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Originally Posted by Eric
By the way, is there any legislation in the UK which grants protection, for the brand name companies, against generics?
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Yes there is.........Brands are protected for a number of years.....in the US it is twenty years....and I think it is the same here.
This is to enable the drug companies to claw back the money they used to develop the drug in the first place.
Pharma is big expensive business.......and pharma companies court doctors so that they will prescribe
their drug over those of competitors.