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2002 MAY 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Barr Laboratories, Inc., (BRL) announced that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has granted final approval for its application to manufacture and market a generic version of Organon, Inc.'s, Mircette oral contraceptive.
This product was a subject of a patent challenge initiated in September 2000. The company expects to be the first to market generic Mircette and is launching the product immediately. The company plans to market the product as a branded generic using the Kariva trademark.
Mircette is a 28-tablet regimen that represents a combination of desogestrel/ethinyl estradiol and ethinyl estradiol.
"The launch of the Kariva oral contraceptive product, combined with the company's existing generic oral contraceptive product line that includes Apri, Aviane, Lessina, and ...