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Significant Agreements
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2016
Organization Consolidation And Presentation Of Financial Statements [Abstract]  
Significant Agreements

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Significant Agreements

Roche Holdings, Inc. and its affiliates

Summary of the Transaction

On January 11, 2015, the Company signed a broad strategic collaboration with Roche Holdings, Inc. and certain of its affiliates (collectively, “Roche”) to further advance the Company’s leadership position in genomic analysis and molecular information solutions in oncology. The transaction, which is a broad multi-part arrangement that includes a research & development (“R&D”) collaboration, a commercial collaboration, a U.S. medical education collaboration, and an equity investment with certain governance provisions, closed on April 7, 2015.

Under the terms of the transaction, Roche (a) made a primary investment of $250,000,000 in cash through the purchase of 5,000,000 newly issued shares of the Company’s common stock at a purchase price of $50.00 per share and (b) completed a tender offer to acquire 15,604,288 outstanding shares of the Company’s common stock at a price of $50.00 per share. Immediately following the closing of the transaction, Roche owned approximately 61.3% of the outstanding shares. As of December 31, 2016, Roche’s ownership was approximately 59.6% of the outstanding shares. Upon the closing of the transaction, the size of the Board of Directors of the Company (“Board”) was increased to nine, including three designees of Roche. Four existing independent directors and the Company’s former Chief Executive Officer, Michael Pellini, M.D., have continued as directors. In October 2016, the Company elected a new independent director.

The Company assessed the agreements related to each of the R&D collaboration, commercial collaboration, and the U.S. medical education collaboration and determined they should be treated as a single contract for accounting purposes.

Summary of the R&D Collaboration Agreement

Under the terms of the Collaboration Agreement by and among the Company, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, and Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., dated January 11, 2015, as amended (the “R&D Collaboration Agreement”), Roche could pay the Company more than $150,000,000 over a period of five years to access its molecular information platform, to reserve capacity for sample profiling, and to fund R&D programs. Amounts under the R&D Collaboration Agreement will be received as services are performed and obligations are fulfilled under each platform program. Roche will utilize the Company’s molecular information platform to standardize sample profiling conducted as part of its clinical trials, to enable comparability of clinical trial results for R&D purposes, and to better understand the potential for combination therapies. In addition, Roche and the Company will jointly develop solutions related to cancer immunotherapy testing, blood-based genomic analysis using ctDNA assays, and next generation companion diagnostics, each of which represents a distinct platform within the R&D Collaboration Agreement. The R&D Collaboration Agreement is governed by a Joint Management Committee (“JMC”) formed by an equal number of representatives from the Company and Roche. There are also other sub-committees for each platform that will be established to oversee the day to day responsibilities of the respective platform. The JMC will, among other activities, review and approve R&D plans and establish and set expectations for the other platform sub-committees. The JMC and other sub-committees, although considered deliverables under the arrangement, are immaterial in relation to the entire arrangement and therefore were not considered when allocating consideration.

On April 6, 2016, the Company and Roche entered into the First Amendment to the R&D Collaboration Agreement, which reduced certain restrictions on the Company’s activities in immuno-oncology and revised certain criteria for the achievement of a development milestone.

On June 16, 2016, the Company and Roche entered into the Second Amendment to the R&D Collaboration Agreement, which set forth the terms of an omnibus development program to provide for R&D projects that do not fall within the scope of the other programs already covered by the R&D Collaboration Agreement. For the new R&D projects contemplated during 2016 under the Second Amendment to the R&D Collaboration Agreement, Roche will reimburse the Company for certain R&D costs incurred for the agreed upon work. In addition, Roche will be required to make certain milestone payments upon the achievement of specified clinical events up to $13,000,000 in the aggregate. All milestone payments are considered substantive. The R&D reimbursements and clinical milestone payments will be recognized using a proportional performance model when earned by the Company

On July 25, 2016, the Company and Roche entered into a Third Amendment to the R&D Collaboration Agreement, which modified certain exclusivity provisions relating to cancer immunotherapy.

On December 20, 2016, the Company and Roche entered into a Fourth Amendment to the R&D Collaboration Agreement, which further modified certain exclusivity provisions relating to cancer immunotherapy.

Molecular Information Platform Program

Under the molecular information platform program within the R&D Collaboration Agreement, the following deliverables were identified: (i) cross-licenses for access to relevant intellectual property (“IP”), (ii) reserved capacity for sample profiling, (iii) access to the Company’s molecular information database, (iv) full-time equivalent persons (“FTEs”) per year for performance of database queries and the delivery of results, and (v) sample profiling above the reserved capacity limit.

The Company determined which deliverables within the arrangement have standalone value from the other undelivered elements, and identified the following separate units of accounting: (i) reserved capacity for sample profiling, (ii) access to the Company’s molecular information database and FTEs per year for the performance of database queries and the delivery of results, and (iii) sample profiling above the reserved capacity limit. The cross-licenses grant each party access to relevant IP to perform under the contract or to exploit the deliverables. The licenses are delivered at the inception of the arrangement and relate to development and sample profiling work performed under the platform. The Company does not sell the licenses separately as they are closely connected to the development and sample profiling activities and have little value to Roche without these other deliverables. Therefore, the licenses are combined with the other units of accounting identified under the molecular information platform program and do not have standalone value.

The Company identified allocable consideration of approximately $85,000,000 related to the molecular information platform program, which was allocated to the individual units of accounting based on the best estimate of selling price (“BESP”). Revenue related to reserved capacity for sample profiling will be recognized on a straight-line basis as the capacity is available for each individual contract year within the arrangement. The database access and FTE payments will be recognized ratably over the five-year contract life. The FTEs will perform database queries and will deliver results of the requested database queries. The value to Roche is not only the access to the database, but also the service being performed by the FTEs. Therefore, the Company concluded the FTEs should be combined with the database access as one unit of accounting. For any sample profiling provided above the reserved capacity, the Company will recognize revenue as the service is provided based on the BESP.

Immunotherapy Testing Platform Development Program

Under the immunotherapy testing platform development program within the R&D Collaboration Agreement, the following deliverables were identified: (i) cross-licenses for access to relevant IP, (ii) obligations to perform R&D services for immuno-biomarker discovery and signature identification, and (iii) obligations to provide sample profiling using immunotherapy clinical study assays.

The Company determined which deliverables within the arrangement have standalone value from the other undelivered elements, and identified the following separate units of accounting: (i) obligations to perform R&D services for immuno-biomarker discovery and signature identification and (ii) obligations to provide sample profiling using immunotherapy clinical study assays. The cross-licenses grant each party access to relevant IP of the other party to perform such party’s obligations under the contract and to exploit the deliverables. The licenses are delivered at the inception of the arrangement and relate to R&D work performed under the platform. The Company does not sell the licenses separately as they are closely connected to the R&D activities and have little value to Roche without these other deliverables. Therefore, the licenses are combined with the other units of accounting identified under the immunotherapy testing platform development program and do not have standalone value.

Under this platform, Roche will reimburse the Company for certain R&D costs incurred related to the immuno-biomarker discovery and signature identification activities, as well as costs incurred in the development of immunotherapy assays for clinical studies. In addition, Roche will be required to make certain milestone payments upon the achievement of specified clinical events under the immunotherapy testing platform development program. Clinical milestone payments up to $6,600,000 in the aggregate are triggered upon the initiation of Roche clinical trials using immunotherapy assays developed under the R&D Collaboration Agreement and are considered substantive. The R&D reimbursements and clinical milestone payments will be recognized using a proportional performance model when earned by the Company.

Circulating Tumor DNA (ctDNA) Platform Development Program

Under the ctDNA platform development program within the R&D Collaboration Agreement, the following deliverables were identified: (i) cross-licenses for access to relevant IP, (ii) obligations to perform R&D services for the development of a ctDNA clinical trial assay, including its analytical validation, and (iii) sample profiling resulting from the development of a ctDNA clinical assay.

The Company determined which deliverables within the arrangement have standalone value from the other undelivered elements, and identified the following separate units of accounting: (i) obligations to perform R&D services for the development of a ctDNA clinical trial assay and (ii) delivery of clinical sample profiling resulting from the development of a ctDNA clinical assay. The cross-licenses grant each party access to relevant IP of the other party to perform such party’s obligations under the contract and to exploit the deliverables. The licenses are delivered at the inception of the arrangement and relate to R&D work performed under the platform. The Company does not sell the licenses separately as they are closely connected to the R&D activities and have little value to Roche without these other deliverables. Therefore, the licenses are combined with the other units of accounting identified under the ctDNA platform development program and do not have standalone value.

The Company is responsible for all R&D costs under the ctDNA platform development program. Roche will be required to make certain milestone payments upon the achievement of specified events. Milestone payments up to $12,000,000 in the aggregate are triggered upon successful analytical validation of a ctDNA assay and delivery of a ctDNA clinical trial assay for use in Roche clinical trials. All milestones are considered substantive and will be recognized using a proportional performance model when earned by the Company.

Companion Diagnostics (CDx) Development Program

Under the CDx development program within the R&D Collaboration Agreement, the following deliverables were identified: (i) cross-licenses for access to relevant IP and (ii) obligations to perform R&D services for the development of CDx assays for use in connection with certain Roche products.

The Company determined which deliverables within the arrangement have standalone value from the other undelivered elements, and concluded all deliverables under the CDx development program represent a single unit of accounting. The cross-licenses grant each party access to relevant IP of the other party to perform such party’s obligations under the contract and to exploit the deliverables. The licenses are delivered at the inception of the arrangement and relate to R&D work performed under the platform. The Company does not sell the licenses separately as they are closely connected to the R&D activities and have little value to Roche without these other deliverables. Therefore, the licenses are combined with the obligation to perform R&D services for the development of a CDx assay as a single unit of accounting.

Under this platform, Roche will reimburse the Company for certain costs incurred related to R&D under the CDx development program with respect to investigational markers. In addition, Roche will be required to make certain milestone payments upon the achievement of specified regulatory and commercial events under the CDx development program. Regulatory milestone payments of $600,000 are triggered upon obtaining FDA approval of a premarket approval application for each CDx product developed under the arrangement and are considered substantive. The R&D reimbursements and regulatory milestone payments will be recognized using a proportional performance model when earned by the Company. Commercial milestone payments are triggered upon the performance of a specified number of CDx assays for certain commercial clinical diagnostic uses. Any commercial milestone payments received by the Company will be treated similar to royalties and recognized in their entirety when earned.

Termination of the R&D Collaboration Agreement

The R&D Collaboration Agreement may be terminated by either the Company or Roche on a program-by-program basis, upon written notice, in the event of the other party’s uncured material breach. Roche may also terminate the entire R&D Collaboration Agreement or an individual program under the R&D Collaboration Agreement for any reason upon written notice to the Company, subject to certain exceptions. If the R&D Collaboration Agreement is terminated, license and IP rights are returned to each party and the Company must return to Roche or dispose of any unused samples delivered for profiling purposes. If Roche terminates the R&D Collaboration Agreement as a result of a breach by the Company, Roche retains the license rights granted to certain IP of the Company, and the Company shall refund to Roche any reserved capacity fees and database access fees previously received by the Company that were unused based on the passage of time up to termination for the given contract year. If the R&D Collaboration Agreement is terminated by Roche without cause, or by the Company due to a breach by Roche, the Company has a right to receive the contractual payments it would have expected to receive for each program had the agreement not been terminated.

Summary of the Ex-U.S. Commercialization Agreement

In addition to the R&D Collaboration Agreement, the Company entered into a commercial collaboration agreement with Roche designed to facilitate the delivery of the Company’s products and services outside the United States (“Ex-U.S.”) in partnership with Roche (the “Ex-U.S. Commercialization Agreement”). Pursuant to the Ex-U.S. Commercialization Agreement, on April 7, 2016, Roche obtained Ex-U.S. commercialization rights to the Company’s existing products and services and to future co-developed products and services. The Company remains solely responsible for commercialization of its products and services within the United States. The selected geographic areas where Roche exercised its commercialization rights constitute the “Roche Territory.” For those geographic areas that Roche did not select, the commercialization rights for such geographic areas reverted back to the Company. The Ex-U.S. Commercialization Agreement is governed by the JMC. There is also a Joint Operational Committee (“JOC”) that has been established to oversee the activities under the Ex-U.S. Commercialization Agreement. The JMC will have the responsibilities as outlined under the R&D Collaboration Agreement. The JMC and JOC, although considered deliverables under the arrangement, are immaterial in relation to the entire arrangement and therefore were not considered when allocating consideration.

Under the Ex-U.S. Commercialization Agreement, the following deliverables were identified: (i) the right, granted by means of a license, for Roche to market and sell the Company’s products in the Roche Territory and (ii) obligations to perform sample profiling and other services relating to Company products and services sold by Roche in the Roche Territory. The Company concluded that the license is delivered at the inception of the arrangement. The Company does not sell the license separately as it is closely connected to the sample profiling and other services and has little value to Roche without these services being performed. Therefore, the deliverables identified will be combined as a single unit of accounting under the Ex-U.S. Commercialization Agreement and revenue will be recognized as the service is performed for each product sold by Roche.

Roche will reimburse the Company for costs incurred in performing sample profiling and other services relating to Company products sold by Roche in the Roche Territory. These reimbursements will be recognized as revenue in the period the sample profiling or other service has been completed. In addition, Roche will be required to make a one-time milestone payment of $10,000,000 when the aggregate gross margin on sales of certain of the Company’s products reaches $100,000,000 in the Roche Territory in any calendar year. Roche may also pay delay fees to the extent Roche fails to launch Company products in specific countries within a specified timeframe. This milestone payment and these fees will be treated similarly to royalties and recognized in their entirety when earned.

The Company will be entitled to receive, on a quarterly basis, tiered royalty payments ranging from the mid-single digits to high-teens based on a percentage of the aggregate gross margin generated on sales of specified products in the Roche Territory during any calendar year. Royalty payments will be recognized in the period when earned.

The Ex-U.S. Commercialization Agreement may be terminated by either the Company or Roche in its entirety or on a country-by-country or product-by-product basis, upon written notice, in the event of the other party’s uncured material breach. Roche may also terminate the Ex-U.S. Commercialization Agreement without cause on a product-by-product and/or country-by-country basis, upon written notice to the Company, after the initial five-year term. If the Ex-U.S. Commercialization Agreement is terminated, the license and IP rights granted by the Company to Roche terminate. In addition, if Roche terminates the Ex-U.S. Commercialization Agreement as a result of a breach by the Company, Roche may seek damages via arbitration or be eligible to receive either a one-time payment reflecting the value of the terminated products or a royalty on sales of the terminated products based on the royalty Roche would have paid the Company for the terminated products had the Ex-U.S. Commercialization Agreement not been terminated.

On May 9, 2016, the Company and Roche entered into the First Amendment to the Ex-U.S. Commercialization Agreement, which established procedures for each party to track and inform the other party concerning any adverse events, in the event such adverse events occur.

Summary of the U.S. Education Agreement

Within the United States, the Company has entered into the U.S. Education Collaboration Agreement (the “U.S. Education Agreement”) with Genentech, Inc. (“Genentech”), an affiliate of Roche. Genentech has agreed to engage its pathology education team to provide information and medical education to health care providers regarding comprehensive genomic profiling in cancer. The Company will pay Genentech on a quarterly basis for costs incurred by Genentech in conducting the education activities based on a number of factors. The total amount of payments to be made over the course of the arrangement is immaterial and all payments will be expensed as incurred.

IVD Collaboration Agreement

On April 6, 2016, the Company entered into a Master IVD Collaboration Agreement (the “IVD Collaboration Agreement”) with F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd and Roche Molecular Systems, Inc., which memorializes in a definitive agreement the terms set forth in that certain Binding Term Sheet for an In Vitro Diagnostics Collaboration, by and between F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd and the Company, which was entered into in connection with the Company’s strategic collaboration with Roche.

The IVD Collaboration Agreement provides terms for the Company and Roche to collaborate non-exclusively to develop and commercialize in vitro diagnostic versions of certain existing Company products, including FoundationOne and FoundationOne Heme, and future Company products, including those developed under the R&D Collaboration Agreement.

The IVD Collaboration Agreement expires on April 7, 2020, unless earlier terminated as provided therein. Roche also has the right, in its sole discretion, to extend the term of the IVD Collaboration Agreement for additional two year periods of time during any period of time in which Roche continues to hold at least 50.1% of the Company’s capital stock. Either party may terminate the IVD Collaboration Agreement for an uncured breach of the agreement, or for insolvency or bankruptcy.

Biopharmaceutical Customer

In November 2011, the Company entered into a Master Services Agreement (“MSA”) with a biopharmaceutical customer (the “Customer”) establishing the legal and administrative framework for collaboration. In May 2012, the Company and the Customer amended the MSA to include certain guaranteed quarterly minimum payments by the Customer in return for the Company providing sufficient laboratory capacity to perform up to a maximum number of tests. The amendment defined an initial two-year term beginning on the amendment date, during which the Customer agreed to pay the Company $14,200,000. The Company and the Customer executed a second amendment to the MSA, which was effective in October 2013, and extended the term through at least September 2016 during which time the Customer agreed to pay the Company $17,100,000. The Company concluded that the second amendment represented a material modification to the arrangement pursuant to ASC 605. At the date of the modification, there was no deferred revenue balance on the consolidated balance sheet. The Company identified three deliverables under the amended agreement: (i) project management and Joint Steering Committee (“JSC”) services, (ii) the provision of molecular information developed by the Company upon the Customer’s request, and (iii) the provision of sufficient laboratory capacity to test a minimum number of samples provided by the Customer. The Company determined that none of the deliverables under the amended agreement had standalone value since these services were not sold separately by any vendor, including the Company, and a customer could not resell these deliverables on a standalone basis. Thus, the Company determined the arrangement included a single unit of accounting, with revenue being recognized ratably over the three-year term of the amended MSA based on the passage of time, as there is no evidence to suggest revenue is earned or obligations are fulfilled in a different pattern. Under the amended MSA, the Company recognized revenue of $3,719,000, $6,968,000, and $7,996,000 for the years ended December 31, 2016, 2015, and 2014, respectively.

In July 2015, the Company was notified by the Customer of its desire to discontinue the obligation for the Company to provide molecular information upon the Customer’s request. These services were discontinued effective October 1, 2015. All remaining deliverables under the amended MSA, as described above, remained unchanged.

In August 2016, the Company was notified by the Customer that the amended MSA would not be renewed beyond the initial two-year term. All obligations of the Company under the amended MSA were completed and the terms of the amended MSA discontinued effective October 1, 2016. The Company and the Customer entered into a separate agreement following the termination of the amended MSA, which governs the relationship effective October 1, 2016.

Biopharmaceutical Partner

In July 2012, the Company entered into a Master Services Agreement (“Services Agreement”) with a biopharmaceutical partner (“Partner”) to perform sample profiling at the Partner’s request. The Services Agreement established the legal and administrative framework for the partnership between the entities. The Services Agreement also included a right for the Partner to initiate an exclusive negotiation with the Company for the development of a Companion Diagnostic (“CDx”). In March 2014, the Company and Partner expanded the scope of work by executing a Companion Diagnostic Agreement (“Amended Agreement”), thereby amending the Services Agreement to include the joint development and regulatory approval for a CDx. The Amended Agreement defined the term of the arrangement as the earlier of five years or receipt of certain regulatory approvals of a CDx. The Company concluded that the amendment to the original Services Agreement represented a material modification to the arrangement pursuant to ASC 605 as the Amended Agreement increased total consideration by a significant amount. Additionally, the deliverables under the Amended Agreement changed significantly. At the date of the modification, there was no deferred revenue balance on the consolidated balance sheet related to the original Services Agreement with this Partner.

The Company identified seven deliverables under the Amended Agreement: (i) cross-licenses for access to relevant IP, (ii) obligations to continue to perform sample profiling pursuant to the original Services Agreement, (iii) obligations to perform specific R&D activities for the development of a CDx assay for use in connection with the Partner’s product, (iv) obligations to assist in obtaining regulatory approval of the Partner’s product at its request, (v) participation on a JSC to manage the overall development of the CDx assay, (vi) obligations to perform analytical validation of the CDx assay, and (vii) obligations to make the CDx assay commercially available, following any required regulatory approval. The obligation to make the CDx assay commercially available is dependent on successful development and regulatory approval. As such, the Company determined that this was a contingent deliverable and therefore arrangement consideration was not allocated to this deliverable.

The Company then determined the following deliverables were separate units of accounting: (i) obligations to continue to perform sample profiling pursuant to the original Services Agreement, (ii) obligations to perform specific R&D activities for the development of a CDx assay for use in connection with the Partner’s product and to provide assistance in obtaining regulatory approval of the Partner’s product at its request, (iii) obligations to perform analytical validation of the CDx assay, and (iv) obligations to make the CDx assay commercially available, following any regulatory approval obtained. The cross-licenses grant each party access to relevant IP of the other party to perform such party’s obligations under the contract and to exploit the deliverables. The licenses are delivered at the inception of the arrangement and primarily relate to the R&D development activities performed under the Amended Agreement. The Company does not sell the licenses separately as they are closely connected to the R&D development activities and have little value to the Partner without the performance of such activities. The JSC obligations do not have standalone value and are also closely connected to the R&D development activities under the Amended Agreement. The JSC obligations, although considered deliverables under the arrangement, are immaterial in relation to the entire arrangement. Therefore, the licenses and JSC obligations were combined with the R&D development activities, or unit (ii) identified above.

Under the Amended Agreement, the Partner pays a fixed fee for each sample to be profiled; will reimburse the Company for a portion of costs incurred in performing analytical validation of the CDx assay; and will be required to make certain substantive milestone and other payments upon the achievement of specified regulatory and clinical events tied to the development and commercialization of the CDx. The fixed or determinable consideration under the Amended Agreement was allocated to the units of accounting based on the BESP. Consideration allocated to sample profiling is recognized as samples are delivered, which is when the recognition criteria in ASC 605-25 has been satisfied. Consideration allocated to the R&D development activities and the analytical validation work is recognized using the proportional performance method. As of December 31, 2016, the CDx assay had achieved regulatory approval and the obligations under the Amended Agreement had been completed. The Company and the Biopharmaceutical Partner are currently negotiating additional work to be performed under a separate agreement.

Under the Amended Agreement, the Company recognized revenue of $11,735,000 and $10,618,000 for the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2015, respectively, which was primarily related to sample profiling and milestone payments received upon the achievement of specified regulatory and clinical events tied to the R&D development activities of the CDx. Under the Amended Agreement and Services Agreement, the Company recognized combined revenue of $2,689,000 for the year ended December 31, 2014, primarily related to sample profiling.