The drug is covered under patent protection, which means that only the pharmaceutical company that holds the patent is allowed to manufacture, market the drug and eventually make profit from it.
Brand name drug means drugs produced and marketed exclusively by a particular manufacturer. These names are usually registered as trademarks with the Patent
Sometimes generic is also used to mean copies of patented drugs or drugs whose patents have expiredgeneric from a patent point of view. This is not
Viagra 'Price Drop' As Drug Patent Expires The exclusive patent on Pfizer's little blue pill expires, which means the NHS could save millions in prescription costs. Friday, UK
The company that makes it patents the drug. This means this company is the only company that has the right to make and market this drug for a
Patent expiry would mean that drugmakers will be able to launch generic Victoza, Januvia and Trulicity, among othersare nearing patent
patents that claim either the drug or a method of using the drug. To meaning that Ballard Spahr's patent group (largely based in Atlanta) may end
Tadalafil is the active ingredient in Cialis, meaning Cialis works in exactly the same way. As of 2025, Cialis no longer has an exclusive patent on this drug, and this means that
That means the name-brand drug company owns the exclusive rights to its manufacture and sale. Once the patent period is over (or the patents are
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The Dresden-based German, Christine Hardt, patented the first modern brassiere in 1899.
Sigmund Lindauer from Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, Germany, developed a brassiere for mass production in 1912 and patented it in 1913.