RESEARCH COLLABORATION AGREEMENT AND LICENSE AGREEMENT

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2022

Research and Development [Abstract]

RESEARCH COLLABORATION AGREEMENT AND LICENSE AGREEMENT

NOTE 6:RESEARCH COLLABORATION AGREEMENT AND LICENSE AGREEMENT

On May 16, 2016, the Company entered into a Research Collaboration Agreement (“Collaboration Agreement”) and an Exclusive License Agreement (“License Agreement”) with Harvard. The Research Collaboration Agreement was amended on May 1, 2017, and April 1, 2018 (as amended, the “Collaboration Agreement”), and the Exclusive License Agreement was amended on April 1, 2018 (as amended, the “License Agreement”), to extend the term of the Collaboration Agreement by one year to May 16, 2022 and reallocate the Company’s quarterly installment payments to Harvard through such date, and to make certain technical changes. On April 30, 2020, the Company and Harvard amended the Collaboration Agreement, which included certain adjustments to the quarterly installments and extended the term an additional three quarters until February 2023. On October 14, 2021, the Company and Harvard further amended the Collaboration Agreement, to make certain adjustments to the quarterly installments and technical changes. The Collaboration Agreement concluded on March 31, 2022.

Under the License Agreement, Harvard has granted the Company an exclusive, worldwide royalty-bearing license under certain patents of Harvard relating to lightweight “soft suit” exoskeleton system technologies for lower limb disabilities, a royalty-free license under certain related know-how and the option to obtain a license under certain inventions conceived under the joint research collaboration.

The License Agreement required the Company to pay Harvard an upfront fee, reimbursements for expenses that Harvard incurred in connection with the licensed patents, royalties on net sales and several milestone payments contingent upon the achievement of certain product development and commercialization milestones. The Harvard License Agreement will continue in full force and effect until the expiration of the last-to-expire valid claim of the licensed patents. As of June 30, 2022, the Company achieved three of the milestones which represent all development milestones under the License Agreement. The Company continues to evaluate the likelihood that the other milestones will be achieved on a quarterly basis.

The Company has recorded expenses in the amount of $24 thousand and $162 thousand as research and development expenses related to the License Agreement and to the Collaboration Agreement for the three months ended June 30, 2022, and 2021, respectively. For the six months ended June 30, 2022, and 2021, the expense were $34 thousand and $320 thousand, respectively. No withholding tax was deducted from the Company’s payments to Harvard in respect of the Collaboration Agreement and the License Agreement since this is not taxable income in Israel in accordance with Section 170 of the Israel Income Tax Ordinance 1961-5721.