But the payoff could be lucrative for Merck or whichever drugmaker leads the way.
By doing so, the generic drugmaker limits its exposure to the end of the patent cliff.
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But today's results are positive, and bode well for Millennium's budding status as a drugmaker.
The drugmaker changes the labeling on its hormone replacement drugs two months after a landmark study.
Typically the drugmaker stays out of the spotlight so its blockbuster drug can shine.
The drugmaker has insisted on going it alone rather than seek a marketing partner.
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Competing against another drugmaker that is equally huge would be a threat to Pfizer's dominance.
French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis SA on Friday shortened its name to Sanofi, the Associated Press reports.
The vaccine, Gardasil, is the most promising product brought to market by drugmaker Merck in years.
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Prozac is now off-patent and is not a significant source of revenue for the drugmaker.
The goal of a generic drugmaker wouldn't be to actually overturn a big drug firm's patents.
The drugmaker is responding with a series of new ads aimed at aging baby boomers.
Often, that settlement comes with a sizeable payment from the brand-name company to the generic drugmaker.
Meanwhile, generic drugmaker Watson Pharmaceuticals has filed its own suit against Bristol-Myers over BuSpar.
Therefore, they argue, relying on the original drugmaker's safety and efficacy testing data is unsafe.
He's now head of research at Ranbaxy Laboratories in New Delhi, India's largest drugmaker.
Andrew Whelton, an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University who consults for the drugmaker, has a reason.
The drugmaker has invested heavily in high-tech RFID tags that trace its products from supplier to manufacturer.
But even by Texas standards, the verdict against Illinois drugmaker Abbott Laboratories this June was a whopper.
This comes after the drugmaker last November filed its application with the agency, anticipating a speedy review.
India's patent office ordered Bayer, a German drugmaker, to license a cheaper version of Nexavar, an anti-cancer drug.
But another generic drugmaker, Bedford Labs , came out of nowhere with its own announcement to make paclitaxel.
Genentech, which is majority-owned by the Swiss drugmaker Roche, did not indicate precisely what the investigation was about.
Despite the decision, the drugmaker says this turnabout will not have any impact on its 2012 financial guidance.
Avastin has been part of a stream of good news that has awakened the Swiss drugmaker that invented Valium.
Public health officials had recommended vaccination, but the drugmaker lost credibility over its surreptitious effort to woo state legislators.
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The drugmaker said Prempro might not prevent Alzheimer's, which conflicts with other studies.
Ranbaxy, a generic drugmaker in Gurgaon, India, was looking to make knockoffs, arguing that two Lipitor patents were invalid.
Apotex, the privately held generic drugmaker that is making the knockoff, said that Plavix generics hit the market today.
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