ZENOCUTUZUMAB-ZBCO | B761352 | MERUS N.V.
No 12-year reference-product exclusivity is listed in the Purple Book, and the reference product was first approved Dec. 4, 2024 — before BPCIA (March 23, 2010), so any 12-year exclusivity has long expired.
Full-label vs. best-skinny biosimilar entry
| Scenario | Date | Status | Controlling |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best-skinny entry (floor) | Open now | Open now | no live licensure floor |
| Full-label entry | Dec. 4, 2031 | 5y 1mo remaining | carveable orphan wall |
Minimal carve: Dropping the orphan-walled indication(s) (protected through 2031-12-04) advances biosimilar entry from the full-label date to now (no remaining licensure floor).
Carve frontier · drop each orphan-walled indication to advance entry
| Drop this orphan-walled indication | Walled through | → Entry advances to |
|---|---|---|
| treatment of adults with advanced unresectable or metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma harboring a neuregulin 1 (NRG1) gene fusion with disease progression on or after prior systemic therapy(label indication #2) | Dec. 4, 2031 | Open now(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 · Dec. 4, 2031
Orphan-drug exclusivity runs past the licensure floor, 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 now, 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 12018089(composition)· AI-discovered, not Purple-Book-listed · relevance 70/100. This caps practical skinny-label entry; it does not move the licensure floor above.
10 formulation/compound (cap skinny entry) · 1 method-of-use (carveable — gate nothing) · 11 device/diagnostic/manufacturing
| Patent | Class | Expiration | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12291798 | Other | May. 1, 2045Active | Discovered |
| 12195551 | Method-of-use (carveable) | Jan. 9, 2045Active | Discovered |
| 12123043 | Other | Oct. 17, 2044Active | Discovered |
| 12018089 | Formulation/compound | Jun. 20, 2044Active | Discovered |
| 11952424 | Formulation/compound | Apr. 4, 2044Active | Discovered |
| 11939394 | Formulation/compound | Mar. 21, 2044Active | Discovered |
| 11926859 | Formulation/compound | Mar. 7, 2044Active | Discovered |
| 11685786 | Formulation/compound | Jun. 22, 2043Active | Discovered |
| 11559049 | Other | Jan. 19, 2043Active | Discovered |
| 11408095 | Other | Aug. 4, 2042Active | Discovered |
| 10966411 | Other | Apr. 1, 2041Active | Discovered |
| 10752929 | Other | Aug. 20, 2040Active | Discovered |
| 10647781 | Other | May. 7, 2040Active | Discovered |
| 10337045 | Formulation/compound | Jun. 27, 2039Active | Discovered |
| 10329596 | Formulation/compound | Jun. 20, 2039Active | Discovered |
Showing 15 of 22 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.
22 AI-discovered patents, sorted by relevance.
No patent or exclusivity listings for this strength.