Posted by stjames on August 21, 2000, at 0:08:58
GENERIC PROZAC
For those who haven't heard it already: A ruling by a federal appeals court frees up drug manufacturers to market generic competitors to Prozac, defeating Eli Lilly's attempts to extend its patent on the drug. The new generics are likely to hit the market next summer, at about a third of the price of the name brand, which goes for $90 a month.
Eli Lilly, nevertheless, is not entirely out in the cold. Through an arrangement with a Massachusetts company, Sepracor, Eli Lilly next year will market an improved version of Prozac - with its own patent - purportedly free of many of its side effects.SUBSCRIBE/UNSUBSCRIBE
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