Even these entities have little power over newer
drugs under patent or drugs with only one manufacturer.
And that applies for
drugs under patent, which are typically more expensive to begin with, and generic drugs.
Not exact matches
These risks and uncertainties include, among others: the unfavorable outcome of litigation, including so - called «Paragraph IV» litigation and other
patent litigation, related to any of our products or products using our proprietary technologies, which may lead to competition from generic
drug manufacturers; data from clinical trials may be interpreted by the FDA in different ways than we interpret it; the FDA may not agree with our regulatory approval strategies or components of our filings for our products, including our clinical trial designs, conduct and methodologies and, for ALKS 5461, evidence of efficacy and adequacy of bridging to buprenorphine; clinical development activities may not be completed on time or at all; the results of our clinical development activities may not be positive, or predictive of real - world results or of results in subsequent clinical trials; regulatory submissions may not occur or be submitted in a timely manner; the company and its licensees may not be able to continue to successfully commercialize their products; there may be a reduction in payment rate or reimbursement for the company's products or an increase in the company's financial obligations to governmental payers; the FDA or regulatory authorities outside the U.S. may make adverse decisions regarding the company's products; the company's products may prove difficult to manufacture, be precluded from commercialization by the proprietary rights of third parties, or have unintended side effects, adverse reactions or incidents of misuse; and those risks and uncertainties described
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Slavitt said EpiPen has
patent protection, has no Food and
Drug Administration - approved equivalents, and was approved by that agency under a «new drug application,» all of which make it a brand - name d
Drug Administration - approved equivalents, and was approved by that agency
under a «new
drug application,» all of which make it a brand - name d
drug application,» all of which make it a brand - name
drugdrug.
Controversial changes to
drug patent and copyright rules required
under Canada's recent trade deals will have manageable side effects, according to a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute.
One of the few negatives on an otherwise fairly positive day of trading was the 5 % decline of Reckitt Benckiser, producers of a
drug used to help get
drug users off of Heroin called Suboxone, which acts as a replacement for the Class A. Reckitt's
patent for Suboxone is due to expire in the relatively near future, so they have been trying to push doctors and other pharmaceutical vendors towards their film version of the
drug, which is still
under patent and will be for quite some time.
Ok, so we have billions of pounds of synthetic chemicals consumed every year as
patented drugs, with an army of degreed, licensed and doctored foot soldiers prescribing them recklessly
under the once great banner of «medicine,» in an ongoing war against the body's virtually infinite potential to generate symptoms, most of which are — ironically — a means to heal from acute or chronic exposure to synthetic chemicals.
The
patent on the human form of it expired a while back; this meant that other
drug companies could produce it
under its generic name, fluoxetine.
According to the Seattle Times article,
drug companies aren't very interested in rapamycin because it's no longer
under patent.
Dr. Hill's work has included serving as trial counsel for plaintiffs and defendants in
patent infringement suits involving breast and ovarian cancer gene tests, radiology informatics, hospital information systems, orthopedic surgical devices, MRI diffusion tensor imaging, generic
drugs in Hatch - Waxman
patent litigation, and biologics in suits brought
under the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act.
Canada's existing
Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) Regulations currently establish a system similar to the Hatch - Waxman system in the United States,
under which a
drug manufacturer may list
patents relevant to a
drug on a
patent list.
In the case of Apotex Inc. v. Eli Lily and Company, 2015 ONCA 305, Eli Lilly and Company and Eli Lilly Canada Inc. («Lilly») had used the process available
under the regulatory scheme of the
Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) Regulations, SOR / 93 -133, in order to keep Apotex's generic counterpart to Strattera (a
drug used in the treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) off the market.
Last fall, Eli Lilly launched a $ 500 - million complaint
under the North American Free Trade Agreement claiming Canada violated obligations to foreign investors by allowing its courts to invalidate
patents for two of its
drugs.
Prescription
drugs that are no longer
patent - protected and are sold by
drug manufacturers
under a different name than the original brand name
drug.
The pharmaceutical industry is
under pressure from every corner, with expiring
patents on blockbuster
drugs, research and development productivity on the wane and constant negative pricing pressure forcing the need to rationalise.