73662 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 176 / Wednesday, September 11, 2024 / Notices 

Dated: September 6, 2024. 

Lauren K. Roth, 

Associate Commissioner for Policy. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Food and Drug Administration 

[Docket No. FDA–2023–E–1527] 

Determination of Regulatory Review 

Period for Purposes of Patent 

Extension; ZTALMY 

AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, 

HHS. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Food and Drug 

Administration (FDA or the Agency) has 

determined the regulatory review period 

for ZTALMY 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 the U.S. Patent and 

Trademark Office (USPTO), Department 

of Commerce, for the extension of a 

patent which claims that human drug 

product. 

DATES: Anyone with knowledge that any 

of the dates as published (see 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION) are 

incorrect must submit either electronic 

or written comments and ask for a 

redetermination by November 12, 2024. 

Furthermore, any interested person may 

petition FDA for a determination 

regarding whether the applicant for 

extension acted with due diligence 

during the regulatory review period by 

March 10, 2025. See ‘‘Petitions’’ in the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section for 

more information. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

as follows. Please note that late, 

untimely filed comments will not be 

considered. The https://

www.regulations.gov electronic filing 

system will accept comments until 

11:59 p.m. Eastern Time at the end of 

November 12, 2024. Comments received 

by mail/hand delivery/courier (for 

written/paper submissions) will be 

considered timely if they are received 

on or before that date. 

Electronic Submissions 

Submit electronic comments in the 

following way: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Comments submitted electronically, 

including attachments, to https://

www.regulations.gov will be posted to 

the docket unchanged. Because your 

comment will be made public, you are 

solely responsible for ensuring that your 

comment does not include any 

confidential information that you or a 

third party may not wish to be posted, 

such as medical information, your or 

anyone else’s Social Security number, or 

confidential business information, such 

as a manufacturing process. Please note 

that if you include your name, contact 

information, or other information that 

identifies you in the body of your 

comments, that information will be 

posted on https://www.regulations.gov. 

• If you want to submit a comment 

with confidential information that you 

do not wish to be made available to the 

public, submit the comment as a 

written/paper submission and in the 

manner detailed (see ‘‘Written/Paper 

Submissions’’ and ‘‘Instructions’’). 

Written/Paper Submissions 

Submit written/paper submissions as 

follows: 

• Mail/Hand Delivery/Courier (for 

written/paper submissions): Dockets 

Management Staff (HFA–305), Food and 

Drug Administration, 5630 Fishers 

Lane, Rm. 1061, Rockville, MD 20852. 

• For written/paper comments 

submitted to the Dockets Management 

Staff, FDA will post your comment, as 

well as any attachments, except for 

information submitted, marked and 

identified, as confidential, if submitted 

as detailed in ‘‘Instructions.’’ 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the Docket No. FDA– 

2023–E–1527 for ‘‘Determination of 

Regulatory Review Period for Purposes 

of Patent Extension; ZTALMY.’’ 

Received comments, those filed in a 

timely manner (see ADDRESSES), will be 

placed in the docket and, except for 

those submitted as ‘‘Confidential 

Submissions,’’ publicly viewable at 

https://www.regulations.gov or at the 

Dockets Management Staff between 9 

a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through 

Friday, 240–402–7500. 

• Confidential Submissions—To 

submit a comment with confidential 

information that you do not wish to be 

made publicly available, submit your 

comments only as a written/paper 

submission. You should submit two 

copies total. One copy will include the 

information you claim to be confidential 

with a heading or cover note that states 

‘‘THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS 

CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION.’’ The 

Agency will review this copy, including 

the claimed confidential information, in 

its consideration of comments. The 

second copy, which will have the 

claimed confidential information 

redacted/blacked out, will be available 

for public viewing and posted on 

https://www.regulations.gov. Submit 

both copies to the Dockets Management 

Staff. If you do not wish your name and 

contact information to be made publicly 

available, you can provide this 

information on the cover sheet and not 

in the body of your comments and you 

must identify this information as 

‘‘confidential.’’ Any information marked 

as ‘‘confidential’’ will not be disclosed 

except in accordance with § 10.20 (21 

CFR 10.20) and other applicable 

disclosure law. For more information 

about FDA’s posting of comments to 

public dockets, see 80 FR 56469, 

September 18, 2015, or access the 

information at: https://

www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2015- 

09-18/pdf/2015-23389.pdf. 

Docket: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or the 

electronic and written/paper comments 

received, go to https://

www.regulations.gov and insert the 

docket number, found in brackets in the 

heading of this document, into the 

‘‘Search’’ box and follow the prompts 

and/or go to the Dockets Management 

Staff, 5630 Fishers Lane, Rm. 1061, 

Rockville, MD 20852, 240–402–7500. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Beverly Friedman, Office of Regulatory 

Policy, Food and Drug Administration, 

10903 New Hampshire Ave., Bldg. 51, 

Rm. 6200, Silver Spring, MD 20993, 

301–796–3600. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

The Drug Price Competition and 

Patent Term Restoration Act of 1984 

(Pub. L. 98–417) and the Generic 

Animal Drug and Patent Term 

Restoration Act (Pub. L. 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 or biological 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 

the exemption to permit the clinical 

investigations of the drug becomes 

effective and runs until the approval 

phase begins. The approval phase starts 

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application to market the human drug 

product and continues until FDA grants 

permission to market the drug product. 

Although only a portion of a regulatory 

review period may count toward the 

actual amount of extension that the 

Director of USPTO 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 has approved for marketing the 

human drug product, ZTALMY 

(ganaxolone) indicated for treatment of 

seizures associated with cyclindependent kinase-like 5 deficiency 

disorder in patients 2 years of age and 

older. Subsequent to this approval, the 

USPTO received a patent term 

restoration application for ZTALMY 

(U.S. Patent No. 8,318,714) from 

Marinus Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and the 

USPTO requested FDA’s assistance in 

determining the patent’s eligibility for 

patent term restoration. In a letter dated 

September 28, 2023, FDA advised the 

USPTO that this human drug product 

had undergone a regulatory review 

period and that the approval of 

ZTALMY represented the first permitted 

commercial marketing or use of the 

product. Thereafter, the USPTO 

requested that FDA determine the 

product’s regulatory review period. 

II. Determination of Regulatory Review 

Period 

FDA has determined that the 

applicable regulatory review period for 

ZTALMY is 10,382 days. Of this time, 

10,065 days occurred during the testing 

phase of the regulatory review period, 

while 317 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 (FD&C Act) (21 U.S.C. 

355(i)) became effective: December 30, 

1993. FDA has verified the applicant’s 

claim that the date the investigational 

new drug application became effective 

was on December 30, 1993. 

2. The date the application was 

initially submitted with respect to the 

human drug product under section 505 

of the FD&C Act: July 20, 2021. FDA has 

verified the applicant’s claim that the 

new drug application (NDA) for 

ZTALMY (NDA 215904) was initially 

submitted on July 20, 2021. 

3. The date the application was 

approved or the effective date of 

approval for a drug product 

recommended for control under the 

Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 

811): June 1, 2022. FDA has verified the 

applicant’s claim that NDA 215904 was 

approved on March 18, 2022, and that 

the Drug Enforcement Agency issued an 

interim final rule controlling the 

product under section 201(j) of the 

Controlled Substances Act on June 1, 

2022. 

This determination of the regulatory 

review period establishes the maximum 

potential length of a patent extension. 

However, the USPTO applies several 

statutory limitations in its calculations 

of the actual period for patent extension. 

In its application for patent extension, 

this applicant seeks 5 years of patent 

term extension. 

III. Petitions 

Anyone with knowledge that any of 

the dates as published are incorrect may 

submit either electronic or written 

comments and, under 21 CFR 60.24, ask 

for a redetermination (see DATES). 

Furthermore, as specified in § 60.30 (21 

CFR 60.30), any interested person may 

petition FDA for a determination 

regarding whether the applicant for 

extension acted with due diligence 

during the regulatory review period. To 

meet its burden, the petition must 

comply with all the requirements of 

§ 60.30, including but not limited to: 

must be timely (see DATES), must be 

filed in accordance with § 10.20, must 

contain sufficient facts to merit an FDA 

investigation, and must certify that a 

true and complete copy of the petition 

has been served upon the patent 

applicant. (See H. Rept. 857, part 1, 98th 

Cong., 2d sess., pp. 41–42, 1984.) 

Petitions should be in the format 

specified in 21 CFR 10.30. 

Submit petitions electronically to 

https://www.regulations.gov at Docket 

No. FDA–2013–S–0610. Submit written 

petitions (two copies are required) to the 

Dockets Management Staff (HFA–305), 

Food and Drug Administration, 5630 

Fishers Lane, Rm. 1061, Rockville, MD 

20852. 

Dated: September 6, 2024. 

Lauren K. Roth, 

Associate Commissioner for Policy. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Health Resources and Services 

Administration 

Notice of Funding Extension for Rural 

Behavioral Health Workforce Centers— 

Northern Border Region 

AGENCY: Health Resources and Services 

Administration (HRSA), Department of 

Health and Human Services. 

ACTION: Notice of supplemental funding. 

SUMMARY: HRSA will provide a 

performance period extension with 

supplemental funds to three fiscal year 

(FY) 21 award recipients with a period 

of performance ending on August 31, 

2025. The supplemental funding will 

extend their current period of 

performance by 12 months to align with 

the FY 2022 award to an additional 

recipient, which has a period of 

performance from September 1, 2022, to 

August 31, 2025. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jillian Causey, Division Deputy Director, 

Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, 

Health Resources and Services 

Administration, at jcausey@hrsa.gov 

and 301–443–1493. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Intended Recipient(s) of the Award: 

Three FY 2021 award recipients: Mary 

Hitchcock Memorial Hospital—New 

Hampshire, Medical Care Development, 

Inc.—Maine, Vermont Association For 

Mental Health, Inc.—Vermont. 

Amount of Non-Competitive Award: 

Three awards for $1,000,000 each. 

Period of Performance: September 1, 

2021, to August 31, 2025. 

Assistance Listing (CFDA) Number: 

93.912. 

Award Instrument: Cooperative 

Agreement. 

Authority: Section 711(b)(5) of the 

Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 

912(b)(5)). 

TABLE 1—RECIPIENTS AND AWARD AMOUNTS

Grant No. Award recipient name State Award amount 

U2SRH43521 ...................................... Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital .................................................................. NH $1,000,000 

U2SRH43522 ...................................... Medical Care Development, Inc ...................................................................... ME 1,000,000 

U2SRH43523 ...................................... Vermont Association for Mental Health Inc ..................................................... VT 1,000,000 


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