INDIA'S GENERICS

[HARM1]

India's 31-year-old patent rules recognize only manufacturing processes and not the products themselves.
This allows pharmaceutical companies to use strengths in basic chemistry to produce medicine molecules, which are only slightly different from the original.
By choosing a generic equivalent, you can save a significant amount of money.
Generic equivalent medications typically cost 30-60 percent less than their brand-name counterparts.


"which are only slightly different from the original."
?! different ?

 

[Siberian]

Yea, I found this interesting:

Commentary: Indian Copycat Drugs Cheer New US Law
With their new strategy, Indian generic drug makers do not even challenge a patent directly, rather they argue that their product doesn't infringe on patent protection because it is made of different ingredients, even though it has the same effect as a branded drug.

I'm hoping they simply mean that the inactive ingredients are different, while the active substance remains the same. I really hope Dutas, for example, IS dutasteride - and not merely a substance LIKE dutasteride.

 

[joeylloyd]

As far as patent laws are concerned the manufacturing process has to be different to not infringe a copyright. This is why supermarket brand cola tastes different to Coke or Pepsi, and why even if you had access to the same ingredients to make something it would be different.

 

[Guest]

Yea, I found this interesting:

Commentary: Indian Copycat Drugs Cheer New US Law
With their new strategy, Indian generic drug makers do not even challenge a patent directly, rather they argue that their product doesn't infringe on patent protection because it is made of different ingredients, even though it has the same effect as a branded drug.

I'm hoping they simply mean that the inactive ingredients are different, while the active substance remains the same. I really hope Dutas, for example, IS dutasteride - and not merely a substance LIKE dutasteride.

The Dutas made by Dr Reddy's is dutasteride. They just use a different process to make it I guess.

 

[Siberian]

The Dutas made by Dr Reddy's is dutasteride. They just use a different process to make it I guess.

Has anyone proved that? I saw a couple threads pop up where people were going to get tested to see if the Dutas was working (lower DHT levels), but never carried through with it.

Though I 'spose if it was fake, a couple million Indians would be seriously angry about their lack of being able to pee easily...

 

[CCS]

I'm about to test it in the lab. just wait a few more days. i've just been planning and rehersing it in my mind, since i don't know how much time i will have and if i can do it twice, and i only have limited samples that i don't want to mess up. i should just ask the grad students how many times I may use the lab, istead of planning for the worst case cinario. OK, I'm going to email one of them now, and then go find his office.