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Agreements Related to Intellectual Property
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2023
Agreements Related to Intellectual Property  
Agreements Related to Intellectual Property

13. Agreements Related to Intellectual Property

License Agreement – Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, Inc.

In December 2023, the Company entered into an exclusive patent license agreement with Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, Inc. (“Sun Pharma”). Under the license agreement, the Company granted Sun Pharma exclusive rights under certain patents that the Company exclusively licenses from a third party. The patents relate to the use of deuruxolitinib, Sun Pharma’s Janus kinase (“JAK”) inhibitor, or other isotopic forms of ruxolitinib, to treat alopecia areata or androgenetic alopecia. Under the license agreement, Sun Pharma has agreed to pay the Company an upfront payment, regulatory and commercial milestone payments, and a mid single-digit tiered royalty calculated as a percentage of Sun Pharma’s net sales. The Company has separate contractual obligations under which the Company has agreed to pay to third parties a portion of the consideration it may receive under the license agreement.

Upon execution of the agreement, the Company received an upfront payment of $15.0 million from Sun Pharma, a portion of which was payable to third parties.

License Agreement – Pediatrix Therapeutics, Inc.

In November 2022, the Company entered into a license agreement with Pediatrix Therapeutics, Inc. (“Pediatrix”), under which the Company granted Pediatrix the exclusive rights to develop, manufacture and commercialize ATI-1777 in Greater China. Pediatrix has agreed to pay the Company an upfront payment, development, regulatory and commercial milestone payments, and a tiered royalty ranging from a low-to-high single digit percentage of net sales of ATI-1777 by Pediatrix in Greater China. A portion of consideration received from Pediatrix is payable to the former Confluence equity holders as described below.

Upon execution of the agreement, the Company received an upfront payment of $5.0 million from Pediatrix, a portion of which was payable to the former Confluence equity holders as described below.

License Agreement – Eli Lilly and Company

In August 2022, the Company entered into a non-exclusive patent license agreement with Eli Lilly and Company (“Lilly”). Under the license agreement, the Company granted Lilly non-exclusive rights under certain patents and patent applications that the Company exclusively licenses from a third party. The patents and patent applications relate to the use of baricitinib, Lilly’s JAK inhibitor, to treat alopecia areata. Under the license agreement, Lilly has agreed to pay the Company an upfront payment, regulatory and commercial milestone payments, anniversary payments, and a low single-digit royalty calculated as a percentage of Lilly’s net sales of baricitinib for the treatment of alopecia areata. The Company has separate contractual obligations under which the Company has agreed to pay to third parties an amount equal to any regulatory and commercial milestone payments it receives under the Lilly license agreement, as well as a portion of the upfront consideration and a portion of the royalties it may receive under the license agreement.

During the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, the Company recorded licensing revenue under this agreement of $12.7 million and $17.8 million, respectively, from Lilly, a portion of which was payable to third parties.

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. In July 2023, EPI Health filed a voluntary petition for relief under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. Through the bankruptcy process, EPI Health and its parent company, Novan, Inc., sold the RHOFADE assets to a third party, which excluded the Company’s asset

purchase agreement with EPI Health and the outstanding amounts due. The sale was approved by the bankruptcy court in September 2023. As a result of the bankruptcy proceedings, the Company recorded an allowance for doubtful accounts resulting in $1.3 million of bad debt expense for the year ended December 31, 2023, representing all amounts that were due and outstanding by EPI Health.

Agreement and Plan of Merger Confluence

In August 2017, 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 agreed to pay the former Confluence equity holders aggregate remaining contingent consideration of up to $75.0 million based upon the achievement of specified regulatory and commercial milestones set forth in the Confluence Agreement. In addition, the Company 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 December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the balance of the Company’s contingent consideration liability was $6.2 million and $33.1 million, respectively (see Note 3).