Licenses and collaborative arrangement | 16. Licenses and collaborative arrangement The following is a description of the Group’s significant ongoing collaboration agreements for the three months ended March 31, 2021. License and collaboration agreement with Deciphera Pharmaceuticals, LLC (“Deciphera”) In June 2019, the Group entered into a license agreement with Deciphera, pursuant to which it obtained an exclusive license under certain patents and know-how of Deciphera to develop and commercialize products containing ripretinib in the field of the prevention, prophylaxis, treatment, cure or amelioration of any disease or medical condition in humans in Greater China. Under the terms of the agreement, the Group paid Deciphera an upfront license fee of $20,000 and two milestone payments of $7,000, and accrued for a milestone payments of $5,000. The Group also agreed to pay certain additional development, regulatory and commercial milestone payments up to an aggregate of $173,000, and certain tiered royalties (from low-to-high teens on a percentage basis and subject to certain reductions) based on the net sales of the licensed products in the territory. The Group has the right to terminate this agreement at any time by providing written notice of termination to Deciphera. License agreement with Turning Point Therapeutics Inc (“Turning Point”) In July 2020, the Group entered into an exclusive license agreement with Turning Point pursuant to which Turning Point exclusively licensed to the Group the rights to develop and commercialize products containing repotrectinib as an active ingredient in all human therapeutic indications, in Greater China. Under the terms of the agreements, the Group paid an upfront to Turning Point. Turning Point is also eligible to receive up to in development, regulatory and sales milestones. Turning Point will also be eligible to receive certain tiered royalties (from mid-to-high teens on a percentage basis and subject to certain reductions) based on annual net sales of repotrectinib in Greater China. The Group has the right to terminate this agreement at any time by providing written notice of termination to Turning Point. In January 2021, the Group entered into a license agreement with Turning Point, which expanded their collaboration. Under the terms of the new agreement, the Group obtained exclusive rights to develop and commercialize TPX-0022, Turning Point’s MET, SRC and CSF1R inhibitor, in Greater China. The Group paid an upfront license fee in the amount of $25,000 to Turning Point. The Group also agreed to pay certain development, regulatory and commercial milestone payments up to an aggregate of $336,000. Turning Point will also be eligible to receive certain tiered royalties (from mid-teens to low-twenties on a percentage basis and subject to certain reductions) based on annual net sales of TPX-0022 in Greater China. In addition, Turning Point will have the right of first negotiation to develop and commercialize an oncology product candidate discovered by the Group. License and collaboration agreement with Five Prime Therapeutics, Inc. (“Five Prime”) In December 2017, the Group entered into a license and collaboration agreement with Five Prime (a company later acquired by Amgen Inc.), pursuant to which it obtained an exclusive license under certain patents and know-how of Five Prime to develop and commercialize products containing Five Prime’s proprietary afucosylated FGFR2b antibody known as bemarituzumab (FPA144) as an active ingredient in the treatment or prevention of any disease or condition in humans in Greater China. Under the terms of the agreement, the Group made an upfront payment of and a milestone to Five Prime. Additionally, the Group also agreed to pay further development and regulatory milestone payments of up to an aggregate to Five Prime and certain tiered royalties (from high-teens to low-twenties on a percentage basis and subject to certain reductions) based on the number of patients the Group enrolls in the bemarituzumab study. The Group has the right to terminate this agreement at any time by providing written notice of termination to Five Prime. License agreement with Cullinan Pearl Corp. (“Cullinan”) In December 2020, the Group entered into a license agreement with Cullinan, a subsidiary of Cullinan Management, Inc., formerly Cullinan Oncology, LLC, pursuant to which it obtained an exclusive license under certain patents and know-how CLN-081 . Under the terms of the agreement, the Group paid an upfront payment Cullinan. Cullinan is also eligible to receive up in development, regulatory and sales-based milestone payments. Cullinan is also eligible to receive certain tiered royalties (from high-single-digit to low-teen CLN-081 The Group has the right to terminate this agreement at any time by providing written notice of termination to Cullinan. License agreement with Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (“Takeda”) In December 2020, the Group entered into an exclusive license agreement with Takeda. Under the terms of the license agreement, Takeda exclusively licensed to the Group the right to exploit products in the licensed field during the term. Under the terms of the agreement, the Group paid an upfront payment o Takeda. Takeda is also eligible to receive up regulatory and sales-based milestone payments. Takeda is also eligible to receive certain tiered royalties (from high-single-digit to low-teen The Group has the right to terminate this agreement at any time by providing written notice of termination to Takeda. Collaboration and license agreement with argenx BV (“argenx”) In January 2021, the Group entered into a collaboration and license agreement with argenx. The Group received an exclusive license to develop and commercialize products containing argenx’s proprietary antibody fragment, known as efgartigimod, in Greater China. The Group is responsible for the development of the licensed compound and licensed product, and will have the right to commercialize such licensed product in the territory. Pursuant to the collaboration and license agreement, a share issuance agreement was entered into between the Group and argenx. As the upfront payment to argenx, the Group issued In addition, the Group made a non-creditable, non-refundable upon the first regulatory approval of a licensed product by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for myasthenia gravis and tiered royalties (from mid-teen to low-twenties on a percentage basis and subject to certain reductions) based on annual net sales of all licensed product in the territory. Full details of the licenses and collaborative arrangements are included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2020 as filed with the SEC on March 1, 2021. As noted above, the Group has entered into various license and collaboration agreements with third party licensors to develop and commercialize product candidates. Based on the terms of these agreements the Group is contingently obligated to make additional material payments upon the achievement of certain contractually defined milestones. Based on management’s evaluation of the progress of each project noted above, the licensors will be eligible to receive from the Group up to an aggregate of approximately $ in future milestone payments upon the achievement of contractually specified development milestones, such as regulatory approval for the product candidates, which may be before the Group has commercialized the product or received any revenue from sales of such product candidate, which may never occur . |