removed: the terms of which can be subject to extensive negotiation and may vary significantly among different CROs and trial sites;
−Removed: clinical trials may produce negative or inconclusive results, and we may decide, or regulators
−Removed: may require us, to conduct additional clinical trials or abandon product development programs;
−Removed: the number of subjects or patients required for clinical trials may be larger than we anticipate,
−Removed: enrollment in these clinical trials may be insufficient or slower than we anticipate, and the number of clinical trials being conducted
−Removed: at any given time may be high and result in fewer available patients for any given clinical trial, or patients may drop out of
−Removed: these clinical trials at a higher rate than we anticipate;
−Removed: our third-party contractors, including those manufacturing products or conducting clinical trials
−Removed: on our behalf, may fail to comply with regulatory requirements or meet their contractual obligations to us in a timely manner or
−Removed: we might have to suspend or terminate clinical trials for various reasons, including a finding
−Removed: that the subjects are being exposed to unacceptable health risks;
−Removed: we may have to amend clinical trial protocols or conduct additional studies to reflect changes
−Removed: in regulatory requirements or guidance, which we may be required to submit to an IRB and/or regulatory authorities for re-examination;
−Removed: regulators, IRBs or other parties may require or recommend that we or our investigators suspend
−Removed: or terminate clinical research for various reasons, including safety signals or noncompliance with regulatory requirements;
−Removed: the cost of clinical trials may be greater than we anticipate;
−Removed: clinical sites may not adhere to the clinical protocol or may drop out of a clinical trial;
−Removed: we may be unable to recruit a sufficient number of clinical trial sites;
−Removed: regulators, IRBs or other reviewing bodies may fail to approve or subsequently find fault
−Removed: with our manufacturing processes or facilities of third-party manufacturers with which we enter into agreement for clinical and
−Removed: commercial supplies, the supply of devices or other materials necessary to conduct clinical trials may be insufficient, inadequate
−Removed: or not available at an acceptable cost, or we may experience interruptions in supply;
−Removed: approval policies or regulations of the FDA, the European Union or applicable foreign regulatory
−Removed: agencies may change in a manner rendering our clinical data insufficient for approval;
−Removed: our current or future products may have undesirable side effects or other unexpected characteristics.
−Removed: In addition, disruptions caused by the
−Removed: COVID-19 pandemic may increase the likelihood that we encounter such difficulties or delays in initiating, enrolling, conducting
−Removed: or completing our planned and ongoing clinical trials.
−Removed: Any of these occurrences may significantly harm our business, financial
−Removed: condition and prospects.
−Removed: In addition, many of the factors that cause, or lead to, a delay in the commencement or completion of
−Removed: clinical trials may also ultimately lead to the denial of regulatory approval of our product candidates.
−Removed: Patient enrollment in clinical trials and
−Removed: completion of patient follow-up depend on many factors, including the size of the patient population, the nature of the trial protocol,
−Removed: the proximity of patients to clinical sites, the eligibility criteria for the clinical trial, patient compliance, competing clinical
−Removed: trials and clinicians’
−Removed: and patients’
−Removed: perceptions as to the potential advantages of the product being studied in relation
−Removed: to other available therapies, including any new treatments that may be approved for the indications we are investigating.
−Removed: patients may be discouraged from enrolling in our clinical trials if the trial protocol requires them to undergo extensive post-treatment
−Removed: procedures or follow-up to assess the safety and efficacy of a product candidate, or they may be persuaded to participate in contemporaneous
−Removed: clinical trials of a competitor’s product candidate.
−Removed: In addition, patients participating in our clinical trials may drop
−Removed: out before completion of the trial or experience adverse medical events unrelated to our products.
−Removed: Delays in patient enrollment
−Removed: or failure of patients to continue to participate in a clinical trial may delay commencement or completion of the clinical trial,
−Removed: cause an increase in the costs of the clinical trial and delays, or result in the failure of the clinical trial.
−Removed: Even if our future products are cleared
−Removed: or approved in the United States, commercialization of our products in foreign countries would require clearance or approval by
−Removed: regulatory authorities in those countries.
−Removed: Clearance or approval procedures vary among jurisdictions and can involve requirements
−Removed: and administrative review periods different from, and greater than, those in the United States, including additional pre-clinical
−Removed: studies or clinical trials.
−Removed: Any of these occurrences could have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results
−Removed: of operations.
−Removed: Disruptions at the FDA and other
−Removed: government agencies caused by funding shortages or global health concerns could hinder their ability to hire, retain or deploy
−Removed: key leadership and other personnel, or otherwise prevent new or modified products from being developed, cleared or approved or
−Removed: commercialized in a timely manner or at all, which could negatively impact our business.
−Removed: The ability of the FDA to review and clear
−Removed: or approve new products can be affected by a variety of factors, including government budget and funding levels, statutory, regulatory
−Removed: and policy changes, the FDA’s ability to hire and retain key personnel and accept the payment of user fees and other events
−Removed: that may otherwise affect the FDA’s ability to perform routine functions.
−Removed: Average review times at the FDA have fluctuated
−Removed: in recent years as a result.
−Removed: In addition, government funding of other government agencies that fund research and development activities
−Removed: is subject to the political process, which is inherently fluid and unpredictable.
−Removed: Disruptions at the FDA and other agencies may
−Removed: also slow the time necessary for medical devices and biologics or modifications to cleared or for approved medical devices and
−Removed: biologics to be reviewed and/or approved by necessary government agencies, which would adversely affect our business.
−Removed: over the last several years, including for 35 days beginning on December 22, 2018, the U.S.
−Removed: government has shut down several
−Removed: times and certain regulatory agencies, such as the FDA, have had to furlough critical FDA employees and stop critical activities.
−Removed: Separately, in response to the COVID-19
−Removed: pandemic, on March 10, 2020, the FDA announced its intention to postpone most foreign inspections of manufacturing facilities
−Removed: and products, and, on March 18, 2020, the FDA temporarily postponed routine surveillance inspections of domestic manufacturing
−Removed: Subsequently, on July 10, 2020, the FDA announced its intention to resume certain on-site inspections of domestic
−Removed: manufacturing facilities subject to a risk-based prioritization system.
−Removed: The FDA intends to use this risk-based assessment system
−Removed: to identify the categories of regulatory activity that can occur within a given geographic area, ranging from mission critical
−Removed: inspections to resumption of all regulatory activities.
−Removed: Regulatory authorities outside the United States may adopt similar restrictions
−Removed: or other policy measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
−Removed: If a prolonged government shutdown occurs, or if global health concerns
−Removed: continue to prevent the FDA, the European Union or other regulatory authorities from conducting their regular inspections, reviews,
−Removed: or other regulatory activities, it could significantly impact the ability of the FDA, the European Union or other regulatory authorities
−Removed: to timely review and process our regulatory submissions, which could have a material adverse effect on our business.
−Removed: We are subject to certain federal,
−Removed: state and foreign fraud and abuse laws, health information privacy and security laws and physician payment transparency laws, which,
−Removed: if violated, could subject us to substantial penalties.
−Removed: Additionally, any challenge to or investigation into our practices under
−Removed: these laws could cause adverse publicity and be costly to respond to, and thus could harm our business.
−Removed: There are numerous U.S.
−Removed: federal and state,
−Removed: as well as foreign, laws pertaining to healthcare fraud and abuse, including anti-kickback, false claims and physician transparency
−Removed: Our business practices and relationships with providers and hospitals are subject to scrutiny under these laws.
−Removed: be subject to patient information privacy and security regulation by both the federal government and the states and foreign jurisdictions
−Removed: in which we conduct our business.
−Removed: The healthcare laws and regulations that may affect our ability to operate include:
−Removed: the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, which prohibits, among other things, persons and entities from
−Removed: knowingly and willfully soliciting, offering, receiving or providing remuneration, directly or indirectly, in cash or in kind,
−Removed: to induce either the referral of an individual or furnishing or arranging for a good or service, for which payment may be made,
−Removed: in whole or in part, under federal healthcare programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid.
−Removed: A person or entity does not need to have
−Removed: actual knowledge of the statute or specific intent to violate it to have committed a violation;
−Removed: the federal civil and criminal false claims laws, including the federal civil False Claims Act,
−Removed: which prohibit, among other things, individuals or entities from knowingly presenting, or causing to be presented, claims for payment
−Removed: from Medicare, Medicaid or other federal healthcare programs that are false or fraudulent.
−Removed: Moreover, the government may assert
−Removed: that a claim including items or services resulting from a violation of the federal Anti-Kickback Statute constitutes a false or
−Removed: fraudulent claim for purposes of the federal civil False Claims Act.
−Removed: Private individuals can bring False Claims Act “qui
−Removed: actions, on behalf of the government and such individuals, commonly known as “whistleblowers,”
−Removed: in amounts paid by the entity to the government in fines or settlement.
−Removed: When an entity is determined to have violated the federal
−Removed: civil False Claims Act, the government may impose civil penalties, including treble damages, and exclude the entity from participation
−Removed: in Medicare, Medicaid and other federal healthcare programs;
−Removed: the federal Civil Monetary Penalties Law, which prohibits, among other things, offering or transferring
−Removed: remuneration to a federal healthcare beneficiary that a person knows or should know is likely to influence the beneficiary’s
−Removed: decision to order or receive items or services reimbursable by the government from a particular provider or supplier;
−Removed: the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, or HIPAA, which created additional
−Removed: federal criminal statutes that prohibit, among other things, executing a scheme to defraud any healthcare benefit program and making
−Removed: false statements relating to healthcare matters.
−Removed: Similar to the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, a person or entity does not need
−Removed: to have actual knowledge of the statute or specific intent to violate it to have committed a violation;
−Removed: the federal Physician Sunshine Act, which requires certain manufacturers of drugs, devices, biologics
−Removed: and medical supplies for which payment is available under Medicare, Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program,
−Removed: or CHIP, to report annually to CMS, information related to payments and other transfers of value to physicians, which is defined
−Removed: broadly to include doctors, dentists, optometrists, podiatrists and chiropractors, and teaching hospitals, and applicable manufacturers
−Removed: and group purchasing organizations, to report annually ownership and investment interests held by such physicians and their immediate
−Removed: family members.
−Removed: Manufacturers are required to submit annual reports to CMS and failure to do so may result in civil monetary penalties
−Removed: for all payments, transfers of value or ownership or investment interests not reported in an annual submission, and may result
−Removed: in liability under other federal laws or regulations.
−Removed: Effective January 1, 2022, these reporting obligations will extend to
−Removed: include payments and transfers of value made to certain nonphysician providers such as physician assistants and nurse practitioners;
−Removed: analogous state and foreign law equivalents of each of the above federal laws, such as anti-kickback
−Removed: and false claims laws, which may apply to items or services reimbursed by any third-party payor, including commercial insurers
−Removed: state laws that require device companies to comply with the industry’s voluntary compliance guidelines and the
−Removed: applicable compliance guidance promulgated by the federal government or otherwise restrict payments that may be made to healthcare
−Removed: providers and other potential referral sources;
−Removed: state laws that require device manufacturers to report information related to payments
−Removed: and other transfers of value to physicians and other healthcare providers or marketing expenditures;
−Removed: and state laws related to
−Removed: insurance fraud in the case of claims involving private insurers.
−Removed: These laws and regulations, among other
−Removed: things, constrain our business, marketing and other promotional activities by limiting the kinds of financial arrangements we may
−Removed: have with hospitals, physicians or other potential purchasers of our products, as well as independent sales agents and distributors.
−Removed: Due to the breadth of these laws, the narrowness of statutory exceptions and regulatory safe harbors available, and the range of
−Removed: interpretations to which they are subject, it is possible that some of our current or future practices might be challenged under
−Removed: one or more of these laws.
−Removed: To enforce compliance with the healthcare
−Removed: regulatory laws, certain enforcement bodies have recently increased their scrutiny of interactions between healthcare companies
−Removed: and healthcare providers, which has led to a number of investigations, prosecutions, convictions and settlements in the healthcare
−Removed: Responding to investigations can be time-and resource-consuming and can divert management’s attention from the
−Removed: Additionally, as a result of these investigations, healthcare providers and entities may have to agree to additional
−Removed: compliance and reporting requirements as part of a consent decree or corporate integrity agreement.
−Removed: Any such investigation or settlement
−Removed: could increase our costs or otherwise have an adverse effect on our business.
−Removed: Even an unsuccessful challenge or investigation into
−Removed: our practices could cause adverse publicity, and be costly to respond to.
−Removed: If our operations are found to be in violation of any
−Removed: of the healthcare laws or regulations described above or any other healthcare regulations that apply to us, we may be subject to
−Removed: penalties, including administrative, civil and criminal penalties, damages, fines, exclusion from participation in government healthcare
−Removed: programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid, imprisonment, contractual damages, reputational harm, disgorgement and the curtailment
−Removed: or restructuring of our operations.
−Removed: In addition, members of our management
−Removed: and companies with which they are affiliated or have been affiliated with in the past, have been, and may in the future be, involved
−Removed: in investigations, prosecutions, convictions or settlements in the healthcare industry.
−Removed: For example, Kevin Rakin, the chairman
−Removed: of our board of directors, was named as a defendant in United States ex rel.
−Removed: Advanced BioHealing, Inc., or ABH, a
−Removed: whistleblower suit relating to sales methods employed by sales representatives of ABH, a biotechnology company for which Mr.
−Removed: served as its chief executive officer.
−Removed: All claims in the lawsuit were dismissed with prejudice pursuant to a settlement agreement,
−Removed: Rakin expressly denied that he engaged in any wrongful conduct, and Mr.
−Removed: Rakin agreed to pay to the United
−Removed: States $2.5 million.
−Removed: Any investigations, prosecutions, convictions or settlements involving members of our management and companies
−Removed: with which they are or have been affiliated may be detrimental to our reputation and could negatively affect our business, financial
−Removed: condition and results of operations.
−Removed: Healthcare policy changes, including
−Removed: recently enacted legislation reforming the U.S.
−Removed: healthcare system, could harm our cash flows, financial condition and results of
−Removed: In March 2010, the Affordable Care
−Removed: Act, or ACA, was enacted in the United States, which made a number of substantial changes in the way healthcare is financed by
−Removed: both governmental and private insurers.
−Removed: Among other ways in which it may impact our business, the ACA established a new Patient-Centered
−Removed: Outcomes Research Institute to oversee and identify priorities in comparative clinical effectiveness research in an effort to coordinate
−Removed: and develop such research, implemented payment system reforms, including a national pilot program on payment bundling to encourage
−Removed: hospitals, physicians and other providers to improve the coordination, quality and efficiency of certain healthcare services through
−Removed: bundled payment models, and expanded the eligibility criteria for Medicaid programs.
−Removed: Since its enactment, there have been judicial,
−Removed: Congressional and executive branch challenges to certain aspects of the ACA, and we expect there will be additional challenges
−Removed: and amendments to the ACA in the future.
−Removed: For example, the TCJA was enacted, which includes a provision repealing, effective January 1,
−Removed: 2019, the tax-based shared responsibility payment imposed by the ACA on certain individuals who fail to maintain qualifying health
−Removed: coverage for all or part of a year that is commonly referred to as the “individual mandate”.
−Removed: On December 14, 2018,
−Removed: District Court judge in the Northern District of Texas ruled that the individual mandate is a critical and inseverable feature
−Removed: of the ACA and, therefore, because it was repealed as part of the Tax Act, the remaining provisions of the ACA are invalid as well.
−Removed: On December 18, 2019, the U.S.
−Removed: Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit affirmed the District Court’s decision that the
−Removed: individual mandate was unconstitutional but remanded the case back to the District Court to determine whether the remaining provisions
−Removed: of the ACA are invalid as well.
−Removed: On March 2, 2020, the U.S.
−Removed: Supreme Court granted the petitions for writs of certiorari to
−Removed: review the case, although it is unclear when a decision will be made or how the Supreme Court will rule.
−Removed: In addition, there may
−Removed: be other efforts to challenge, repeal or replace the ACA.
−Removed: We are continuing to monitor any changes to the ACA that, in turn, may
−Removed: potentially impact our business in the future.
−Removed: In addition, other legislative changes
−Removed: have been proposed and adopted since the ACA was enacted.
−Removed: On August 2, 2011, the Budget Control Act of 2011 was signed into
−Removed: law, which, among other things, reduced Medicare payments to providers by 2% per fiscal year, effective on April 1, 2013 and,
−Removed: due to subsequent legislative amendments to the statute, was to remain in effect through 2029.
−Removed: The CARES Act, which was signed
−Removed: into law on March 27, 2020, temporarily suspended these reductions from May 1, 2020 through December 31, 2020, and
−Removed: extended the sequester by one additional year, through 2030.
−Removed: In addition, on January 2, 2013, the American Taxpayer Relief
−Removed: Act of 2012 was signed into law, which, among other things, reduced Medicare payments to several providers, including hospitals,
−Removed: and increased the statute of limitations period for the government to recover overpayments to providers from three to five years.
−Removed: We expect additional state and federal
−Removed: healthcare reform measures to be adopted in the future, any of which could limit reimbursement for healthcare products and services,
−Removed: which could result in reduced demand for our products or additional pricing pressure.
−Removed: Failure to comply with data protection
−Removed: laws and regulations could lead to government enforcement actions (which could include civil or criminal penalties), private litigation
−Removed: and/or adverse publicity and could negatively affect our operating results and business.
−Removed: We and our commercial partners, independent
−Removed: sales agents, suppliers and other business partners may be subject to federal, state and foreign data protection laws and regulations
−Removed: (i.e., laws and regulations that address data privacy and security).
−Removed: In the United States, numerous federal and state laws and
−Removed: regulations, including state data breach notification laws, state health information privacy laws, and federal and state consumer
−Removed: protection laws and regulations (e.g., Section 5 of the FTC Act), that govern the collection, use, disclosure and protection
−Removed: of health-related and other personal information could apply to our operations or the operations of our partners.
−Removed: We may also be
−Removed: subject to U.S.
−Removed: federal rules, regulations and guidance concerning data security for medical devices, including guidance from the
−Removed: In addition, we may obtain health information from third parties (including research institutions from which we obtain clinical
−Removed: trial data) that are subject to privacy and security requirements under HIPAA.
−Removed: Depending on the facts and circumstances, we could
−Removed: be subject to criminal penalties if we knowingly obtain, use, or disclose individually identifiable health information maintained
−Removed: by a HIPAA-covered entity in a manner that is not authorized or permitted by HIPAA.
−Removed: In addition, the California Consumer Privacy
−Removed: Act, or CCPA, became effective on January 1, 2020.
−Removed: The CCPA gives California residents expanded rights to access and delete
−Removed: their personal information, opt out of certain personal information sharing and receive detailed information about how their personal
−Removed: information is used by requiring covered companies to provide new disclosures to California consumers (as that term is broadly
−Removed: defined) and provide such consumers new ways to opt out of certain sales of personal information.
−Removed: The CCPA provides for civil penalties
−Removed: for violations, as well as a private right of action for data breaches that is expected to increase data breach litigation.
−Removed: there are limited exemptions for certain health-related information, including certain clinical trial data, the CCPA may increase
−Removed: our compliance costs and potential liability.
−Removed: Additionally, a new California ballot initiative, the California Privacy Rights Act,
−Removed: appears to have garnered enough signatures to be included on the November 2020 ballot, and if voted into law by California
−Removed: residents, would impose additional data protection obligations on companies doing business in California, including additional
−Removed: consumer rights processes and opt outs for certain uses of sensitive data.
−Removed: It would also create a new California data protection
−Removed: agency specifically tasked to enforce the law, which would likely result in increased regulatory scrutiny of California businesses
−Removed: in the areas of data protection and security.
−Removed: Similar laws have been proposed in other states and at the federal level, and if
−Removed: passed, such laws may have potentially conflicting requirements that would make compliance challenging.
−Removed: Foreign data protection laws, including
−Removed: General Data Protection Regulation, or the GDPR, which became effective in May 2018, may also apply to health-related
−Removed: and other personal information obtained outside of the United States.
−Removed: The GDPR imposes stringent data protection requirements for
−Removed: the processing of personal data in the European Economic Area, or EEA.
−Removed: The GDPR imposes several stringent requirements for controllers
−Removed: and processors of personal data, including, for example, higher standards for obtaining consent from individuals to process their
−Removed: personal data, more robust disclosures to individuals and a strengthened individual data rights regime, shortened timelines for
−Removed: data breach notifications, limitations on retention and secondary use of information (including for research purposes), increased
−Removed: requirements pertaining to health data and pseudonymised (i.e., key-coded) data and additional obligations when we contract third
−Removed: party processors in connection with the processing of the personal data.
−Removed: The GDPR also imposes strict rules on the transfer
−Removed: of personal data out of the EEA, to the United States and other third countries.
−Removed: Recent legal developments in Europe have created
−Removed: complexity and uncertainty regarding transfers of personal data from the EEA to the United States, e.g.
−Removed: on July 16, 2020,
−Removed: the Court of Justice of the European Union, or the CJEU, invalidated the E.U.-U.S.
−Removed: Privacy Shield Framework, or the Privacy Shield,
−Removed: under which personal data could be transferred from the EEA to U.S.
−Removed: entities who had self-certified under the Privacy Shield scheme.
−Removed: While the CJEU upheld the adequacy of the standard contractual clauses (a standard form of contract approved by the European Commission
−Removed: as an adequate personal data transfer mechanism, and potential alternative to the Privacy Shield), it made clear that reliance
−Removed: on them alone may not necessarily be sufficient in all circumstances.
−Removed: European data protection law provides that E.U.
−Removed: and EEA member
−Removed: states may make their own further laws and regulations limiting the processing of health-related data, which could limit our ability
−Removed: to use and share personal data or could cause our costs to increase, and harm our business and financial condition.
−Removed: comply with the requirements of GDPR and the applicable national data protection and marketing laws may result in fines of up to
−Removed: €20,000,000 or up to 4% of the total worldwide annual turnover of the preceding financial year, whichever is higher, and other
−Removed: administrative penalties as well as individual claims for compensation.
−Removed: In addition, the United Kingdom leaving
−Removed: the European Union could also lead to further legislative and regulatory changes.
−Removed: It remains unclear how the United Kingdom data
−Removed: protection laws or regulations will develop in the medium to longer term and how data transfer to the United Kingdom from the European
−Removed: Union and the EEA will be regulated, especially following the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union on January 31,
−Removed: However, the United Kingdom has transposed the GDPR into domestic law with the Data Protection Act 2018, which remains in
−Removed: force following the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union.
−Removed: Compliance with these and any other applicable privacy
−Removed: and data security laws and regulations is a rigorous and time-intensive process, and we may be required to put in place additional
−Removed: mechanisms ensuring compliance with the new data protection rules.
−Removed: If we fail to comply with any such laws or regulations, we may
−Removed: face significant fines and penalties that could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: Compliance with U.S.
−Removed: and foreign privacy
−Removed: and security laws, rules and regulations could require us to take on more onerous obligations in our contracts, require us
−Removed: to engage in costly compliance exercises, restrict our ability to collect, use and disclose data, or in some cases, impact our
−Removed: ability, or the ability of our commercial partners, independent sales agents, suppliers or other business partners, to operate
−Removed: in certain jurisdictions.
−Removed: Each of these constantly evolving laws can be subject to varying interpretations.
−Removed: Failure to comply with
−Removed: and foreign data protection laws and regulations could result in government investigations and enforcement actions (which
−Removed: could include civil or criminal penalties), fines, private litigation and/or adverse publicity and could negatively affect our
−Removed: operating results and business.
−Removed: Moreover, patients about whom we or our partners obtain information, as well as the providers who
−Removed: share this information, may contractually limit our ability to use and disclose the information.
−Removed: Claims that we have violated individuals’
−Removed: privacy rights, failed to comply with data protection laws, or breached our contractual obligations, even if we are not found liable,
−Removed: could be expensive and time-consuming to defend and could result in adverse publicity that could have a material and adverse effect
−Removed: on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: Risks Related to Intellectual Property
−Removed: If we are unable to obtain, maintain
−Removed: and adequately protect our intellectual property rights, our competitive position could be harmed or we could be required to incur
−Removed: significant expenses to enforce or defend our rights.
−Removed: Our commercial success will depend in part
−Removed: on our success in obtaining and maintaining issued patents, trademarks and other intellectual property rights in the United States
−Removed: and elsewhere and protecting our proprietary technology.
−Removed: If we do not adequately protect our intellectual property and proprietary
−Removed: technology, competitors may be able to use our technologies or the goodwill we have acquired in the marketplace and erode or negate
−Removed: any competitive advantage we may have, which could harm our business and ability to achieve profitability.
−Removed: Some of our intellectual property rights
−Removed: depend on licensing agreements with third parties, and our patent coverage includes protection provided by licensed patents.
−Removed: in the future we no longer have rights to one or more of these licensed patents, our patent coverage may be compromised, which
−Removed: in turn could adversely affect our ability to protect our products and defend against competitors.
−Removed: We have sought to protect our proprietary
−Removed: position by filing patent applications in the United States and abroad related to our products that we view as important to our
−Removed: This process is expensive and time-consuming, and we may not be able to file and prosecute all necessary or desirable
−Removed: patent applications at a reasonable cost or in a timely manner.
−Removed: In addition, we cannot provide any assurances that any of our patents
−Removed: have, or that any of our pending patent applications that mature into issued patents will include, claims with a scope sufficient
−Removed: to protect our existing products, any enhancements we may develop to our existing products or any new products we may develop or
−Removed: acquire and introduce in the future.
−Removed: We, or our licensors, may fail to identify patentable aspects of inventions made in the course
−Removed: of development and commercialization activities before it is too late to obtain patent protection on them.
−Removed: Therefore, we may miss
−Removed: potential opportunities to strengthen our patent position.
−Removed: Other parties may have developed technologies that may be related or
−Removed: competitive to our system, may have filed or may file patent applications and may have received or may receive patents that overlap
−Removed: or conflict with our patent applications, either by claiming the same methods or devices or by claiming subject matter that could
−Removed: dominate our patent position.
−Removed: The patent positions of regenerative medicine
−Removed: companies, including our patent position, may involve complex legal, scientific and factual questions, and, therefore, the scope,
−Removed: validity, ownership and enforceability of any patent claims that we may obtain cannot be predicted with certainty.
−Removed: issued, may be challenged, deemed unenforceable, narrowed, invalidated or circumvented.
−Removed: Proceedings challenging our patents could
−Removed: result in either loss of the patent or denial of the patent application or loss or reduction in the scope of one or more of the
−Removed: claims of the patent or patent application.
−Removed: In addition, such proceedings may be costly.
−Removed: Thus, any patents that we currently own
−Removed: or may own may not provide any protection against competitors.
−Removed: Furthermore, an adverse decision in an interference proceeding can
−Removed: result in a third party receiving the patent right sought by us, which in turn could affect our ability to commercialize our products.
−Removed: In recent years, patent rights have been the subject of significant litigation.
−Removed: Changes in either the patent laws or interpretation
−Removed: of the patent laws in the United States and other countries may diminish the value of our owned or licensed patents or narrow the
−Removed: scope of our patent protection.
−Removed: Though an issued patent is presumed valid
−Removed: and enforceable, its issuance is not conclusive as to its inventorship, scope, validity or enforceability, and it may not provide
−Removed: us with adequate proprietary protection or competitive advantages against competitors with similar products.
−Removed: Competitors could
−Removed: attempt to replicate some or all of the competitive advantages we derive from our development efforts, willfully infringe, misappropriate
−Removed: or otherwise violate our intellectual property rights, design around our patents or develop and obtain patent protection for more
−Removed: effective technologies, designs or methods.
−Removed: CanGaroo and SimpliDerm are the only current
−Removed: products covered by issued patents.
−Removed: We rely on unpatented trade secrets and know-how for several of our current products to develop
−Removed: and maintain our competitive position.
−Removed: However, trade secrets and know-how can be difficult to protect and enforce against third
−Removed: Accordingly, we cannot be certain that these intellectual property rights will provide us with adequate protection or
−Removed: enable us to prevent third parties from developing or commercializing competitive products.
−Removed: We may be unable to prevent the unauthorized
−Removed: disclosure or use of our technical knowledge or trade secrets by consultants, suppliers, vendors, current and former employees,
−Removed: distributors, commercial partners or independent sales agents.
−Removed: The laws of some foreign countries do not protect our proprietary
−Removed: rights to the same extent as the laws of the United States, and we may encounter significant problems in protecting our proprietary
−Removed: rights in these countries.
−Removed: Our ability to enforce our patent rights
−Removed: depends on our ability to detect infringement.
−Removed: It may be difficult to detect infringers who do not advertise the components that
−Removed: are used in their products.
−Removed: Moreover, it may be difficult or impossible to obtain evidence of infringement in a competitor’s
−Removed: or potential competitor’s product.
−Removed: We may not prevail in any lawsuits that we initiate and the damages or other remedies
−Removed: awarded, if we were to prevail, may not be commercially meaningful.
−Removed: In addition, proceedings to enforce or
−Removed: defend our patents could put our patents at risk of being invalidated, held unenforceable or interpreted narrowly, which could
−Removed: limit our ability to stop or prevent us from stopping others from using or commercializing similar or identical technology and
−Removed: products, or limit the duration of the patent protection of our technology and products.
−Removed: Such proceedings could provoke third parties
−Removed: to assert claims against us, including that some or all of the claims in one or more of our patents are invalid or otherwise unenforceable.
−Removed: If any of the patents covering our products are narrowed, invalidated or found unenforceable, or if a court found that valid, enforceable
−Removed: patents held by third parties covered one or more of our products, our competitive position could be harmed or we could be required
−Removed: to incur significant expenses to enforce or defend our rights.
−Removed: The degree of future protection for our
−Removed: proprietary rights is uncertain, and we cannot ensure that:
−Removed: any of our patents, or any of our pending patent applications, if issued, will include claims having
−Removed: a scope sufficient to protect our products;
−Removed: any of our pending patent applications will issue as patents;
−Removed: we will be able to successfully commercialize our products on a substantial scale, if approved,
−Removed: before the relevant patents we currently have, or may have, expire;
−Removed: we were the first to conceive and reduce to practice the inventions covered by each of our patents
−Removed: and pending patent applications;
−Removed: we were the first to file patent applications for these inventions;
−Removed: others will not develop similar or alternative technologies that do not infringe, misappropriate
−Removed: or otherwise violate our owned or licensed patents and other intellectual property rights;
−Removed: any of our patents will ultimately be found to be valid and enforceable;
−Removed: ownership of our patents or patent applications will not be challenged by third parties;
−Removed: any patents issued to us will provide a basis for an exclusive market for our commercially viable
−Removed: products, will provide us with any competitive advantages or will not be challenged by third parties;
−Removed: our competitors will not conduct research and development activities in countries where we do not
−Removed: have patent rights, or in countries where research and development safe harbor laws exist, and then use the information learned
−Removed: from such activities to develop competitive products for sale in our major commercial markets;
−Removed: we will develop additional proprietary technologies or products that are separately patentable;
−Removed: our commercial activities or products will not infringe, misappropriate or otherwise violate the
−Removed: patents and other intellectual property rights of others.
−Removed: Should any of these events occur, they could have a material and adverse effect on our business,
−Removed: financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: We may not enter into invention assignment
−Removed: and confidentiality agreements with all of our employees and contractors and such agreements could be ineffective or breached.
−Removed: We rely, in part, upon unpatented trade
−Removed: secrets, unpatented know-how and continuing technological innovation to develop and maintain our competitive position, which we
−Removed: seek to protect, in part, by confidentiality agreements with our employees, consultants, independent sales agents, collaborators
−Removed: and third-party vendors.
−Removed: We also seek to enter agreements with our employees and consultants that obligate them to assign any inventions
−Removed: created during their work for us to us and have non-compete agreements with some, but not all, of our consultants.
−Removed: may not obtain these agreements in all circumstances and the assignment of intellectual property under such agreements may not
−Removed: be self-executing.
−Removed: If the employees, consultants or collaborators that are parties to these agreements breach or violate their
−Removed: respective terms, we may not have adequate remedies for any such breach or violation.
−Removed: It is possible that technology relevant to
−Removed: our business will be independently developed by a person that is not a party to such an agreement.
−Removed: Furthermore, if the employees
−Removed: and consultants who are parties to these agreements breach or violate the terms of these agreements, we may not have adequate remedies
−Removed: for any such breach or violation, and we could lose our trade secrets through such breaches or violations.
−Removed: Further, our trade secrets
−Removed: could otherwise become known or be independently discovered by our competitors.
−Removed: Any of the foregoing could have a material and
−Removed: adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: The patent protection we obtain for
−Removed: our products may not be sufficient enough to provide us with any competitive advantage or our patents may be challenged.
−Removed: Our owned and licensed patents and pending
−Removed: patent applications, if issued, may not provide us with any meaningful protection or prevent competitors from designing around
−Removed: our patent claims to circumvent our patents by developing similar or alternative technologies or products in a non-infringing manner.
−Removed: For example, a third party may develop a competitive product that provides benefits similar to one or more of our products but
−Removed: falls outside the scope of our patent protection or license rights.
−Removed: If the patent protection provided by the patents and patent
−Removed: applications we hold or pursue with respect to our products is not sufficiently broad to impede such competition, our ability to
−Removed: successfully commercialize our products could be negatively affected, which would harm our business.
−Removed: It is possible that defects of form in
−Removed: the preparation or filing of our patents or patent applications may exist, or may arise in the future, for example with respect
−Removed: to proper priority claims, inventorship, claim scope, or requests for patent term adjustments.
−Removed: If we or our collaborators or licensors,
−Removed: fail to establish, maintain or protect such patents and other intellectual property rights, such rights may be reduced or eliminated.
−Removed: If our collaborators or licensors are not fully cooperative or disagree with us as to the prosecution, maintenance or enforcement
−Removed: of any patent rights, such patent rights could be compromised.
−Removed: If there are material defects in the form, preparation, prosecution
−Removed: or enforcement of our patents or patent applications, such patents may be invalid and/or unenforceable, and such applications may
−Removed: never result in valid and enforceable patents.
−Removed: Any of these outcomes could impair our ability to prevent competition from third
−Removed: parties, which may have an adverse impact on our business.
−Removed: Pending patent applications cannot be enforced
−Removed: against third parties practicing the technology claimed in such applications unless and until a patent issues from such applications.
−Removed: Assuming the other requirements for patentability are met, currently, the first to file a patent application is generally entitled
−Removed: to the patent.
−Removed: However, prior to March 16, 2013, in the United States, the first to invent was entitled to the patent.
−Removed: of discoveries in the scientific literature often lag behind the actual discoveries, and patent applications in the United States
−Removed: and other jurisdictions are not published until 18 months after filing, or in some cases not at all.
−Removed: Therefore, we cannot be certain
−Removed: that we were the first to make the inventions claimed in our patents or pending patent applications, or that we were the first
−Removed: to file for patent protection of such inventions.
−Removed: Similarly, we cannot be certain that parties from whom we do or may license or
−Removed: purchase patent rights were the first to make relevant claimed inventions, or were the first to file for patent protection for
−Removed: If third parties have filed prior patent applications on inventions claimed in our patents or applications that were filed
−Removed: on or before March 15, 2013, an interference proceeding in the United States can be initiated by such third parties to determine
−Removed: who was the first to invent any of the subject matter covered by the patent claims of our applications.
−Removed: If third parties have filed
−Removed: such prior applications after March 15, 2013, a derivation proceeding in the United States can be initiated by such third
−Removed: parties to determine whether our invention was derived from theirs.
−Removed: Moreover, because the issuance of a patent
−Removed: is not conclusive as to its inventorship, scope, validity or enforceability, our owned and licensed patents or pending patent applications
−Removed: may be challenged in the courts or patent offices in the United States and abroad.
−Removed: There is no assurance that all of the potentially
−Removed: relevant prior art relating to our patents and patent applications has been found.
−Removed: If such prior art exists, it may be used to
−Removed: invalidate a patent, or may prevent a patent from issuing from a pending patent application.
−Removed: For example, such patent filings may
−Removed: be subject to a third-party submission of prior art to the U.S.
−Removed: Patent and Trademark Office, or USPTO, or to other patent offices
−Removed: around the world.
−Removed: Alternately or additionally, we may become involved in post-grant review procedures, oppositions, derivation
−Removed: proceedings, ex parte reexaminations, inter partes review, supplemental examinations or interference proceedings or challenges
−Removed: in district court, in the United States or in various foreign patent offices, including both national and regional, challenging
−Removed: patents or patent applications in which we have rights, including patents on which we rely to protect our business.
−Removed: if we seek to enforce our patents against third parties, third parties may initiate such challenges in response.
−Removed: An adverse determination
−Removed: in any such challenges may result in loss of the patent or in patent or patent application claims being narrowed, invalidated or
−Removed: held unenforceable, in whole or in part, or in denial of the patent application or loss or reduction in the scope of one or more
−Removed: claims of the patent or patent application, any of which could limit our ability to stop others from using or commercializing similar
−Removed: or identical technology and products, or limit the duration of the patent protection of our technology and products.
−Removed: given the amount of time required for the development, testing and regulatory review of new product candidates, patents protecting
−Removed: such candidates might expire before or shortly after such candidates are commercialized.
−Removed: Any of the foregoing could have a material
−Removed: and adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: Litigation or other proceedings or
−Removed: third-party claims of intellectual property infringement, misappropriation or other violations could require us to spend significant
−Removed: time and money, prevent us from selling our products and adversely affect our stock price.
−Removed: Our commercial success will depend in part
−Removed: on not infringing, misappropriating or otherwise violating the patents or other proprietary rights of third parties.
−Removed: litigation regarding patent rights occurs in our industry.
−Removed: Our competitors in both the United States and abroad, many of which
−Removed: have substantially greater resources and have made substantial investments in patent portfolios and competing technologies, may
−Removed: have applied for or obtained or may in the future apply for and obtain, patents that will prevent, limit or otherwise interfere
−Removed: with our ability to make, use and sell our products.
−Removed: We do not always conduct independent reviews of patents issued to third parties.
−Removed: In addition, patent applications in the United States and elsewhere can be pending for many years before issuance, or unintentionally
−Removed: abandoned patents or applications can be revived, so there may be applications of others now pending or recently revived patents
−Removed: of which we are unaware.
−Removed: These applications may later result in issued patents, or the revival of previously abandoned patents,
−Removed: that will prevent, limit or otherwise interfere with our ability to make, use or sell our products.
−Removed: Third parties may, in the future,
−Removed: assert claims that we are employing their proprietary technology without authorization, including claims from competitors or from
−Removed: non-practicing entities that have no relevant product sales and against whom our own patent portfolio may have no deterrent effect.
−Removed: As we continue to commercialize our products in their current or updated forms, launch new products and enter new markets, we expect
−Removed: competitors may claim that one or more of our products infringe, misappropriate or otherwise violate their intellectual property
−Removed: rights as part of business strategies designed to impede our successful commercialization and entry into new markets.
−Removed: number of patents, the rapid rate of new patent applications and issuances, the complexities of the technology involved and the
−Removed: uncertainty of litigation may increase the risk of business resources and management’s attention being diverted to patent
−Removed: We may in the future receive letters or other threats or claims from third parties inviting us to take licenses under,
−Removed: or alleging that we infringe, their patents.
−Removed: Moreover, we may become party to future
−Removed: adversarial proceedings regarding our patent portfolio or the patents of third parties.
−Removed: Such proceedings could include supplemental
−Removed: examination or contested post-grant proceedings, such as review, reexamination, inter parties review, interference or derivation
−Removed: proceedings before the USPTO and challenges in U.S.
−Removed: District Court.
−Removed: Patents may be subjected to opposition, post-grant review or
−Removed: comparable proceedings lodged in various foreign, both national and regional, patent offices.
−Removed: The legal threshold for initiating
−Removed: litigation or contested proceedings may be low, so that even lawsuits or proceedings with a low probability of success might be
−Removed: Litigation and contested proceedings can also be expensive and time-consuming, and our adversaries in these proceedings
−Removed: may have the ability to dedicate substantially greater resources to prosecuting these legal actions than we can.
−Removed: We may also occasionally
−Removed: use these proceedings to challenge the patent rights of others.
−Removed: We cannot be certain that any particular challenge will be successful
−Removed: in limiting or eliminating the challenged patent rights of the third party.
−Removed: Any lawsuits resulting from such allegations
−Removed: could subject us to significant liability for damages and/or invalidate our proprietary rights.
−Removed: Any potential intellectual property
−Removed: litigation also could force us to do one or more of the following:
−Removed: stop making, selling or using products or technologies that allegedly infringe, misappropriate
−Removed: or otherwise violate the asserted intellectual property;
−Removed: lose the opportunity to license our technology to others or to collect royalty payments based upon
−Removed: successful protection and assertion of our intellectual property rights against others;
−Removed: incur significant legal expenses;
−Removed: pay substantial damages or royalties to the party whose intellectual property rights we may be
−Removed: found to be infringing, misappropriating or otherwise violating;
−Removed: pay the attorney’s fees and costs of litigation to the party whose intellectual property
−Removed: rights we may be found to be infringing, misappropriating or otherwise violating;
−Removed: redesign those products that contain the allegedly infringing intellectual property, which could
−Removed: be costly, disruptive and infeasible;
−Removed: attempt to obtain a license to the relevant intellectual property from third parties, which may
−Removed: not be available on reasonable terms or at all, or from third parties who may attempt to license rights that they do not have.
−Removed: Any litigation or claim against us, even
−Removed: those without merit, may cause us to incur substantial costs, and could place a significant strain on our financial resources,
−Removed: divert the attention of management from our core business and harm our reputation.
−Removed: If we are found to infringe, misappropriate
−Removed: or otherwise violate the intellectual property rights of third parties, we could be required to pay substantial damages (possibly
−Removed: treble damages) and/or substantial royalties and could be prevented from selling our products unless we obtain a license or are
−Removed: able to redesign our products to avoid infringement, misappropriation or violation.
−Removed: Any such license may not be available on reasonable
−Removed: terms, if at all, and there can be no assurance that we would be able to redesign our products in a way that would not infringe,
−Removed: misappropriate or otherwise violate the intellectual property rights of others.
−Removed: We could encounter delays in product introductions
−Removed: while we attempt to develop alternative methods or products.
−Removed: If we fail to obtain any required licenses or make any necessary changes
−Removed: to our products or technologies, we may have to withdraw existing products from the market or may be unable to commercialize one
−Removed: or more of our products.
−Removed: In addition, we generally indemnify our
−Removed: customers with respect to infringement by our products of the proprietary rights of third parties.
−Removed: Third parties may assert infringement
−Removed: claims against our customers.
−Removed: These claims may require us to initiate or defend protracted and costly litigation on behalf of our
−Removed: customers, regardless of the merits of these claims.
−Removed: If any of these claims succeed or settle, we may be forced to pay damages
−Removed: or settlement payments on behalf of our customers or may be required to obtain licenses for the products they use.
−Removed: obtain all necessary licenses on commercially reasonable terms, our customers may be forced to stop using our products.
−Removed: We may not have sufficient resources to
−Removed: bring these actions to a successful conclusion.
−Removed: There could also be public announcements of the results of hearings, motions or
−Removed: other interim proceedings or developments.
−Removed: If securities analysts or investors perceive these results to be negative, it could
−Removed: have a material adverse effect on the market price of shares of our Class A common stock.
−Removed: Any of the foregoing could have
−Removed: a material and adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: If we are unable to protect the confidentiality
−Removed: of our trade secrets, our business and competitive position could be harmed.
−Removed: In addition to patent protection, we also
−Removed: rely upon copyright and trade secret protection, as well as non-disclosure agreements and invention assignment agreements with
−Removed: our employees, consultants, independent sales agents and other third parties, to protect our confidential and proprietary information.
−Removed: In addition to contractual measures, we try to protect the confidential nature of our proprietary information using commonly accepted
−Removed: physical and technological security measures.
−Removed: Such measures may not, for example, in the case of misappropriation of a trade secret
−Removed: by an employee or third party with authorized access, provide adequate protection for our proprietary information.
−Removed: measures may not prevent an employee or consultant from misappropriating our trade secrets and providing them to a competitor,
−Removed: and recourse we take against such misconduct may not provide an adequate remedy to protect our interests fully.
−Removed: Unauthorized parties
−Removed: may also attempt to copy or reverse engineer certain aspects of our products that we consider proprietary.
−Removed: Enforcing a claim that
−Removed: a party illegally disclosed or misappropriated a trade secret can be difficult, expensive and time-consuming, and the outcome is
−Removed: unpredictable.
−Removed: Even though we use commonly accepted security measures, trade secret violations are often a matter of state law,
−Removed: and the criteria for protection of trade secrets can vary among different jurisdictions.
−Removed: In addition, trade secrets may be independently
−Removed: developed by others in a manner that could prevent legal recourse by us.
−Removed: If any of our confidential or proprietary information,
−Removed: such as our trade secrets, were to be disclosed or misappropriated, or if any such information was independently developed by a
−Removed: competitor, it could have a material and adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: We may be unable to enforce our intellectual
−Removed: property rights throughout the world.
−Removed: Obtaining, maintaining and enforcing intellectual
−Removed: property rights is expensive and it is cost prohibitive to do so throughout the world.
−Removed: Accordingly, we may determine not to obtain,
−Removed: maintain or enforce intellectual property rights in certain jurisdictions.
−Removed: In addition, the laws of some foreign countries do not
−Removed: protect intellectual property rights to the same extent as the laws of the United States.
−Removed: Many companies have encountered significant
−Removed: problems in protecting and defending intellectual property rights in certain foreign jurisdictions.
−Removed: This could make it difficult
−Removed: for us to stop infringement of our foreign patents, if obtained, or the misappropriation or other violation of our other intellectual
−Removed: property rights.
−Removed: For example, some foreign countries have compulsory licensing laws under which a patent owner must grant licenses
−Removed: to third parties.
−Removed: In addition, some countries limit the enforceability of patents against third parties, including government agencies
−Removed: or government contractors.
−Removed: In these countries, patents may provide limited or no benefit.
−Removed: Patent protection must ultimately be
−Removed: sought on a country-by-country basis, which is an expensive and time-consuming process with uncertain outcomes.
−Removed: Accordingly, we
−Removed: may choose not to seek patent protection in certain countries, and we will not have the benefit of patent protection in such countries.
−Removed: Proceedings to enforce our patent rights
−Removed: in foreign jurisdictions could result in substantial costs and divert our efforts and attention from other aspects of our business.
−Removed: Accordingly, our efforts to protect our intellectual property rights in such countries may be inadequate.
−Removed: In addition, changes
−Removed: in the law and legal decisions by courts in the United States and foreign countries may affect our ability to obtain adequate protection
−Removed: for our technology and the enforcement of our intellectual property.
−Removed: Any of the foregoing could have a material and adverse effect
−Removed: on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: Third parties may assert ownership
−Removed: or commercial rights to inventions we develop.
−Removed: Third parties may in the future make claims
−Removed: challenging the inventorship or ownership of our intellectual property.
−Removed: We have written agreements with collaborators that provide
−Removed: for the ownership of intellectual property arising from our collaborations.
−Removed: In addition, we may face claims by third parties that
−Removed: our agreements with employees, contractors or consultants obligating them to assign intellectual property to us are ineffective
−Removed: or in conflict with prior or competing contractual obligations of assignment, which could result in ownership disputes regarding
−Removed: intellectual property we have developed or will develop and interfere with our ability to capture the commercial value of such
−Removed: intellectual property.
−Removed: Litigation may be necessary to resolve an ownership dispute, and if we are not successful, we may be precluded
−Removed: from using certain intellectual property or may lose our exclusive rights in such intellectual property.
−Removed: Either outcome could harm
−Removed: our business and competitive position.
−Removed: Any of the foregoing could have a material and adverse effect on our business, financial
−Removed: condition and results of operations.
−Removed: Third parties may assert that our
−Removed: employees or consultants have wrongfully used or disclosed confidential information or misappropriated trade secrets.
−Removed: We employ individuals who previously worked
−Removed: with other companies, including our competitors or potential competitors.
−Removed: Although we try to ensure that our employees and consultants
−Removed: do not use the proprietary information or know-how of others in their work for us, we may be subject to claims that we or our employees,
−Removed: consultants or independent contractors have inadvertently or otherwise used or disclosed intellectual property or personal data,
−Removed: including trade secrets or other proprietary information, of a former employer or other third party.
−Removed: Litigation may be necessary
−Removed: to defend against these claims.
−Removed: If we fail in defending any such claims or settling those claims, in addition to paying monetary
−Removed: damages or a settlement payment, we may lose valuable intellectual property rights or personnel.
−Removed: Even if we are successful in defending
−Removed: against such claims, litigation could result in substantial costs and be a distraction to management and other employees.
−Removed: the foregoing could have a material and adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: Recent changes in U.S.
−Removed: may limit our ability to obtain, defend and/or enforce our patents.
−Removed: Recent patent reform legislation could
−Removed: increase the uncertainties and costs surrounding the prosecution of our patent applications and the enforcement or defense of our
−Removed: issued patents.
−Removed: The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, or the Leahy-Smith Act, includes a number of significant changes to U.S.
−Removed: These include provisions that affect the way patent applications are prosecuted and also affect patent litigation.
−Removed: recently developed new regulations and procedures to govern administration of the Leahy-Smith Act, and many of the substantive
−Removed: changes to patent law associated with the Leahy-Smith Act, and in particular, the first to file provisions, which became effective
−Removed: on March 16, 2013, could affect us.
−Removed: The first to file provisions limit the rights of an inventor to patent an invention if
−Removed: the inventor was not the first to file an application for patenting that invention, even if such invention was the first invention.
−Removed: Accordingly, it is not clear what, if any, impact the Leahy-Smith Act will have on the operation of our business.
−Removed: This will require
−Removed: us to be cognizant going forward of the timing from invention to filing of a patent application and be diligent in filing patent
−Removed: applications, but circumstances could prevent us from promptly filing patent applications on our inventions.
−Removed: In addition, the Leahy-Smith Act and its
−Removed: implementation could increase the uncertainties and costs surrounding the enforcement and defense of our issued patents.
−Removed: the Leahy-Smith Act provides that an administrative tribunal known as the Patent Trial and Appeals Board, or PTAB, provides a venue
−Removed: for challenging the validity of patents at a cost that is much lower than district court litigation and on timelines that are much
−Removed: This applies to all of our U.S.
−Removed: patents, even those issued before March 16, 2013.
−Removed: Furthermore, because of a lower
−Removed: evidentiary standard in USPTO proceedings compared to the evidentiary standard in U.S.
−Removed: federal courts necessary to invalidate a
−Removed: patent claim, a third party could potentially provide evidence in a USPTO proceeding sufficient for the USPTO to hold a claim invalid
−Removed: even though the same evidence would be insufficient to invalidate the claim if first presented in a district court action.
−Removed: it is not clear what, if any, long-term impact the PTAB proceedings will have on the operation of our business, patent challenge
−Removed: proceedings before the PTAB since its inception in 2013 have resulted in the invalidation of many U.S.
−Removed: patent claims.
−Removed: The availability
−Removed: of the PTAB as a lower-cost, faster and potentially more potent tribunal for challenging patents could increase the likelihood
−Removed: that our own patents will be challenged, thereby increasing the uncertainties and costs of maintaining and enforcing them.
−Removed: failure by us to adequately address the uncertainties and costs surrounding recent patent legislation could have a material and
−Removed: adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: Obtaining and maintaining our patent
−Removed: protection depends on compliance with various procedural, document submission, fee payment and other requirements imposed by governmental
−Removed: patent agencies, and our patent protection could be reduced or eliminated for non-compliance with these requirements.
−Removed: Periodic maintenance and annuity fees on
−Removed: any issued patent are due to be paid to the USPTO and European and other patent agencies over the lifetime of a patent.
−Removed: the USPTO and European and other patent agencies require compliance with a number of procedural, documentary, fee payment and other
−Removed: similar provisions during the patent application process.
−Removed: While an inadvertent failure to make payment of such fees or to comply
−Removed: with such provisions can in many cases be cured by payment of a late fee or by other means in accordance with the applicable rules,
−Removed: there are situations in which such noncompliance will result in the abandonment or lapse of the patent or patent application, and
−Removed: the partial or complete loss of patent rights in the relevant jurisdiction.
−Removed: Non-compliance events that could result in abandonment
−Removed: or lapse of a patent or patent application include failure to respond to official actions within prescribed time limits, non-payment
−Removed: of fees and failure to properly legalize and submit formal documents within prescribed time limits.
−Removed: If we or our licensors fail
−Removed: to maintain the patents and patent applications covering our product candidates or if we or our licensors otherwise allow our patents
−Removed: or patent applications to be abandoned or lapse, our competitors might be able to enter the market, which would hurt our competitive
−Removed: position, could impair our ability to successfully commercialize our product candidates in any indication for which they are approved,
−Removed: and could have a material and adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: In addition, any of the intellectual property
−Removed: rights that we own or license that are developed through the use of U.S.
−Removed: government funding will be subject to additional federal
−Removed: Pursuant to the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980, or Bayh-Dole Act, the government will receive a license under inventions developed
−Removed: under a government-funded program and may require us to manufacture products embodying such inventions in the United States.
−Removed: certain circumstances, the government may also claim ownership in such inventions or compel us to license them to third parties.
−Removed: Any failure by us to comply with federal regulations regarding intellectual property rights that were developed through the use
−Removed: government funding could have a material and adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: If we do not obtain patent term extension
−Removed: in the United States under the Hatch-Waxman Amendments and in foreign countries under similar legislation, thereby potentially
−Removed: extending the term of marketing exclusivity for our product candidates, our business may be materially harmed.
−Removed: Patents have a limited lifespan.
−Removed: United States, if all maintenance fees are timely paid, the natural expiration of a patent is generally 20 years from its earliest
−Removed: non-provisional filing date.
−Removed: Various extensions may be available, but the life of a patent, and the protection it affords,
−Removed: Even if patents covering our product candidates are obtained, once the patent life has expired for a product, we may
−Removed: be open to competition from competitive products.
−Removed: Given the amount of time required for the development, testing and regulatory
−Removed: review of new product candidates, patents protecting such candidates might expire before or shortly after such candidates are commercialized.
−Removed: As a result, our owned and licensed patent portfolio may not provide us with sufficient rights to exclude others from commercializing
−Removed: products similar or identical to ours.
−Removed: In the United States, a patent that covers
−Removed: an FDA-approved drug, biologic or medical device may be eligible for a term extension designed to restore the period of the patent
−Removed: term that is lost during the premarket regulatory review process conducted by the FDA.
−Removed: Depending upon the timing, duration and
−Removed: conditions of FDA marketing approval of our product candidates, we may be able to extend the term of a patent covering each product
−Removed: candidate under the Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act of 1984, referred to as the Hatch-Waxman Amendments
−Removed: and similar legislation in the European Union.
−Removed: The Hatch-Waxman Amendments permit a patent term extension of up to five years for
−Removed: a patent covering an approved product as compensation for effective patent term lost during product development and the FDA regulatory
−Removed: review process.
−Removed: However, we may not receive an extension if we fail to apply within applicable deadlines, fail to apply prior to
−Removed: expiration of relevant patents or otherwise fail to satisfy applicable requirements.
−Removed: Moreover, the length of the extension could
−Removed: be less than we request.
−Removed: A patent term extension cannot extend the remaining term of a patent beyond a total of 14 years from the
−Removed: date of product approval, and only claims covering such approved product, a method for using it or a method for manufacturing it
−Removed: may be extended.
−Removed: In the European Union, our product candidates may be eligible for term extensions based on similar legislation.
−Removed: If we are unable to obtain patent term extension or the term of any such extension is less than we request, the period during which
−Removed: we can enforce our patent rights for that product will be shortened and our competitors may obtain approval to market competing
−Removed: products sooner.
−Removed: As a result, our revenue from applicable products could be reduced, possibly materially.
−Removed: Further, under certain circumstances, patent
−Removed: terms covering our products or product candidates may be extended for time spent during the pendency of the patent application
−Removed: in the USPTO (referred to as Patent Term Adjustment, or PTA).
−Removed: The laws and regulations underlying how the USPTO calculates the
−Removed: PTA is subject to change and any such PTA granted by the USPTO could be challenged by a third-party.
−Removed: If we do not prevail under
−Removed: such a challenge, the PTA may be reduced or eliminated, resulting in a shorter patent term, which may negatively impact our ability
−Removed: to exclude competitors.
−Removed: Because PTA added to the term of patents covering products has particular value, our business may be adversely
−Removed: affected if the PTA is successfully challenged by a third party and our ability to exclude competitors is reduced or eliminated.
−Removed: Any of the foregoing could have a material and adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: We depend on certain technologies
−Removed: that are licensed to us.
−Removed: We do not control the intellectual property rights covering these technologies, and any loss of our rights
−Removed: to these technologies or the rights licensed to us could prevent us from selling our products and adversely impact our business.
−Removed: We are a party to license agreements under
−Removed: which we are granted rights to intellectual property that is important to our business, and we may need to enter into additional
−Removed: license agreements in the future.
−Removed: We rely on these licenses in order to be able to use and sell various proprietary technologies
−Removed: that are material to our business, as well as technologies we intend to use in our future commercial activities.
−Removed: For example, we
−Removed: expect that we will be dependent on our licensing arrangements with Cook Biotech, relating to CanGaroo and our cardiovascular products.
−Removed: Our rights to use these technologies and the inventions claimed in the licensed patents are subject to the continuation of and
−Removed: our compliance with the terms of those license agreements.
−Removed: Our existing license agreements impose, and we expect that future license
−Removed: agreements will also impose on us, various diligence obligations, milestone payments, royalties and other obligations.
−Removed: to comply with our obligations under these agreements, or if we are subject to a bankruptcy proceeding, the licensor may have the
−Removed: right to terminate the license, in which case we would not be able to market products covered by the license, which would adversely
−Removed: affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: As we have done previously, we may need
−Removed: to obtain additional licenses from third parties in order to advance our research or allow commercialization of our products and
−Removed: technologies.
−Removed: The in-licensing and acquisition of third-party intellectual property is a competitive area, and a number of more
−Removed: established companies are also pursuing strategies to in-license or acquire third-party intellectual property rights that we may
−Removed: consider attractive or necessary.
−Removed: These established companies may have a competitive advantage over us due to their size, cash
−Removed: resources and greater clinical development and commercialization capabilities.
−Removed: Furthermore, companies that perceive us to be a
−Removed: competitor may be unwilling to assign or license rights to us.
−Removed: Accordingly, we may not be able to obtain any of these licenses
−Removed: on commercially reasonable terms or at all.
−Removed: Even if we are able to obtain a license, it may be non-exclusive, thereby giving our
−Removed: competitors access to the same technologies licensed to us.
−Removed: In the event that we are not able to acquire a license, we may be required
−Removed: to expend significant time and resources to develop or license replacement technology.
−Removed: If we are unable to do so, we may be unable
−Removed: to develop or commercialize the affected products and technologies, which could materially harm our business.
−Removed: In addition, the
−Removed: third parties owning such intellectual property rights could seek either an injunction prohibiting our sales, or, with respect
−Removed: to our sales, an obligation on our part to pay royalties or other forms of compensation and damages.
−Removed: In some cases, we may not have the right
−Removed: to control the prosecution, maintenance or filing of the patents that are licensed to us, or the enforcement of these patents against
−Removed: infringement by third parties.
−Removed: Some of our patents and patent applications were not filed by us, but were either acquired by us
−Removed: or are licensed from third parties.
−Removed: Thus, these patents and patent applications were not drafted by us, and we did not control
−Removed: or have any input into the prosecution of these patents and patent applications prior to our acquisition of, or our entry into
−Removed: a license with respect to, such patents and patent applications.
−Removed: We cannot be certain that the drafting or prosecution of these
−Removed: patents and patent applications will result or has resulted in valid and enforceable patents.
−Removed: Further, since we do not always retain
−Removed: complete control over our ability to enforce our licensed patent rights against third-party infringement, we cannot be certain
−Removed: that our licensor will elect to enforce these patents to the extent that we would choose to do so, or in a way that will ensure
−Removed: that we retain the rights we currently have under the applicable license agreement.
−Removed: If our licensor fails to properly enforce the
−Removed: patents subject to our license agreement in the event of third-party infringement, our ability to retain our competitive advantage
−Removed: with respect to the applicable products may be materially and adversely affected.
−Removed: Licensing of intellectual property is an
−Removed: important part of our business and involves complex legal, business and scientific issues.
−Removed: Disputes may arise between us and our
−Removed: licensors regarding intellectual property that is subject to a license agreement, including, with respect to, among other things:
−Removed: the scope of rights granted under the license agreement and other interpretation-related issues;
−Removed: whether our licensor had the right to grant the rights granted to us under the license agreement;
−Removed: whether and the extent to which our technology and processes infringe, misappropriate or otherwise
−Removed: violate intellectual property of the licensor that is not subject to the license agreement;
−Removed: our right to sublicense patent and other rights to third parties under collaborative development
−Removed: relationships;
−Removed: our involvement in the prosecution and enforcement of the licensed patents and our licensor’s
−Removed: overall patent enforcement strategy;
−Removed: our diligence obligations with respect to the use of the licensed technology in relation to our
−Removed: development and commercialization of our products and technologies, and what activities satisfy those diligence obligations;
−Removed: the ownership of inventions and know-how resulting from the joint creation or use of intellectual
−Removed: property by our licensors and us and our partners;
−Removed: the amounts of royalties, milestones or other payments due under the license agreement.
−Removed: In addition, we may become the owner of
−Removed: intellectual property that was obtained through assignments, which may be subject to re-assignment back to the original assignor
−Removed: upon our failure to prosecute or maintain such intellectual property, upon our breach of the agreement pursuant to which such intellectual
−Removed: property was assigned, or upon our bankruptcy.
−Removed: The resolution of any contract interpretation
−Removed: disagreement that may arise could narrow what we believe to be the scope of our rights to the relevant intellectual property or
−Removed: technology, or increase what we believe to be our financial or other obligations under the relevant agreement.
−Removed: If disputes over
−Removed: intellectual property that we have licensed prevent or impair our ability to maintain our current licensing arrangements on acceptable
−Removed: terms, or if intellectual property is re-assigned back to the original assignor, we may be unable to successfully develop and commercialize
−Removed: or continue selling products that utilize the affected intellectual property, any of which could impair our ability to execute
−Removed: our growth strategy and could have a material and adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: We may not be able to protect and
−Removed: enforce our trademarks and trade names, or build name recognition in our markets of interest, thereby harming our competitive position.
−Removed: We have not yet registered certain of our
−Removed: trademarks in all of our potential markets.
−Removed: If we apply to register these and other trademarks in the United States and other countries,
−Removed: our applications may not be allowed for registration in a timely fashion or at all, and our registered trademarks may not be maintained
−Removed: In addition, the registered or unregistered trademarks or trade names that we own may be challenged, infringed, circumvented,
−Removed: declared generic, lapsed or determined to be infringing on or dilutive of other marks.
−Removed: We may not be able to protect our rights
−Removed: in these trademarks and trade names, which we need in order to build name recognition.
−Removed: In addition, third parties may file for
−Removed: registration of trademarks similar or identical to our trademarks, thereby impeding our ability to build brand identity and possibly
−Removed: leading to market confusion.
−Removed: If they succeed in registering or developing common law rights in such trademarks, and if we are not
−Removed: successful in challenging such rights, we may not be able to use these trademarks to develop brand recognition of our technologies,
−Removed: products or services.
−Removed: In addition, there could be potential trade name or trademark infringement claims brought by owners of other
−Removed: registered trademarks or trademarks that incorporate variations of our registered or unregistered trademarks or trade names.
−Removed: we may in the future enter into agreements with owners of such third party trade names or trademarks to avoid potential trademark
−Removed: litigation which may limit our ability to use our trade names or trademarks in certain fields of business.
−Removed: In addition, opposition or cancellation
−Removed: proceedings may in the future be filed against our trademark applications and registrations, and our trademarks may not survive
−Removed: such proceedings.
−Removed: In addition, third parties may file first for our trademarks in certain countries.
−Removed: If they succeed in registering
−Removed: such trademarks, and if we are not successful in challenging such third party rights, we may not be able to use these trademarks
−Removed: to market our products in those countries.
−Removed: If we do not secure registrations for our trademarks, we may encounter more difficulty
−Removed: in enforcing them against third parties than we otherwise would.
−Removed: If we are unable to establish name recognition based on our trademarks
−Removed: and trade names, we may not be able to compete effectively, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial
−Removed: condition, results of operations and prospects.
−Removed: Risks Related to Our Common Stock
−Removed: We expect that the price of our Class A
−Removed: common stock will fluctuate substantially and you may not be able to sell the shares you purchase at or above the price you paid
−Removed: for such shares.
−Removed: The market price of our Class A common
−Removed: stock is likely to be highly volatile and may fluctuate substantially due to a variety of factors, many of which are outside of
−Removed: our control, including, among other things:
−Removed: the volume and timing of sales of our products;
−Removed: the introduction of new products or product enhancements by us or others in our industry;
−Removed: developments related to the COVID-19 pandemic;
−Removed: disputes or other developments with respect to our or others’
−Removed: intellectual property rights;
−Removed: our ability to develop, obtain regulatory clearance or approval for, and market new and enhanced
−Removed: products on a timely basis;
−Removed: changes or proposed changes in laws or regulations or differing interpretations or enforcement
−Removed: thereof affecting our business;
−Removed: product liability claims, other litigation or regulatory investigations;
−Removed: annual or quarterly variations in our results of operations or those of others in our industry,
−Removed: or results of operations that otherwise vary from those expected by securities analysts and investors;
−Removed: publications, reports or other media exposure of our products or those of others in our industry,
−Removed: or of our industry generally;
−Removed: announcements by us or others in our industry, or by our or their respective suppliers, distributors
−Removed: or other business partners, regarding, among other things, significant contracts, price reductions, capital commitments or other
−Removed: business developments, the entry into or termination of strategic transactions or relationships, securities offerings or other
−Removed: financing initiatives, and public reaction thereto;
−Removed: additions or departures of key management personnel;
−Removed: changes in governmental regulations or in reimbursement;
−Removed: changes in earnings estimates or recommendations by securities analysts, or other changes in investor
−Removed: perceptions of the investment opportunity associated with our common stock relative to other investment alternatives;
−Removed: the development and sustainability of an active trading market for our Class A common stock;
−Removed: general market conditions and other factors, including factors unrelated to our operating performance
−Removed: or the operating performance of our competitors;
−Removed: other factors discussed in Part II, Item 1A.
+Added: Our business, financial
+Added: condition and operating results can be affected by a number of factors, whether current known or unknown, including but not limited
+Added: to those described as risk factors, any one or more of which could, directly or indirectly, cause our actual operating results and
+Added: financial condition to vary materially from past, or anticipated future, operating results and financial condition.
+Added: For a discussion
+Added: of these potential risks and uncertainties, see Part I, Item 1A.
“Risk Factors”
−Removed: of this Quarterly
−Removed: In recent years, the stock markets generally
−Removed: have experienced extreme price and volume fluctuations that have often been unrelated or disproportionate to the operating performance
−Removed: of those companies, including, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
−Removed: Broad market and industry factors may significantly affect
−Removed: the market price of our Class A common stock, regardless of our actual operating performance.
−Removed: If the market price of shares
−Removed: of our Class A common stock does not ever exceed the price you paid for your shares, you may not realize any return on your
−Removed: investment in us and may lose some or all of your investment.
−Removed: In addition, in the past, class action
−Removed: litigation has often been instituted against companies whose securities have experienced periods of volatility in market price.
−Removed: Securities litigation brought against us following volatility in our stock price, regardless of the merit or ultimate results of
−Removed: such litigation, could result in substantial costs, which would hurt our financial condition and operating results and divert management’s
−Removed: attention and resources away from our business.
−Removed: Our principal stockholders have significant
−Removed: voting power and may take actions that may not be in the best interests of our other stockholders.
−Removed: As of November 9, 2020, our principal
−Removed: stockholders each holding more than 5% of our Class A common stock collectively control approximately 56.5% of our
−Removed: outstanding Class A common stock.
−Removed: As a result, these stockholders, if they act together, will be able to control the
−Removed: management and affairs of our company and most matters requiring stockholder approval, including the election of directors
−Removed: and approval of significant corporate transactions.
−Removed: The interests of these stockholders may not be the same as or may even
−Removed: conflict with your interests.
−Removed: For example, these stockholders could attempt to delay or prevent a change in control of the
−Removed: company, even if such change in control would benefit our other stockholders, thereby depriving our other stockholders of an
−Removed: opportunity to receive a premium for their common stock as part of a sale of the company or our assets.
−Removed: Conversely, these
−Removed: stockholders may pursue acquisitions, divestitures and other transactions that, in their judgment, could enhance the value of
−Removed: their investment, even though such transactions might involve risks to you.
−Removed: Even in the absence of any actual conflict of
−Removed: interest, the degree of control possessed by these stockholders may affect the prevailing market price of our Class A
−Removed: common stock due to investors’
−Removed: perceptions that such conflicts of interest may exist or arise.
−Removed: As a result, this
−Removed: concentration of ownership may not be in the best interests of our other stockholders and may impair your ability to realize
−Removed: any return on your investment in us and may impair your ability to avoid losing some or all of your investment.
−Removed: A significant portion of our total
−Removed: outstanding shares are eligible to be sold into the market in the near future, which could cause the market price of our Class A
−Removed: common stock to drop significantly, even if our business is doing well.
−Removed: Sales of a substantial number of shares
−Removed: of our common stock in the public market, or the perception in the market that the holders of a large number of shares intend to
−Removed: sell their shares, could reduce the market price of our Class A common stock.
−Removed: As of November 9, 2020, we had outstanding
−Removed: 10,226,122 shares of Class A and Class B, collectively.
−Removed: This includes the 2,941,176 shares that we sold in our IPO, which
−Removed: may be resold in the public market immediately without restriction.
−Removed: As a holder of our Class B common stock, Deerfield only
−Removed: has the right to convert each share of our Class B common stock into one share of Class A common stock at its election
−Removed: to the extent that as a result of such conversion, it would not beneficially own in excess of 4.9% of any class of our securities
−Removed: registered under the Exchange Act.
−Removed: As a result, Deerfield may not be deemed an “affiliate”
−Removed: for purposes of Rule 144
−Removed: and, as a result, any securities it purchases may be freely tradable.
−Removed: Approximately 7.3 million of the remaining shares are restricted
−Removed: as a result of securities laws or lock-up agreements (which may be waived, with or without notice, by Piper Sandler &
−Removed: and Cowen and Company, LLC) but will become eligible to be sold at various times beginning 180 days after the date of the Prospectus,
−Removed: unless held by one of our affiliates, in which case the resale of those securities will be subject to volume limitations under
−Removed: Rule 144 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Act.
−Removed: Because Deerfield may not be deemed an “affiliate”
−Removed: for purposes of Rule 144, up to approximately 2.4 million shares of Class B common stock that Deerfield holds may become
−Removed: freely tradable and not subject to volume limitations following the 180-day lock-up period.
−Removed: Moreover, as of the date of this Quarterly
−Removed: Report, holders of an aggregate of up to approximately 7.1 million shares of our common stock have rights, subject to certain conditions
−Removed: and limitations, to require us to file registration statements covering their shares or to include their shares in registration
−Removed: statements that we may file for ourselves or other stockholders, until such rights terminate pursuant to the terms of our Investor
−Removed: Rights Agreement.
−Removed: We also intend to register all shares of Class A common stock that we may issue under our equity compensation
−Removed: Once we register these shares, they can be freely sold in the public market upon issuance, subject to volume limitations
−Removed: applicable to affiliates and the lock-up agreements.
−Removed: The market price of our common stock may
−Removed: drop significantly when the restrictions on resale by our existing stockholders lapse or when we are required to register the sale
−Removed: of our stockholders’
−Removed: remaining shares of our common stock.
−Removed: A decline in the trading price of our common stock might impede
−Removed: our ability to raise capital through the issuance of additional shares of our Class A common stock or other equity securities
−Removed: and may impair your ability to sell shares of our common stock at a price higher than the price you paid for them or at all.
−Removed: The dual class structure of our common
−Removed: stock and the option of the holders of shares of our Class B common stock to convert into shares of our Class A common
−Removed: stock may limit your ability to influence corporate matters.
−Removed: Our Class A common stock has one
−Removed: vote per share, while our Class B common stock is non-voting.
−Removed: Nonetheless, each share of our Class B common stock may
−Removed: be converted at any time into one share of Class A common stock at the option of its holder, subject to the limitations provided
−Removed: for in our certificate of incorporation that prohibit the conversion of our Class B common stock into shares of Class A
−Removed: common stock to the extent that, upon such conversion, such holder would beneficially own in excess of 4.9% of any class of our
−Removed: securities registered under the Exchange Act.
−Removed: Consequently, if holders of Class B common stock exercise their option to make
−Removed: this conversion, such exercise will have the effect of increasing the relative voting power of those prior holders of our Class B
−Removed: common stock (subject to the ownership limitation described in the previous sentence) and increasing the number of outstanding
−Removed: shares of our voting common stock, and correspondingly decreasing the relative voting power of the current holders of our Class A
−Removed: common stock, which may limit your ability to influence corporate matters.
−Removed: Because our Class B common stock is generally
−Removed: non-voting, stockholders who own more than 10% of our common stock overall but 10% or less of our Class A common stock will
−Removed: not be required to report changes in their ownership from transactions in our Class B common stock pursuant to Section 16(a) of
−Removed: the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act, and would not be subject to the short-swing profit provisions
−Removed: of Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act.
−Removed: You may be diluted by the future
−Removed: issuance of additional common stock in connection with our incentive plans, acquisitions or otherwise.
−Removed: As of November 18, 2020, we had 192,908,040
−Removed: shares of Class A common stock authorized but unissued and 16,865,838 shares of Class B common stock authorized but unissued.
−Removed: We are authorized under our certificate of incorporation to issue these shares of common stock and other securities convertible
−Removed: into or exercisable or exchangeable for shares of our common stock for the consideration and on the terms and conditions established
−Removed: by our board of directors in its sole discretion, whether in connection with acquisitions or otherwise.
−Removed: As of November 18,
−Removed: 2020, we had 287,395 shares of our Class A common stock issuable upon the exercise of outstanding options under our 2015 Plan
−Removed: at a weighted average exercise price of 
−Removed: $6.43 per share, 164,071 of which were vested as of such date, 736,790 shares of
−Removed: Class A common stock issuable upon the exercise of stock options and the settlement of RSUs granted under our 2020 Plan to
−Removed: certain of our executive officers, employees and consultants, with respect to such stock options, at a weighted average exercise
−Removed: price of 
−Removed: $17.00 per share, 899,210 additional shares of our Class A common stock reserved for future issuance under
−Removed: our 2020 Plan, not including the additional shares of Class A common stock that will be reserved for future issuance under
−Removed: our 2020 Plan pursuant to provisions in the 2020 Plan that automatically increase the number of shares of our Class A common
−Removed: stock reserved for future issuance thereunder, and 143,150 shares of our Class A common stock that will become available for
−Removed: future issuance under our 2020 ESPP, not including the additional shares of Class A common stock that will be reserved for
−Removed: future issuance under our 2020 ESPP pursuant to provisions in the 2020 ESPP that automatically increase the number of shares of
−Removed: our Class A common stock reserved for future issuance thereunder.
−Removed: Any additional shares of common stock that we issue, including
−Removed: under our 2020 Plan, 2020 ESPP or other equity incentive plans that we may adopt in the future, would dilute the percentage ownership
−Removed: and voting power held by investors who purchase our common stock.
−Removed: In the future, we may also issue additional securities if we
−Removed: need to raise capital, including, but not limited to, in connection with acquisitions, which could constitute a material portion
−Removed: of our then-outstanding shares of our common stock.
−Removed: We are an “emerging growth
−Removed: company”
−Removed: and a “smaller reporting company,”
−Removed: and the reduced disclosure requirements applicable to emerging growth
−Removed: companies and smaller reporting companies may make our common stock less attractive to investors.
−Removed: We are an “emerging growth company,”
−Removed: as defined in the JOBS Act, and a “smaller reporting company,”
−Removed: as defined in Rule 12b-2 under the Exchange Act.
−Removed: Emerging growth companies and smaller reporting companies may take advantage of certain exemptions from various reporting requirements
−Removed: that are applicable to other publicly-traded entities that are not emerging growth companies or smaller reporting companies.
−Removed: With respect to emerging growth companies,
−Removed: these exemptions include:
−Removed: the option to present only two years of audited financial statements , in addition to any required
−Removed: unaudited interim financial statements, with a correspondingly reduced Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial
−Removed: Condition and Results of Operations;
−Removed: not being required to comply with the auditor attestation requirements of Section 404 of the
−Removed: Sarbanes-Oxley Act;
−Removed: not being required to comply with any requirement that may be adopted by the Public Company Accounting
−Removed: Oversight Board regarding mandatory audit firm rotation or a supplement to the auditor’s report providing additional information
−Removed: about the audit and the financial statements (i.e., an auditor discussion and analysis);
−Removed: not being required to submit certain executive compensation matters to stockholder advisory votes,
−Removed: such as “say-on-pay,”
−Removed: “say-on-frequency”
−Removed: and “say-on-golden parachutes”;
−Removed: not being required to disclose certain executive compensation related items such as the correlation
−Removed: between executive compensation and performance and comparisons of the chief executive officer’s compensation to median employee
−Removed: compensation.
−Removed: We have elected to take advantage of certain
−Removed: of these reduced disclosure obligations and may elect to take advantage of other reduced reporting requirements in the future.
−Removed: As a result, the information that we provide to our stockholders may be different than the information you might receive from other
−Removed: public reporting companies in which you hold equity interests.
−Removed: In addition, the JOBS Act permits emerging growth companies to delay
−Removed: adopting new or revised accounting standards until such time as those standards apply to private companies.
−Removed: We have elected to
−Removed: use this extended transition period for complying with new or revised accounting standards until the earlier of the date we (i) are
−Removed: no longer an emerging growth company or (ii) affirmatively and irrevocably opt out of the extended transition period provided
−Removed: in the JOBS Act.
−Removed: As a result, our consolidated financial statements and the reported results of operations contained therein may
−Removed: not be directly comparable to those of other public companies.
−Removed: We cannot predict whether investors will find our common stock less
−Removed: attractive because of our reliance on these exemptions.
−Removed: If some investors do find our common stock less attractive, there may be
−Removed: a less active trading market for our Class A common stock and our stock price may be reduced or more volatile.
−Removed: We will remain an emerging growth company,
−Removed: and will be able to take advantage of the foregoing exemptions, until the earliest of:
−Removed: (i) the last day of the first fiscal
−Removed: year in which our annual gross revenues are $1.07 billion or more;
−Removed: (ii) the last day of 2025;
−Removed: (iii) the date that we
−Removed: become a “large accelerated filer”
−Removed: as defined in Rule 12b-2 under the Exchange Act, which would occur if the market
−Removed: value of our common equity held by non-affiliates is $700 million or more as of the last business day of our most recently completed
−Removed: second fiscal quarter;
−Removed: or (iv) the date on which we have issued more than $1.0 billion in non-convertible debt securities
−Removed: during the previous three years.
−Removed: Even after we cease to be an emerging growth
−Removed: company, we will still be a smaller reporting company until such time as (i) we determine that the market value of the voting
−Removed: and non-voting shares held by non-affiliates is $250 million or more but less than $700 million as of the last business day of
−Removed: our second fiscal quarter and our annual revenues are $100 million or more during our most recently completed fiscal year, or (ii) the
−Removed: market value of the voting and non-voting shares held by non-affiliates is $700 million or more measured on the last business day
−Removed: of our second fiscal quarter.
−Removed: If we are a smaller reporting company at the time we cease to be an emerging growth company, we may
−Removed: continue to rely on exemptions from certain disclosure requirements that are available to smaller reporting companies, including
−Removed: reduced financial and executive compensation disclosure.
−Removed: In addition, even if we cease to be an emerging growth company, we will
−Removed: remain exempt from the auditor attestation requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act provided we do not qualify
−Removed: as an “accelerated filer”
−Removed: as defined in Rule 12b-2 under the Exchange Act, which would occur if our annual revenue
−Removed: was $100 million or more during our most recently completed fiscal year and the market value of our common equity held by non-affiliates
−Removed: is $75 million or more as of the last business day of our most recently completed second fiscal quarter, and only after we have
−Removed: been subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act for a period of at least 12 calendar months.
−Removed: We will incur increased costs as
−Removed: a result of operating as a public company, and our management will be required to devote substantial time to new compliance initiatives
−Removed: and corporate governance practices.
−Removed: As a public company, and particularly after
−Removed: we are no longer an emerging growth company, we will incur significant legal, accounting and other expenses that we did not incur
−Removed: as a private company.
−Removed: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the listing requirements
−Removed: of The Nasdaq Global Market and other applicable securities rules and regulations impose various requirements on public companies,
−Removed: including establishment and maintenance of effective disclosure and financial controls and corporate governance practices.
−Removed: management and other personnel will need to devote a substantial amount of time to these compliance initiatives, which will divert
−Removed: their attention away from our core business operations and revenue-producing activities.
−Removed: Moreover, these rules and regulations
−Removed: will increase our legal and financial compliance costs and will make some activities more time-consuming and costly.
−Removed: we expect that these rules and regulations may make it more difficult and more expensive for us to obtain director and officer
−Removed: liability insurance, which in turn could require us to incur substantially higher costs to obtain the same or similar coverage
−Removed: or accept reduced policy limits and coverage, which in turn could also make it more difficult for us to attract and retain qualified
−Removed: individuals to serve on our board of directors and as our executive officers.
−Removed: We cannot predict or estimate the amount
−Removed: of additional costs we may incur or the timing of such costs.
−Removed: These rules and regulations are often subject to varying interpretations,
−Removed: in many cases due to their lack of specificity, and, as a result, their application in practice may evolve over time as new guidance
−Removed: is provided by regulatory and governing bodies.
−Removed: This could result in continuing uncertainty regarding compliance matters and higher
−Removed: costs necessitated by ongoing revisions to disclosure and governance practices.
−Removed: In addition, if we fail to comply with these rules and
−Removed: regulations, we could be subject to a number of penalties, including the delisting of our Class A common stock, fines, sanctions
−Removed: or other regulatory action or civil litigation.
−Removed: Failure to comply with requirements
−Removed: to design, implement and maintain effective internal control over financial reporting could have a material adverse effect on our
−Removed: business and stock price.
−Removed: As a public company, we are required to
−Removed: evaluate our internal control over financial reporting in a manner that meets the standards of publicly traded companies required
−Removed: by Section 404(a) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, or Section 404.
−Removed: As a public company, we have significant
−Removed: requirements for enhanced financial reporting and internal controls.
−Removed: The process of designing, implementing and maintaining effective
−Removed: internal controls is a continuous effort that will require us to anticipate and react to changes in our business and the economic
−Removed: and regulatory environments.
−Removed: In this regard, we will need to continue to dedicate internal resources, potentially engage outside
−Removed: consultants, adopt a detailed work plan to assess and document the adequacy of internal control over financial reporting, continue
−Removed: steps to improve control processes as appropriate, validate through testing whether such controls are functioning as documented,
−Removed: and implement a continuous reporting and improvement process for internal control over financial reporting.
−Removed: If we are unable to
−Removed: establish or maintain appropriate internal financial reporting controls and procedures, it could cause us to fail to meet our reporting
−Removed: obligations on a timely basis, result in material misstatements in our consolidated financial statements and adversely affect our
−Removed: operating results.
−Removed: In addition, we will be required, pursuant to Section 404, to furnish a report by our management on, among
−Removed: other things, the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting in the second annual report following the closing
−Removed: This assessment will need to include disclosure of any material weaknesses identified by our management in our internal
−Removed: control over financial reporting.
−Removed: The rules governing the standards that must be met for our management to assess our internal
−Removed: control over financial reporting are complex and require significant documentation and testing.
−Removed: Testing and maintaining internal
−Removed: controls may divert our management’s attention from other matters that are important to our business.
−Removed: In addition, once we
−Removed: are no longer an emerging growth company, provided we then qualify as an “accelerated filer”
−Removed: as defined in Rule 12b-2
−Removed: under the Exchange Act, we will be required to include in the annual reports that we file with the SEC an attestation report on
−Removed: our internal control over financial reporting issued by our independent registered public accounting firm.
−Removed: In connection with the implementation of
−Removed: the necessary procedures and practices related to internal control over financial reporting, we may identify deficiencies that
−Removed: we may not be able to remediate in time to meet the deadline imposed by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act for compliance with the requirements
−Removed: of Section 404.
−Removed: In addition, we may encounter problems or delays in completing the remediation of any deficiencies identified
−Removed: by our independent registered public accounting firm in connection with the issuance of their attestation report.
−Removed: or the subsequent testing by our independent registered public accounting firm, may reveal deficiencies in our internal controls
−Removed: over financial reporting that are deemed to be material weaknesses.
−Removed: Any material weaknesses could result in a material misstatement
−Removed: of our annual or quarterly consolidated financial statements or disclosures that may not be prevented or detected.
−Removed: Furthermore, we may not be able to conclude,
−Removed: on an ongoing basis, that we have effective internal control over financial reporting in accordance with Section 404, or our
−Removed: independent registered public accounting firm may not be able to issue an unqualified attestation report once we become subject
−Removed: to the corresponding requirement under Section 404.
−Removed: If either we are unable to conclude that we have effective internal control
−Removed: over financial reporting or our independent registered public accounting firm is unable to provide us with an unqualified report,
−Removed: investors could lose confidence in our reported financial information, which could have a material adverse effect on the trading
−Removed: price of our Class A common stock.
−Removed: Provisions in our certificate of
−Removed: incorporation and bylaws and under Delaware law could make an acquisition of our company, which may be beneficial to our stockholders,
−Removed: more difficult and may prevent attempts by our stockholders to replace or remove our current management.
−Removed: Provisions in our certificate of incorporation
−Removed: and our bylaws may discourage, delay or prevent a merger, acquisition or other change in control of our company that stockholders
−Removed: may consider favorable, including transactions in which you might otherwise receive a premium for your shares.
−Removed: These provisions
−Removed: could also limit the price that investors might be willing to pay in the future for shares of our common stock, thereby depressing
−Removed: the market price of our Class A common stock.
−Removed: In addition, because our board of directors is responsible for appointing the
−Removed: members of our management team, these provisions may frustrate or prevent any attempts by our stockholders to replace or remove
−Removed: our current management by making it more difficult for stockholders to replace members of our board of directors.
−Removed: Among other things,
−Removed: these provisions include those establishing:
−Removed: a classified board of directors with three-year staggered terms, which may delay the ability of
−Removed: stockholders to change the membership of a majority of our board of directors;
−Removed: no cumulative voting in the election of directors, which limits the ability of minority stockholders
−Removed: to elect director candidates;
−Removed: the exclusive right of our board of directors to elect a director to fill a vacancy created by
−Removed: the expansion of the board of directors or the resignation, death or removal of a director, which prevents stockholders from filling
−Removed: vacancies on our board of directors;
−Removed: the ability of our board of directors to authorize the issuance of shares of preferred stock and
−Removed: to determine the terms of those shares, including preferences and voting rights, without stockholder approval, which could be used
−Removed: to significantly dilute the ownership of a hostile acquirer;
−Removed: the ability of our board of directors to alter our bylaws without obtaining stockholder approval;
−Removed: the required approval of the holders of at least two-thirds of the shares entitled to vote at an
−Removed: election of directors to adopt, amend or repeal our bylaws or repeal the provisions of our certificate of incorporation regarding
−Removed: the election and removal of directors;
−Removed: a prohibition on stockholder action by written consent, which forces stockholder action to be taken
−Removed: at an annual or special meeting of our stockholders;
−Removed: the requirement that a special meeting of stockholders may be called only by the chairman of the
−Removed: board of directors, the chief executive officer, the president or the board of directors, which may delay the ability of our stockholders
−Removed: to force consideration of a proposal or to take action, including the removal of directors;
−Removed: advance notice procedures that stockholders must comply with in order to nominate candidates to
−Removed: our board of directors or to propose matters to be acted upon at a stockholders’
−Removed: meeting, which may discourage or deter a
−Removed: potential acquirer from conducting a solicitation of proxies to elect the acquirer’s own slate of directors or otherwise
−Removed: attempting to obtain control of us.
−Removed: Moreover, because we are incorporated in
−Removed: Delaware, we are governed by the provisions of Section 203 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, or DGCL,
−Removed: which prohibits a person who owns in excess of 15% of our outstanding voting stock from merging or combining with us for a period
−Removed: of three years after the date of the transaction in which the person acquired in excess of 15% of our outstanding voting stock,
−Removed: unless the merger or combination is approved in a prescribed manner.
−Removed: Our certificate of incorporation
−Removed: designates specific courts as the exclusive forum for certain litigation that may be initiated by our stockholders, which could
−Removed: limit our stockholders’
−Removed: ability to obtain a favorable judicial forum for disputes with us or our directors, officers or employees.
−Removed: Our certificate of incorporation provides
−Removed: that, unless we consent in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware will
−Removed: be the exclusive forum for (i) any derivative action or proceeding brought on our behalf, (ii) any action asserting a
−Removed: claim of breach of a fiduciary duty or other wrongdoing by any of our directors, officers, employees or agents to us or our stockholders,
−Removed: (iii) any action asserting a claim arising pursuant to any provision of the DGCL or our certificate of incorporation or bylaws,
−Removed: (iv) any action to interpret, apply, enforce or determine the validity of our certificate of incorporation or bylaws or (v) any
−Removed: action asserting a claim governed by the internal affairs doctrine;
−Removed: provided that, the exclusive forum provision will not apply
−Removed: to suits brought to enforce any liability or duty created by the Securities Act, the Exchange Act, the rules and regulations
−Removed: thereunder or any other claim for which the federal courts have exclusive jurisdiction;
−Removed: and provided further that, if and only
−Removed: if the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware dismisses any such action for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, such action
−Removed: may be brought in another state or federal court sitting in the State of Delaware.
−Removed: Our certificate of incorporation further provides
−Removed: that, unless we consent in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the federal district courts of the United States of
−Removed: America shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, be the sole and exclusive forum for the resolution of any complaint asserting
−Removed: a cause of action arising under the Securities Act.
−Removed: Any person or entity purchasing or otherwise acquiring any interest in shares
−Removed: of our capital stock shall be deemed to have notice of and to have consented to the provisions of our certificate of incorporation
−Removed: described above.
−Removed: We believe these provisions benefits us
−Removed: by providing increased consistency in the application of Delaware law by chancellors particularly experienced in resolving corporate
−Removed: disputes and in the application of the Securities Act by federal judges, as applicable, efficient administration of cases on a
−Removed: more expedited schedule relative to other forums and protection against the burdens of multi-forum litigation.
−Removed: However, these provisions
−Removed: may limit a stockholder’s ability to bring a claim in a judicial forum that it finds favorable for disputes with us or our
−Removed: directors, officers or other employees or agents, which may discourage such lawsuits against us and our directors, officers and
−Removed: other employees and agents.
−Removed: Because we do not anticipate paying
−Removed: any cash dividends on our common stock in the foreseeable future, capital appreciation, if any, would be your sole source of gain.
−Removed: We have never declared or paid any cash
−Removed: dividends on our common stock.
−Removed: We currently anticipate that we will retain future earnings for the development, operation and expansion
−Removed: of our business and do not anticipate declaring or paying any cash dividends for the foreseeable future.
−Removed: As a result, capital appreciation,
−Removed: if any, of our common stock would be your sole source of gain on an investment in our common stock for the foreseeable future.
−Removed: We could be subject to securities
−Removed: class action litigation.
−Removed: In the past, securities class action litigation
−Removed: has often been brought against a company following a decline in the market price of its securities.
−Removed: This risk is especially relevant
−Removed: for us because medical device companies have experienced significant stock price volatility in recent years.
−Removed: If we face such litigation,
−Removed: it could result in substantial costs and a diversion of management’s attention and resources, which could harm our business.
−Removed: General Risk Factors
−Removed: Uncertainty relating to the LIBOR
−Removed: calculation process and potential phasing out of LIBOR after 2021 may adversely affect the market value of our current or future
−Removed: debt obligations.
−Removed: The London Inter-bank Offered Rate, or
−Removed: LIBOR, and certain other interest “benchmarks”
−Removed: may be subject to regulatory guidance and/or reform that could cause
−Removed: interest rates under our current or future debt agreements to perform differently than in the past or cause other unanticipated
−Removed: consequences.
−Removed: The United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority, which regulates LIBOR, has announced that it intends to stop
−Removed: encouraging or requiring banks to submit LIBOR rates after 2021, and it is unclear if LIBOR will cease to exist or if new methods
−Removed: of calculating LIBOR will evolve.
−Removed: If LIBOR ceases to exist or if the methods of calculating LIBOR change from their current form,
−Removed: there may be adverse impacts on the financial markets generally and interest rates on borrowings under our Term Loan Facility and
−Removed: Revolving Credit Facility may be adversely affected.
−Removed: Changes in accounting standards and
−Removed: subjective assumptions, estimates and judgments by management related to complex accounting matters could significantly affect
−Removed: our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: GAAP, and related accounting pronouncements,
−Removed: implementation guidelines and interpretations with regard to a wide range of matters that are relevant to our business are highly
−Removed: These matters include, but are not limited to, revenue recognition, leases, income taxes, impairment of goodwill and long-lived
−Removed: assets and equity-based compensation.
−Removed: Changes in these rules, guidelines or interpretations could significantly change our reported
−Removed: or expected financial performance or financial condition.
−Removed: In addition, the preparation of financial
−Removed: statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make assumptions, estimates and judgments that affect the amounts reported
−Removed: in our consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes.
−Removed: We base our estimates and judgments on historical experience and
−Removed: on various other assumptions that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances.
−Removed: The results of these estimates form the
−Removed: basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets, liabilities and equity, and the amount of net sales and expenses
−Removed: that are not readily apparent from other sources.
−Removed: Our operating results may be adversely affected if our assumptions change or
−Removed: if actual circumstances differ from those in our assumptions, which could cause our operating results to fall below the expectations
−Removed: of securities analysts and investors, resulting in a decline in our stock price.
−Removed: Our disclosure controls and procedures
−Removed: may not prevent or detect all errors or acts of fraud.
−Removed: We have designed our disclosure controls
−Removed: and procedures to provide reasonable assurance that information we must disclose in reports we file or submit under the Exchange
−Removed: Act is accumulated and communicated to management, and recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified
−Removed: in the rules and forms of the Securities and Exchange Commission, or the SEC.
−Removed: We believe that any disclosure controls and
−Removed: procedures, no matter how well-conceived and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the objectives
−Removed: of the control system are met.
−Removed: These inherent limitations include the
−Removed: realities that judgments in decision-making can be faulty, and that breakdowns can occur because of simple error or mistake.
−Removed: Additionally,
−Removed: controls can be circumvented by the individual acts of some persons, by collusion of two or more people or by an unauthorized override
−Removed: of the controls.
−Removed: Accordingly, because of the inherent limitations in our control system, misstatements due to error or fraud may
−Removed: occur and not be detected.
−Removed: If our operating and financial performance
−Removed: in any given period does not meet the guidance we provide to the public, the market price of our Class A common stock may
−Removed: We may, but are not obligated to, provide
−Removed: public guidance on our expected operating and financial results for future periods.
−Removed: Any such guidance will be comprised of forward-looking
−Removed: statements subject to certain risks and uncertainties similar to those described in this Quarterly Report and any additional risks
−Removed: and uncertainties described from time to time in our public filings or other public statements.
−Removed: Our actual results may not always
−Removed: be in line with or exceed any guidance we have provided, especially in times of economic uncertainty.
−Removed: Even if we do issue public
−Removed: guidance, there can be no assurance that we will continue to do so in the future.
−Removed: If, in the future, we provide guidance, and our
−Removed: operating and/or financial results for a particular period do not meet such guidance or the expectations of investment analysts,
−Removed: or if we reduce, withdraw or otherwise change our guidance for future periods, or stop providing guidance, the market price of
−Removed: our Class A common stock will likely decline.
−Removed: If securities or industry analysts
−Removed: do not publish research or reports about our business, or if they issue an adverse or misleading opinion regarding our Class A
−Removed: common stock, our stock price and trading volume would likely decline.
−Removed: The trading market for our Class A
−Removed: common stock will be influenced by the research and reports that industry or securities analysts publish about us and our business.
−Removed: We do not control these analysts.
−Removed: As a newly public company, we may be slow to attract research coverage and the analysts, who
−Removed: publish information about our Class A common stock, will have had relatively little experience with us or our industry, which
−Removed: could affect their ability to accurately forecast our results and could make it more likely that we fail to meet their estimates.
−Removed: If no or few securities or industry analysts commence coverage of us, the trading price for our stock would be negatively impacted.
−Removed: In the event we obtain securities or industry analyst coverage, if any of the analysts who cover us issue an adverse or misleading
−Removed: opinion regarding us, our business model, our financial performance, our stock price or otherwise, our stock price would likely
−Removed: If one or more of these analysts ceases coverage of us or fails to publish reports on us regularly, we could lose visibility
−Removed: in the financial markets, which in turn could cause our stock price or trading volume to decline and result in the loss of all
−Removed: or a part of your investment in us.
+Added: of our Annual Report.
+Added: factors, in whole or in part, could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition, operating results and the
+Added: price of our common stock.
+Added: There have been no material changes in our risk factors to those included in our Annual Report.
+Added: Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds.
+Added: Defaults Upon Senior Securities.
+Added: Mine Safety Disclosures.
+Added: Not applicable.
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