Description of Business | (1) Description of Business Enzon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (together with its subsidiaries, “Enzon” or the “Company,” “we” or “us”), manages its sources of royalty revenues from existing licensing arrangements with other companies primarily related to sales of certain drug products that utilize Enzon’s proprietary technology. Prior to 2017, the primary source of the Company’s royalty revenues was derived from sales of PegIntron, which is marketed by Merck & Co., Inc. (“Merck”). The Company currently has no clinical operations and limited corporate operations. The Company has no intention of resuming any clinical development activities or acquiring new sources of royalty revenues. In the first quarter of 2020, net royalties from PegIntron were $1,752. In the first quarter of 2019, net royalties from PegIntron were negative $51,000, due to returns and rebates exceeding the amount of royalties earned. At December 31, 2019, as asserted by Merck, the Company had a liability to Merck of approximately $324,000, due primarily to product returns and rebates. With the net royalties earned in the first quarter of 2020, this amount decreased to approximately $322,000 at March 31, 2020. See Note 12 to the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements. In April 2013, the Company announced that it intended to distribute excess cash, expected to arise from ongoing royalty revenues, in the form of periodic dividends to stockholders. (See Note 7 to the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements) On February 4, 2016, the Company’s Board adopted a Plan of Liquidation and Dissolution (the “Plan of Liquidation and Dissolution”), the implementation of which has been postponed. (See Note 11 to the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements) On January 30, 2019, the Company entered into a letter agreement with Servier, a wholly owned indirect subsidiary of Les Laboratoires Servier, in connection with the asset purchase agreement dated as of November 9, 2009 (the "Asset Purchase Agreement"), by and between Klee Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Defiante Farmacêutica, S.A. ("Defiante") and Sigma-Tau, on the one hand, and the Company, on the other hand. Under the letter agreement, Servier, as successor-in-interest to Defiante, confirmed its obligation to pay the Company a $7.0 million milestone payment related to SC Oncaspar as a result of the FDA's December 20, 2018 approval of calaspargase pegol - mknl (brand name ASPARLAS(TM)) as a component of a multi-agent chemotherapeutic regimen for the treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia in pediatric and young adult patients age 1 month to 21 years. In addition, under the letter agreement, the Company agreed to waive Servier's obligations to pursue the development of SC Oncaspar in Europe and the approval of SC Oncaspar by the European Medicines Agency ("EMEA") under the Asset Purchase Agreement, provided that the Company did not waive Servier's obligation to make any applicable milestone payment to the Company upon EMEA approval, if any, of SC Oncaspar. Servier was required to make the $7.0 million milestone payment to the Company within three business days following the parties' completion of procedures for claiming benefits under the double tax treaty between the United States and the United Kingdom. That amount was recorded by the Company as a current receivable at March 31, 2019. The Company received the $7.0 million payment in July 2019. The Company has a marketing agreement with Micromet AG (“Micromet”), now part of Amgen, Inc. (the “Micromet Marketing Agreement”), that was entered into in 2004 under which Micromet is the exclusive marketer of the parties’ combined intellectual property portfolio in the field of single-chain antibody technology. Under the Micromet Marketing Agreement, the parties agreed to share, on an equal basis, in any licensing fees, milestone payments and royalty revenue received by Micromet in connection with any licenses of the patents within the portfolio by Micromet to any third party during the term of the collaboration. To the Company’s knowledge, Micromet has a license agreement with Viventia Biotech (Barbados) Inc. (“Viventia”), now part of Sesen Bio, Inc. (“Sesen”), that was entered into in 2005, under which Micromet granted Viventia nonexclusive rights, with certain sublicense rights, for know-how and patents allowing exploitation of certain single chain antibody products, which patents cover some key aspects of Vicinium, one of Sesen’s drug candidates that is in Phase 3 clinical trials being evaluated for the treatment of patients with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer and in Phase 1 and 2 clinical trials for the treatment of head and neck cancer. To the Company’s knowledge, under the terms of this license agreement between Micromet and Viventia, Micromet is entitled to receive (i) certain milestone payments with respect to the filing of a new drug application for Vicinium with the FDA or the filing of a marketing approval application for Vicinium with the EMEA; (ii) certain milestone payments with respect to the first commercial sale of Vicinium in the U.S. or Europe and (iii) certain royalties on net sales for ten years from the first commercial sale of Vicinium on a country by country basis. Pursuant to the Micromet Marketing Agreement, the Company would be entitled to a 50% share of these milestone payments and royalties received by Micromet. Due to the challenges associated with developing and obtaining approval for drug products, there is substantial uncertainty whether any of these milestones will be achieved. The Company also has no control over the time, resources and effort that Sesen may devote to its programs and limited access to information regarding or resulting from such programs. Accordingly, there can be no assurance that the Company will receive any of the milestone or royalty payments under the Micromet Marketing Agreement. The Company will not recognize revenue until all revenue recognition requirements are met. The Company maintains its principal executive offices at 20 Commerce Drive, Suite 135, Cranford, New Jersey, 07016 through a lease agreement for space and services with Regus Management Group, LLC (“Regus”) and also has an office facility at 3556 Main Street, Manchester, VT, 05225 pursuant to an office rental agreement with Equinox Junior, LLC (“Equinox”). See Note 10 to the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements. |