ikeboy comments on "A Huge Overnight Increase in a Drug’s Price Raises Protests"

By ikeboy

The composition is public, and needs to be disclosed when patented. In order to get FDA approval for a generic drug, you need to show that it performs as well as the actual drug (not really, but that’s a different issue [0]). In order to do that, you need to have samples of the actual drug.

[0] http://fortune.com/2013/01/10/are-generics-really-the-same-a…

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ikeboy comments on "A Huge Overnight Increase in a Drug’s Price Raises Protests"