FDA: authorized generics still authorized.(Generic Drugs)(Food and Drug Administration)

Publication: Medicine & Health

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The Food and Drug Administration has okayed a tactic that brand-name companies are increasingly using to discourage generic competitors from challenging patents.

By statute, the first generic company that successfully challenges a brand-name patent gets a 180-day period of "marketing exclusivity," during which only it can market a generic...

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