Marketing Exclusivity and Patent Provisions for Certain Antibiotic Drugs

Résumé

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is proposing regulations to exempt marketing applications for certain antibiotic drug products from regulatory provisions governing marketing exclusivity and patents. The proposal would apply to marketing applications for drug products containing an antibiotic drug that was the subject of a marketing application received by FDA before November 21, 1997, the effective date of the Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act of 1997 (Modernization Act). This action is intended to bring the agency's regulations into conformance with certain transitional provisions of the Modernization Act. FDA is including in the proposed regulation a list of the active moieties of antibiotic drugs that were the subjects of marketing applications received by FDA before November 21, 1997.