To be simplistic, the calculation considers whether the amount of money spent to get a drug to market will be less than the amount of money received in revenue over the lifetime of the patent exclusivity of the drug.
The same goes for Schering Plough, which has received pediatric exclusivity for Claritin, the allergy drug.
Those tribes, which received geographic exclusivity for their gambling operations, could have been potent financial backers of a "no" campaign.
Those marketers will receive exclusivity on Aspire through 2013 in the categories of domestic automobiles, beauty products and insurance.
"What is particularly troublesome to us is a 'loophole' in the Orphan Drug Act that allows companies to receive FDA market exclusivity. . . for older, existing drugs," the physicians wrote.
It has claims to exclusivity, perhaps, but who wants to indulge in exclusivity only to be mugged by a price tag?
Vaccine manufacturers, for example, receive 6 months of exclusivity in pediatric markets in high-income countries, 33 and no mechanism exists to deal with eventual price increases.
The remaining strains (n = 42), some of which originated from CCUG and some from the SVA strain collection, were received as DNA preparations from the Swedish Food Administration (NFA, Uppsala, Sweden) in the form of an exclusivity panel.
If the Pharmaceutical Companies submitted studies responding to the PWR, six additional months of marketing exclusivity were received.
The drug maker Merck & Company said yesterday that it had received an additional six months of marketing exclusivity in the United States for its anticholesterol drug, Zocor.
As the days turned into weeks, and I received more and more in the way of testimonies, many telling the same story: a culture of exclusivity was becoming a shortcut to exclusion.
