Sentence examples for generic producers from inspiring English sources

We distinguish two types of generic competitors: tendering generics are generic producers who sold to the procurement channel at least once during our period, in any country, and thus have demonstrated ability to comply with international quality standards and compete on price.

Least developing and developing countries need to consider whether it is in their best interest to produce drugs domestically or import them from existing generic producers, such as those in India.

Generic producers carry none of those costs.

The drugs are now widely sold by generic producers.

That would have allowed generic producers to introduce their own version of the formulation.

Brand-name companies have obtained 212 court injunctions against attempts by generic producers to gain licenses for their drugs.

Last year, for example, Sanofi-Aventis spent more than 1.5 billion euros to buy Zentiva, a leading Czech generic maker; Medley, the leading producer of generics in Brazil; and Laboratorios Kendrick, a generic producer in Mexico.

Ivax, another major generic producer, signed an agreement last year with Indiana Protein Technologies.

Although a judge ordered Apotex, a Canadian firm, to stop selling its generic version of Plavix at the end of August, the generic producer had quickly nabbed three-quarters of the market and sold huge quantities.

"We are embarking today on a new and exciting future for Teva's branded business," the Israeli generic producer said in 2011 when it announced its $6.8 billion purchase of Cephalon, a US-based maker of branded drugs.

These "pay-for-delay" agreements— where a pharmaceutical company pays a generic producer to delay market entry of a lower-priced competing product have been the focus of a high-profile battle between Federal Trade Commission and drug makers, embroiling companies like Teva in a host of legal woes.