This article was originally published by Ravi Gupta, Thomas J Bollyky, Matthew Cohen, Joseph S Ross, and Aaron S Kesselheim in BMJ 2018;360:k831 under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC…
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Officially known as Approved Drug Products With Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations, the FDA Orange Book contains a list of drugs considered by the FDA as both effective and safe. It does…
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While the Patent Trial and Appeal Board invalidates Orange Book-listed patents less than 20 percent of the time, it accepts 66 percent of petitions from generic drugmakers and takes no…
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Combination products offer companies new directions for drug patent innovation. Medicine has become more personalized over the past generation, and this has affected the drug patent system. One major trend…
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This article was originally published by Andrew M Hill, Melissa J Barber, and Dzintars Gotham in BMJ Global Health Jan 2018, 3 (1) e000571 under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license. Abstract Introduction There are persi…
By Larry Ramer, DrugPatentWatch writer A growing number of pharmaceutical companies are looking to simultaneously benefit from the low costs of developing generic treatments and the increased market share and…
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This is a guest post from Susan K Finston, President of Finston Consulting. A little over five years ago I penned the first installment in this irregular series, focused on Israel’s tech transfer prowess and efforts to encourage innovative life-sciences. I tracked the Start-Up Nation’s incremental progress here. In a nutshell, Israel leveraged excellence in basic science and […]
Health care costs in the US touched a staggering $3.2 trillion in 2015, which makes it one of the nation’s largest industries, equaling 17.8% of gross domestic product. This translates…
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Developing nations offer welcoming and growing markets as Abbott focuses exclusively on reformulating and marketing off-patent medications Driven by patient loyalty, prescriber preference, pharmacist trust, and traditional marketing, branded generics&#…
Formularies come into effect at the hospital level and the individual insurer level When developed and managed with due care and consideration, drug formularies can be a good tool for…
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