Keyword: patent expiration
Markets & Companies
02.09.2016
- During the last two decades the pharmaceutical industry was forced to undertake significant structural changes to address mounting challenges from strict regulatory policies, lower...
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30.07.2013
- Pfizer, in what could be the prelude to spinning off its generics drug business, said it plans to separate its commercial operations into two units, mainly for patent-protected...
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14.05.2013
- The French Competition Authority fined drugmaker Sanofi €40.6 million ($52.7 million) on Tuesday for "disparaging" generic competition to its Plavix blood thinner. The decision on...
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16.01.2013
- Drugmakers are betting that a new wave of medicines for cancer, diabetes, heart disease, multiple sclerosis and hepatitis will shape up as tomorrow's blockbusters in the coming 12...
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03.08.2012
- Global biotech merger volume has reached levels not seen in four years as big pharmaceutical companies pursue deals to get access to new drugs, with bankers saying therapeutic...
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21.07.2012
- Aggressive consolidation among U.S. and European generic drugmakers is putting pressure on smaller competitors in the industry, whose best hope of surviving a brewing price war may...