Dec 20, 2012 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/c4l56z/bacterial) has announced the addition of the "Bacterial Partnering Terms and Agreements" report to their offering. The Bacterial Partnering Terms and Agreements report provides comprehensive understanding and unprecedented access to the bacterial partnering deals and agreements entered into by the worlds leading healthcare companies. The report provides a detailed understanding and analysis of how and why companies enter bacterial 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 bacterial technology. These deals tend to be multicomponent, starting with collaborative R&D, and commercialization of outcomes. 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 1,000 links to online copies of actual bacterial deals and 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 report also includes numerous tables and figures that illustrate the trends and activities in bacterial partnering and dealmaking since 2007. In conclusion, this report provides everything a prospective dealmaker needs to know about partnering in the research, development and commercialization of bacterial technologies and products. In Bacterial Partnering Terms and Agreements, available deals and contracts are listed by: - Headline value - Upfront payment value - Royalty rate value - Stage of development at signing - Deal component type - Technology type - Specific therapy indication - 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. Company profiles - Abbott - Actavis - Actelion - Allergan - Amgen - Aspen Pharmacare - Astellas - AstraZeneca - Baxter International - Bayer - Biogen Idec - Boehringer Ingelheim - Bristol-Myers Squibb - Celgene - CSL - Daiichi Sankyo - Dainippon Sumitomo - Eisai - Eli Lilly - Endo Pharmaceuticals - Forest Laboratories - Galderma - Gilead Sciences - GlaxoSmithKline - Grifols - Hospira - Johnson & Johnson - Kyowa Hakko Kirin - Lundbeck - Menarini - Merck & Co - Merck KGaA - Mitsubishi Tanabe - Novartis - Novo Nordisk - Otsuka - Pfizer - Purdue - Roche - Sanofi - Servier - Shionogi - Shire - Takeda - Teva - Valeant - Warner Chilcott - Watson For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/c4l56z/bacterial

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