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Description of Business and Basis of Presentation
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2021
Accounting Policies [Abstract]  
Description of Business and Basis of Presentation

1. Description of Business and Basis of Presentation

Description of Business

Sorrento Therapeutics, Inc. (the “Company”) is a clinical stage, antibody-centric, biopharmaceutical company developing new therapies to treat cancers and COVID-19. The Company’s multimodal, multipronged approach to fighting cancer is made possible by its extensive immuno-oncology platforms, including key assets such as fully human antibodies (“G-MAB™ library”), clinical stage immuno-cellular therapies (“CAR-T”, “DAR-T™”), antibody-drug conjugates (“ADCs”) and clinical stage oncolytic virus (Seprehvir™). The Company is also developing potential antiviral therapies and vaccines against coronaviruses, including COVIGUARD™, COVI-AMG™, COVISHIELD™, Gene-MAb™, COVI-MSC™ and COVIDROPS™; and diagnostic test solutions, including COVITRACK™, COVISTIX™ and COVITRACE™. 

The Company’s commitment to life-enhancing therapies for patients is also demonstrated by its effort to advance a first-in-class (TRPV1 agonist) non-opioid pain management small molecule, resiniferatoxin (“RTX”), and SP-102 (10 mg, dexamethasone sodium phosphate viscous gel) (SEMDEXA™), a novel, viscous gel formulation of a widely used corticosteroid for epidural injections to treat lumbosacral radicular pain, or sciatica, and through the commercialization of ZTlido® (lidocaine topical system) 1.8% for the treatment of post-herpetic neuralgia.

Basis of Presentation and Principles of Consolidation

The accompanying consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company’s subsidiaries. For consolidated entities where the Company owns or is exposed to less than 100% of the economics, the Company records net income (loss) attributable to noncontrolling interests in its consolidated statements of operations equal to the percentage of the economic or ownership interest retained in such entities by the respective noncontrolling parties. All intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.

These consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020. Operating results for interim periods are not expected to be indicative of operating results for the Company’s 2021 fiscal year, or any subsequent period. The unaudited interim financial statements included herein reflect all normal and recurring adjustments that are necessary for a fair presentation of the results for the interim periods presented.

Use of Estimates

To prepare consolidated financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the U.S. (“U.S. GAAP”), management must make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

Significant Accounting Policies

During the three months ended March 31, 2021, there have been no changes to the Company`s significant accounting policies as described in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020 outside of new accounting pronouncements as described below.

Revenue Recognition

The following table shows revenue disaggregated by product and service type for the three months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020 (in thousands):

 

 

Three Months Ended March 31,

 

 

 

2021

 

 

2020

 

Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. product sales

 

$

6,986

 

 

$

5,211

 

Other product revenue

 

 

37

 

 

 

37

 

Net product revenue

 

$

7,023

 

 

$

5,248

 

Concortis Biosystems Corporation

 

$

5,462

 

 

$

1,321

 

Bioserv Corporation

 

 

1,199

 

 

 

1,032

 

Other service revenue

 

 

571

 

 

 

120

 

Service revenue

 

$

7,232

 

 

$

2,473

 

 

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

In December 2019, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Accounting Standards Update No. 2019-12, Income Taxes Topic 740): Simplifying the Accounting for Income Taxes. The amendments in this update simplify the accounting for income taxes by removing certain exceptions to the general principles in Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 740. The amendments also improve consistent application of and simplify U.S. GAAP for other areas of ASC Topic 740 by clarifying and amending existing guidance. The amendments in this update are effective for interim and annual periods for the Company beginning after December 15, 2020. The Company adopted the standard on January 1, 2021. The adoption of the standard had no material impact on the Company`s consolidated financial statements.