From time to time, the Company has entered into indemnification provisions under certain agreements in the ordinary course of business, typically with business partners, customers and suppliers. Pursuant to these agreements, the Company may indemnify, hold harmless and agree to reimburse the indemnified parties on a case-by-case basis for losses suffered or incurred by the indemnified parties in connection with any patent or other intellectual property infringement claim by any third party with respect to the Company’s products. The Company maintains product liability insurance coverage that would generally enable it to recover a portion of the amounts paid. The Company has also agreed to indemnify its directors and executive officers for costs associated with any fees, expenses, judgments, fines and settlement amounts incurred by them in any action or proceeding to which any of them are, or are threatened to be, made a party by reason of their service as a director or officer (see “—Litigation” below). The Company also may be subject to indemnification obligations by law with respect to the actions of its employees under certain circumstances and in certain jurisdictions.

The Company’s contract manufacturer makes advance purchases of components based on the instrument unit forecasts and purchase orders placed by the Company. To the extent these components are purchased by the contract manufacturer on the Company’s behalf and cannot be used by their other customers, the Company is obligated to purchase these components. In addition, certain supplier agreements require that the Company to make minimum annual purchases under the agreements. As of

As of December 31, 2021, the Company has entered into non-cancelable arrangements for subscription software services and construction contracts associated with the development of buildings at our Springdale, Pleasanton site under which the Company has an obligation to make payments aggregating to $15.9 million and $16.3 million over the next five years.

In July 2021, the Company entered into a global settlement and patent cross license agreement with Bio-Rad laboratories, Inc. (see the 2021 Bio-Rad Settlement And Patent Cross License Agreement in this footnote for further details) pursuant to which both parties granted each other a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-bearing license to develop products and services related to single cell analysis. Each company shall pay to the other royalties from licensed products and licensed services through 2030.

In September 2020, the Company and the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University ("Stanford") entered into a license agreement pursuant to which the Company was granted a license to certain intellectual property from Stanford relating to single cell profiling and tissue clarification. As the Company receives revenue related to products covered by these licenses, it is required to pay Stanford a low single-digit royalty percentage based on the net revenue of certain products during the applicable term of the licensed patents.

In October 2019, as part of the 2019 Becton Dickinson Settlement and Patent Cross License Agreement with Becton, Dickinson and Company and Cellular Research, Inc. (“BD Entities”), the Company was granted a worldwide royalty-free, nonexclusive license to certain intellectual property from the BD Entities. The Company recognized $22.1 million in technology licenses as an intangible asset with a weighted average amortization period of 15 years. This license is classified within other noncurrent assets on the Company’s consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2021.

The Company leases office, laboratory, manufacturing, distribution and server space with lease terms up to 12 years. These leases require monthly lease payments that may be subject to annual increases throughout the lease term. Certain of these leases also include renewal options at the election of the Company to renew or extend the lease. The Company evaluates renewal options at lease inception and on an ongoing basis and includes renewal options that it is reasonably certain to exercise in its expected lease terms when classifying leases and measuring lease liabilities.

For the years ended December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020, the Company incurred $10.5 million and $8.4 million, respectively, of operating lease costs and $0.6 million and $0.4 million, respectively, of variable lease costs. The variable lease cost is comprised primarily of the Company’s proportionate share of operating expenses, property taxes and insurance and is classified as lease cost due to the Company’s election to not separate lease and non-lease components.

Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of operating lease liabilities for the year ended December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020 were $6.2 million and $7.1 million and were included in net cash used in operating activities in the Company’s consolidated statements of cash flows.


	Operating Leases
2022	$	9,376
2023	12,237
2024	12,203
2025	11,225
2026	11,678
Thereafter	48,099
Total lease payments	$	104,818
Less: imputed interest	(22,840)
Present value of operating lease liabilities	$	81,978
Operating lease liabilities, current	$	5,131
Operating lease liabilities, noncurrent	$	76,847

On November 6, 2020, the Company entered into a Master Lease Agreement ("MLA") to lease additional office building space near the Company's Pleasanton, California headquarters. The Company intends to utilize the leased space of approximately 145,000 square feet to accommodate its future growth requirements. The MLA consists of various lease components, certain of which commenced during the year ended December 31, 2021. The remaining components are expected to commence on various dates within 2022 and 2023 and is expected to terminate on June 30, 2033 Total undiscounted payments for lease components commencing in fiscal years 2022 and 2023 will be $21.0 million and $14.0 million, respectively, with weighted-average expected lease terms of 12 years for 2022 and 11 years for 2023.

On April 30, 2021, the Company entered into a lease agreement to lease office building space of approximately 22,000 square feet in Stockholm, Sweden to accommodate its future growth requirements. The Company expects the lease term to commence in January 2022 for a five-year term and expects total lease payments over the lease term to amount to approximately $5.6 million.

The tables above do not include payments, lease term, or discount rates relating to any leases or lease components that have not yet commenced as of December 31, 2021. The Company will determine the classification for each lease component at the individual component's commencement date. All leases and lease components that have not yet commenced are expected to be classified as operating leases. Lease payments for leases not yet commenced as of December 31, 2021 is as follows (in thousands):

The Company is regularly subject to lawsuits, claims, arbitration proceedings, administrative actions and other legal and regulatory proceedings involving intellectual property disputes, commercial disputes, competition and other matters, and the Company may become subject to additional types of lawsuits, claims, arbitration proceedings, administrative actions, government investigations and legal and regulatory proceedings in the future.

Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (“Bio-Rad”) and the Company were previously engaged in litigation and other proceedings relating to substantially all of the Company’s Chromium products, including the Company’s legacy GEM products and Next GEM products and multiple Bio-Rad products, around the world. On July 26, 2021, the Company entered into a Settlement and Patent Cross License Agreement (the “Bio-Rad Agreement”) with Bio-Rad resolving all outstanding litigation and other proceedings between the two companies across all jurisdictions around the world and dismissing all infringement claims with prejudice.

Pursuant to the terms of the Bio-Rad Agreement, Bio-Rad and the Company granted each other a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-bearing license to develop products and services related to single cell analysis. The cross license excludes spatial and In Situ products. It also excludes digital PCR products in the case of 10x. The term of the Bio-Rad Agreement is for the life of the licensed patents. The Company and Bio-Rad have agreed not to sue each other on licensed products and licensed services on other patents owned or exclusively licensed by each company. The companies have agreed that each company’s patents are owned by each respective company.

Each company shall pay to the other royalties from licensed products and licensed services through 2030. The Company previously accrued $44.8 million in royalties and interest between November 14, 2018 and March 31, 2021 related to sales of the Company’s GEM products as a result of the litigation with Bio-Rad. Pursuant to the Agreement, the Company paid Bio-Rad $29.4 million in royalties and interest related to the sales of such GEM products between November 14, 2018 and March 31, 2021. As a result, in connection with the Agreement the Company reversed $15.4 million in accrued royalties and interest as a reduction in cost of goods sold and operating expenses in the second quarter of 2021.

On May 6, 2021, the Company filed suit against Nanostring Technologies, Inc. ("Nanostring") in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware alleging that Nanostring's GeoMx Digital Spatial Profiler and associated instruments and reagents infringe U.S. Patent Nos. 10,472,669, 10,662,467, 10,961,566, 10,983,113, and 10,996,219. On May 19, 2021, the Company filed an amended complaint additionally alleging that the GeoMx products infringe U.S. Patent Nos. 11,001,878 and 11,008,607.

On July 1, 2021, Nanostring filed a motion to dismiss. On November 17, 2021, the Court held a hearing and dismissed without prejudice the Company's claims for pre-suit indirect infringement and willful infringement. Discovery is in progress. A Markman hearing is scheduled for October 2022 and trial is scheduled for June 2023.