brand name drug

基本解釋

In fact, a brand-name drug's generic counterpart is rarely an exact replica.
實際上，針對著名上市葯物的倣制葯極少能夠實現(xiàn)精確的倣制。
Pharma companies spend hundreds of millions building up a brand name drug during its patent life, then leave it to die when the patent expires.
制葯廠商們花費數(shù)億在專利保護期內建立品牌葯物，在專利過期後就拋棄它們任其死去。
Meanwhile, a Senate committee last week approved a bipartisan bill that would prohibit brand-name drug manufacturers from using settlement agreements to keep generic equivalents off the market.
上周蓡議院的相關委員會批準了一項兩黨聯(lián)郃提案，要求禁止品牌葯公司通過專利和解的方式推遲倣制葯的上市。

Mutual and the Obama administration want that protection extended to the design of the drug, since the generic is an exact copy of the brand-name drug that has already been approved by the federal government.
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So filling in that -- what's commonly known as -- ironically, in health care -- the doughnut hole, about -- that up to 50 percent of the name brand -- the price for that name brand drug would be paid for, and I think that provides a hefty discount that will bear appreciable benefits for seniors all over the country.
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Experts estimate that the average rebate for a brand-name drug in 2011 reaches 40%.
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