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Based on a review of the information 

collection since our last request for 

OMB approval, we have made no 

adjustments to our burden estimate. 

Dated: July 2, 2021. 

Lauren K. Roth, 

Acting Principal Associate Commissioner for 

Policy. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Food and Drug Administration 

[Docket No. FDA–2019–E–1944] 

Determination of Regulatory Review 

Period for Purposes of Patent 

Extension; AJOVY 

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 AJOVY 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 biological product. 

DATES: Anyone with knowledge that any 

of the dates as published (see 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION) are 

incorrect may submit either electronic 

or written comments and ask for a 

redetermination by September 7, 2021. 

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 

January 5, 2022. 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. Electronic comments must 

be submitted on or before September 7, 

2021. The https://www.regulations.gov 

electronic filing system will accept 

comments until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time 

at the end of September 7, 2021. 

Comments received by mail/hand 

delivery/courier (for written/paper 

submissions) will be considered timely 

if they are postmarked or the delivery 

service acceptance receipt is 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– 

2019–E–1944 for ‘‘Determination of 

Regulatory Review Period for Purposes 

of Patent Extension; AJOVY.’’ 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. 6250, 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 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 


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an approval phase. For human 

biological products, the testing phase 

begins when the exemption to permit 

the clinical investigations of the 

biological 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 biological product 

and continues until FDA grants 

permission to market the biological 

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 biological 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 biologic product AJOVY 

(fremanezumab-vfrm). AJOVY is 

indicated for the preventive treatment of 

migraine in adults. Subsequent to this 

approval, the USPTO received a patent 

term restoration application for AJOVY 

(U.S. Patent No. 8,007,794) from Teva 

Pharmaceuticals International GmbH, 

and the USPTO requested FDA’s 

assistance in determining this patent’s 

eligibility for patent term restoration. In 

a letter dated July 14, 2020, FDA 

advised the USPTO that this human 

biological product had undergone a 

regulatory review period and that the 

approval of AJOVY 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 

AJOVY is 3,216 days. Of this time, 2,882 

days occurred during the testing phase 

of the regulatory review period, while 

334 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 (21 U.S.C. 355(i)) 

became effective: November 26, 2009. 

The applicant claims November 19, 

2009, as the date the investigational new 

drug application (IND) became effective. 

However, FDA records indicate that the 

IND effective date was November 26, 

2009, which was 30 days after FDA 

receipt of the IND. 

2. The date the application was 

initially submitted with respect to the 

human biological product under section 

351 of the Public Health Service Act (42 

U.S.C. 262): October 16, 2017. FDA has 

verified the applicant’s claim that the 

biologics license application (BLA) for 

AJOVY (BLA 761089) was initially 

submitted on October 16, 2017. 

3. The date the application was 

approved: September 14, 2018. FDA has 

verified the applicant’s claim that BLA 

761089 was approved on September 14, 

2018. 

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 1,454 days 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: July 2, 2021. 

Lauren K. Roth, 

Acting Principal Associate Commissioner for 

Policy. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

National Institutes of Health 

Center for Scientific Review; Notice of 

Closed Meetings 

Pursuant to section 10(d) of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, as 

amended, notice is hereby given of the 

following meetings. 

The meetings will be closed to the 

public in accordance with the 

provisions set forth in sections 

552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6), Title 5 U.S.C., 

as amended. The grant applications and 

the discussions could disclose 

confidential trade secrets or commercial 

property such as patentable material, 

and personal information concerning 

individuals associated with the grant 

applications, the disclosure of which 

would constitute a clearly unwarranted 

invasion of personal privacy. 

Name of Committee: Center for Scientific 

Review Special Emphasis Panel; 

Neurodevelopmental and Neurological 

Disorders. 

Date: August 3, 2021. 

Time: 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: National Institutes of Health, 

Rockledge II, 6701 Rockledge Drive, 

Bethesda, MD 20892 (Virtual Meeting). 

Contact Person: Samuel C. Edwards, Ph.D., 

Chief, BDCN IRG, Center for Scientific 

Review, National Institutes of Health, 6701 

Rockledge Drive, Room 5210, MSC 7846, 

Bethesda, MD 20892, (301) 435–1246, 

edwardss@csr.nih.gov. 

Name of Committee: Center for Scientific 

Review Special Emphasis Panel; Member 

Conflict: Eye Disease and Infections. 

Date: August 5, 2021. 

Time: 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: National Institutes of Health, 

Rockledge II, 6701 Rockledge Drive, 

Bethesda, MD 20892 (Virtual Meeting). 

Contact Person: Alessandra C. Rovescalli, 

Ph.D., Scientific Review Officer, National 

Institutes of Health, Center for Scientific 

Review, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Rm 5205, 

MSC 7846, Bethesda, MD 20892, (301) 435– 

1021, rovescaa@mail.nih.gov. 

Name of Committee: Center for Scientific 

Review Special Emphasis Panel; Member 

Conflict: Cognitive and Neuropathological 

Signatures of Alzheimer’s Disease, Brain 

Injury and Aging. 

Date: August 5, 2021. 

Time: 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: National Institutes of Health, 6701 

Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892 

(Virtual Meeting). 

Contact Person: Samuel C. Edwards, Ph.D., 

Chief, BDCN IRG, Center for Scientific 

Review, National Institutes of Health, 6701 


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