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LEVOMILNACIPRAN HYDROCHLORIDE, NDA 204168
The patents and exclusivities FDA's Orange Book lists for NDA 204168 as captured on 14 October 2026, each date named by its rule and its rows, and the rows of FDA's Paragraph IV list that give this NDA's number, as captured on 17 October 2026. Listed protection is a range of dates, never one date.
FDA capture · review pending. Each row is shown as captured from FDA's Orange Book files and Paragraph IV list. Dates are FDA's own; spreadsheet day numbers are shown as dates, and a cell that cannot be read as one date is shown as written and left out of the range. Where FDA lists a *PED row without flags, its flags are read from the base row and marked so. A Paragraph IV row is placed here only by the number in its RLD/NDA cell; nothing is joined by name. How this page reads FDA's files has not been independently reviewed by a regulatory-affairs reviewer.
- Orange Book captured
- 14 October 2026
- Paragraph IV list captured
- 17 October 2026
- Last checked
- 30 October 2026
- Data-branch commit
- dadcab56563716abea6c5e31a5e1970080c778ef
Listed protection is a range of the dates FDA lists, not a forecast of market entry, and not legal, regulatory or investment advice.
Dates as listed in FDA's Orange Book capture of 14 October 2026. This page does not say whether a date has passed; compare it with today's date and FDA's current Orange Book. This page shows only what the capture of 14 October 2026 lists. It does not show patents or exclusivities listed before and since removed.
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Listed protection
Listed dates run from 11 Jan 2026 to 23 May 2032, each by its own rule; no one date stands for this product.
- Earliest listed date
- 11 Jan 2026US RE43879, use patentRule R1 · Products 001, 002, 003, 004 · patent.txt lines 4,339, 4,342, 4,345, 4,348
- Latest listed date
- 23 May 2032US 8,865,937, substance and product patentRule R1 · Products 001, 002, 003, 004 · patent.txt lines 4,338, 4,341, 4,344, 4,347
- Latest substance patent
- 23 May 2032US 8,865,937, substance and product patentRule R1 · Products 001, 002, 003, 004 · patent.txt lines 4,338, 4,341, 4,344, 4,347
- Latest listed patent
- 23 May 2032US 8,865,937, substance and product patentRule R1 · Products 001, 002, 003, 004 · patent.txt lines 4,338, 4,341, 4,344, 4,347
- Latest exclusivity
- 24 Mar 2026M-304 exclusivityRule R3 · Products 001, 002, 003, 004 · exclusivity.txt lines 380–383
8 use-code patents, blocking the coded use only
Products
Each product number FDA lists under NDA 204168, as listed. The sections below name products by these numbers.
Product 001 · FETZIMA
- Dosage form; route
- CAPSULE, EXTENDED RELEASE;ORAL
- Strength
- EQ 20MG BASE
- Approval date as listed
- 25 Jul 2013
- Type as listed
- RX
- Applicant as listed
- ABBVIE INC
Product 002 · FETZIMA
- Dosage form; route
- CAPSULE, EXTENDED RELEASE;ORAL
- Strength
- EQ 40MG BASE
- Approval date as listed
- 25 Jul 2013
- Type as listed
- RX
- Applicant as listed
- ABBVIE INC
Product 003 · FETZIMA
- Dosage form; route
- CAPSULE, EXTENDED RELEASE;ORAL
- Strength
- EQ 80MG BASE
- Approval date as listed
- 25 Jul 2013
- Type as listed
- RX
- Applicant as listed
- ABBVIE INC
Product 004 · FETZIMA
- Dosage form; route
- CAPSULE, EXTENDED RELEASE;ORAL
- Strength
- EQ 120MG BASE
- Approval date as listed
- 25 Jul 2013
- Type as listed
- RX
- Applicant as listed
- ABBVIE INC
Listed patents
Every patent the FDA lists for this product, as the application holder submitted it, with its flags. The FDA does not verify listings.
3 entries from 12 rows as listed; rows merge only where every cell shown is the same, each with its product numbers.
US RE43879, use patent
patent.txt lines 4,339, 4,342, 4,345, 4,348- Expiry as listed
- 11 Jan 2026
- Rule
- R1
- Flags
- use code U-839
- Product numbers
- 001, 002, 003, 004
US 8,481,598, use patent
patent.txt lines 4,337, 4,340, 4,343, 4,346- Expiry as listed
- 2 Mar 2031
- Rule
- R1
- Flags
- use code U-839
- Product numbers
- 001, 002, 003, 004
US 8,865,937, substance and product patent
patent.txt lines 4,338, 4,341, 4,344, 4,347- Expiry as listed
- 23 May 2032
- Rule
- R1
- Flags
- substance · product
- Product numbers
- 001, 002, 003, 004
Listed exclusivities
Each exclusivity FDA lists for NDA 204168, with its code, FDA's definition of the code where the store's code list gives one, and its date as listed.
M-304 exclusivity
exclusivity.txt lines 380–383- Date
- 24 Mar 2026
- Rule
- R3
- Definition
- Miscellaneous (to be checked against FDA's list)
- Product numbers
- 001, 002, 003, 004
Paragraph IV list rows giving NDA 204168
The rows of FDA's Paragraph IV certifications list as captured on 17 October 2026 whose RLD/NDA cell gives NDA 204168, each cell as listed.
FDA's Paragraph IV list names no patent number, so it does not say which of the patents on this page an applicant certified against.
The list gives the last qualifying patent's expiry without pediatric exclusivity; in the app's Patents view, the Orange Book lists any *PED period as a separate row with its own date. The two dates describe different things. A blank cell is one FDA left blank in its list. Dates are FDA's own; the last qualifying patent expiry is not recomputed from the Orange Book.
Rows whose RLD/NDA cell we could not read as exactly one NDA number are kept apart on the list page; some may concern this product.
Rows on FDA's Paragraph IV list whose RLD/NDA cell gives NDA 204168
Levomilnacipran · Extended-release Capsules · 20 mg, 40 mg, 80 mg and 120 mg
RLD/NDA as listed: Fetzima 204168- First PIV submission
- 25 Jul 2017
- ANDAs
- 6
- 180-day status
- Eligible
- Decision posted
- 19 May 2020
- First applicant approval
- 4 Feb 2019
- First marketing
- blank
- Last qualifying patent expiry (as listed by FDA)
- 2 Mar 2031
Notes from the trace
- R6 tentative approvals: not in the Orange Book data files as captured; the Drugs@FDA join is a later ruling.
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