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License and Collaboration Agreements
3 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2016
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]  
License and Collaboration Agreements
2. License and Collaboration Agreements

Alimera

Under the collaboration agreement with Alimera, as amended in March 2008 (the “Alimera Agreement”), the Company licensed to Alimera the rights to develop, market and sell certain product candidates, including ILUVIEN, and Alimera assumed all financial responsibility for the development of licensed products. In addition, the Company is entitled to receive 20% of any net profits (as defined) on sales of each licensed product (including ILUVIEN) by Alimera, measured on a quarter-by-quarter and country-by-country basis. Alimera may recover 20% of previously incurred and unapplied net losses (as defined) for commercialization of each product in a country, but only by an offset of up to 4% of the net profits earned in that country each quarter, reducing the Company’s net profit share to 16% in each country until those net losses are recouped. In the event that Alimera sublicenses commercialization in any country, the Company is entitled to 20% of royalties and 33% of non-royalty consideration received by Alimera, less certain permitted deductions. The Company is also entitled to reimbursement of certain patent maintenance costs with respect to the patents licensed to Alimera.

Because the Company has no remaining performance obligations under the Alimera Agreement, all amounts received from Alimera are generally recognized as revenue upon receipt or at such earlier date, if applicable, on which any such amounts are both fixed and determinable and reasonably assured of collectability. In instances when payments are received and subject to a contingency, revenue is deferred until such contingency is resolved. See Note 10 regarding net profit share receipts subject to arbitration proceedings.

Revenue under the Alimera Agreement totaled $20,000 and $163,000 for the three months ended September 30, 2016 and 2015, respectively. In addition to patent fee reimbursements in both periods, the Company earned $157,000 of non-royalty sublicense consideration during the three months ended September 30, 2015.

Pfizer

In June 2011, the Company and Pfizer entered into an Amended and Restated Collaborative Research and License Agreement (the “Restated Pfizer Agreement”) to focus solely on the development of a sustained-release bioerodible micro-insert injected into the subconjunctiva designed to deliver latanoprost for human ophthalmic disease or conditions other than uveitis (the “Latanoprost Product”). Pfizer made an upfront payment of $2.3 million and the Company agreed to provide Pfizer options under various circumstances for an exclusive, worldwide license to develop and commercialize the Latanoprost Product.

The estimated selling price of the combined deliverables under the Restated Pfizer Agreement of $6.7 million is being recognized as collaborative research and development revenue over the estimated performance period using the proportional performance method with costs associated with developing the Latanoprost Product reflected in operating expenses in the period in which they are incurred. Total deferred revenue was approximately $5.6 million at each of September 30, 2016 and June 30, 2016, with no current portion at those dates. The Company recorded no collaborative research and development revenue during each of the three-month periods ended September 30, 2016 and 2015.

On October 25, 2016, the Company notified Pfizer that it had discontinued development of the Latanoprost Product, which provided Pfizer a 60-day option to acquire a worldwide license in return for a $10.0 million payment and potential sales-based royalties and development, regulatory and sales performance milestone payments. If Pfizer does not exercise its option to license the Latanoprost Product, the Restated Pfizer Agreement will automatically terminate and the deferred revenue balance will be recognized as revenue in the quarter ending December 31, 2016. However, the Company would retain the right, after one year, to develop and commercialize the Latanoprost Product.

Pfizer owned approximately 5.4% of the Company’s outstanding common stock at September 30, 2016.

Bausch & Lomb

Pursuant to a licensing and development agreement, as amended, Bausch & Lomb has a worldwide exclusive license to make and sell Retisert in return for royalties based on sales. Bausch & Lomb was also licensed to make and sell Vitrasert, an implant for sustained treatment of CMV retinitis, but discontinued sales in the second quarter of fiscal 2013 following patent expiration.

Royalty income totaled $243,000 and $286,000 for the three months ended September 30, 2016 and 2015, respectively. Accounts receivable from Bausch & Lomb totaled $259,000 at September 30, 2016 and $288,000 at June 30, 2016.

OncoSil Medical

The Company entered into an exclusive, worldwide royalty-bearing license agreement in December 2012, amended and restated in March 2013, with OncoSil Medical UK Limited (f/k/a Enigma Therapeutics Limited), a wholly owned subsidiary of OncoSil Medical Ltd (“OncoSil”) for the development of BrachySil, the Company’s BioSilicon product candidate for the treatment of pancreatic and other types of cancer. The Company received an upfront fee of $100,000 and is entitled to 8% sales-based royalties, 20% of sublicense consideration and milestone payments based on aggregate product sales. OncoSil is obligated to pay an annual license maintenance fee of $100,000 by the end of each calendar year. Annual license maintenance fees of $100,000 were paid in January 2014, January 2015 and December 2015; no revenue related to the OncoSil agreement was paid during the three-month periods ended September 30, 2016 and 2015. For each calendar year commencing with 2014, the Company is entitled to receive reimbursement of any patent maintenance costs, sales-based royalties and sub-licensee sales-based royalties earned, but only to the extent such amounts, in the aggregate, exceed the $100,000 annual license maintenance fee. The Company has no consequential performance obligations under the OncoSil license agreement and, accordingly, any amounts to which the Company is entitled under the agreement are recognized as revenue on the earlier of receipt or when collectability is reasonably assured. As of September 30, 2016, no deferred revenue was recorded for this agreement.

Evaluation Agreements

The Company from time to time enters into funded agreements to evaluate the potential use of its technology systems for sustained release of third party drug candidates in the treatment of various diseases. Consideration received is generally recognized as revenue over the term of the feasibility study agreement. Revenue recognition for consideration, if any, related to a license option right is assessed based on the terms of any such future license agreement or is otherwise recognized at the completion of the evaluation agreement. Revenues under evaluation agreements totaled $8,000 for each of the three-month periods ended September 30, 2016 and 2015.