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| Commitments and Contingencies |
Licensing Commitments The Company has license agreements with three parties under which the Company is obliged to pay annual license fees. One agreement, between IBA GmbH and the Company, requires annual license payments of $32,718 and relates to licenses for Strep-tag technology that represent tool technologies used for research purposes only. The agreement expires in 2024. The second license agreement is between TUM and the Company (see Note 13 Related-Party Transactions). Under this agreement, the Company is obliged to pay a minimum annual license fee of $0.1 million to TUM. The agreement expires in 2027. The table below shows the minimum annual license fee commitments under the two agreements as of December 31, 2016:
Leases The Company leases office and laboratory space in Freising, Germany. The first lease agreement has a defined termination date, which is the end of a notification period of eight months at the end of each quarter. In June 2016, we entered into a second lease agreement for additional office space in Freising, which has a fixed term of one year. As we have not cancelled this lease agreement by December 12, 2016, the term of the lease extended by one year until June 2018. On August 27, 2015, the Company entered into an Agreement of Sublease (the “Sublease Agreement”) with Berenberg Capital Markets LLC (the “Sublandlord”). Under the Sublease Agreement, the Sublandlord will sublease to the Company approximately 3,950 square feet in Boston, MA. The term of the lease will expire on February 27, 2022. The Sublease Agreement provides free rent for the first two months in addition to scheduled rent increases that are not dependent on future events. The Company records rent expense on a straight-line basis over the lease term period. For the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2015 respectively, the Company has recognized rent expense in an amount of $0.2 million and $18,399 under the Sublease Agreement. Rent expense under the Company’s operating lease for its Freising, Germany based facility was $0.3 million and $0.4 million for the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2015, respectively.
The Company’s contractual commitments of the non-cancellable portion under theses operating leases as of December 31, 2016 are as follows:
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