Collaboration and Licensing Revenue

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2024

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]

The Company's collaborations and licensing agreements may provide for multiple promises to be satisfied by the Company and typically include a license to the Company's technology platforms, participation in collaboration committees, and performance of certain research and development services. Based on the nature of the promises in the Company's collaboration and licensing agreements, the Company typically combines most of its promises into a single performance obligation because the promises are highly interrelated and not individually distinct. Options to acquire additional services are considered to determine if they constitute material rights. At contract inception, the transaction price is typically the upfront payment received and is allocated to the performance obligations. The Company has determined the transaction price should be recognized as revenue based on its measure of progress under the agreement primarily based on inputs necessary to fulfill the performance obligation.

The Company determines whether collaborations and licensing agreements are individually significant for disclosure based on a number of factors, including total revenue recorded by the Company pursuant to collaboration and licensing agreements, collaborators or licensees with equity method investments, or other qualitative factors. Collaboration and licensing revenues generated from consolidated subsidiaries are eliminated in consolidation.

There was no collaboration and licensing revenue recognized during both the three and six months ended June 30, 2024 and 2023.

Alaunos License Agreement

On April 3, 2023, the Company entered into an amended and restated exclusive license agreement (the “License Agreement”), with Alaunos Therapeutics (“Alaunos”). The License Agreement amended and replaced an Exclusive License Agreement by and between the Company and Alaunos, dated October 5, 2018.

Pursuant to the terms of the License Agreement, the Company granted Alaunos an exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sub-licensable license to certain patents and know-how to research, develop and commercialize T-cell receptor products, which are referred to as TCR Products, designed for neoantigens for the treatment of cancer or the treatment and prevention of human papilloma virus, or HPV, to the extent that the primary reason for such treatment or prevention is to prevent cancer, which is referred to as the HPV Field. The Company has also granted Alaunos an exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sub-licensable license to certain patents relating to the Sleeping Beauty technology to research, develop and commercialize TCR Products

(other than those designed for neoantigens) for the treatment of cancer and in the HPV Field. The Company also granted Alaunos certain non-exclusive rights to certain patents and know-how to research, develop and commercialize products developed under or arising from a program of research and development focused on NK cells and gamma delta T-cells in the HPV field. Alaunos has the exclusive right to conduct in its sole discretion, and is solely responsible for all aspects of, the research, development and commercialization of the licensed products for the treatment of cancer and is not subject to a diligence obligation with respect to such efforts.

The License Agreement will terminate on a product-by-product and/or country-by-country basis upon the expiration of the last to expire patent claim for each licensed product. In addition, Alaunos may terminate the License Agreement on a country-by-country or program-by-program basis following written notice to the Company, and either party may terminate the License Agreement following notice of a material breach subject to a certain cure period.

Neither Alaunos nor the Company will have any other obligations with respect to the payment of milestones or royalties on products developed in connection with the License Agreement.

Deferred Revenue

Deferred revenue primarily consists of upfront and milestone consideration received for the Company's collaboration and licensing agreements. Revenue is recognized as services are performed. The arrangements classified as long-term are not active while the respective counterparties evaluate the status of the project and its desired future development activities since the Company cannot reasonably estimate the amount of services, if any, to be performed over the next year.

Deferred revenue consisted of the following:


	June 30, 2024		December 31, 2023
Collaboration and licensing agreements	$	1,818	$	1,818
Prepaid product and service revenues	15		15
Other	363		494
Total	$	2,196	$	2,327
Current portion of deferred revenue	$	378	$	509
Long-term portion of deferred revenue	1,818		1,818
Total	$	2,196	$	2,327