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Agreements Related to Intellectual Property
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2023
Agreements Related to Intellectual Property  
Agreements Related to Intellectual Property

11. Agreements Related to Intellectual Property

License Agreement – Pediatrix Therapeutics, Inc.

In November 2022, the Company entered into a license agreement with Pediatrix Therapeutics, Inc. (“Pediatrix”), under which the Company granted Pediatrix the exclusive rights to develop, manufacture and commercialize ATI-1777 in Greater China. Pediatrix has agreed to pay the Company an upfront payment, development, regulatory and commercial milestone payments, and a tiered royalty ranging from a low-to-high single digit percentage of net sales of ATI-1777 by Pediatrix in Greater China. A portion of consideration received from Pediatrix is payable to the former Confluence equity holders as described below.

License Agreement Eli Lilly and Company

In August 2022, the Company entered into a non-exclusive patent license agreement with Eli Lilly and Company (“Lilly”). Under the license agreement, the Company granted Lilly non-exclusive rights under certain patents and patent applications that the Company exclusively licenses from a third party. The patents and patent applications relate to the use of baricitinib, Lilly’s JAK inhibitor, to treat alopecia areata. Under the license agreement, Lilly has agreed to pay the Company an upfront payment, regulatory and commercial milestone payments, anniversary payments, and a low single-

digit royalty calculated as a percentage of Lilly’s net sales of baricitinib for the treatment of alopecia areata. The Company has separate contractual obligations under which the Company has agreed to pay to third parties an amount equal to any regulatory and commercial milestone payments it receives under the Lilly license agreement, as well as a portion of the upfront consideration and a portion of the royalties it may receive under the license agreement.

The Company recorded licensing revenue under this agreement of $8.3 million and $10.7 million during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023, respectively. Of these amounts, $7.3 million and $9.0 million were payable to third parties during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023, respectively, and recorded as licensing expense.

The Company recorded licensing revenue under this agreement of $17.6 million for each of the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022. Of this amount, $7.3 million was payable to third parties and recorded as licensing expense.

Asset Purchase Agreement – EPI Health, LLC

In October 2019, the Company sold RHOFADE (oxymetazoline hydrochloride) cream, 1% (“RHOFADE”) to EPI Health, LLC (“EPI Health”) pursuant to an asset purchase agreement. EPI Health agreed to pay the Company a high single-digit royalty calculated as a percentage of net sales on a country-by-country basis until the date that the patent rights related to RHOFADE have expired or, if later, ten years from the date of the first commercial sale of RHOFADE in such country. EPI Health also agreed to pay the Company potential sales milestone payments of up to $20.0 million in the aggregate upon the achievement of specified levels of net sales of products covered by the asset purchase agreement, and 25% of any upfront, license, milestone, maintenance or fixed payment received by EPI Health in connection with any license or sublicense of the assets transferred in the disposition in any territory outside of the United States, subject to specified exceptions.  

On July 17, 2023, EPI Health filed a voluntary petition for relief under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. Through the bankruptcy process, EPI Health and its parent company, Novan, Inc., sold the RHOFADE assets to a third party. Under the sale agreement, the Company’s asset purchase agreement with EPI Health was not assumed by the buyer, and as a result, the buyer is not obligated to continue to pay the Company royalties or milestones on future sales of RHOFADE, nor is the buyer obligated to cure the outstanding amounts in default by EPI Health. The sale was approved by the bankruptcy court on September 12, 2023. As a result of the bankruptcy proceedings, the Company recorded an allowance for doubtful accounts resulting in $0.3 million of bad debt expense for the three months ended September 30, 2023, and $1.3 million of bad debt expense for the nine months ended September 30, 2023, representing all amounts that were due and outstanding by EPI Health.

Agreement and Plan of Merger – Confluence

The Company entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger, pursuant to which it acquired Confluence (the “Confluence Agreement”). Under the Confluence Agreement, the Company has agreed to pay the former Confluence equity holders aggregate remaining contingent consideration of up to $75.0 million based upon the achievement of specified regulatory and commercial milestones set forth in the Confluence Agreement. In addition, the Company has agreed to pay the former Confluence equity holders future royalty payments calculated as a low single-digit percentage of annual net sales, subject to specified reductions, limitations and other adjustments, until the date that all of the patent rights for that product have expired, as determined on a country-by-country and product-by-product basis or, in specified circumstances, ten years from the first commercial sale of such product.  In addition to the payments described above, if the Company sells, licenses or transfers any of the intellectual property acquired from Confluence pursuant to the Confluence Agreement to a third party, the Company will be obligated to pay the former Confluence equity holders a portion of any consideration received from such sale, license or transfer in specified circumstances.

As of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the balance of the Company’s contingent consideration liability was $32.5 million and $33.1 million, respectively (see Note 3).