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Agreements
3 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2011
Notes to Financial Statements 
Agreements

Note 6 – Agreements

 

Collaboration and License Agreement with Les Laboratoires Servier.   In April 2009, we entered into a collaboration and license agreement with Les Laboratoires Servier ("Servier") to research, develop and commercialize PCI-24781, an orally active, novel, small molecule inhibitor of pan-HDAC enzymes. Under the terms of the agreement, Servier acquired the exclusive right to develop and commercialize the pan-HDAC inhibitor product worldwide except for the United States and will pay a royalty to us on sales outside of the United States. Servier is solely responsible for conducting and paying for all development activities outside the United States. We will continue to own all rights within the United States.

 

In May 2009, we received an upfront payment from Servier of $11,000,000 ($10,450,000 net of withholding taxes) and we received an additional $4,000,000 for research collaboration paid over a twenty-four month period through April 2011.  The revenue related to these payments was recognized over the two-year research period, which ended in April 2011. Total revenue recognized in the three months ended September 30, 2010 was $1,964,000.

 

We also received a $7,000,000 advance development milestone payment in April 2011 and we could receive additional payments up to approximately $17,500,000 upon the achievement of certain future development and regulatory milestones, as well as royalty payments. The $7,000,000 advance development milestone payment was recorded as deferred revenue at September 30, 2011. In October 2011 the related milestone was reached and the Company expects to record the $7,000,000 as revenue in its quarter ending December 31, 2011.

 

Celera Corporation. In April 2006, we acquired multiple small molecule drug candidates for the treatment of cancer and other diseases from Celera Genomics, an Applera Corporation (now Celera Corporation – a subsidiary of Quest Diagnostics Incorporated). Future milestone payments under the agreement, as amended, could total as much as $97 million, although we currently cannot predict if or when any of the milestones will be achieved. Approximately two-thirds of the milestone payments relate to our HDAC Inhibitor program and approximately one-third relates to our Factor VIIa program. Approximately 90% of the potential future milestone payments would be paid to Celera after obtaining regulatory approval in various countries. There are no milestone payments related to our Btk program. In addition to the milestone payments, Celera will be entitled to royalty payments based on annual sales of drugs commercialized from our HDAC Inhibitor, Factor VIIa and certain Btk Inhibitor programs.