Often, that settlement comes with a sizeable payment from the brand-name company to the generic drugmaker.
Such lawsuits are strengthened if the brand-name drug company files a new patent covering, say, the colour of the pill bottle just before the main patent is about to expire.
Here is a world-class company, with a brand name that is the best in the business and which has made three-quarters of the big jets flying today.
Helen of Troy ( HELE) is a brand-name consumer goods manufacturing and marketing company.
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For once, a major public company with a household-name brand took responsibility for its supply chain.
Today, little remains of this once-great company beyond a tarnished brand name, still being dragged through successive bankruptcies.
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Beyond that, drug company- discounts on brand-name drugs and federal subsidies and discounts for all drugs will gradually reduce the gap, eliminating it by 2020.
Or, the company hopes, become the guts of superthin name-brand notebook PCs with 40 hours of battery life.
Apple Computer is one company taking advantage of the consumer appetite for brand-name electronics.
Former CEO Bruce Albertson tried to push the company toward the consumer electronics business with music players, in an attempt to leverage the Zip brand name that the company had so successfully built in the mid-1990s.
With billions of dollars at stake and neither company certain how it might fare in court, a brand-name manufacturer might prefer to pay its potential competitor substantial compensation to delay its generic drug and the generic maker might welcome a hefty payoff rather than face the uncertainties of litigation and marketing.
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Teva the largest generic pharmaceutical company in the world, marketing about 400 generic medications and 50 brand-name drugs, with approximately 180 new generics awaiting FDA approval.
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In either case, NSI recognizes the user as the direct owner of the domain name, which can be used to establish a company's online brand through URLs and e-mail addresses.
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The Goldstar brand will now take after the company name and be known as "LG" -- the company was once known as "Lucky Goldstar" -- "to emphasize our quality image, " explains Ham Jae Gyung, general manager of LG Collins Electronics Philippines, which is a joint venture between the Korean chaebol and the family of retail tycoon Samie Lim.
You can search it to see whether your doctor is receiving drug company money to give speeches and talks to other doctors that help promote brand-name drugs.
Tencent Holding company owns a number of Tecent name brand internet and computer companies principally engaged in the value-added services markets online and in telecom.
And as the company moves into 2012, it will serve up continued innovation and risk-taking in the name of brand-building, Allen said in my recent interview with her.
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