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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-Q

(Mark One)

For the quarterly period ended March 31, 2004

OR

For the transition period from              to             

Commission file number 0-32405

SEATTLE GENETICS, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

21823 30^th Drive SE

Bothell, Washington 98021

(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code): (425) 527-4000

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.    YES  x    NO  ¨

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an accelerated filer (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).    YES  ¨    NO  x

As of April 30, 2004, there were 40,207,615 shares of the registrant’s common stock outstanding.

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Seattle Genetics, Inc.

For the quarter ended March 31, 2004

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PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION

Item 1. Financial Statements

Seattle Genetics, Inc.

Balance Sheets

(Unaudited)

(In thousands, except share amounts)

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

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Seattle Genetics, Inc.

Statements of Operations

(Unaudited)

(In thousands, except per share amounts)

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

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Seattle Genetics, Inc.

Statement of Stockholders’ Equity

(Unaudited)

(In thousands)

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

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Seattle Genetics, Inc.

Statement of Cash Flows

(Unaudited)

(In thousands)

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

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Seattle Genetics, Inc.

Notes to Financial Statements

(Unaudited)

1. Basis of presentation

The accompanying unaudited financial statements of Seattle Genetics, Inc. (“Seattle Genetics” or the “Company”) have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles for interim financial information and with the instructions to Form 10-Q and reflect all adjustments consisting of normal recurring adjustments which, in the opinion of management, are necessary for a fair presentation of the results for the periods presented. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required by generally accepted accounting principles for complete financial statements. The results of operations for such periods are not necessarily indicative of the results expected for the full calendar year or for any future period.

The balance sheet at December 31, 2003 has been derived from the audited financial statements at that date but does not include all of the information and footnotes required by generally accepted accounting principles for complete financial statements. These financial statements should be read in conjunction with the audited financial statements and footnotes included in the Company’s annual report on Form 10-K as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

2. Collaborations, license and contract manufacturing agreements

In February 2004, the Company entered into an agreement with Abbott Laboratories for manufacturing of its SGN-30 monoclonal antibody product candidate. This antibody is also used in the Company’s SGN-35 antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) product candidate. Under the terms of the agreement, Abbott has agreed to perform scale-up and GMP manufacturing for clinical trials, as well as supply commercial-grade material to support potential regulatory approval and commercial launch. The Company’s total costs through 2005 of manufacturing SGN-30 with Abbott could be up to $8.9 million, of which $789,000 was expensed during the first quarter of 2004.

In January 2004, the Company and Protein Design Labs agreed to expand their ongoing ADC collaboration. The Company has agreed to provide additional support to Protein Design Labs in their development of ADC product candidates in exchange for receipt of increased fees, milestones and royalties on net sales of any ADC products resulting from the collaboration. Protein Design Labs is responsible for all costs associated with the development, manufacturing and marketing of any ADC products generated as a result of this collaboration. During the first quarter of 2004, the Company supplied Protein Design Labs with research grade materials for which the Company recognized $800,000 in revenue. Additionally, Protein Design Labs and the Company entered into a license agreement that granted the Company a license and options for two additional licenses under Protein Design Lab’s antibody humanization patents. Under the terms of the license agreement, the Company is required to pay Protein Design Labs annual maintenance fees and royalties on net sales of products using Protein Design Labs’ antibody humanization technology.

3. Common stock financing

In February 2004, the Company completed a follow-on public offering of 7,000,000 shares of common stock. In addition, the underwriters of the public offering exercised their over-allotment option in full and purchased an additional 1,050,000 shares of common stock. Total gross proceeds from this offering were approximately $66.4 million, with total net proceeds to the Company of approximately $62.1 million after the deduction of the discount paid to the underwriters and other actual and estimated offering expenses payable by the Company.

4. Stock-based compensation

The Company accounts for stock-based employee compensation arrangements in accordance with the provisions of Accounting Principles Board Opinion No. 25 “Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees,” (APB No. 25) as interpreted by Financial Accounting Standards Board Interpretation No. 44 (FIN 44) and related interpretations and complies with the disclosure provisions of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123, “Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation” (SFAS No. 123). Under APB No. 25 and related interpretations, compensation expense is based on the difference, if any, of the fair value of the Company’s stock and the

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exercise price of the option as of the date of grant. These differences are deferred and amortized in accordance with Financial Accounting Standards Board Interpretation No. 28, “Accounting for Stock Appreciation Rights and Other Variable Stock Option or Award Plans,” (FIN No. 28) on an accelerated basis over the vesting period of the individual options.

The Company accounts for equity instruments issued to nonemployees in accordance with the provisions of SFAS No. 123 and Emerging Issues Task Force Issue No. 96-18, “Accounting for Equity Instruments That Are Issued to Other Than Employees for Acquiring or in Conjunction with Selling, Goods or Services,” and related interpretations.

The following table illustrates the effect on net loss and loss per share attributable to common stockholders under SFAS No. 123 had been applied to all outstanding and unvested awards and shares issued under the Company’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan in each period (unaudited - in thousands, except per share amounts):

5. Net loss per share attributable to common stockholders

Basic and diluted net loss per share attributable to common stockholders has been computed using the weighted-average number of shares of common stock outstanding during the period, less the weighted-average number of unvested shares of common stock issued that are subject to repurchase. The Company has excluded all convertible preferred stock, warrants, options to purchase common stock and restricted shares of common stock subject to repurchase from the calculation of diluted net loss per share attributable to common stockholders, as such securities are antidilutive for all periods presented.

The following table presents the calculation of basic and diluted net loss per share attributable to common stockholders (unaudited - in thousands, except per share amounts):

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6. Investments

Investments, classified as available-for-sale, consist of the following (unaudited - in thousands):

The estimated fair value of investments, by contractual maturity, consists of the following:

7. Property and equipment

Property and equipment consists of the following (unaudited - in thousands):

The Company is making capital expenditures for additional improvements to the Company’s headquarters and operations facility for lab and office expansion. Construction in progress consists of architectural services, permits, deposits on lab equipment and construction payments for these improvements. The Company in aggregate has remaining commitments of approximately $2.8 million for construction-related activities which are anticipated to be completed during the second half of 2004.

The majority of the Company’s property and equipment is secured as collateral for certain obligations under its office and laboratory lease agreement.

8. Accounts payable and accrued liabilities

Accounts payable and accrued liabilities consists of the following (unaudited - in thousands):

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9. Commitments and contingencies

As of March 31, 2004, the Company had restricted investments totaling $980,000 as collateral for certain obligations of its office and laboratory lease. These investment securities are restricted as to withdrawal and are managed by a third party. The lease terms provide for changes in the amounts pledged based upon the Company’s market capitalization, stockholders’ equity or cash and investments balance, and decreases beginning in the fourth year of the lease. In the event that the Company’s market capitalization, stockholders’ equity or cash and investments balance fall below specific thresholds, the Company will be obligated to increase its restricted investment balance to approximately $3.4 million. As of March 31, 2004, the Company was in compliance with these thresholds.

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Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

Forward-Looking Statements

The following discussion of our financial condition and results of operations contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These statements relate to future events or our future financial performance. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as may, might, will, should, expect, plan, anticipate, project, believe, estimate, predict, potential, intend or continue, the negative of terms like these or other comparable terminology, and other words or terms of similar meaning in connection with any discussion of future operating or financial performance. These statements are only predictions. All forward-looking statements included in this document are based on information available to us on the date hereof, and we assume no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements. Any or all of our forward-looking statements in this document may turn out to be wrong. Actual events or results may differ materially. Our forward-looking statements can be affected by inaccurate assumptions we might make or by known or unknown risks and uncertainties. In evaluating these statements, you should specifically consider various factors, including the risks outlined under the caption “Important Factors That May Affect Our Business, Results of Operations and Stock Price” set forth at the end of this Item 2 and those contained from time to time in our other filings with the SEC. We caution investors that our business and financial performance are subject to substantial risks and uncertainties.

Overview

We focus on the development of monoclonal antibody-based therapeutic products for the treatment of cancer and immunologic diseases. We currently have two product candidates in phase II clinical trials, SGN-30 and SGN-15, and one product candidate in phase I clinical trials, SGN-40. Additionally, we have three product candidates in preclinical development: SGN-35, SGN-75 and SGN-17/19. Our pipeline of product candidates is based upon three technologies: genetically engineered monoclonal antibodies, monoclonal antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) and antibody-directed enzyme prodrug therapy (ADEPT). These technologies enable us to develop monoclonal antibodies that can kill target cells on their own as well as increase the potency of monoclonal antibodies by enhancing their cell-killing ability. We also have active programs to identify and in-license novel antigens and new monoclonal antibodies.

Since our inception, we have incurred substantial losses and, as of March 31, 2004, we had an accumulated loss of $85.4 million. These losses and accumulated deficit have resulted from the significant costs incurred in the development of our monoclonal antibody-based technologies, clinical trial costs, manufacturing expenses of preclinical and clinical grade materials, general and administrative costs and non-cash stock-based compensation expenses. We expect that our losses will continue for the foreseeable future as we continue to expand our research, development, clinical trial activities and infrastructure in support of these activities.

We do not currently have any commercial products for sale. To date, our revenues have been derived principally from our collaboration and license agreements and from Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grants. In the future, our revenues may consist of milestone payments, technology licensing fees and sponsored research fees under existing and future collaborative arrangements, royalties from collaborations with current and future strategic partners, grant revenues and commercial product sales. Because a substantial portion of our revenues for the foreseeable future will depend on entering into new collaboration and license agreements and achieving development and clinical milestones under existing collaboration and license agreements, our results of operations may vary substantially from year to year and quarter to quarter. We believe that period to period comparisons of our operating results are not meaningful and you should not rely on them as indicative of our future performance.

Results of Operations

Three months ended March 31, 2004 and 2003

Revenues.

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Total revenues for the first quarter of 2004 were $2.0 million, a 178% increase from the comparable period in 2003, primarily due to higher collaboration and license agreement revenues. Collaboration and license agreement revenue are further discussed below.

Funded research and material supply fees increased 400% to $1.5 million in the first quarter of 2004 from the comparable period in 2003. This revenue growth came from increased fees earned as part of the research programs of our collaborators, Celltech Group, Genencor, Genentech and Protein Design Labs of approximately $377,000 and included $800,000 of material supply fees for the development of research grade materials for Protein Design Labs.

The earned portion of technology access fees and milestones increased 30% to $501,000 in the first quarter of 2004 from the comparable period in 2003. These revenues represent upfront technology access fees that are being recognized ratably over the research period of each collaboration.

We expect that future revenues will vary from quarter to quarter and from year to year based on the timing and amounts of payments under our current license and collaboration agreements and our ability to enter into additional agreements and obtain additional government grants.

Research and development.

Research and development expenses, excluding non-cash stock-based compensation expenses, increased 37% to $7.6 million in the first quarter of 2004 from the comparable period in 2003. The increase was principally due to costs related to the manufacturing of clinical grade materials of approximately $928,000 and personnel expenses of approximately $753,000. The number of research and development personnel increased to 91 at March 31, 2004 from 76 at March 31, 2003.

The manufacturing cost increases relate primarily to our agreement with Abbott Laboratories for the manufacturing of our SGN-30 monoclonal antibody product candidate. This antibody is also used in our SGN-35 ADC product candidate. We expect to incur approximately $8.9 million in manufacturing expenses under this agreement through 2005, of which approximately $789,000 has been expensed during the first quarter of 2004.

Our research and development expenses can be divided into research, development and contract manufacturing and clinical programs. We estimate the costs associated with these programs as follows:

Research expenses include, among other things, personnel, occupancy and laboratory expenses associated with the discovery and identification of new antigen targets and monoclonal antibodies and the development of novel classes of stable linkers and potent cell-killing drugs. Development and contract manufacturing expenses include personnel and occupancy expenses and external contract manufacturing costs for the scale up and manufacturing of drug product for use in our clinical trials. Clinical expenses include personnel and occupancy expenses and external clinical trials costs including principal investigator fees, clinical site expenses, clinical research organization charges and regulatory activities associated with conducting human clinical trials. Costs associated with our clinical activities decreased slightly in the first quarter of 2004 from the comparable period in 2003 due to lower third-party costs and completion of patient enrollments in our SGN-15 trials.

Because of the large number of research and development programs ongoing at any one time and our ability to utilize staffing resources across several research programs, the majority of our research and development costs is not assigned to individual programs and is instead allocated among multiple programs. For purposes of reimbursement from our collaborators, we capture the level of effort expended on a project through our project tracking system, which is based primarily on the human resource time associated with each project, supplemented with material costs.

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We anticipate that our research, development, contract manufacturing and clinical expenses will continue to grow in the foreseeable future as we expand our discovery and preclinical activities, as new product candidates enter clinical trials and as we advance our product candidates already in clinical trials, SGN-30, SGN-15 and SGN-40, to new clinical sites in North America and Europe. These expenses will fluctuate based upon many factors including the degree of collaborative activities, timing of manufacturing campaigns, level of patients enrolled in our clinical trials and the outcome of each clinical trial event.

General and administrative.

General and administrative expenses, excluding non-cash stock-based compensation expenses, increased 28% to $1.5 million in the first quarter of 2004 from the comparable period in 2003. The increase was due to additional administrative personnel, increased professional services and increased expenses for liability and directors’ and officers’ insurance totaling approximately $287,000. The number of general and administrative personnel increased to 22 at March 31, 2004 from 20 at March 31, 2003. We anticipate that general and administrative expenses will increase as our costs related to adding personnel in support of our operations increase. In addition, we will incur additional professional fees in order to comply with the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 that go into effect for 2004 and 2005.

Non-cash stock-based compensation.

Non-cash stock-based compensation expense decreased 56% to $153,000 in the first quarter of 2004 from the comparable period in 2003. The decrease is attributable to the accelerated amortization of deferred stock-based compensation, changes for stock option cancellations from employees who have left the Company and changes in value of options subject to variable accounting. Variable accounting treatment results in charges or credits, recorded to non-cash stock-based compensation, depending on fluctuations in the market value of our common stock. We anticipate that non-cash stock-based compensation expense will continue to decrease in the future based upon scheduled amortizations in accordance with Financial Accounting Standards Board Interpretation No. 28. However, if new accounting rules become effective and require fair value accounting for stock options we expect to record additional stock-based compensation charges.

Investment income, net.

Investment income increased 61% to $543,000 in the first quarter of 2004 from the comparable period in 2003. The increase was primarily from interest income received from the net proceeds of approximately $62.1 million from our follow-on public offering of 8,050,000 shares of common stock that was completed in February 2004. We anticipate that investment income will exceed prior year’s performance because of our higher cash and investment balances expected during 2004.

Non-cash accretion of preferred stock deemed dividend.

Non-cash accretion of preferred stock deemed dividend was $2.2 million in the first quarter of 2004. As part of our Series A convertible preferred stock financing in July 2003, we are recording a non-cash accretion of preferred stock deemed dividend, which represents an increase to reported net loss in arriving at net loss attributable to common stockholders, using the effective interest method through the date of earliest conversion. We estimate that we will record additional non-cash accretion of preferred stock deemed dividend of $27.1 million and $7.2 million, respectively, in the second and third quarters of 2004. The non-cash accretion of the preferred stock deemed dividend will not have an effect on net loss or cash flows for the applicable reporting periods or have an impact on total stockholders’ equity as of the applicable reporting dates.

Liquidity and Capital Resources.

We have financed our operations primarily through the issuance of equity securities and funding from our collaboration and license agreements. During the first quarter of 2004, we received $62.1 million in net proceeds from our follow-on public offering and approximately $4.0 million in cash fees and milestones under our collaboration and license agreements.

At March 31, 2004, cash, cash equivalents, short-term and long-term investments totaled $131.7 million. Our cash, cash equivalents, short-term and long-term investments and restricted investments are held in a variety of interest-bearing instruments, consisting of U.S. government and agency securities, high-grade U.S. corporate bonds, taxable municipal bonds, mortgage-backed securities, commercial paper and money market accounts.

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We expect cash used in operating activities to increase in the future as we increase our number of employees, expand our contract manufacturing initiatives and increase the patient enrollments in our clinical trials. However, we may experience quarterly fluctuations in cash used in operating activities based on the timing of manufacturing campaigns and cash provided from collaboration activities.

Capital expenditures during the first quarter of 2004 consisted primarily of construction in progress of approximately $470,000 for additional improvements to our existing headquarters and operations facility for lab and office expansion and lab equipment of approximately $260,000 in support of our research and development activities. In the comparable period in 2003, capital expenditures consisted primarily of lab equipment and related information systems. We expect that our 2004 capital expenditures will continue to increase based on additional improvements we are making to our existing headquarters and operations facility for lab and office expansion to accommodate future employee growth.

We expect to incur substantial costs as we continue to develop and commercialize our product candidates. We anticipate that our rate of spending will accelerate as a result of the increased costs and expenses associated with adding personnel, clinical trials, regulatory filings, manufacturing, and research and development collaborations. However, we may experience fluctuations in incurring these costs from quarter to quarter based on the timing of manufacturing campaigns, accrual of patients to clinical trials and collaborative activities. Certain external factors may influence our cash spending including factors such as the progress of our research and development activities, the cost of filing and enforcing any patent claims and other intellectual property rights, competing technological and market developments and our ability to establish collaboration and license agreements.

Some of our manufacturing, license and collaboration agreements also provide for periodic maintenance fees over specified time periods, as well as payments by us upon the achievement of development and regulatory milestones and the payment of royalties based on commercial product sales. We do not expect to pay any royalties on net sales of products under any of these agreements for at least the next several years. The amounts set forth above could be substantially higher if we are required to make milestone payments or if we receive regulatory approvals or achieve commercial sales and are required to pay royalties earlier than anticipated.

The minimum payments under manufacturing, license and collaboration agreements in 2004 primarily represent contractual obligations related to manufacturing campaigns to perform scale-up and GMP manufacturing for monoclonal antibody products for use in our clinical trials.

As part of the terms of our office and laboratory lease, we have collateralized certain obligations under the lease with approximately $980,000 of our investments and the majority of our property and equipment. These investment securities are restricted as to withdrawal and are managed by a third party. Beginning in 2005, the lease provides for decreases in the restricted account balance on an annual basis. In the event that we fail to meet specific thresholds of market capitalization, stockholders’ equity or cash and investment balances, we would be obligated to increase our restricted investment balance. At March 31, 2004, we were in compliance with these thresholds.

We believe that our current cash and investment balances will be sufficient to enable us to meet our anticipated expenditures and operating requirements for at least the next 24 months. However, changes in our business may occur that would consume available capital resources sooner than we expect. We may seek additional funding through some or all of the following methods: corporate collaborations, licensing arrangements and public or private equity financings. We do not know whether additional capital will be available when needed, or that, if available, we will obtain financing on terms favorable to our stockholders or us. If we are unable to raise additional funds should we need them, we may be required to delay, reduce or eliminate some of our development programs, which may adversely affect our business and operations.

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Important Factors That May Affect Our Business, Results of Operations and Stock Price

You should carefully consider the risks described below, together with all of the other information included in this quarterly report on Form 10-Q and the information incorporated by reference herein. If we do not effectively address the risks we face, our business will suffer and we may never achieve or sustain profitability. See “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.”

This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q also contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Our actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements as a result of factors that are described below and elsewhere in this quarterly report on Form 10-Q.

Our product candidates are at an early stage of development and, if we are not able to successfully develop and commercialize them, we may not generate sufficient revenues to continue our business operations.

All of our product candidates are in early stages of development. Significant further research and development, financial resources and personnel will be required to develop commercially viable products and obtain regulatory approvals. Currently, SGN-30, SGN-15 and SGN-40 are in clinical trials. We are also conducting preclinical development of SGN-35, SGN-75 and SGN-17/19. We expect that much of our efforts and expenditures over the next few years will be devoted to these clinical and preclinical product candidates. We have no products that have received regulatory approval for commercial sale.

Our ability to commercialize our product candidates depends on first receiving FDA approval. Thereafter, the commercial success of these product candidates will depend upon their acceptance by physicians, patients, third party payors and other key decision-makers as therapeutic and cost-effective alternatives to currently available products. If we fail to gain approval from the FDA or to produce a commercially successful product, we may not be able to earn sufficient revenues to continue as a going concern.

We will continue to need significant amounts of additional capital that may not be available to us.

We expect to make additional capital outlays and to increase operating expenditures over the next several years as we hire additional employees and support our preclinical development, manufacturing and clinical trial activities. We will need to seek additional funding through public or private financings, including equity financings, and through other means, including collaborations and license agreements. However, changes in our business may occur that would consume available capital resources sooner than we expect. If adequate funds are not available to us, we will be required to delay, reduce the scope of or eliminate one or more of our development programs. We do not know whether additional financing will be available when needed, or that, if available, we will obtain financing on terms favorable to our stockholders or us. Our future capital requirements will depend upon a number of factors, including:

To the extent that we raise additional capital by issuing equity securities, our stockholders may experience substantial dilution. To the extent that we raise additional funds through collaboration and licensing arrangements, we may be required to relinquish some rights to our technologies or product candidates, or grant licenses on terms that are not favorable to us.

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Clinical trials for our product candidates are expensive, time consuming and their outcome is uncertain.

Before we can obtain regulatory approval for the commercial sale of any product candidate that we wish to develop, we are required to complete preclinical development and extensive clinical trials in humans to demonstrate its safety and efficacy. Each of these trials requires the investment of substantial expense and time. We are currently conducting phase II clinical trials of our two most advanced product candidates and recently initiated a phase I clinical trial of a third product candidate. We expect to commence additional trials of these and other product candidates in the future. There are numerous factors that could delay each of these clinical trials or prevent us from completing these trials successfully.

Commercialization of our product candidates will ultimately depend upon successful completion of additional research and development and testing in both clinical trials and preclinical models. At the present time, SGN-30, SGN-15 and SGN-40 are our only product candidates in clinical development and SGN-35, SGN-75 and SGN-17/19 are our only product candidates in preclinical development. As a result, any delays or difficulties we encounter with these product candidates may impact our ability to generate revenue and cause our stock price to decline significantly.

Ongoing and future clinical trials of our product candidates may not show sufficient safety or efficacy to obtain requisite regulatory approvals. We still only have limited efficacy data from our phase I and phase II clinical trials of SGN-30 and SGN-15. Phase I and phase II clinical trials are not primarily designed to test the efficacy of a drug candidate but rather to test safety, to study pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics and to understand the drug candidate’s side effects at various doses and schedules. Furthermore, success in preclinical and early clinical trials does not ensure that later large-scale trials will be successful nor does it predict final results. Acceptable results in early trials may not be repeated in later trials. We believe that any clinical trial designed to test the efficacy of SGN-30 or SGN-15, whether phase II or phase III, will likely involve a large number of patients to achieve statistical significance and will be expensive. We may conduct lengthy and expensive clinical trials of SGN-30 or SGN-15, only to learn that the drug candidate is not an effective treatment. A number of companies in the biotechnology industry have suffered significant setbacks in advanced clinical trials, even after promising results in earlier trials. In addition, clinical results are frequently susceptible to varying interpretations that may delay, limit or prevent regulatory approvals. Negative or inconclusive results or adverse medical events during a clinical trial could cause it to be redone or terminated. In addition, failure to construct appropriate clinical trial protocols could result in the test or control group experiencing a disproportionate number of adverse events and could cause a clinical trial to be redone or terminated. The length of time necessary to complete clinical trials and to submit an application for marketing approval for a final decision by the FDA or another regulatory authority may also vary significantly based on the type, complexity and novelty of the product involved, as well as other factors.

Our clinical trials may take longer to complete than we project or they may not be completed at all.

The timing of the commencement, continuation and completion of clinical trials may be subject to significant delays relating to various causes, including scheduling conflicts with participating clinicians and clinical institutions, difficulties in identifying and enrolling patients who meet trial eligibility criteria, and shortages of available drug supply. Patient enrollment is a function of many factors, including the size of the patient population, the proximity of patients to clinical sites, the eligibility criteria for the trial, the existence of competing clinical trials and the availability of alternative or new treatments. We depend on medical institutions to conduct our clinical trials and to the extent they fail to enroll patients for our clinical trials or are delayed for a significant time in achieving full enrollment, we may be affected by increased costs, program delays or both, which may harm our business.

Clinical trials must be conducted in accordance with the FDA’s guidelines and are subject to oversight by the FDA and institutional review boards at the medical institutions where the clinical trials are conducted. In addition, clinical trials must be conducted with supplies of our product candidates produced under the FDA’s current Good Manufacturing Practices, and may require large numbers of test patients. We or the FDA might delay or halt our clinical trials of a product candidate for various reasons, including:

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Due to these and other factors, our current product candidates or any of our other future product candidates could take a significantly longer time to gain regulatory approval than we expect or may never gain approval, which could reduce or eliminate our revenue by delaying or terminating the potential commercialization of our product candidates.

We currently rely on third-party manufacturers and other third parties for production of our drug products and our dependence on these manufacturers may impair the development of our product candidates.

We do not currently have the ability to manufacture ourselves the drug products that we need to conduct our clinical trials. We received clinical-grade SGN-15 from Bristol-Myers Squibb for our previous clinical trials, and have entered into agreements with contract manufacturers to supplement our supplies of SGN-15 as necessary for future studies, including ICOS Corporation, Albany Molecular Research and Sicor Inc., now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. For SGN-30, we have contracted with ICOS to manufacture preclinical and early-stage clinical supplies and with Abbott Laboratories for late-stage clinical and commercial supplies. For SGN-40, Genentech manufactured substantial quantities of clinical grade material that have been transferred to us, and we intend to utilize contract manufacturers to supplement these supplies of SGN-40 as necessary. In addition, we rely on other third parties to perform additional steps in the manufacturing process, including synthesis of our next generation drug-linker systems, conjugation, vialing and storage of our product candidates.

For the foreseeable future, we expect to continue to rely on contract manufacturers and other third parties to produce, vial and store sufficient quantities of our product candidates for use in our clinical trials. If our contract manufacturers or other third parties fail to deliver our product candidates for clinical use on a timely basis, with sufficient quality, and at commercially reasonable prices, and we fail to find replacement manufacturers or to develop our own manufacturing capabilities, we may be required to delay or suspend clinical trials or otherwise discontinue development and production of our product candidates. In addition, we depend on outside vendors for the supply of raw materials used to produce our product candidates. If the third party suppliers were to cease production or otherwise fail to supply us with quality raw materials and we were unable to contract on acceptable terms for these raw materials with alternative suppliers, our ability to have our product candidates manufactured and to conduct preclinical testing and clinical trials of our product candidates would be adversely affected.

Securing phase III and commercial quantities of our product candidates from contract manufacturers will require us to commit significant capital and resources. We may also be required to enter into long-term manufacturing agreements that contain exclusivity provisions and/or substantial termination penalties. In addition, contract manufacturers have a limited number of facilities in which our product candidates can be produced and any interruption of the operation of those facilities due to events such as equipment malfunction or failure or damage to the facility by natural disasters could result in the cancellation of shipments, loss of product in the manufacturing process or a shortfall in available product candidates.

Our contract manufacturers are required to produce our clinical product candidates under FDA current Good Manufacturing Practices in order to meet acceptable standards for our clinical trials. If such standards change, the ability of contract manufacturers to produce our product candidates on the schedule we require for our clinical trials may be affected. In addition, contract manufacturers may not perform their obligations under their agreements with us or may discontinue their business before the time required by us to successfully produce and market our product candidates. Any difficulties or delays in our contractors’ manufacturing and supply of product candidates could increase our costs, cause us to lose revenue or make us postpone or cancel clinical trials.

The FDA requires that we demonstrate structural and functional comparability between the same drug product manufactured by different organizations. Because we have used or intend to use multiple sources to manufacture SGN-15, SGN-30 and SGN-40, we will need to conduct comparability studies to assess whether manufacturing changes have affected the product safety, identity, purity or potency of any commercial drug candidate compared to the drug candidate used in clinical trials. If we are unable to demonstrate comparability, the FDA could require us to conduct additional clinical trials, which would be expensive and significantly delay any commercialization.

Our second generation ADC technology and ADEPT technology are still at an early-stage of development and have not yet entered human clinical trials.

Our second generation ADC technology, utilizing proprietary stable linkers and highly potent cell-killing drugs, and our ADEPT technology are still at an early stage of development. The ADC technology is used in our SGN-35 and SGN-75 product candidates and is the basis of our collaborations with Genentech, Celltech and Protein Design Labs. The ADEPT technology is used in our SGN-17/19 product candidate and is the basis of our collaboration with Genencor. We and our corporate collaborators are still conducting toxicology, pharmacology, pharmacokinetics and other preclinical studies, and significant additional studies will be required before any of these ADC or ADEPT product candidates enter human clinical trials. In addition, preclinical models to study anticancer activity

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of compounds are not necessarily predictive of toxicity or efficacy of these compounds in the treatment of human cancer. Any failures or setbacks in our ADC or ADEPT programs could have a detrimental impact on our internal product candidate pipeline and our ability to maintain and/or enter into new corporate collaborations regarding this technology, which would negatively affect our business and financial position.

We have a history of net losses. We expect to continue to incur net losses and may not achieve or maintain profitability for some time, if at all. Our limited operating history may make it difficult to evaluate our business and an investment in our common stock.

We have incurred net losses in each of our years of operation and, as of March 31, 2004, we had an accumulated loss of approximately $85.4 million. We expect to make substantial expenditures to further develop and commercialize our product candidates and anticipate that our rate of spending will accelerate as the result of the increased costs and expenses associated with research, development, clinical trials, manufacturing, regulatory approvals and commercialization of our potential products. In addition, as a result of our private placement of Series A convertible preferred stock and common stock warrants completed in 2003 from which we received $40.4 million of net proceeds, we will record an additional $34.3 million in non-cash accretion of preferred stock deemed dividend which will increase our reported net loss attributable to common stockholders in the second and third quarters of 2004. In the near term, we expect our revenues to be derived from technology licensing fees, sponsored research fees and milestone payments under existing and future collaborative arrangements and from government grants. In the longer term, our revenues may also include royalties from collaborations with current and future strategic partners and commercial product sales. However, our revenue and profit potential is unproven and our limited operating history makes our future operating results difficult to predict.

In some circumstances we rely on collaborators to assist in the research and development activities necessary for the commercialization of our product candidates. If we are not able to locate suitable collaborators or if our collaborators do not perform as expected, we may not be able to commercialize our product candidates.

We have established and intend to continue to establish alliances with third-party collaborators to develop and market some of our current and future product candidates and to license our ADC and ADEPT technologies. We have licensed our ADC technology to Genentech, Celltech and Protein Design Labs, and have licensed our ADEPT technology to Genencor International. These collaborations provide us with cash and revenues through technology access and license fees, sponsored research fees, equity sales and potential milestone and royalty payments. We use these funds to partially fund the development costs of our internal pipeline of product candidates. Collaborations can also create and strengthen our relationships with leading biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies and may provide synergistic benefits by combining our technologies with the technologies of our collaborators.

Under certain conditions, these collaborators may terminate their agreements with us and discontinue use of our technologies. We cannot control the amount and timing of resources our collaborators may devote to products incorporating our technology. Additionally, our relationships with our collaborators divert significant time and effort of our scientific staff and management team and require effective allocation of our resources to multiple internal and collaborative projects. Our collaborators may separately pursue competing products, therapeutic approaches or technologies to develop treatments for the diseases targeted by us or our collaborators. Even if our collaborators continue their contributions to the collaborative arrangements, they may nevertheless determine not to actively pursue the development or commercialization of any resulting products. Our collaborators may fail to perform their obligations under the collaboration agreements or may be slow in performing their obligations. If any of our collaborators terminate or breach our agreements with them, or otherwise fail to complete their obligations in a timely manner, it may have a detrimental effect on our financial position by reducing or eliminating the potential for us to receive technology access and license fees, milestones and royalties, as well as possibly requiring us to devote additional efforts and incur costs associated with pursuing internal development of product candidates. Furthermore, if our collaborators do not prioritize and commit substantial resources to programs associated with our product candidates, we may be unable to commercialize our product candidates, which would limit our ability to generate revenue and become profitable. In the future, we may not be able to locate third party collaborators to develop and market our product candidates and we may lack the capital and resources necessary to develop all our product candidates alone.

We depend on a small number of collaborators for most of our current revenue. The loss of any one of these collaborators could result in a substantial decline in our revenue.

We have collaborations with a limited number of companies. To date, almost all of our revenue has resulted from payments made under agreements with our corporate collaborators, and we expect that most of our future revenue will continue to come from corporate collaborations until the approval and commercialization of one or more of our product candidates. The failure of our collaborators to perform their obligations under their agreements with us, including paying license or technology fees, milestone payments or royalties, could have a material adverse effect on our financial performance. In addition, a large portion of revenue received from our corporate collaborators is derived from research and material supply fees, and a decision by any of our corporate collaborators to conduct more research and development activities themselves could significantly reduce the revenue received from these collaborations. Payments under our existing and future collaboration agreements are also subject to significant fluctuations in both timing and amount, which could cause our revenue to fall below the expectations of securities analysts and investors and cause a decrease in our stock price.

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We rely on license agreements for certain aspects of our product candidates and technology. Failure to maintain these license agreements or to secure any required new licenses could prevent us from developing or commercializing our product candidates and technology.

We have entered into agreements with third-party commercial and academic institutions to license technology for use in our ADC technology and product candidates. Currently, we have license agreements with Bristol-Myers Squibb, Arizona State University, Genentech, Protein Design Labs, Medarex, ICOS Corporation, Mabtech AB and the University of Miami, among others. Some of these license agreements contain diligence and milestone-based termination provisions, in which case our failure to meet any agreed upon diligence requirements or milestones may allow the licensor to terminate the agreement. Many of our license agreements grant us exclusive licenses to the underlying technologies. If our licensors terminate our license agreements or if we are unable to maintain the exclusivity of our exclusive license agreements, we may be unable to continue to develop and commercialize our product candidates. In addition, continued development and commercialization of our product candidates may require us to secure licenses to additional technologies. We may not be able to secure these licenses on commercially reasonable terms, if at all.

We rely on third parties to provide services in connection with our preclinical and clinical development programs. The inadequate performance by or loss of any of these service providers could affect our product candidate development.

Several third parties provide services in connection with our preclinical and clinical development programs, including in vitro and in vivo studies, assay and reagent development, immunohistochemistry, toxicology, pharmacokinetics and other outsourced activities. If these service providers do not perform the services we have contracted for adequately or cease to continue operations and we are not able to quickly find a replacement provider or we lose information or items associated with our product candidates, our development programs may be delayed.

If we are unable to enforce our intellectual property rights, we may not be able to operate our business profitably. Similarly, if we fail to sustain and further build our intellectual property rights, competitors may be able to develop competing therapies.

Our success depends, in part, on obtaining and maintaining patent protection and successfully defending these patents against third party challenges in the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, United Kingdom and Italy, as well as other countries. We have filed multiple U.S. and foreign patent applications for our technologies that are currently pending. We also have rights to issued U.S. patents, patent applications, and their foreign counterparts, relating to our monoclonal antibody and drug-based technologies. Our rights to these patents and patent applications are derived from worldwide licenses from Bristol-Myers Squibb, Arizona State University, Genentech and Protein Design Labs, among others. In addition, we have licensed or optioned rights to pending U.S. patent applications, patents that may issue therefrom, and any foreign counterpart patents and patent applications to third parties.

The standards that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and foreign patent offices use to grant patents are not always applied predictably or uniformly and can change. Consequently, our pending patent applications may not be allowed and, if allowed, may not contain the type and extent of patent claims that will be adequate to conduct our business as planned. Additionally, any issued patents may not contain claims that will permit us to stop competitors from using similar technology. Similarly, the standards that courts use to interpret patents are not always applied predictably or uniformly and may evolve, particularly as new technologies develop. As a result, the protection, if any, given by our patents if we attempt to enforce them or if they are challenged in court is uncertain.

We rely on trade secrets and other proprietary information where we believe patent protection is not appropriate or obtainable. However, trade secrets and other proprietary information are difficult to protect. We have taken measures to protect our unpatented trade secrets and know-how, including the use of confidentiality and assignment of inventions agreements with our employees, consultants and certain contractors. It is possible, however, that these persons may breach the agreements or that our competitors may independently develop or otherwise discover our trade secrets or other proprietary information.

Our research collaborators may publish data and information in which we have rights. If we cannot maintain the confidentiality of our technology and other confidential information in connection with our collaborations, then our ability to receive patent protection or protect our proprietary information may be impaired.

We may incur substantial costs and lose important rights as a result of litigation or other proceedings relating to patent and other intellectual property rights.

The defense and prosecution of intellectual property rights, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office interference proceedings and related legal and administrative proceedings in the United States and elsewhere involve complex legal and factual questions. These

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proceedings are costly and time-consuming. If we become involved in any litigation, interference or other administrative proceedings, we will incur substantial expense and it will divert the efforts of our technical and management personnel. An adverse determination may subject us to significant liabilities or require us to seek licenses that may not be available from third parties on commercially reasonable terms, if at all. We may be restricted or prevented from developing and commercializing our product candidates in the event of an adverse determination in a judicial or administrative proceeding, or if we fail to obtain necessary licenses.

If we lose our key personnel or are unable to attract and retain additional qualified personnel, our future growth and ability to compete would suffer.

We are highly dependent on the efforts and abilities of the principal members of our senior management, including our Chief Executive Officer, our Chief Scientific Officer and our Chief Medical Officer. Additionally, we have several scientific personnel with significant and unique expertise in monoclonal antibodies and related technologies. The loss of the services of any one of the principal members of our managerial or scientific staff may prevent us from achieving our business objectives.

The competition for qualified personnel in the biotechnology field is intense, and our future success depends upon our ability to attract, retain and motivate highly skilled scientific, technical and managerial employees. In order to commercialize our products successfully, we will be required to expand our workforce, particularly in the areas of manufacturing, clinical trials management, regulatory affairs, business development and sales and marketing. These activities will require the addition of new personnel, including management, and the development of additional expertise by existing management personnel. We face intense competition for qualified individuals from numerous pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, as well as academic and other research institutions. To the extent we are not able to attract and retain these individuals on favorable terms, our business may be harmed.

We face intense competition and rapid technological change, which may result in others discovering, developing or commercializing competing products before or more successfully than we do.

The biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries are highly competitive and subject to significant and rapid technological change. We are aware of many pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies that are actively engaged in research and development in areas related to antibody therapy. Some of these competitors have successfully commercialized antibody products or are developing or testing product candidates that do or may in the future compete directly with our product candidates. For example, we believe that companies including Genentech, Amgen, Immunogen, Biogen IDEC, Medarex and Wyeth are developing and/or marketing products that may compete with ours. Other potential competitors include large, fully integrated pharmaceutical companies and more established biotechnology companies, which have significant resources and expertise in research and development, manufacturing, testing, obtaining regulatory approvals and marketing. Also, academic institutions, government agencies and other public and private research organizations conduct research, seek patent protection and establish collaborative arrangements for research, development, manufacturing and marketing. It is possible that these competitors will succeed in developing technologies that are more effective than our product candidates or that would render our technology obsolete or noncompetitive.

If our competitors develop superior products, manufacturing capability or marketing expertise, our business may fail.

Our business may fail because we face intense competition from major pharmaceutical companies and specialized biotechnology companies engaged in the development of other products directed at cancer. Many of our competitors have greater financial and human resources expertise and more experience in the commercialization of product candidates. Our competitors may, among other things:

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In addition, if we receive regulatory approvals, we may compete with well-established, FDA-approved therapies that have generated substantial sales over a number of years. We anticipate that we will face increased competition in the future as new companies enter our market and scientific developments surrounding other cancer therapies continue to accelerate.

We have no experience in commercializing products on our own and, to the extent we do not develop this ability or contract with a third party to assist us, we may not be able to successfully sell our product candidates.

We do not have a sales and marketing force and may not be able to develop this capacity. If we are unable to establish sales and marketing capabilities, we will need to enter into sales and marketing agreements to market our products in the United States. For sales outside the United States, we plan to enter into third-party arrangements. In these foreign markets, if we are unable to establish successful distribution relationships with pharmaceutical companies, we may fail to realize the full sales potential of our product candidates.

Additionally, our product candidates may not gain market acceptance among physicians, patients, healthcare payors and the medical community. The degree of market acceptance of any approved product candidate will depend on a number of factors, including: establishment and demonstration of clinical efficacy and safety; cost-effectiveness of a product; its potential advantage over alternative treatment methods; and marketing and distribution support for the product.

Moreover, government health administrative authorities, private health insurers and other organizations are increasingly challenging both the need for and the price of new medical products and services. Consequently, uncertainty exists as to the reimbursement status of newly approved therapeutics and diagnostics. For these and other reasons, physicians, patients, third-party payors and the medical community may not accept and utilize any product candidates that we develop and even if they do, reimbursement may not be available for our products to enable us to maintain price levels sufficient to realize an appropriate return on our investment in research and product development.

The holders of our Series A convertible preferred stock have voting and other rights that they could exercise against your best interests.

The holders of our Series A convertible preferred stock have rights to designate two members of our Board of Directors and to vote as a separate class on certain significant corporate transactions, including the issuance of securities that would rank on a par with or senior to the Series A convertible preferred stock or the incurrence of debt in excess of $20 million. The holders of Series A convertible preferred stock are not entitled to receive any cumulative or non-cumulative dividends, and may only receive a dividend when and as declared by our Board of Directors or if any dividends are paid on any other shares of our capital stock based on the number of shares of common stock into which such holder’s shares of Series A convertible preferred stock would then convert. In addition, upon our liquidation or dissolution (including a merger or acquisition), the holders of our Series A convertible preferred stock are entitled to receive a liquidation preference in an amount equal to the greater of $25.00 per share of Series A convertible preferred stock or the amount that would have been paid had each such share of Series A convertible preferred stock been converted to common stock. The holders of Series A convertible preferred stock also have the right under certain circumstances in the event of our merger or acquisition approved by our Board of Directors to receive their liquidation preference in cash or a combination of cash and new preferred securities of the acquiring or surviving corporation. This requirement to pay cash or issue new preferred securities does not apply if the consideration to be received by the Series A holders has an aggregate value of more than $6.25 per share (calculated on an as-if-converted to common stock basis) determined on the date definitive documentation for such sale transaction is signed or if holders of 2/3rds of the outstanding shares of Series A convertible preferred stock waive this requirement. The holders of Series A convertible preferred stock may exercise these rights to the detriment of our common stockholders.

The holders of our Series A convertible preferred stock also have the right at any time to request that we register for resale the shares of our common stock that they acquire upon conversion of their Series A convertible preferred stock or upon exercise of their warrants to purchase our common stock, subject to certain limitations. In addition, as of July 9, 2004, the holders of our Series A convertible preferred stock may convert their Series A convertible preferred stock into common stock and sell shares of the common stock acquired upon such conversion in the public market in reliance upon Rule 144. Future sales in the public market of such common stock, or the perception that such sales might occur, could adversely affect the prevailing market price of our common stock and could make it more difficult for us to raise funds through a public offering or private placement of our equity securities.

We face product liability risks and may not be able to obtain adequate insurance to protect us against losses.

We currently have no products that have been approved for commercial sale. However, the current and future use of our product candidates by us and our corporate collaborators in clinical trials, and the sale of any approved products in the future, may expose us to liability claims. These claims might be made directly by consumers or healthcare providers or indirectly by pharmaceutical companies, our corporate collaborators or others selling such products. We may experience financial losses in the future due to product liability claims. We have obtained limited general commercial liability insurance coverage for our clinical trials. We intend to

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expand our insurance coverage to include the sale of commercial products if we obtain marketing approval for any of our product candidates. However, we may not be able to maintain insurance coverage at a reasonable cost or in sufficient amounts to protect us against losses. If a successful product liability claim or series of claims is brought against us for uninsured liabilities or in excess of insured liabilities, our assets may not be sufficient to cover such claims and our business operations could be impaired.

Our operations involve hazardous materials and are subject to environmental, health and safety controls and regulations.

We are subject to environmental, health and safety laws and regulations, including those governing the use of hazardous materials. The cost of compliance with environmental, health and safety regulations is substantial. Our business activities involve the controlled use of hazardous materials and we cannot eliminate the risk of accidental contamination or injury from these materials. In the event of an accident or environmental discharge, we may be held liable for any resulting damages, which may materially harm our business, financial condition and results of operations.

We may engage in future acquisitions that increase our capital requirements, dilute our stockholders, cause us to incur debt or assume contingent liabilities and subject us to other risks.

We actively evaluate various strategic transactions on an ongoing basis, including licensing or acquiring complementary products, technologies or businesses. Any potential acquisitions may entail numerous risks, including increased operating expenses and cash requirements, assimilation of operations and products, retention of key employees, diversion of our management’s attention and uncertainties in our ability to maintain key business relationships of the acquired entities. In addition, if we undertake acquisitions, we may issue dilutive securities, assume or incur debt obligations, incur large one-time expenses and acquire intangible assets that could result in significant future amortization expense. Moreover, we may not be able to locate suitable acquisition opportunities and this inability could impair our ability to grow or obtain access to technology or products that may be important to the development of our business.

Legislative actions, potential new accounting pronouncements and higher insurance costs are likely to impact our future financial position or results of operations.

Future changes in financial accounting standards may cause adverse, unexpected revenue fluctuations and affect our financial position or results of operations. New pronouncements and varying interpretations of pronouncements have occurred with frequency in the past and may occur again in the future and as a result we may be required to make changes in our accounting policies. Compliance with new regulations regarding corporate governance and public disclosure may result in additional expenses. Changing laws, regulations and standards relating to corporate governance and public disclosure, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, new SEC regulations and Nasdaq National Market rules, are creating uncertainty for companies such as ours and insurance costs are increasing as a result of this uncertainty and other factors. As a result, we intend to invest all reasonably necessary resources to comply with evolving standards, and this investment may result in increased general and administrative expenses and a diversion of management time and attention from science and business activities to compliance activities.

Our stock price may be volatile and our shares may suffer a decline in value.

The market prices for securities of biotechnology companies have in the past been, and are likely to continue in the future to be, very volatile. During the first quarter of 2004, our stock price fluctuated between $8.10 and $10.90 per share. As a result of fluctuations in the price of our common stock, you may be unable to sell your shares at or above the price you paid for them. The market price of our common stock may be subject to substantial volatility in response to many risk factors listed in this section, and others beyond our control, including:

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Our existing stockholders have significant control of our management and affairs.

Our executive officers and directors and holders of greater than five percent of our outstanding voting stock, together with entities that may be deemed affiliates of, or related to, such persons or entities, beneficially owned approximately 47.2% percent of our voting power as of April 30, 2004. As a result, these stockholders, acting together, may be able to control our management and affairs and matters requiring stockholder approval, including the election of directors and approval of significant corporate transactions, such as mergers, consolidations or the sale of substantially all of our assets. Consequently, this concentration of ownership may have the effect of delaying, deferring or preventing a change in control, including a merger, consolidation, takeover or other business combination involving us or discourage a potential acquirer from making a tender offer or otherwise attempting to obtain control, which might affect the market price of our common stock.

Anti-takeover provisions could make it more difficult for a third party to acquire us.

In addition to the 1,640,000 shares of Series A convertible preferred stock that are currently outstanding, our Board of Directors has the authority to issue up to an additional 3,360,000 shares of preferred stock and to determine the price, rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions, including voting rights, of those shares without any further vote or action by the stockholders. The rights of the holders of common stock may be subject to, and may be adversely affected by, the rights of the holders of any preferred stock that may be issued in the future. The issuance of preferred stock may have the effect of delaying, deferring or preventing a change of control of Seattle Genetics without further action by the stockholders and may adversely affect the voting and other rights of the holders of common stock. Further, certain provisions of our charter documents, including provisions eliminating the ability of stockholders to take action by written consent and limiting the ability of stockholders to raise matters at a meeting of stockholders without giving advance notice, may have the effect of delaying or preventing changes in control or management of Seattle Genetics, which could have an adverse effect on the market price of our stock. In addition, our charter documents provide for a classified board, which may make it more difficult for a third party to gain control of our Board of Directors. Similarly, state anti-takeover laws in Delaware and Washington related to corporate takeovers may prevent or delay a change of control of Seattle Genetics.

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Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

In accordance with our policy, we do not have any derivative financial instruments in our investment portfolio. We invest in high quality interest-bearing instruments, consisting of U.S. government and agency securities, high-grade U.S. corporate bonds, taxable municipal bonds, mortgage-backed securities, commercial paper and money market accounts. Such securities are subject to interest rate risk and will rise and fall in value if market interest rates change; however, we do not expect any material loss from such interest rate changes.

Item 4. Controls and Procedures

(a) Evaluation of disclosure controls and procedures. The Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Financial Officer have reviewed our disclosure controls and procedures prior to the filing of this quarterly report. Based on that review, they have concluded that, as of the end of the period covered by this quarterly report, these controls and procedures were, in design and operation, effective to assure that the information required to be included in this quarterly report has been properly recorded, processed, summarized and reported to those responsible in order that it may be included in this quarterly report.

(b) Changes in internal controls. There have not been any changes in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting during the period to which this report relates that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.

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PART II. OTHER INFORMATION

Item 6. Exhibits and Reports on Form 8-K

(a) Exhibits:

(b) Reports on Form 8-K

On February 3, 2004, we furnished a Form 8-K announcing financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year end of 2003.

On February 5, 2004, we filed a Form 8-K announcing that we had entered into an underwriting agreement dated February 4, 2004 and the pricing of our public offering of 7,000,000 shares of common stock pursuant to such underwriting agreement.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

Date: May 10, 2004

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