Caribou Biosciences, Inc. 10-Q

Item 1 . Legal Proceedings. From time to time, we may be subject to various legal proceedings and claims that arise in the ordinary course of our business activities. Regardless of the outcome, litigation can have a material adverse effect on us because of defense and settlement costs, diversion of management resources, and other factors. We are not currently a party to any legal proceeding, the outcome of which, we believe, if determined adversely to us, would individually or taken together have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results, cash flows, or financial condition. Intellia Arbitration On October 16, 2018, Intellia initiated an arbitration proceeding (the “Intellia Arbitration”) with JAMS asserting that we had violated the terms and conditions of the Intellia License Agreement. The Intellia Arbitration involved whether two patent families relating, respectively, to CRISPR-Cas9 chRDNA guides and Cas9 scaffolds, are included in the Intellia License Agreement. On September 19, 2019, we received an interim award from the arbitration panel determining that the two patent families are included in the Intellia License Agreement, but the panel granted us an exclusive leaseback to Cas9 chRDNA guides under economic terms to be negotiated by the parties. On February 6, 2020, the arbitration panel clarified that the leaseback relates solely to our CB-010 product candidate, and instructed the parties to negotiate economic terms based on a leaseback of that scope. On June 16, 2021, we entered into a leaseback agreement with Intellia, which resolved the dispute, and, on July 21, 2021, the arbitration panel dismissed the Intellia Arbitration with prejudice. See Note 4 to the condensed consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report.