TEZEPELUMAB-EKKO | B761224 | ASTRAZENECA AB
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 (Dec. 17, 2021), 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) | Dec. 17, 2033 | 7y 5mo remaining | 12-year RPE floor (non-carveable) |
| Full-label entry | Dec. 17, 2033 | 7y 5mo remaining | 12-year RPE floor |
Best-skinny equals full-label — no carveable orphan block runs past the licensure floor.
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 12257343(formulation)· AI-discovered, not Purple-Book-listed · relevance 78/100. This caps practical skinny-label entry; it does not move the licensure floor above.
31 formulation/compound (cap skinny entry) · 1 method-of-use (carveable — gate nothing) · 18 device/diagnostic/manufacturing
| Patent | Class | Expiration | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12257343 | Formulation/compound | Mar. 20, 2045Active | Discovered |
| 12178873 | Formulation/compound | Dec. 26, 2044Active | Discovered |
| 12162938 | Other | Dec. 5, 2044Active | Discovered |
| 11959118 | Formulation/compound | Apr. 11, 2044Active | Discovered |
| 11919925 | Other | Feb. 29, 2044Active | Discovered |
| 11813328 | Formulation/compound | Nov. 9, 2043Active | Discovered |
| 11759526 | Other | Sep. 14, 2043Active | Discovered |
| 11427627 | Formulation/compound | Aug. 25, 2042Active | Discovered |
| 11312745 | Other | Apr. 21, 2042Active | Discovered |
| 11305026 | Other | Apr. 14, 2042Active | Discovered |
| 11207412 | Formulation/compound | Dec. 23, 2041Active | Discovered |
| 11198732 | Formulation/compound | Dec. 9, 2041Active | Discovered |
| 11136396 | Other | Sep. 30, 2041Active | Discovered |
| 11059908 | Formulation/compound | Jul. 8, 2041Active | Discovered |
| 11040102 | Formulation/compound | Jun. 17, 2041Active | 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 122 AI-discovered patents by relevance.
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