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Vyteris,
Inc.
13-01
Pollitt Drive
Fair
Lawn, NJ 07410
October
12, 2010
VIA
EDGAR
Jim B.
Rosenberg
Senior
Assistant Chief Accountant
United
States Securities and Exchange Commission
Washington,
D.C. 20549
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Re:
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Vyteris,
Inc.
Form
10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2009
Filed
March 25, 2010
Form
10-Q for the Period Ended June 30, 2010
File
Number: 000-32741
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Dear Mr.
Rosenberg:
We are in receipt of your letter to us,
dated September 8, 2010, regarding the above referenced filings. We
thank you for taking the time to review the filings 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, we have included your comments (bolded) and
each of our responses to your comments.
Form 10-K for the Fiscal
Year Ended December 31, 2009
Item
7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and
Results of Operations
Comparison of the Years
Ended December 31, 2009 and 2008
Revaluation of Warrant
Liability, page 36
1. With respect
to the 5.1 million warrants that contain anti-dilution provisions, please
explain to us why you are valuing the warrants using the Black-Scholes option
price model, instead of a binomial or lattice pricing model. The
Black-Scholes model does not take into account the warrants’ down-round
protection. It appears to us that the price adjustment feature would
add value to the warrant for which the binomial or lattice models are better
suited. This also applies to the warrants outstanding at June 30,
2010.
We
acknowledge that the binomial or lattice model would be preferable to the
Black-Scholes model to recognize the down-round protection feature of the
majority (except approximately one million warrants which have a limited
anti-dilution feature) of our warrants at December 31, 2009 and June 30, 2010.
We have computed the impact of the down-round protection to be an increase
in the value of the warrants of 5%-10% as computed under various scenarios and
models.
We also
noted that assumptions used in our calculations to determine the fair value of
the underlying common stock did not reflect the fact that the shares underlying
the warrants have not been registered. Therefore, we acknowledge that the
calculations using the correct assumption for a lack of marketability discount
would have yielded a lower valuation of the warrants of approximately
5%-10%.
In
considering the valuation methodology and assumptions used and the offsetting
nature of the two items discussed above, the valuations historically used would
not be materially either qualitatively or quantitatively different than those
revised calculations using a binomial or lattice model and a correct assumption
of the fair value of the underlying common stock. We will correct both of
these items in the third quarter of 2010.
U.S
Securities & Exchange Commission
October
12, 2010
Page
2
Form 10-Q for the Period
Ended June 30, 2010
Item
4. Controls and Procedures
A. Disclosure,
page 31
2. We note you concluded
that disclosure controls and procedures were not effective for the period ended
June 30, 2010. Please revise your disclosure to describe the basis
for that conclusion. Include a description of the material weaknesses
identified and the steps taken to correct the issues defined.
We have
reviewed our disclosure regarding disclosure controls and procedures in light of
your comment. The material weakness we note is with
respect to our financial reporting and the potential inadequacy of the existing
accounting staff, which is limited by the resources available. This
resulted in a couple of proposed journal entries resulting from the audit
process to correct the recorded balances in our general ledger. We
believe these deficiencies in the design and execution of the internal controls
over financial reporting should be categorized as a material
weakness. Assuming
such deficiencies still exist, we would propose to expand our rationale for our
conclusion in future quarterly financial statements.
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. Please feel free to contact either myself 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,
/s/
Joseph Himy
Joseph
Himy
cc: Jolie
Kahn, Esq.