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Determination of Regulatory Review
Period for Purposes of Patent
Extension; MULTIHANCE
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
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Disease, Disability, and Injury
Prevention and ControlSpecial
Emphasis Panel: Targeted Evaluation
of the President’s Emergency Plan for
AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Funded
Prevention of Mother-to-Child HIV
Transmission (PMTCT), and Adherence
to Antiretroviral Therapy (ART)
Programs, Contract Solicitation
Numbers (CSN) 2006–N–08428, 2006–
N–08429, and 2006–N–08430
Correction: This notice was published
in the Federal Register on June 9, 2006,
Volume 71, Number 111, page 33456.
The location of the meeting was
changed due to insufficient meeting
space at the Renaissance Concourse
Hotel—Marriott, One Hartsfield Center
Parkway, Atlanta, GA 30354. The
meeting was held at the Hilton Atlanta
Airport, 1031 Virginia Avenue, Atlanta,
Georgia 30354.
Titles: Targeted Evaluation of the
President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS
Relief (PEPFAR) Funded Prevention of
Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission
(PMTCT), and Adherence to
Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) Programs,
Contract Solicitation Numbers (CSN)
2006–N–08428, 2006–N–08429, and
2006–N–08430.
For Further Information Contact: Amy
L. Sandul, Health Scientist, National
Center for HIV, STD, and Tuberculosis
Prevention, Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, NE.,
MS E–41, Atlanta, GA 30333, Telephone
404–639–6485.
The Director, Management Analysis
and Services Office, has been delegated
the authority to sign Federal Register
notices pertaining to announcements of
meetings and other committee
management activities, for both CDC
and the Agency for Toxic Substances
and Disease Registry.
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Food and Drug Administration,
HHS.
ACTION:
Notice.
SUMMARY: The Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) has determined
the regulatory review period for
MULTIHANCE and is publishing this
notice of that determination as required
by law. FDA has made the
determination because of the
submission of an application to the
Director of Patents and Trademarks,
Department of Commerce, for the
extension of a patent that claims that
human drug product.
ADDRESSES: Submit written comments
and petitions to the Division of Dockets
Management (HFA–305), Food and Drug
Administration, 5630 Fishers Lane, rm.
1061, Rockville, MD 20852. Submit
electronic comments to https://
www.fda.gov/dockets/ecomments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Beverly Friedman, Office of Regulatory
Policy (HFD–7), Food and Drug
Administration, 5600 Fishers Lane,
Rockville, MD 20857, 301–594–2041.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Drug
Price Competition and Patent Term
Restoration Act of 1984 (Public Law 98–
417) and the Generic Animal Drug and
Patent Term Restoration Act (Public
Law 100–670) generally provide that a
patent may be extended for a period of
up to 5 years so long as the patented
item (human drug product, animal drug
product, medical device, food additive,
or color additive) was subject to
regulatory review by FDA before the
item was marketed. Under these acts, a
product’s regulatory review period
forms the basis for determining the
amount of extension an applicant may
receive.
A regulatory review period consists of
two periods of time: A testing phase and
an approval phase. For human drug
products, the testing phase begins when
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the exemption to permit the clinical
investigations of the human drug
product becomes effective and runs
until the approval phase begins. The
approval phase starts with the initial
submission of an application to market
the human drug product and continues
until FDA grants permission to market
the product. Although only a portion of
a regulatory review period may count
toward the actual amount of extension
that the Director of Patents and
Trademarks may award (for example,
half the testing phase must be
subtracted, as well as any time that may
have occurred before the patent was
issued), FDA’s determination of the
length of a regulatory review period for
a human drug product will include all
of the testing phase and approval phase
as specified in 35 U.S.C. 156(g)(1)(B).
FDA recently approved for marketing
the human drug product MULTIHANCE
(gadobenate dimeglumine).
MULTIHANCE is indicated for
intravenous use in magnetic resonance
imaging (MRI) of the central nervous
system in adults to visualize lesions
with abnormal blood brain barrier or
abnormal vascularity of the brain, spine,
and associated tissues. Subsequent to
this approval, the Patent and Trademark
Office received a patent term restoration
application for MULTIHANCE (U.S.
Patent No. 4,916,246) from Bracco
International B.V., and the Patent and
Trademark Office requested FDA’s
assistance in determining this patent’s
eligibility for patent term restoration. In
a letter dated July 8, 2005, FDA advised
the Patent and Trademark Office that
this human drug product had undergone
a regulatory review period and that the
approval of MULTIHANCE represented
the first permitted commercial
marketing or use of the product.
Thereafter, the Patent and Trademark
Office requested that FDA determine the
product’s regulatory review period.
FDA has determined that the
applicable regulatory review period for
MULTIHANCE is 3,789 days. Of this
time, 2,482 days occurred during the
testing phase of the regulatory review
period, while 1,307 days occurred
during the approval phase. These
periods of time were derived from the
following dates:
1. The date an exemption under
section 505(i) of the Federal Food, Drug,
and Cosmetic Act (the act) (21 U.S.C.
355) became effective: July 12, 1994.
FDA has verified the applicant’s claim
that the date the investigational new
drug application became effective was
on July 12, 1994.
2. The date the application was
initially submitted with respect to the
human drug product under section
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Disease, Disability, and Injury Prevention and ControlSpecial
Emphasis Panel: Targeted Evaluation of the President's Emergency Plan
for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Funded Prevention of Mother-to-Child HIV
Transmission (PMTCT), and Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy (ART)
Programs, Contract Solicitation Numbers (CSN) 2006-N-08428, 2006-N-
08429, and 2006-N-08430
Correction: This notice was published in the Federal Register on
June 9, 2006, Volume 71, Number 111, page 33456. The location of the
meeting was changed due to insufficient meeting space at the
Renaissance Concourse Hotel--Marriott, One Hartsfield Center Parkway,
Atlanta, GA 30354. The meeting was held at the Hilton Atlanta Airport,
1031 Virginia Avenue, Atlanta, Georgia 30354.
Titles: Targeted Evaluation of the President's Emergency Plan for
AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Funded Prevention of Mother-to-Child HIV
Transmission (PMTCT), and Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy (ART)
Programs, Contract Solicitation Numbers (CSN) 2006-N-08428, 2006-N-
08429, and 2006-N-08430.
For Further Information Contact: Amy L. Sandul, Health Scientist,
National Center for HIV, STD, and Tuberculosis Prevention, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, NE., MS E-41,
Atlanta, GA 30333, Telephone 404-639-6485.
The Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, has been
delegated the authority to sign Federal Register notices pertaining to
announcements of meetings and other committee management activities,
for both CDC and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.
Dated: July 3, 2006.
Alvin Hall,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
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