Paul Thomen

Wednesday 5 June 2013

New Study on Cancer Diagnostics Industry Partnering Terms and Agreements

The Cancer Diagnostics Partnering Agreements report provides an understanding and access to the cancer diagnostics partnering deals and agreements entered into by the worlds leading healthcare companies.
- Trends in cancer diagnostics partnering deals
- Disclosed headlines, upfronts, milestones and royalties by stage of development
- Cancer diagnostics partnering contract documents
- Top cancer diagnostics deals by value

The Cancer Diagnostics Partnering Agreements report provides an understanding and access to the cancer diagnostics partnering deals and agreements entered into by the worlds leading healthcare companies.

The report provides an understanding and analysis of how and why companies enter cancer diagnostics partnering deals. The majority of deals are discovery or development stage whereby the licensee obtains a right or an option right to license the licensors diagnostics technology. These deals tend to be multicomponent, starting with collaborative R&D, and commercialization of outcomes. The report also includes companion, imaging, CT, MRI, ultrasound, in vitro, molecular, prognostics and theranostics diagnostics deals and alliances.

Understanding the flexibility of a prospective partner’s negotiated deals terms provides critical insight into the negotiation process in terms of what you can expect to achieve during the negotiation of terms. Whilst many smaller companies will be seeking details of the payments clauses, the devil is in the detail in terms of how payments are triggered – contract documents provide this insight where press releases do not.


This report contains over 1000 links to online copies of actual cancer diagnostics deals and where available, contract documents as submitted to the Securities Exchange Commission by companies and their partners. Contract documents provide the answers to numerous questions about a prospective partner’s flexibility on a wide range of important issues, many of which will have a significant impact on each party’s ability to derive value from the deal.

The initial chapters of this report provide an orientation of cancer diagnostics dealmaking and business activities. Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the report, whilst chapter 2 provides an overview of the trends in cancer diagnostics dealmaking since 2007, including details of average headline, upfront, milestone and royalty terms.

Chapter 3 provides a review of the leading cancer diagnostics deals since 2007. Deals are listed by headline value and most active of all biopharma companies. Where the deal has an agreement contract published at the SEC a link provides online access to the contract.

Chapter 4 provides a comprehensive listing of the top 50 bigpharma companies with a brief summary followed by a comprehensive listing of cancer diagnostics deals, as well as contract documents available in the public domain. Where available, each deal title links via Weblink to an online version of the actual contract document, providing easy access to each contract document on demand.

Chapter 5 provides a comprehensive and detailed review of cancer diagnostics partnering deals signed and announced since January 2007, where a contract document is available in the public domain. The chapter is organized by company A-Z, stage of development at signing, deal type (collaborative R&D, co-promotion, licensing etc). Each deal title links via Weblink to an online version of the deal record providing easy access to each contract document on demand.

Chapter 6 provides a comprehensive and detailed review of cancer diagnostics deals with a specific focus on oncology therapy area for deals since 2007. Each deal title links via Weblink to an online version of the deal record and where available links to an online version of the actual contract document, providing easy access to each contract document on demand.


Chapter 7 provides a comprehensive and detailed review of cancer diagnostics deals with a specific focus on diagnostics technology area for deals since 2007. Each deal title links via Weblink to an online version of the deal record and where available links to an online version of the actual contract document, providing easy access to each contract document on demand.

The report also includes numerous tables and figures that illustrate the trends and activities in cancer diagnostics partnering and dealmaking since 2007.

In addition, a comprehensive appendix is provided organized by cancer diagnostics partnering company A-Z , deal type definitions and cancer diagnostics partnering agreements example. Each deal title links via Weblink to an online version of the deal record and where available, the contract document, providing easy access to each contract document on demand.

In conclusion, this report provides everything a prospective dealmaker needs to know about partnering in the research, development and commercialization of cancer diagnostics technologies and products.

Report scope

Cancer Diagnostics Partnering Agreements is intended to provide the reader with an in-depth understanding and access to cancer monoclonal antibody trends and structure of deals entered into by leading companies worldwide.

Cancer Diagnostics Partnering Agreements includes:
- Trends in cancer diagnostics dealmaking in the biopharma industry since 2007
- Analysis of cancer diagnostics deal structure
- Access to headline, upfront, milestone and royalty data
- Access to over 1000 cancer diagnostics deal records
- The leading cancer diagnostics deals by value since 2007
- Includes companion, imaging, CT, MRI, ultrasound, in vitro, molecular, prognostics and theranostics diagnostics deals and alliances since 2007

In Cancer Diagnostics Partnering Agreements, the available deals are listed by:
- Company A-Z
- Headline value
- Stage of development at signing
- Deal component type
- Specific oncology therapy target
- DIagnostics type

Each deal title links via Weblink to an online version of the deal record and where available, the contract document, providing easy access to each contract document on demand.
The Cancer Diagnostics Agreements report provides comprehensive access to available deals and contract documents for over 1,000 cancer diagnostics deals. Analyzing actual contract agreements allows assessment of the following:
- What are the precise rights granted or optioned?
- What is actually granted by the agreement to the partner company?
- What exclusivity is granted?
- What is the payment structure for the deal?
- How aresales and payments audited?
- What is the deal term?
- How are the key terms of the agreement defined?
- How are IPRs handled and owned?
- Who is responsible for commercialization?
- Who is responsible for development, supply, and manufacture?
- How is confidentiality and publication managed?
- How are disputes to be resolved?
- Under what conditions can the deal be terminated?
- What happens when there is a change of ownership?
- What sublicensing and subcontracting provisions have been agreed?
- Which boilerplate clauses does the company insist upon?
- Which boilerplate clauses appear to differ from partner to partner or deal type to deal type?
- Which jurisdiction does the company insist upon for agreement law?

Cancer Diagnostics Partnering Agreements provides the reader with the following key benefits:
- In-depth understanding of cancer diagnostics deal trends since 2007
- Access to headline, upfront, milestone and royalty data
- Acces to the structure of cancer diagnostics agreements with numerous real life case studies
- Comprehensive access to over 1000 actual cancer diagnostics deals entered into by the world’s biopharma companies
- Insight into the terms included in a cancer diagnostics agreement, together with real world clause examples
- Understand the key deal terms companies have agreed in previous deals
- Undertake due diligence to assess suitability of your proposed deal terms for partner companies

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