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Agreements
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2020
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Significant Collaborative Agreements

Roche

In May 2000, the Company granted Genentech, now a member of the Roche Group, 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 royalty payments related to sales of Kadcyla from Roche one quarter in arrears. In accordance with the Company’s revenue recognition policy, $27.1 million and $18.9 million of non-cash royalties on net sales of Kadcyla were recorded and included in non-cash royalty revenue for the six months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively. 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.

On May 3, 2019, Roche notified the Company that the FDA approved Kadcyla for adjuvant (after surgery) treatment of people with HER2-positive early breast cancer who have residual invasive disease after neoadjuvant (before surgery) taxane and Herceptin® (trastuzumab)-based treatment, resulting in a $5 million regulatory milestone payment to the Company for a first extended indication, which is included in license and milestone fees for the three and six months ended June 30, 2019. The Company is entitled to receive up to a total of $44 million in milestone payments pursuant to the license agreement, of which the Company has received $39 million to date. The next potential milestone the Company will be entitled to receive will be a $5 million regulatory milestone for marketing approval of Kadcyla for a second extended indication as defined in the license.

CytomX

In 2016, the Company granted CytomX an exclusive development and commercialization license to the Company’s maytansinoid ADC technology for use with Probodies™ that target CD166 under a now expired reciprocal right-to-test agreement. Pursuant to the license agreement, the Company is entitled to receive up to a total of $160.0 million in milestone payments plus royalties on the commercial sales of any resulting product. The total milestones are categorized as follows: development milestones—$10.0 million; regulatory milestones—$50.0 million; and sales milestones—$100.0 million. In December 2019, a development milestone related to dosing of a first patient in a Phase 2 clinical trial became probable of being attained, which resulted in $3.0 million of license and milestone fee revenue being recorded in 2019. In February 2020, CytomX enrolled its first patient in the aforementioned Phase 2 clinical trial, and subsequently remitted the $3.0 million milestone payment to the Company in March 2020. CytomX is responsible for the manufacturing, development, and marketing of any products resulting from the development and commercialization license taken by CytomX under this collaboration.

Terminated Agreements

During the second quarter, the Company received notice of termination of the exclusive development and commercialization licenses granted to each of Biotest and Takeda. The Company had $870,000 of deferred revenue remaining related to the portion of the upfront license fee from Takeda previously allocated to the right to future technological improvements. In consideration that no technological improvements would be further used by Takeda and, therefore, no unsatisfied obligations were remaining related to the license, the $870,000 was recorded as revenue and is included in license and milestone fees for the three and six months ended June 30, 2020. At the time of notification, there were no unsatisfied performance obligations or balances remaining related to the agreement with Biotest.

For additional information related to these agreements, as well as the Company’s other significant collaborative agreements, please read Note C, Agreements - Significant Collaborative Agreements, to the consolidated financial statements included within the Company’s 2019 Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on March 11, 2020.