90 FR 114 pgs. 25333-25334 - Determination of Regulatory Review Period for Purposes of Patent Extension; [NAVITOR TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANT]
Type: NOTICEVolume: 90Number: 114Pages: 25333 - 25334
Pages: 25333, 25334Docket number: [Docket Nos. FDA-2023-E-3298; FDA-2023-E-3302; FDA-2023-E-3303; FDA-2023-E-3304; FDA-2023-E-3305; FDA-2023-E-3306; FDA-2023-E-3307; FDA-2023-E-3308;FDA-2023-E-3309]
FR document: [FR Doc. 2025-11034 Filed 6-13-25; 8:45 am]
Agency: Health and Human Services Department
Sub Agency: Food and Drug Administration
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Food and Drug Administration
[Docket Nos. FDA-2023-E-3298; FDA-2023-E-3302; FDA-2023-E-3303; FDA-2023-E-3304; FDA-2023-E-3305; FDA-2023-E-3306; FDA-2023-E-3307; FDA-2023-E-3308;FDA-2023-E-3309]
Determination of Regulatory Review Period for Purposes of Patent Extension; [NAVITOR TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANT]
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 NAVITOR TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANT 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 medical device.
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 August 15, 2025. 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 December 15, 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 August 15, 2025. 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 Nos. FDA-2023-E-3298; FDA-2023-E-3302; FDA-2023-E-3303; FDA-2023-E-3304; FDA-2023-E-3305; FDA-2023-E-3306; FDA-2023-E-3307; FDA-2023-E-3308; FDA-2023-E-3309 for Determination of Regulatory Review Period for Purposes of Patent Extension; NAVITOR TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANT. 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.
[top] • 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
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:
Jack Dan, Office of Regulatory Policy, Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New Hampshire Ave., Bldg. 51, Rm. 6250, Silver Spring, MD 20993, 240-402-6940.
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 medical devices, the testing phase begins with a clinical investigation of the device and runs until the approval phase begins. The approval phase starts with the initial submission of an application to market the device and continues until permission to market the device is granted. Although only a portion of a regulatory review period may count toward the actual amount of extension that the Director of USPTO may award (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 medical device will include all of the testing phase and approval phase as specified in 35 U.S.C. 156(g)(3)(B).
FDA has approved for marketing the medical device NAVITOR TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANT. NAVITOR TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANT is indicated for design changes including modification of the valve inner skirt material, addition of an outer skirt, and minor changes to the valve stent frame and loading system. Subsequent to this approval, the USPTO received patent term restoration applications for NAVITOR TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANT (U.S. Patent Nos. 9,220,594; 9,289,296; 9,351,828; 9,545,307; 9,681,949; 9,693,859; 9,820,851; 10,314,694; and 11,007,053) from St. Jude Medical, LLC, and the USPTO requested FDA's assistance in determining this patents' eligibility for patent term restoration. In a letter dated February 7, 2024, FDA advised the USPTO that this medical device had undergone a regulatory review period and that the approval of NAVITOR TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANT 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 NAVITOR TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANT is 453 days. Of this time, 0 days occurred during the testing phase of the regulatory review period, while 453 days occurred during the approval phase. These periods of time were derived from the following dates:
1. The date an exemption under section 520(g) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act) (21 U.S.C. 360j(g)) involving this device became effective: not applicable. The applicant does not claim a date on which the device was first used with human subjects as part of a clinical investigation to be filed with FDA to secure premarket approval of the device.
2. The date an application was initially submitted with respect to the device under section 515 of the FD&C Act (21 U.S.C. 360e): October 18, 2021. FDA has verified the applicant's claim that the premarket approval application (PMA) for NAVITOR TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANT (PMA P190023/S002) was initially submitted October 18, 2021
3. The date the application was approved: January 13, 2023. FDA has verified the applicant's claim that PMA P190023/S002 was approved on January 13, 2023.
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 453 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 11, 2025.
Grace R. Graham,
Deputy Commissioner for Policy, Legislation, and International Affairs.
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