EVOLOCUMAB | B125522 | AMGEN INC
Earliest legal licensure (12-year BPCIA floor)
The 12-year reference-product exclusivity is the non-carveable floor — the earliest FDA could license a biosimilar for any indication. Unverified estimate — derived from the earliest available approval record (Aug. 27, 2015), not an FDA-stated exclusivity date. Shown with lower confidence than a Purple Book value.
Full-label vs. best-skinny biosimilar entry
| Scenario | Date | Status | Controlling |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best-skinny entry (floor) | Aug. 27, 2027 | 1y 1mo remaining | 12-year RPE floor (non-carveable) |
| Full-label entry | Sep. 24, 2028 | 2y 2mo remaining | carveable orphan wall |
Minimal carve: Dropping the orphan-walled indication ("to reduce LDL-C in pediatric patients aged 10 to less than 13 years with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HoFH)", protected through 2028-09-24) advances biosimilar entry from the full-label date to the estimated 12-year floor.
Carve frontier · drop each orphan-walled indication to advance entry
| Drop this orphan-walled indication | Walled through | → Entry advances to |
|---|---|---|
| to reduce LDL-C in pediatric patients aged 10 to less than 13 years with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HoFH) | Sep. 24, 2028 | Aug. 27, 2027(12-yr RPE floor) |
Each rung drops one orphan-designated indication (sourced from the FDA Orphan Drug Product designation database and matched to the reference label); dropping the latest-walled indication advances biosimilar entry to the next constraint, until every orphan wall is carved and entry reaches the RPE floor.
Carveable orphan wall · Sep. 24, 2028
Orphan-drug exclusivity runs past the licensure floor above, but it walls only its specific orphan-designated indication(s). A biosimilar can omit those indications (a “fewer-than-all-conditions” carve-out) and be licensed for the rest at the floor date, then add the protected indication back by supplement once the orphan period expires. It is not a licensure gate for the other indications.
Marketing-entry ceiling (litigation risk)
Patents do not gate FDA licensure of a biosimilar — FDA licenses biosimilars (full or carved label) without adjudicating any patent. These are a practical marketing-entry ceiling resolved in the § 262(l) patent dance and ordinary litigation. A formulation/compound patent caps practical skinny entry via litigation (Regeneron v. Mylan); a method-of-use patent is carveable and gates nothing.
Latest formulation/compound patent 12410236(composition)· AI-discovered, not Purple-Book-listed · relevance 85/100. This caps practical skinny-label entry; it does not move the licensure floor above.
26 formulation/compound (cap skinny entry) · 12 method-of-use (carveable — gate nothing) · 12 device/diagnostic/manufacturing
| Patent | Class | Expiration | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12433264 | Other | Oct. 2, 2045Active | Discovered |
| 12410236 | Formulation/compound | Sep. 4, 2045Active | Discovered |
| 12404344 | Formulation/compound | Aug. 28, 2045Active | Discovered |
| 12391728 | Other | Aug. 14, 2045Active | Discovered |
| 12384855 | Formulation/compound | Aug. 7, 2045Active | Discovered |
| 12378557 | Method-of-use (carveable) | Jul. 31, 2045Active | Discovered |
| 12371503 | Method-of-use (carveable) | Jul. 24, 2045Active | Discovered |
| 12356967 | Other | Jul. 10, 2045Active | Discovered |
| 12343505 | Other | Jun. 26, 2045Active | Discovered |
| 12291563 | Other | May. 1, 2045Active | Discovered |
| 12281173 | Method-of-use (carveable) | Apr. 17, 2045Active | Discovered |
| 12257343 | Formulation/compound | Mar. 20, 2045Active | Discovered |
| 12129284 | Method-of-use (carveable) | Oct. 24, 2044Active | Discovered |
| 12055551 | Other | Aug. 1, 2044Active | Discovered |
| 11993663 | Formulation/compound | May. 23, 2044Active | Discovered |
Showing 15 of 50 patents (latest expirations).
Disclaimer: Identifying an available carve-out is not a prediction that FDA will approve the particular carved label, nor that marketing it is free of infringement risk. For biologics, availability turns on exclusivities, not patents: FDA licenses a biosimilar (full or carved label) without adjudicating any patent, and patent disputes run through the § 262(l) patent dance and ordinary litigation, outside this availability view.
Top 50 of 313 AI-discovered patents by relevance.
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