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Agreements Related to Intellectual Property
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2022
Agreements Related to Intellectual Property  
Agreements Related to Intellectual Property

12. Agreements Related to Intellectual Property

Asset Purchase Agreement – EPI Health, LLC

In October 2019, the Company sold RHOFADE (oxymetazoline hydrochloride) cream, 1% (“RHOFADE”) to EPI Health, LLC (“EPI Health”) pursuant to an asset purchase agreement.  EPI Health agreed to pay the Company a high single-digit royalty calculated as a percentage of net sales on a country-by-country basis until the date that the patent rights related to RHOFADE have expired or, if later, ten years from the date of the first commercial sale of RHOFADE in such country.  The Company recorded royalty income under the asset purchase agreement of $0.3 million and $0.2 million

during the three months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively, and $0.5 million and $0.4 million during the six months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively.  Royalty income is included in other revenue on the condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss.  EPI Health has also agreed to pay the Company potential sales milestone payments of up to $20.0 million in the aggregate upon the achievement of specified levels of net sales of products covered by the asset purchase agreement, and 25% of any upfront, license, milestone, maintenance or fixed payment received by EPI Health in connection with any license or sublicense of the assets transferred in the disposition in any territory outside of the United States, subject to specified exceptions.  

Agreement and Plan of Merger – Confluence

The Company entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger, pursuant to which it acquired Confluence (the “Confluence Agreement”).  Under the Confluence Agreement, the Company has agreed to pay the former Confluence equity holders aggregate remaining contingent consideration of up to $75.0 million based upon the achievement of specified future regulatory and commercial milestones set forth in the Confluence Agreement.  In addition, the Company has agreed to pay the former Confluence equity holders future royalty payments calculated as a low single-digit percentage of annual net sales, subject to specified reductions, limitations and other adjustments, until the date that all of the patent rights for that product have expired, as determined on a country-by-country and product-by-product basis or, in specified circumstances, ten years from the first commercial sale of such product.  In addition to the payments described above, if the Company sells, licenses or transfers any of the intellectual property acquired from Confluence pursuant to the Confluence Agreement to a third party, the Company will be obligated to pay the former Confluence equity holders a portion of any consideration received from such sale, license or transfer in specified circumstances.

As of June 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021, the balance of the Company’s contingent consideration liability was $23.8 million and $28.4 million, respectively (see Note 3).