ALLIANCES

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2020

ALLIANCES [Abstract]

Collaborative Arrangement Disclosure [Text Block]

ALLIANCES

BMS enters into collaboration arrangements with third parties for the development and commercialization of certain products. Although each of these arrangements is unique in nature, both parties are active participants in the operating activities of the collaboration and exposed to significant risks and rewards depending on the commercial success of the activities. BMS may either in-license intellectual property owned by the other party or out-license its intellectual property to the other party. These arrangements also typically include research, development, manufacturing, and/or commercial activities and can cover a single investigational compound or commercial product or multiple compounds and/or products in various life cycle stages. The rights and obligations of the parties can be global or limited to geographic regions. BMS refers to these collaborations as alliances and its partners as alliance partners.

Selected financial information pertaining to alliances was as follows, including net product sales when BMS is the principal in the third-party customer sale for products subject to the alliance. Expenses summarized below do not include all amounts attributed to the activities for the products in the alliance, but only the payments between the alliance partners or the related amortization if the payments were deferred or capitalized.

	Three Months Ended June 30,				Six Months Ended June 30,
Dollars in Millions	2020		2019		2020		2019
Revenues from alliances:
Net product sales	$	2,201	$	2,570	$	4,924	$	4,948
Alliance revenues	163		146		268		275
Total Revenues	$	2,364	$	2,716	$	5,192	$	5,223
Payments to/(from) alliance partners:
Cost of products sold	$	1,050	$	1,080	$	2,356	$	2,099
Marketing, selling and administrative	(38)		(32)		(78)		(60)
Research and development	233		7		279		21
Other (income)/expense, net	(16)		(16)		(31)		(30)

Dollars in Millions	June 30, 2020		December 31, 2019
Selected Alliance Balance Sheet information:
Receivables – from alliance partners	$	354	$	347
Accounts payable – to alliance partners	1,039		1,026
Deferred income from alliances(a)	411		431

(a) Includes unamortized upfront and milestone payments.

The nature, purpose, significant rights and obligations of the parties and specific accounting policy elections for each of the Company's significant alliances are discussed in the 2019 Form 10-K. Significant developments and updates related to alliances during the three and six months ended June 30, 2020 are set forth below.

Otsuka

Effective January 1, 2020, Otsuka is no longer co-promoting Sprycel in the U.S. and as a result, this arrangement is no longer considered a collaboration under ASC 808. Revenues earned and fees paid to Otsuka in the Oncology Territory in 2020 are not included in the table above.

bluebird

BMS and bluebird jointly develop and commercialize novel disease-altering gene therapy product candidates targeting BCMA. The collaboration arrangement began in 2013 and included (i) a right for BMS to license any anti-BCMA products resulting from the collaboration, (ii) a right for bluebird to participate in the development and commercialization of any licensed products resulting from the collaboration through a 50/50 co-development and profit share in the U.S. in exchange for a reduction of milestone payments, and (iii) sales based milestones and royalties payable to bluebird upon the commercialization of any licensed products resulting from the collaboration if bluebird declined to exercise their co-development and profit sharing rights. The options to license ide-cel (bb2121) and bb21217 were exercised in 2016 and 2017, respectively.

BMS and bluebird share equally in all profits and losses relating to developing, commercializing and manufacturing ide-cel within the U.S. BMS is exclusively responsible for the development and commercialization of ide-cel outside the U.S.

BMS is responsible for the worldwide development, including related funding after the substantial completion by bluebird of the ongoing Phase I clinical trial, and commercialization of bb21217. bluebird has an option to co-develop, co-promote and share equally in all profits and losses in the U.S.

In the second quarter of 2020, BMS and bluebird amended their collaboration arrangement where, among other items, BMS is assuming the contract manufacturing agreements relating to ide-cel adherent lentiviral vector. Over time, BMS is assuming responsibility for manufacturing ide-cel suspension lentiviral vector outside of the U.S., with bluebird responsible for manufacturing ide-cel suspension lentiviral vector in the U.S. The parties were also released from future exclusivity related to BCMA-directed T cell therapies. In addition, BMS agreed to buy out its obligation to pay bluebird future ex-U.S. milestones and royalties on ide-cel and bb21217 for a payment of $200 million, which was included in Research and development expense.