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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: June 25, 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 Nos. FDA–2020–E–1315 and FDA– 

2020–E–1316] 

Determination of Regulatory Review 

Period for Purposes of Patent 

Extension; BEOVU 

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 BEOVU and is publishing this notice 

of that determination as required by 

law. FDA has made the determination 

because of the submission of 

applications 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 3, 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 Nos. FDA– 

2020–E–1315 and FDA–2020–E–1316, 

for ‘‘Determination of Regulatory 

Review Period for Purposes of Patent 

Extension; BEOVU.’’ 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) 

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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 

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 BEOVU 

(brolucizumab-dbll). BEOVU is 

indicated for the treatment of 

neovascular (wet) age-related macular 

degeneration. Subsequent to this 

approval, the USPTO received patent 

term restoration applications for BEOVU 

(U.S. Patent Nos. 8,349,322 and 

9,090,684) from Novartis AG, and the 

USPTO requested FDA’s assistance in 

determining the patents’ eligibility for 

patent term restoration. In a letter dated 

July 20, 2020, FDA advised the USPTO 

that this human biological product had 

undergone a regulatory review period 

and that the approval of BEOVU 

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 

BEOVU is 3,064 days. Of this time, 

2,821 days occurred during the testing 

phase of the regulatory review period, 

while 243 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: May 20, 2011. FDA 

has verified the applicant’s claims that 

the date the investigational new drug 

application became effective was on 

May 20, 2011. 

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): February 7, 2019. FDA has 

verified the applicant’s claim that the 

biologics license application (BLA) for 

BEOVU (BLA 761125) was initially 

submitted on February 7, 2019. 

3. The date the application was 

approved: October 7, 2019. FDA has 

verified the applicant’s claims that BLA 

761125 was approved on October 7, 

2019. 

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 applications for patent extension, 

this applicant seeks 888 or 1,354 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: June 28, 2021. 

Lauren K. Roth, 

Acting Principal Associate Commissioner for 

Policy. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Food and Drug Administration 

21 CFR Part 573 

[Docket No. FDA–2021–F–0564] 

Biomin Holding GmbH; Filing of Food 

Additive Petition (Animal Use) 

AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, 

Health and Human Services (HHS). 

ACTION: Notification of petition. 

SUMMARY: The Food and Drug 

Administration (FDA or we) is 

announcing that we have filed a 

petition, submitted by Biomin Holding 

GmbH, proposing that the food additive 

regulations be amended to provide for 

the safe use of fumonisin esterase to 

degrade fumonisins in poultry feed. 

DATES: The food additive petition was 

filed on May 20, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or 

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. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Wasima Wahid, Center for Veterinary 

Medicine, Food and Drug 

Administration, 7519 Standish Pl. 

(HFV–221), Rockville, MD 20855, 240– 

402–5857, Wasima.Wahid@fda.hhs.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the 

Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act 

(section 409(b)(5) (21 U.S.C. 348(b)(5))), 

we are giving notice that we have filed 

a food additive petition (FAP 2314), 

submitted by Biomin Holdings GmbH, 

Biomin Research Center, Technopark 1, 

3430 Tulin, Austria. The petition 

proposes to amend Title 21 of the Code 

of Federal Regulations (CFR) in part 573 

(21 CFR part 573) Food Additives 

Permitted in Feed and Drinking Water of 

Animals to provide for the safe use of 

fumonisin esterase to degrade 

fumonisins in poultry feed. 

The petitioner has claimed that this 

action is categorically excluded under 

21 CFR 25.32(r) because it is of a type 

that does not individually or 


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