http://www.patentbaristas.com/archives/2008/06/27/friday-ip-round-up-7/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=friday-ip-round-up-7 Freshly Brewed Bio/Pharma Chat. Served Up Daily. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:57:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.patentbaristas.com/archives/2008/06/27/friday-ip-round-up-7/comment-page-1/#comment-56034 Steven Moore Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:23:46 +0000 http://www.patentbaristas.com/archives/2008/06/27/friday-ip-round-up-7/#comment-56034 The 25 Most Shocking Facts of the Pharmaceutical Industry focuses only on name brand drugs and not the pharmaceutical industry as a whole. The fact is the vast majority of prescriptions filled today are for generic drugs, and the American public pays significantly less for these drugs than in many other countries. Brand name pricing has a lot to do with the fact that manufacturers today cannot depend on maintaining their market for any significant period of time before a generic manufacturer will challenge it. Some price increases may simply be the inevitable desire to make money while the sun shines -- that is, before someone else takes the market you just built. The 25 Most Shocking Facts of the Pharmaceutical Industry focuses only on name brand drugs and not the pharmaceutical industry as a whole. The fact is the vast majority of prescriptions filled today are for generic drugs, and the American public pays significantly less for these drugs than in many other countries. Brand name pricing has a lot to do with the fact that manufacturers today cannot depend on maintaining their market for any significant period of time before a generic manufacturer will challenge it. Some price increases may simply be the inevitable desire to make money while the sun shines — that is, before someone else takes the market you just built.

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