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Note 6 - Commitments and Contingencies
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2018
Notes to Financial Statements  
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Text Block]
6
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Commitments and Contingencies
 
Leases
 
We lease
28,275
square feet of laboratory and office space in San Diego, California under a lease that began on
December 1, 2016
and expires on
April 15, 2024.
In
May 2018,
we entered into a lease amendment to expand our space in San Diego, adding an additional
23,873
square feet. The lease of the additional space began on
September 7, 2018
and expires on
December 31, 2025.
We have
one
5
-year option to renew this lease on expiration. We lease
26,067
square feet of laboratory, office and warehouse space in Redwood City, California. The lease for the Redwood City space expires on
May 31, 2019.
On
March 15, 2018,
we entered into a sublease agreement for the Redwood City property. The sublease agreement expires on
May 31, 2019.
We also lease
1,898
square feet of office space in Jersey City, New Jersey. The lease for the Jersey City office space expires on
June 30, 2019.
For the year ended
December 31, 2018,
rent expense for all properties was
$3.2
million. We believe our facilities are adequate and suitable for our current needs and that we will be able to obtain new or additional leased space in the future when necessary.
 
Annual future minimum lease payments as of
December 
31,
 
2018
are as follows (in thousands):
 
 
Year ended December 31:
       
2019
  $
3,195
 
2020
   
2,722
 
2021
   
2,801
 
2022
   
2,883
 
2023
   
2,967
 
Thereafter
   
3,274
 
Total future minimum lease payments
  $
17,842
 
 
 
Rent expense under all operating leases totaled
$3.2
million,
$3.1
million and
$2.1
million for the years ended
December 
31,
 
2018,
2017
and
2016,
respectively.
 
Clinical Development Agreements
 
We enter into agreements with clinical sites and clinical research organizations for the conduct of our clinical trials. We make payments to these sites and organizations based in part on the number of eligible patients enrolled and the length of their participation in the clinical trials. Under certain of these agreements, we
may
be subject to penalties in the event that we prematurely terminate these agreements. At this time, due to the variability associated with clinical site and contract research organization agreements, we are unable to estimate with certainty the future costs we will incur. We intend to use our current financial resources to fund our obligations under these commitments.