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License and Development Agreements
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2012
License and Development Agreements  
License and Development Agreements

(8) License and Development Agreements

 

Roche

 

In December 2008, as amended in February 2010, February 2011 and July 2011, the Company and Roche entered into a collaborative license agreement (the Roche Agreement) to discover, develop, and commercialize small-molecule drugs targeting calcium release-activated calcium modulator (CRACM) channels. The goal of this alliance was to develop a novel category of oral, disease-modifying agents for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases and inflammatory conditions. The Roche Agreement consisted of the following funding streams: an upfront license payment, reimbursements of certain research and development costs, product development milestones, sales milestones and product royalty payments.

 

Pursuant to the Roche Agreement, the Company received a non-refundable upfront license payment of $16 million in January 2009. Roche reimbursed all of the Company’s research and certain early development costs over the two year research term that concluded on December 31, 2010. The Company received approximately $21.2 million in research and development support under the Roche Agreement.

 

Roche terminated the Roche Agreement effective February 16, 2012. All rights to certain products, referred to as Licensed Compounds, which were identified and studied prior to the end of the two year research term, reverted to the Company upon the effectiveness of the termination. The Company may pay Roche a low single-digit royalty on any potential future sales of licensed products. The Company did not incur any termination costs or penalties as a result of the termination of the Roche Agreement. No development milestones were achieved under the Roche Agreement.

 

The $16 million non-refundable upfront license payment was being recognized ratably using the time-based model over the estimated performance period through June 2012. In the fourth quarter of 2011, upon notification of Roche’s election to terminate the Roche Agreement, the Company accelerated the recognition of approximately $2.1 million of remaining deferred revenue from the upfront payment because the Company had no remaining substantial performance obligations. Under the Roche Agreement, the Company recognized $0 and $1.1 million of license revenue in the three months ended September 30, 2012 and 2011, respectively, and $0 and $3.4 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2012 and 2011, respectively.

 

Co-Development Agreement

 

In July 2011, the Company entered into a co-development agreement with a clinical research organization (CRO) for the conduct of certain company-sponsored clinical trials. Under the co-development agreement, this CRO will perform clinical research services under a reduced fee structure in exchange for a share of licensing payments and commercial revenues, if any, resulting from the product under development up to a specified maximum payment, which is defined as a multiple of the fee reduction realized.