UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, DC 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of
The Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported)
August 9, 2018
TEARLAB CORPORATION
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
| Delaware | 000-51030 | 59-343-4771 | ||
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation) |
(Commission File Number) |
(IRS Employer Identification No.) |
150 La Terraza Blvd., Ste 101
Escondido, CA 92025
(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)
(858) 455-6006
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
Not applicable
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)
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Item 1.01. Entry Into a Material Definitive Agreement
On August 9, 2018, TearLab Corporation (the “Company” or “TearLab”) entered into a manufacturing, supply and development agreement (the “Agreement”) with MiniFAB (Aust) Pty Ltd (“MiniFAB”). Pursuant to the terms of the Agreement, MiniFAB will manufacture and supply test cards for the Company’s next generation platform, the TearLab Discovery™ System. The Agreement is exclusive through the first term of 10 years and automatically renews for an additional term of 5 years unless either party cancels. TearLab will pay for 65% of the capital expenditures under the Agreement (“capex”) as incurred and MiniFAB will pay for the remaining 35% of capex, which will be recoverable from TearLab through an amortized cost component in the price for the product charged to TearLab once the monthly card volumes reach 200,000 per month. The capex amounts are limited to an aggregate of $1.0 million AUD for the initial development and production phase (“Phase 1”) and anticipated to be in the vicinity of $3.0 million AUD for further investment of production capacity (“Phase 2”). In addition, TearLab will be responsible for the payment or reimbursement of all non-recurrent expenditure and tooling, limited to $1.2 million AUD for Phase 1 and estimated at $2.0 million AUD for Phase 2.
The foregoing description of the Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by the terms and conditions of the Agreement, the form of which will be attached as an exhibit to the Company’s quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the period ending September 30, 2018.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| TEARLAB CORPORATION | |||
| By: | /s/ Michael Marquez | ||
Michael Marquez Interim Chief Financial Officer |
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Date: August 13, 2018