brand name drug

基本解释

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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