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Refers to contingent payment that may be received by the entity, upon the achievement of specified development and regulatory milestones.

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A net receivable in the financial statements equal to the difference between the Company's costs and 36% of the total costs incurred for the project in the period.

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Refers to contingent payment that may be received by the entity, upon the achievement of specified development and regulatory milestones.

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Refers to maximum percentage of Tiered royalty obligation to MorphoSys.

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For an unclassified balance sheet, the amount due from customers or clients for goods or services that have been delivered or sold in the normal course of business, reduced to their estimated net realizable fair value by an allowance established by the entity of the amount it deems uncertain of collection.

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Description of rights and obligations under the collaborative arrangements.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Revenue from multiple-deliverable arrangements that include licensing fees and services revenue. Licensing revenue is consideration received from another party for the right to use, but not own, certain of the entity's intangible assets. Licensing arrangements include, but are not limited to, rights to use a patent, copyright, technology, manufacturing process, software or trademark. Licensing fees are generally, but not always, fixed as to amount and not dependent upon the revenue generated by the licensing party. An entity may receive licensing fees for licenses that also generate royalty payments to the entity. Services revenue may be derived by providing other, nonspecified, services during the reporting period.

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