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Novartis Collaboration Agreement
12 Months Ended
Sep. 28, 2013
Organization Consolidation And Presentation Of Financial Statements [Abstract]  
Novartis Collaboration Agreement
14. Novartis Collaboration Agreement

The Company, through its Gen-Probe acquisition, has a collaboration agreement with Novartis. In July 2009, Gen-Probe entered into an amended and restated collaboration agreement with Novartis, which sets forth the current terms of the parties’ blood screening collaboration. The term of the collaboration agreement runs through June 30, 2025, unless terminated earlier pursuant to its terms under certain specified conditions. Under the collaboration agreement, the Company manufactures blood screening products, while Novartis is responsible for marketing, sales and service of those products, which Novartis sells under its trademarks.

Under the amended agreement, the Company is entitled to recover 50% of its manufacturing costs incurred in connection with the collaboration and will receive a percentage of the blood screening assay revenue generated under the collaboration. The Company’s share of revenue from any assay that includes a test for HCV is as follows: 2012-2013, 47%; 2014, 48%; and 2015 through the remainder of the term of the collaboration, 50%. The Company’s share of blood screening assay revenue, from any assay that does not test for HCV is 50%. Novartis is obligated to purchase all of the quantities of assays specified on a 90-day demand forecast, due 90 days prior to the date Novartis intends to take delivery, and certain quantities specified on a rolling 12-month forecast.

Novartis has also agreed to provide certain funding to customize the Company’s Panther instrument for use in the blood screening market and to pay the Company a milestone payment upon the earlier of certain regulatory approvals or the first commercial sale of the Panther instrument for use in the blood screening field. The parties will share equally in any profit attributable to Novartis’ sale or lease of Panther instruments under the collaboration.

The Company recognizes product revenue, and collaborative research and license revenue, which is included within services and other revenues, under this collaboration agreement. The Company recognized $197.9 million under this collaboration agreement in fiscal 2013.

On November 11, 2013, Novartis announced that it is selling its blood screening business to Grifols. Grifols had previously been a customer of the Company’s collaboration with Novartis. As announced, the transaction is subject to customary regulatory approvals and is expected to close in the first half of calendar 2014. Upon the consummation of the acquisition, Grifols will replace Novartis as the Company’s blood screening collaborator.