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Vyteris,
Inc.
13-01
Pollitt Drive
Fair
Lawn, New Jersey 07410
P (201)
703 2299 F (201) 703 2295
www.vyteris.com
May 5,
2009
VIA
EDGAR
Jeffrey
P. Riedler
Rose
Zukin
United
States Securities and Exchange Commission
Washington,
D.C. 20549
Mailstop
6010
Re: Vyteris,
Inc.
Dear Mr.
Riedler and Ms. Zukin:
We are in receipt of your letter to us,
dated April 15, 2009, regarding the Preliminary Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A,
filed April 8, 2009, File Number 000-32741 (“Proxy Statement”). We
thank you for taking the time to review the filing and provide your comments, in
our efforts to fully comply with SEC regulations and also to improve the quality
of our disclosure documents.
In order to fully respond to your
letter and for ease of reference, hereinbelow are your comments (bolded), and
our responses.
1. It appears that the most
current version of your Certificate of Incorporation reflecting the company’s
current capital structure is not on file. Please file your updated
Certificate of Incorporation as promptly as possible, or advise us where we may
locate this exhibit on file with the Commission.
In order
to ensure ease of retrieval of our complete Articles of Incorporation by the
Commission, our shareholders and others, we are undertaking to file a complete
set of our Articles, including all amendments, on Form 8-K, Item 9.01, as soon
as practicable.
2. We note your disclosure
regarding the proposed amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation to reduce
the exercise price of Series B Preferred Stock. Please expand your
discussion to disclose all of the material differences between the current
Series B Preferred Stock and the proposed amended Series B Preferred
Stock. In your discussion, please also include the text of the
proposed amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation.
We are
not going to amend the terms of the Series B Preferred Stock, so this proposal
will be deleted from the Definitive 14A.
3. We note your statement on
page 21 that Spencer Trask Specialty Group and affiliates (“STSG”) agreed to
subordinate its lien on certain of your assets to the lien
of Ferring in exchange for consideration of certain events, including, but not
limited to, the reduction of the conversion price of the Series B Preferred
Stock. Please expand your discussion to disclose all of the
consideration granted to STSG in exchange for the subordination of the
lien.
We are not going to amend the terms of
the Series B Preferred Stock, so this proposal will be deleted from the
Definitive 14A. .
I, on behalf of the Company,
acknowledge that:
(i) the Company is responsible for the
adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filing;
(ii) staff comments or changes to
disclosure in response to staff comments do not foreclose the Commission from
taking any action with respect to the filing; and
(iii) the Company may not
assert staff comments as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission
or any person under the federal securities laws of the United
States.
Again, thank you very much for
providing your comments, and I apologize for the delay in
response. And, please feel free to contact either me or our counsel,
Jolie Kahn (at joliekahnlaw@sbcglobal.net
or (212) 422-4910) with any further comments regarding the foregoing or if we
can be of any further assistance.
Very
truly yours,
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/s/
Joseph Himy
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Chief
Financial Officer
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cc: Jolie
Kahn, Esq.