Pub. L. 100-418, tit. IX, subtit. C, sec. 9202
PROCEDURE.
SEC. 9202. PROCEDURE. (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 9201(b)(1). (b) Extension.—On receipt of the notice under subsection (a), the 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 official file of the patent extended and such certificate shall be considered as part of the original patent, and an appropriate notice 102 STAT. 1570shall be published in the Official Gazette of the Patent and Trademark Office. If the extension of the term of the patent is to be terminated under section 9201(b), the Commissioner shall promptly issue a certificate of termination of extension, under seal, stating the fact that the patent term extension is terminated, effective on the date of the final determination that the supplemental new drug application under section 505 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act was disapproved. Such certificate shall be recorded in the official file of the patent and such certificate shall be considered as a part of the original patent, and an appropriate notice shall be published in the Official Gazette of the Patent and Trademark Office.