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Molteni Purchase Agreement

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Molteni Purchase Agreement
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2019
Revenue from Contract with Customer [Abstract]  
Molteni Purchase Agreement
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Molteni Purchase Agreement
 
On March 21, 2018, we entered into a purchase agreement (“Molteni Purchase Agreement”) with L. Molteni & C. Dei Frattelli Alitti Società Di Esercizio S.P.A. (“Molteni”) pursuant to which Molteni acquired the European intellectual property related to Probuphine, including the marketing authorization application under review by the European Medicines Agency (“EMA”), and gained the exclusive right to commercialize the Probuphine product supplied by us in Europe, as well as certain countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Middle East and North Africa (the “Molteni Territory”).
 
We received an initial payment of €2.0 million (approximately $2.4 million) for the purchased assets and will receive additional potential payments upon achievement of certain regulatory and product label milestones. Additionally, we are entitled to receive earn-out payments for up to 15 years on net sales of Probuphine in the Molteni Territory in percentages ranging from the low-teens to the mid-twenties.
 
We concluded that the performance obligations identified in the Molteni Purchase Agreement included the transfer of the intellectual property and our efforts towards an approval by the EMA and other regulatory bodies. The initial payment was allocated between the property transfer and our EMA efforts as set forth below. 
 
We used the expected cost-plus approach to estimate the standalone selling price of approximately $1.4 million related to our efforts towards an approval by the EMA and other regulatory bodies (“Titan Services”). This includes employee related expenses as well as other manufacturing, regulatory and clinical costs, which are incurred as part of our efforts. As of March 31, 2019, we fully recognized the revenue associated with the Titan Services under the Molteni Purchase Agreement as we completed the Titan Services.
 
The following table presents changes in contract assets and liabilities during the three months ended March 31, 2019:
 
(in thousands)
 
Beginning
Balance
 
 
Deductions
 
 
Ending

Balance
 
Contract assets
 
$
99
 
 
$
(99
)
 
$
 
Contract liability:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Deferred revenue
 
$
313
 
 
$
(313
)
 
$
 
 
In August 2018, we entered into an amendment (the “Amendment”) to the Molteni Purchase Agreement. Under the Amendment, Molteni made an immediate payment of €950,000 (approximately $1.1 million) to us and a convertible loan of €550,000 (approximately $0.6 million) (“Molteni Convertible Loan”) (see Note 5), both in exchange for the elimination of an aggregate of €2.0 million (approximately $2.3 million) of regulatory milestones provided for in the Molteni Purchase Agreement that are potentially payable in 2019, at the earliest. We concluded that the approximately $1.1 million immediate payment by Molteni reflected a milestone payment with no additional obligations to us and, therefore, was recognized as revenue during the year ended December 31, 2018.