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Collaboration Agreements
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2015
Collaboration Agreements  
Collaboration Agreements

 

14. Collaboration Agreements

 

United Therapeutics

 

The Company has a license agreement with United Therapeutics Corporation to use one of its proprietary technologies for an oral formulation of Remodulin for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension and potentially for additional indications. Through September 30, 2015, the Company has received $3.5 million in milestone payments under the agreement.  During 2014, we entered into a Royalty Interest Acquisition Agreement with HealthCare Royalty Partners III, L.P., (HC Royalty).  Pursuant to this Agreement, HC Royalty made a $30.0 million cash payment to the Company in consideration for acquiring from the Company certain royalty and milestone rights related to the commercialization of Orenitram (treprostinil) Extended-Release Tablets.  We will retain full ownership of the royalty rights after a certain threshold has been reached per the terms of the Agreement.  There was zero revenue generated from this license agreement in the three and nine months ended September 30, 2015. The revenue generated from this license agreement in the three and nine months ended September 30, 2014 was $2.0 million for a milestone payment.  As of September 30, 2015 and December 31, 2014, there are no receivables or payables related to the collaboration with United Therapeutics Corporation.

 

Stendhal Licenses

 

In August 2011, we executed a Development and Licensing Agreement with Especificos Stendhal, S.A., DE C.V. (Stendhal) that provided Stendhal an exclusive license to our licensed intellectual property underlying our Oxtellar XR product in Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia and other select markets in Central and South America. The agreement included the right to our patents, proprietary information, and know-how of our drug-delivery technology and pharmaceutical product underlying our Oxtellar XR product. Stendhal is responsible for all costs associated with clinical development, approval, commercialization and distribution of the product in the defined territory, which may be expanded upon certain events. We have received $2.3 million from Stendhal, which was recognized as revenue on a straight-line basis over the substantive obligation period. As of September 30, 2015, this up-front payment had been fully recognized as revenue. We may receive up to $1.5 million in additional milestone payments, based on certain regulatory and commercial milestones defined in the agreement.

 

In September 2012, the Company executed a Development and Licensing Agreement (Stendhal License Agreement) with Stendhal that provided Stendhal with an exclusive license of the Company’s licensed intellectual property underlying the Trokendi XR product in the defined territory. The license included the right to the Company’s patents, proprietary information, and know-how of the Company’s drug-delivery technology and pharmaceutical product underlying its Trokendi XR product. Stendhal is responsible for all costs associated with clinical development, approval, commercialization and distribution of the product in the defined territory. The Company received $1.8 million that is being recognized as revenue on a straight-line basis over its substantive obligation period of twelve years. As of September 30, 2015, approximately $1.3 million of this amount was recorded as deferred revenue of which $0.1 million was current and $1.2 million was non-current. The Company monitors this estimate on a quarterly basis to determine if facts and circumstances may have changed that would require a prospective adjustment to the recognition period. The Company may receive up to an additional $1.8 million in future milestone payments, based on certain milestones defined in the Stendhal License Agreement.

 

The licensing revenue generated from Stendhal in the nine months ended September 30, 2015 and September 30, 2014 was $0.1 million and $0.2 million, respectively.  As of September 30, 2015 and December 31, 2014, there is $1.3 million and $1.4 million, respectively, in deferred licensing revenue included in the balance sheet.  There were de minimis amounts of product revenue for the nine months ended September 30, 2015 and 2014. There is a combined amount of $0.8 million of milestone and product receivables at September 30, 2015 and a de minimis amount of receivables at December 31, 2014.