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Follow-on Biologics News Briefs - No. 8

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Donald Zuhn -- President Obama Wants to Speed Up Introduction of Generic Drugs In a health care town hall meeting held in Portsmouth, NH last week, President Obama told attendees that he wanted to speed up the introduction of generic drugs into the marketplace. His comment came during an exchange with a man who complained about being forced to try two different generic versions of Lipitor after taking the brand drug for ten years. After noting that "in nine out of 10 cases, the generic might work as well or better than the brand name," the President stated that...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on August 20, 2009 (boomark / email).