In August 2005, CAT granted Symphogen a patent licence to use CAT's Phage Display technology for research purposes and to develop and commercialise a number of therapeutic and diagnostic human monoclonal antibody products.
Symphogen made an upfront payment for the licence and exercised its first product option to develop and commercialise its lead product Sym001. Symphogen paid a product licence fee and will make future milestone and royalty payments to CAT upon the successful development of Sym001.