brand name drug

基本解释

In fact, a brand-name drug's generic counterpart is rarely an exact replica.
实际上，针对著名上市药物的仿制药极少能够实现精确的仿制。
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.
制药厂商们花费数亿在专利保护期内建立品牌药物，在专利过期后就抛弃它们任其死去。
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.
上周参议院的相关委员会批准了一项两党联合提案，要求禁止品牌药公司通过专利和解的方式推迟仿制药的上市。

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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