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Collaboration and Licensing Agreements
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2022
Licensing Agreements [Abstract]  
Collaboration and Licensing Agreements

11. Collaboration and Licensing Agreements

Incyte Collaboration and License Agreement

On January 27, 2017, the Company entered into a collaboration and license agreement with Incyte, or the Incyte Collaboration Agreement. Under the terms of the Incyte Collaboration Agreement, the Company granted Incyte an exclusive, worldwide license to develop and commercialize its small molecule arginase inhibitors for hematology and oncology indications. Through September 30, 2020, the parties collaborated on and co-funded the development of the licensed products, with Incyte bearing 70% and the Company

bearing 30% of global development costs. The parties would share profits and losses in the United States, with 60% to Incyte and 40% to the Company. The Company would have the right to co-detail the licensed products in the United States, and Incyte would pay the Company tiered royalties ranging from the low to mid-double digits on net sales of licensed products outside the United States.

The Incyte Collaboration Agreement also provides that the Company may choose to opt out of its co-funding obligations at any time. On August 28, 2020, the Company delivered written notice to Incyte of its decision to opt out of its co-development rights effective September 30, 2020. As a result of the Company’s decision to opt out, Incyte will pay all costs to develop INCB001158 or any other licensed products. In addition, the Company’s rights to U.S. profit sharing will no longer be in effect, and instead Incyte will pay Calithera tiered royalties ranging from the low double digits to mid-teens on net sales of licensed products in the U.S., an incremental 3% royalty on annual net sales in the United States of such licensed product until such incremental royalty equals 120% of previous development expenditures incurred by the Company.

Under the Incyte Collaboration Agreement, the Company received an upfront payment of $45 million in February 2017. In March 2017, the Company achieved a development milestone of $12 million, for which the Company received payment in May of 2017. In April 2020, the Company filed a complaint against Incyte in the Superior Court of California, San Francisco County, asserting claims for breach of contract arising out of Incyte’s failure to pay two milestone payments totaling $18 million the Company believed were due under the Incyte Collaboration Agreement. In September 2021, the Company entered into a Settlement Agreement and Release with Incyte. Concurrently, the parties also filed a dismissal of the complaint in the Superior Court of California. Under the terms of the Settlement Agreement and Release, which resolves all claims in the complaint without any admission of liability or fault, Incyte was to pay the Company a negotiated settlement amount of $6.75 million and the parties have exchanged mutual releases. In September 2021, the Company received and recognized the $6.75 million as milestone revenues. Total remaining potential development, regulatory and commercialization milestones as of June 30, 2022 were $720 million.

The Incyte Collaboration Agreement is considered to be under the scope of ASC Topic 808, Collaborative Arrangements. The Company has concluded that the research and development co-funding activities were not representative of a customer relationship and this unit of account is accounted for as an increase to or reduction of research and development expenses, rather than as revenue. In addition, the Company has analogized to ASC 606 for other aspects of the arrangement. The performance obligations under the Incyte Collaboration Agreement consist of intellectual property licenses and the performance of certain manufacturing and manufacturing technology transfer services. The Company determined that the license is not distinct from the associated manufacturing and technology transfer services to be performed under the agreement. Specifically, the Company believes the license is not capable of being distinct, as Incyte did not have the know-how to manufacture the collaboration product without Calithera’s assistance until completion of the manufacturing technology transfer process, and no other third parties could perform such assistance due to the early stage nature of the licensed intellectual property as well as Calithera’s propriety knowledge with respect to the licensed intellectual property.

Net costs associated with co-development activities performed under the Incyte Collaboration Agreement are included in research and development expenses in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations, with any reimbursement of costs by Incyte reflected as a reduction of such expenses. For the three months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, net costs payable to Incyte were approximately $21,000 and $0.4 million, respectively. For the six months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, net costs payable to (reimbursable from) Incyte were approximately $50,000 and ($0.4) million, respectively. As of June 30, 2022, net amounts payable to Incyte were $0.7 million.

Antengene License Agreement

On May 16, 2021, the Company entered into a license agreement, or the Antengene License Agreement, with Antengene Investment, Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Antengene Corporation. Under the terms of the Antengene License Agreement, the Company granted Antengene an exclusive, worldwide license to develop and commercialize CB-708, the Company’s small molecule inhibitor of CD73. The Company received an upfront payment of $3 million in May 2021 and may receive potential development, regulatory and sales milestones of up to $252 million, as well as tiered royalties on sales of the licensed product up to low double-digits.

The Antengene License Agreement is considered to be under the scope of ASC 606. In accordance with ASC 606, the Company determined the transaction price to be the $3 million upfront payment. The performance obligations consist of the intellectual property license, inventory, and manufacturing technical support services. The transaction price was allocated to the performance obligations on a relative selling price basis, with the value of the manufacturing technical support services considered to be de minimis. The Company determined that it had satisfied the intellectual property license and inventory performance obligations in the second quarter of 2021 and accordingly recognized license revenue of $3 million during the three months ended June 30, 2021. No additional revenue was recognized in subsequent periods related to the Antengene License Agreement.

Symbioscience License Agreement

In December 2014, the Company entered into an exclusive license agreement with Mars, Inc., by and through its Mars Symbioscience division, or Symbioscience, under which the Company has been granted the exclusive, worldwide license to develop and commercialize Symbioscience’s portfolio of arginase inhibitors for use in human healthcare, or the Symbioscience License Agreement. There were no expenses related to its licensing arrangement with Mars Symbioscience recorded in the three and six months ended June 30, 2022 or 2021.

The Company may make future payments of up to $23.6 million contingent upon attainment of various development and regulatory milestones and $95.0 million contingent upon attainment of various sales milestones. Additionally, the Company will pay royalties on sales of the licensed product, if such product sales are ever achieved. If the Company develops additional licensed products, after achieving regulatory approval of the first licensed product, the Company would owe additional regulatory milestone payments and additional royalty payments based on sales of such additional licensed products.