Editas Medicine,Inc. (NASDAQ:EDIT) Files An 8-K Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
Item1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
  On December 16, 2016, Editas Medicine, Inc. (the Company) entered
  into a License Agreement (the Cpf1 License Agreement) with the
  Broad Institute, Inc. (Broad), for specified patent rights (the
  Cpf1 Patent Rights) related primarily to Cpf1 compositions of
  matter and their use for gene editing. The Company and Broad,
  together with President and Fellows of Harvard College (Harvard),
  had previously entered into a license agreement, dated as of
  October 29, 2014 (as amended by the Amendment (as defined below),
  the Existing License Agreement), to which the Company has
  licensed certain patent rights of Broad, Harvard, the
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for CRISPR/Cas9 and
  transcription activator-like effector (TALE)-related compositions
  of matter and their use for gene editing and to certain
  CRISPR/Cas9 and TALE-related delivery technologies.Concurrently
  with entering into the Cpf1 License Agreement, the Company,
  Broad, and Harvard amended and restated the Existing License
  Agreement (the Amendment) and the Company and Broad entered into
  a License Agreement (the Cas9-II License Agreement) for specified
  patent rights (the Cas9-II Patent Rights) related primarily to
  certain Cas9 compositions of matter and their use for gene
  editing.
Cpf1 License Agreement
  to the Cpf1 License Agreement, Broad, on behalf of itself,
  Harvard, MIT Wageningen University (Wageningen) and the
  University of Tokyo (UTokyo and, together with Broad, Harvard,
  MIT, and Wageningen, the Cpf1 Institutions), granted the Company
  an exclusive, worldwide, royalty-bearing, sublicensable license
  to the Cpf1 Patent Rights, to make, have made, use, have used,
  sell, offer for sale, have sold, export and import products in
  the field of the prevention or treatment of human disease using
  gene therapy, editing of genetic material, or targeting of
  genetic material, subject to certain limitations and retained
  rights (collectively, the Exclusive Field), as well as a
  non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-bearing sublicensable license
  to the Cpf1 Patent Rights for all other purposes, subject to
  certain limitations and retained rights.The licenses granted to
  the Company under the Cpf1 License Agreement exclude certain
  fields, including human germline modification; the stimulation of
  biased inheritance of particular genes or traits within a
  population of plants or animals; the research, development,
  manufacturing, or commercialization of sterile seeds; and the
  modification of the tobacco plant with specified exceptions.
  The Company is obligated to use commercially reasonable efforts
  to research, develop, and commercialize products in the Exclusive
  Field.The Company is also required to achieve certain development
  milestones within specified time periods for products covered by
  the Cpf1 Patent Rights, with Broad having the right to terminate
  the Cpf1 License Agreement if the Company fails to achieve these
  milestones within the required time periods.
  The Company has the right to sublicense its licensed rights
  provided that the sublicense agreement must be in compliance and
  consistent with the terms of the Cpf1 License Agreement. Any
  sublicense agreement cannot include the right to grant further
  sublicenses without the written consent of Broad. In addition,
  any sublicense agreements must contain certain terms, including a
  provision requiring the sublicensee to indemnify the Cpf1
  Institutions according to the same terms as are provided in the
  Cpf1 License Agreement and a statement that Broad is an intended
  third party beneficiary of the sublicense agreement for certain
  purposes.
  The licenses granted to the Company under the Cpf1 License
  Agreement are subject to any retained rights of the U.S.
  government in the Cpf1 Patent Rights and rights retained by the
  Cpf1 Institutions on behalf of themselves and other academic,
  government and non-profit entities, to practice the Cpf1 Patent
  Rights for research, teaching, or educational purposes.The
  Companys exclusive license rights also are subject to rights
  retained by the Cpf1 Institutions for themselves and any third
  party to research, develop, make, have made, use, offer for sale,
  sell, have sold, import or otherwise exploit the Cpf1 Patent
  Rights and licensed products as research products or research
  tools, or for research purposes.
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    Under the Cpf1 License Agreement, Broad also retained rights to
    grant further licenses under specified circumstances to third
    parties that wish to develop and commercialize products that
    target a particular gene and that otherwise would fall within
    the scope of the Companys exclusive license from Broad.If,
    after a specified period of time, a third party requests a
    license under the Cpf1 Patent Rights for the development and
    commercialization of a product that would be subject to the
    Companys exclusive license grant from Broad (a Third Party
    Proposed Product Request), Broad may notify the Company of the
    request. A Third Party Proposed Product Request must be
    accompanied by a research, development and commercialization
    plan reasonably satisfactory to Broad, including evidence that
    the third party has, or reasonably expects to have, access to
    any necessary intellectual property and funding.Broad may not
    grant a Third Party Proposed Product Request (i) if the
    Company, directly or through any of its affiliates,
    sublicensees, or collaborators is researching, developing, or
    commercializing a product directed to the same gene target that
    is the subject of the Third Party Proposed Product Request (a
    Licensee Product) or (ii) if the Company, directly or through
    any of its affiliates or sublicensees,wishes to do so either
    alone or with a collaboration partner, and the Company can
    demonstrate to Broads reasonable satisfaction that the Company
    is interested in researching, developing, and commercializing a
    Licensee Product, that it has a commercially reasonable
    research, development, and commercialization plan to do so, and
    it commences and continues reasonable commercial efforts under
    such plan. If the Company, directly or through any of its
    affiliates, sublicensees, or collaborators, is not researching,
    developing, or commercializing a Licensee Product nor able to
    develop and implement a plan reasonably satisfactory to Broad,
    Broad may grant a license to the third party on a gene
    target-by-gene target basis.
  
    The Cpf1 License Agreement also provides Broad with the right,
    after a specified period of time and subject to certain
    limitations, to designate gene targets for which Broad, whether
    alone or together with an affiliate or third party, has an
    interest in researching and developing products that would
    otherwise be covered by rights licensed to the Company under
    the Cpf1 License Agreement or the Existing License
    Agreement.Broad may not so designate any gene target for which
    the Company, directly or through any of its affiliates,
    sublicensees, or collaborators, is researching, developing, or
    commercializing a product, or for which the Company can
    demonstrate to Broads reasonable satisfaction that the Company
    is interested in researching, developing, and commercializing a
    product, that the Company has a commercially reasonable
    research, development, and commercialization plan to do so, and
    the Company commences and continues reasonable commercial
    efforts under such plan.If the Company directly or through any
    of its affiliates, sublicensees, or collaborators, is not
    researching, developing, or commercializing a product directed
    toward the gene target designated by Broad and is not able to
    develop and implement a plan reasonably satisfactory to Broad,
    Broad is entitled to reserve all rights under the Cpf1 License
    Agreement and the Existing License Agreement, including the
    right to grant exclusive or non-exclusive licenses to third
    parties, to develop and commercialize products directed to such
    gene target and the Company will not be entitled under the Cpf1
    License Agreement or the Existing License Agreement to develop
    and commercialize products directed to that gene target.
  
    Under the Cpf1 License Agreement, the Company will pay Broad
    and Wageningen an aggregate upfront license fee in the mid
    seven digits and issue to Broad and Wageningen promissory notes
    (the Initial Promissory Notes) in an aggregate principal amount
    of $10.0 million.The Initial Promissory Notes will bear
    interest at 4.8% per annum.Principal and interest on the
    Initial Promissory Notes will be payable on the first
    anniversary of the issuance date (or if earlier, a specified
    period of time following a Company sale event) and the Initial
    Promissory Notes will be convertible, at the option of the
    Company, into common stock of the Company subject to certain
    conditions.In the event of a change of control of the Company
    or a Company sale, the Company is required to pay all remaining
    principal and accrued interest on the Initial Promissory Notes
    in cash within a specified period following such event.
  
    Broad and Wageningen are collectively entitled to receive
    clinical and regulatory milestone payments totaling up to $20.0
    million in the aggregate per licensed product approved in the
    United States, European Union and Japan for the prevention or
    treatment of a human disease that afflicts at least a specified
    number of patients in the aggregate in the United States. If
    the Company undergoes a change of control during the term of
    the Cpf1 License Agreement, certain of these clinical and
    regulatory milestone payments will be increased by a certain
    percentage in the mid double-digits. The Company is also
    obligated to make additional payments to Broad and Wageningen,
    collectively, of up to an aggregate of $54.0 million upon the
    occurrence of certain sales milestones per licensed product for
    the prevention or treatment of a
  
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    human disease that afflicts at least a specified number of
    patients in the aggregate in the United States. Broad and
    Wageningen are collectively entitled to receive clinical and
    regulatory milestone payments totaling up to $6.0 million in
    the aggregate per licensed product approved in the United
    States, European Union and Japan for the prevention or
    treatment of a human disease that afflicts fewer than a
    specified number of patients in the aggregate in the United
    States or a specified number of patients per year in the United
    States (an Ultra-Orphan Disease). The Company is also obligated
    to make additional payments to Broad and Wageningen,
    collectively, of up to an aggregate of $36.0 million upon the
    occurrence of certain sales milestones per licensed product for
    the prevention or treatment of an Ultra-Orphan Disease.
  
    Broad and Wageningen, collectively, are entitled to receive mid
    single-digit percentage royalties on net sales of products for
    the prevention or treatment of human disease, and ranging from
    sub single-digit to high single-digit percentage royalties on
    net sales of other products and services, made by the Company,
    its affiliates, or its sublicensees. The royalty percentage
    depends on the product and service, and whether such licensed
    product or licensed service is covered by a valid claim within
    the Cpf1 Patent Rights.If the Company is legally required to
    pay royalties to a third party on net sales of the Companys
    products because such third party holds patent rights that
    cover such licensed product, then the Company can credit up to
    a mid double-digit percentage of the amount paid to such third
    party against the royalties due to Broad and Wageningen in the
    same period. The Companys obligation to pay royalties will
    expire on a product-by-product and country-by-country basis
    upon the later of the expiration of the last to expire valid
    claim of the Cpf1 Patent Rights that covers each licensed
    product or service in each country or the tenth anniversary of
    the date of the first commercial sale of the product or
    service. If the Company sublicenses any of the Cpf1 Patent
    Rights to a third party, Broad and Wageningen, collectively,
    have the right to receive high single-digit to low double-digit
    percentages of the sublicense income, depending on the stage of
    development of the products or services in question at the time
    of the sublicense.
  
    Under the Cpf1 License Agreement, Broad and Wageningen are also
    entitled, collectively, to receive success payments in the
    event the Companys market capitalization reaches specified
    thresholds ascending from a high nine digit dollar amount to
    $10 billion (Market Cap Success Payments) or a Company sale for
    consideration in excess of those thresholds (Company Sale
    Success Payments and, collectively with the Market Cap Success
    Payments, the Success Payments). The Success Payments paid to
    Broad and Wageningen collectively will not exceed, in
    aggregate, $125.0 million, which maximum would be payable only
    if the Company reaches a market capitalization threshold of $10
    billion and has at least one product candidate covered by a
    claim of a patent right licensed to the Company under either
    the Cpf1 License Agreement or the Existing License Agreement
    that is or was the subject of a clinical trial to development
    efforts by the Company or any Company affiliate or
    sublicensee.Market Cap Success Paymentsare payable by the
    Company in cash or in the form of promissory notes on
    substantially the same terms and conditions as the Initial
    Promissory Notes, except that the maturity date of such notes
    will, subject to certain exceptions, be 150 days following
    issuance.Following a change in control of the Company, Market
    Cap Success Payments are required to be made in cash. Company
    Sale Success Payments are payable solely in cash.
  
    In addition, in the event that a Company sale or change of
    control has occurred and the maximum amount of potential
    Success Payments under the Cpf1 License Agreement has not been
    paid to Broad and Wageningen, Broad and Wageningen are entitled
    to receive, upon the subsequent achievement of specified
    regulatory milestones, percentages ranging from high single
    digits to mid-to-low double digits of the remaining unpaid
    maximum amount of Success Payments.Broad and Wageningen are
    further entitled to receive up to the full remaining unpaid
    maximum amount of Success Payments upon the subsequent
    achievement of specified sales milestones.All such post-sale or
    post-change of control milestone payments are required to be
    made in cash.
  
    Broad retains control of the prosecution and maintenance of the
    Cpf1 Patent Rights. The Company has the right to provide input
    in the prosecution of the Cpf1 Patent Rights, including to
    direct Broad to file and prosecute patents in certain
    countries. The Company is also obligated to reimburse Broad and
    Wageningen for all unreimbursed expenses incurred by them in
    connection with the prosecution and maintenance of the Cpf1
    Patent Rights prior to the date of the
  
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    Cpf1 License Agreement, and to reimburse Broad for expenses
    associated with the prosecution and maintenance of the Cpf1
    Patent Rights following the date of the Cpf1 License Agreement.
  
    The Company has the first right, but not the obligation, to
    enforce the Cpf1 Patent Rights with respect to its licensed
    products in the Exclusive Field so long as certain conditions
    are met, such as providing Broad and the applicable
    Institutions with evidence demonstrating a good faith basis for
    bringing suit against a third party. The Company is solely
    responsible for the costs of any lawsuits it elects to initiate
    and cannot enter into a settlement without the prior written
    consent of Broad. Any sums recovered in such lawsuits will be
    shared between the Company, Broad, and Wageningen.
  
    Unless terminated earlier, the term of the Cpf1 License
    Agreement will expire on a country-by-country basis, upon the
    expiration of the last to expire valid claim of the Cpf1 Patent
    Rights in such country. However, the Companys royalty
    obligations, discussed above, may survive expiration or
    termination. The Company has the right to terminate the Cpf1
    License Agreement at will upon four months’ written notice to
    Broad. Either party may terminate the Cpf1 License Agreement
    upon a specified period of notice in the event of the other
    partys uncured material breach of a material obligation, such
    notice period varying depending on the nature of the breach.
    Broad may terminate the Cpf1 License Agreement immediately if
    the Company challenges the enforceability, validity, or scope
    of any Patent Right or assist a third party to do so, or in the
    event of the Companys bankruptcy or insolvency.
  
Amendment and Restatement of Existing License Agreement
    The Amendment excluded additional fields from the scope of the
    exclusive license granted by Broad and Harvard under the
    Existing License Agreement, including plant-based agricultural
    products as well as, subject to certain limitations, products
    providing nutritional benefits.In addition, the Amendment
    excluded the following from the scope of both the exclusive and
    non-exclusive licenses granted by Broad and Harvard under the
    Existing License Agreement:human germline modification; the
    stimulation of biased inheritance of particular genes or traits
    within a population of plants or animals; the research,
    development, manufacturing, or commercialization of sterile
    seeds; and the modification of the tobacco plant with specified
    exceptions.The Amendment also provided that the licenses
    granted to the Company under the Existing License Agreement
    with respect to three targets would become non-exclusive,
    subject to the limitation that each of Broad and Harvard will
    be permitted to grant a license to only one third party at a
    time with respect to each such target within the field of the
    exclusive license under the Existing License Agreement.
  
    The Amendment also revised the provisions of the Existing
    License Agreement relating to the rights of Harvard and Broad
    to grant further licenses under specified circumstances to
    third parties that wish to develop and commercialize products
    that target a particular gene and that otherwise would fall
    within the scope of the Companys exclusive license under the
    Existing License Agreement, so that, after a specified period
    of time, Harvard and Broad together would have rights
    substantially similar to the equivalent rights possessed by
    Broad under the Cpf1 License Agreement.The Amendment also
    provided Harvard and Broad with rights, after a specified
    period of time, substantially similar to the equivalent rights
    possessed by Broad under the Cpf1 License Agreement to
    designate gene targets for which the designating institution,
    whether alone or together with an affiliate or third party, has
    an interest in researching and developing products that would
    otherwise be covered by rights licensed by Harvard and/or Broad
    to the Company under the Existing License Agreement, the Cpf1
    License Agreement, or the Cas9-II License Agreement.
  
Cas9-II License Agreement
    to the Cas9-II License Agreement, Broad, on behalf of itself,
    MIT, Harvard, and the University of Iowa Research Foundation
    (collectively, the Cas9-II Institutions), granted the Company
    an exclusive, worldwide, royalty-bearing sublicensable license
    to certain of the Cas9-II Patent Rights as well as a
    non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-bearing sublicensable license
    to all of the Cas9-II Patent Rights, in each case on terms
    substantially similar to the licenses granted to the Company
    under Cpf1 License Agreement, except that:
  
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    Item2.03. Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an
    Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a
    Registrant.
  
    Upon the Companys entry into the Cpf1 License Agreement, the
    Company became obligated to issue the Initial Promissory
    Notes.In addition, under the Cpf1 License Agreement and the
    Cas9-II License Agreement, the Company has the option, subject
    to specified conditions, to make Market Cap Success Payments in
    the form of promissory notes.The information included in Item
    1.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated into
    this Item 2.03 of this Current Report on Form 8-K by reference.
  
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 About Editas Medicine, Inc. (NASDAQ:EDIT) 
Editas Medicine, Inc., formerly Gengine, Inc., is a genome editing company. The Company is engaged in treating patients with genetically defined diseases by correcting their disease-causing genes. It operates through developing and commercializing genome editing technology segment. It is developing a genome editing platform based on clustered, regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR associated protein 9 (Cas9) technology. CRISPR/Cas9 uses a protein ribonucleic acid (RNA) complex consisting of the Cas9 enzyme bound to a guide RNA molecule designed to recognize a particular deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequence that requires repair. The Company has initiated a range of research programs across multiple therapeutic areas. Its programs include Eye Diseases, Engineered T Cell Therapies for Immuno-Oncology and additional research programs, including Non-malignant Hematologic Diseases, Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Cystic Fibrosis and Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency.	Editas Medicine, Inc. (NASDAQ:EDIT) Recent Trading Information 
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