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PUBLIC LAW 100-000—MMMM. DD, 1988

PUBLIC LAW 100-418—AUG. 23, 1988

102 STAT. 1569

(B) under any patent granted after such date of enactment which is related to the patent before the court by deriving priority rights under section 120 or 121 of title 35, United States Code, from a patent or an application for patent common to both patents, determined on the basis of the substantive law in effect before the date of enactment of this section.

Subtitle C—Patent Term Extension SEC. 9201. PATENT TERM EXTENSION.

(a) GENERAL RULE.—Except as provided in subsection (b), the term of United States Patent number 3,674,836 issued for the drug Lopid shall be extended in accordance with section 9202 for 3 years and 6 months from the date of its expiration.

Drugs and drug abuse.

(b) CONDITIONS.—

(1) No extension of the term of the patent described in subsection (a) may be made unless there has been submitted for the drug Lopid a supplemental new drug application under section 505 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act for the approval of an expemsion of the permitted indications and usage in the labeling of the drug. (2) If the Secretary of Health and Human Services makes a final determination, after the date of the enactment of this Act, disapproving the first supplemental new drug application submitted under section 505 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act for the approval of an expansion of the permitted indications and usage in the labeling of the drug Lopid— (A) no extension shall be granted for the term of the patent under subsection (a) if the final determination of disapproval is issued before the date the term of the patent is extended under subsection (a), and (B) if an extension has been granted under subsection (a) before the final determination of disapproval is issued, the extension shall be terminated as of the date of such disapproval. The Secretary shall promptly notify the Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks of such a disapproval. SEC. 9202. PROCEDURE.

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(a) NOTICE.—To receive the patent term extension under section 9201(a), the owner of record of the patent shall notify the Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks before January 4, 1989, of the identity of the supplemental new drug application required under section 92010i)Xl). O> EXTENSION.—On receipt of the notice under subsection (a), the Claims. t) Commissioner shall, in accordance with section 9201, promptly issue to the owner of record of the patent a certificate of extension, under seal, stating the fact and length of the extension and indicating that such extension is limited to the subject matter of claim 1 (insofar as claim 1 is needed to cover the compound described in claim 6 and additionally insofar as claim 1 is needed to cover the pharmaceutically acceptable salts of the compound described in claim 6) and claim 6 of the patent. Such certificate shall be recorded in the Records. official file of the patent extended and such certificate shall be considered as part of the original patent, and an appropriate notice