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Eli Lilly and Co. files patent infringement lawsuit against Israeli maker of generics
2013-05-29 20:22:44| Agriculture - Topix.net
It didn't take long for a generic company to challenge the patent-worthiness of Eli Lilly and Co.'s new drug for treating low testosterone.
Pfizer hopes to cut losses to generics with new drugs
2013-04-26 01:42:28| Biotech - Topix.net
Pfizer Inc. CEO Ian Read said Thursday that continuing expirations of drug patents through 2015 will restrain revenue growth, but the world's largest drugmaker is trying to offset that with launches of several medicines and research to create new ones.
Generics debate to go before top court
2013-03-07 05:46:56| Biotech - Topix.net
Generic drugs have dramatically changed the pharmaceutical and health-care landscape in the last 25 years and now account for about 80 percent of prescriptions in the United States, with lower prices for consumers and insurers.
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Biotech companies lobby intensively to restrict generics
2013-01-30 16:59:04| Biotech - Topix.net
In statehouses around the country, some of the nation's biggest biotechnology companies are lobbying intensively to limit generic competition to their blockbuster drugs, potentially cutting into the billions of dollars in savings on drug costs contemplated in the federal health care overhaul law.
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