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Agreements
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2019
Agreements  
Agreements

C.       Agreements

Significant Collaborative Agreements

Roche

In May 2000, the Company granted Genentech, now a unit of Roche, an exclusive license to use the Company’s maytansinoid ADC technology. Pursuant to this agreement, Roche developed and received marketing approval for its HER2-targeting ADC compound, Kadcyla, in the U.S., Europe, Japan and numerous other countries. The Company receives royalty reports and payments related to sales of Kadcyla from Roche one quarter in arrears. In accordance with the Company’s revenue recognition policy, $8.5 million and $7.2 million of non-cash royalties on net sales of Kadcyla were recorded and included in non-cash royalty revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2019 and 2018. Kadcyla sales occurring after January 1, 2015 were covered by a royalty purchase agreement whereby the associated cash, except for a residual tail, was remitted to Immunity Royalty Holdings, L.P, or IRH. In January 2019, the Company sold its residual tail to OMERS, the defined benefit pension plan for municipal employees in the Province of Ontario, Canada, for a net payment of $65.2 million, as discussed further in Note E. Simultaneously, OMERS purchased IRH’s right to the royalties the Company previously sold as described above, therefore obtaining the rights to 100% of the royalties received from that date on.

Takeda

In March 2015, the Company entered into a three-year right-to-test agreement with Takeda through its wholly owned subsidiary, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. The agreement provided Takeda with the right to (a) take exclusive options, with certain restrictions, to individual targets selected by Takeda for specified option periods, (b) test the Company’s ADC technology with Takeda’s antibodies directed to the targets optioned under a right-to-test, or research, license, and (c) take exclusive licenses to use the Company’s ADC technology to develop and commercialize products to targets optioned for up to two individual targets on terms specified in the right-to-test agreement. The first license was granted to Takeda in December 2015. In March 2018, the right-to-test agreement expired without Takeda exercising its option to a second license or extending or expanding the agreement as it had the right to do for a third license. Accordingly, the remaining $10.9 million of revenue that had been deferred for such performance obligations was recognized as revenue and is included in license and milestone fees for the three months ended March 31, 2018. Takeda is responsible for the manufacturing, product development, and marketing of any products resulting from the remaining license. 

Debiopharm

 

In May 2017, Debiopharm acquired the Company’s IMGN529 program, a clinical-stage anti-CD37 ADC for the treatment of patients with B-cell malignancies.  Under the terms of the Exclusive License and Asset Purchase agreement, the Company received a $25 million upfront payment for specified assets related to IMGN529 and a paid-up license to the Company’s ADC technology. Upon substantial completion of the transfer of the Company’s technologies related to the program (technology transfer) in the fourth quarter of 2017, the Company achieved a $5 million milestone, $4.5 million of which was received in December 2017 and the balance in January 2018 upon delivery of the final materials related to the transfer. Accordingly, $500,000 was recorded as license and milestone fee revenue in the three months ended March 31, 2018. In addition, the Company is eligible for a second success-based milestone payment of $25 million upon IMGN529 entering a Phase 3 clinical trial. The milestone payment will be significantly reduced if a Phase 3 trial using the Company’s technology but not the IMGN529 antibody commences prior to IMGN529 entering a Phase 3 trial. The Company does not believe this scenario is likely to occur.

 

For additional information related to these agreements, as well as the Company’s other significant collaborative agreements, please read Note C, Agreements, to the consolidated financial statements included within the Company’s 2018 Annual Report on Form 10-K.