XML 28 R17.htm IDEA: XBRL DOCUMENT
v3.5.0.2

License agreement with Wyeth Holding Corporation | 9 Months Ended
--- | ---
Sep. 30, 2016
Collaborative Agreement Disclosure [Abstract] |
License agreement with Wyeth Holding Corporation | Note 11 – License agreement with Wyeth Holding Corporation In 2007, the Company entered into an agreement to license certain rights from Wyeth Holdings Corporation (now Wyeth Holdings LLC), a subsidiary of Pfizer Inc. (“Wyeth”). The Wyeth license is a non-exclusive, worldwide license to a family of patents and patent applications covering VLP technology for use in human vaccines in certain fields, with expected patent expiration in early 2022. The Wyeth license provides for the Company to make an upfront payment (previously made), ongoing annual license fees, sublicense payments, milestone payments on certain development and commercialization activities and royalties on any product sales. Except in certain circumstances in which the Company continuously markets multiple products in a country within the same vaccine program, the milestone payments are one-time only payments applicable to each related vaccine program. At present, the Company’s seasonal influenza VLP vaccine program (including CPLB’s seasonal influenza program) and its pandemic influenza VLP vaccine program are the only two programs to which the Wyeth license applies. The license may be terminated by Wyeth only for cause and may be terminated by the Company only after it has provided ninety (90) days’ notice that the Company has absolutely and finally ceased activity, including through any affiliate or sublicense, related to the manufacturing, development, marketing or sale of products covered by the license. In September 2015, the Company entered into an amendment to the license agreement with Wyeth. Among other things, the amendment restructured the $3 million milestone payment (“Milestone”) owed as a result of CPLB’s initiation of a Phase 3 clinical trial for its recombinant trivalent seasonal VLP influenza vaccine candidate in 2014. Under the amendment, the milestone payment, which may increase slightly over time, would be due in connection with the initiation of a Phase 3 clinical trial for the initial seasonal influenza VLP vaccine candidate being developed outside India, but in any case no later than December 31, 2017. The amendment also restructured the final milestone payment to apply to the initial seasonal influenza VLP vaccine candidate being developed outside India. Thus, the aggregate milestone payments for a seasonal influenza VLP vaccine candidate developed and commercialized was increased from $14 million to up to $15 million. In connection with the execution of the amendment, the Company agreed to pay a one-time only payment to Wyeth. The amendment also increased annual license maintenance fees associated with VLP vaccine candidates from $0.2 million to $0.3 million per year. Payments under the agreement to Wyeth as of September 30, 2016 aggregated to $7.6 million. The Milestone has been accrued for, on a discounted basis calculated based on the probable future payment date, in other non-current liabilities at September 30, 2016. The Milestone was recorded as a research and development expense in 2014.

X
- References No definition available. + Details
Name: | nvax_CollaborativeAgreementDisclosureAbstract
Namespace Prefix: | nvax_
Data Type: | xbrli:stringItemType
Balance Type: | na
Period Type: | duration

X
- Definition License agreement with Wyeth Holding Corporation + References No definition available. + Details
Name: | nvax_LicenseAgreementWithWyethHoldingCorporationTextBlock
Namespace Prefix: | nvax_
Data Type: | nonnum:textBlockItemType
Balance Type: | na
Period Type: | duration