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License Agreement with Wyeth Holdings LLC
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2018
Collaborative Agreement Disclosure [Abstract]  
License agreement with Wyeth Holding LLC
Note 11 – License Agreement with Wyeth Holdings LLC
 
In April 2018, the Company provided written notice of its intent to terminate (90 days after such notice) a 2007 agreement to license certain rights from Wyeth Holdings LLC (formerly Wyeth Holdings Corporation), a subsidiary of Pfizer Inc. (“Wyeth”). The Wyeth license offered a non-exclusive, worldwide license to a family of patents and patent applications covering virus-like particles (“VLP”) technology for use in human vaccines in certain fields, with expected patent expiration in early 2022. At present, the Company has no programs to which the Wyeth license applies and CPLB’s recombinant trivalent seasonal VLP influenza vaccine (“CadiFlu”) is only being marketed in India. In September 2015, the Company entered into an amendment to the Wyeth license that, among other things, increased the milestone payment owed as a result of CPLB’s initiation of a Phase 3 clinical trial for CadiFlu in 2014 (“Milestone”) from $3 million to as much as $4 million if not paid before December 31, 2017. The Milestone was paid in the first quarter of 2018. The Milestone was recorded as a research and development expense in 2014. Payments under the Wyeth license as of March 31, 2018 aggregated to $11.6 million.