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Subsequent Events

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Subsequent Events
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Mar. 31, 2016
Subsequent Events [Abstract]  
Subsequent Events
10. Subsequent Events

On April 18, 2016 the Company entered into a license and transfer agreement (the “ Enumeral Agreement”) with Enumeral Biomedical Holdings, Inc. (“Enumeral”), pursuant to which the Company acquired a non-exclusive worldwide license to use specified patent rights and know-how owned by Enumeral to research, develop and market fusion proteins.

Under the terms of the Enumeral Agreement, the Company agreed to pay Enumeral an upfront license fee of $250,000 and a $750,000 maintenance fee which is due on May 31, 2016. Under the initial license, the Company also agreed to pay Enumeral development milestones up to an aggregate of $37.8 million and sales milestones up to an aggregate of $67.5 million. The Company also agreed to pay Enumeral royalties within a range in the low to lower-middle single digits as a percentage of net sales depending on the amount of net sales in the applicable years. In the event that the Company is required to pay a license fee or royalty to any third party related to the licensed products, the royalty payment due to Enumeral shall be reduced by the amount of such third party fees or payments, up to 50% of the royalty payment for each calendar year due to Enumeral.

Under the terms of the Enumeral Agreement, the Company has an option that can be exercised at its discretion for twelve months after the date of the Agreement to license from Enumeral one of a specified set of antibodies owned by Enumeral for use in developing such fusion Anticalin proteins for use in the oncology area. In this case the Company must pay to Enumeral an additional undisclosed upfront payment and any resulting fusion protein products will be subject to additional royalties and development and sales milestones in the same amounts applicable to the fusion proteins under the initial license.

The term of the Enumeral Agreement ends upon the expiration of the last to expire patent covered under the license. The Enumeral Agreement may be terminated by the Company on 30 days’ notice and by Enumeral upon 60 days’ notice of a material breach by the Company (or 30 days with respect to a breach of payment obligations by the Company), provided that the Company has not cured such breach and dispute resolution procedures specified in the Enumeral Agreement have been followed. The Enumeral Agreement will also automatically terminate if the Company fails to make the maintenance fee payment described above.