Beyond saddling patients with second-choice treatments, additional reasons to worry drug samples imperil patient safety include lost opportunities for pharmacists to educate patients about proper medication usage or to oversee proper storage and post-expiry disposal of medications.
However, it has been shown that originator prices do not increase post patent expiry [11].
Models (3) and (4) show the determinants of originator drug prices post patent expiry.
There have been concerns that originator products do not respond to generic competition or price regulation post patent expiry.
The reason for this discrimination is that if generic prices are used, they restrict the model only to post patent expiry observations.
Findings also indicate that, although originator prices are not immediately affected by generic entry, they may be influenced by changes in generic prices post patent expiry.
Using an empirical investigation, the paper studies the impact that regulation has on pharmaceutical prices, and the effect of generic competition on market dynamics in six pharmaceutical markets in Europe (UK, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Denmark, Sweden) post patent expiry.
If you do get seed post the expiry date, make sure it's a bargain and don't be disappointed if it refuses to germinate or produces poor plants.
Post-patent expiry generics competitors are present, so the market of the particular molecule is no longer a monopoly, indicating that markets change significantly over a product's life cycle.
Since the cost of generic risperidone is fluctuating at present, we estimated its average cost during the first year post-patent expiry to be at a 58% discount from its 2007 NWP [ 19].
