Meanwhile, generic drugmaker Watson Pharmaceuticals has filed its own suit against Bristol-Myers over BuSpar.
Barr has only five salespeople covering the entire U.S., while generic rival Watson Pharmaceuticals has several hundred.
Watson Pharmaceuticals and Teva Pharmaceuticals sue as often, but don't go after drugs with such high profiles.
Most recently, biotechnology giant Amgen said it was partnering with generic drug maker Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc.
One other name that I'll mention very quickly on this kind of productivity theme is Watson Pharmaceuticals.
Watson Pharmaceuticals (WPI) was upgraded by UBS Friday to buy from neutral after announcing quarterly results on Thursday.
Watson Pharmaceuticals (WPI): is now our top idea with a catalyst-heavy path and less crowded stock creating an attractive set-up here.
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Late yesterday, Amgen (AMGN) and Watson Pharmaceuticals (WPI) said they will partner to develop and commercialize several oncology antibody biosimilar medicines.
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So far, 200 companies, including Watson Pharmaceuticals, Motor Coach Industries and Marshall Field's, have signed on to use the new Bubble Wrap.
Pfizer will be manufacturing one of the no-name Lipitors, the so-called authorized generic, that will be sold by Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Regardless, an authorized generic from Watson Pharmaceuticals will launch on that date.
So Watson Pharmaceuticals and Hewitt Associates are two of our favorite names.
That's exactly the kind of break companies like Andrx and Watson Pharmaceuticals (nyse: WPI - news - people) yearn for.
Allen Chao, 55, founder of Watson Pharmaceuticals, a member of the 1994 200 Best Small Companies list, used a combination approach in 1995.
Time will tell if Mylan Laboratories and Watson Pharmaceuticals are able to fill the need for atorvastatin with their own generic versions of the drug.
Of course, this benefits generic drugmakers, such as Teva Pharmaceuticals and Watson Pharmaceuticals, but they also face ongoing price erosion, Levesque notes, and tougher manufacturing compliance that will cut into profits.
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The FDA approved generic versions of both dosage strengths from a few generic drug companies: Teva Pharmaceuticals (manufactured by Impax Laboratories and marketed by Teva Pharmaceuticals), Anchen, Actavis, Watson Pharmaceuticals and Mylan Pharmaceuticals.
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Among the largest underlying components of FXH, in trading today Lincare Holdings Inc. ( NASD: LNCR) is trading flat, Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ( NYSE: WPI) is up about 0.3%, and Forest Laboratories, Inc. ( NYSE: FRX) is higher by about 0.7%.
In a sign of the increasing hunger among drug giants to get in on the potentially lucrative market for copycats of expensive biotechnology drug, Amgen, the largest standalone biotechnology company, and generic firm Watson Pharmaceuticals will collaborate on developing copycate medicines for cancer.
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Late yesterday, Bristol-Myers (nyse: BMY - news - people) said in a regulatory filing that inventory issues could hurt its 2002 earnings, which are already expected to be low, and added that it had settled a lawsuit brought by Watson Pharmaceuticals (nyse: WPI - news - people).
The iShares Dow Jones U.S. Pharmaceuticals Index Fund (IHE) has Watson at 2.84% of its holdings and PowerShares Dynamic Pharmaceuticals Portfolio (PJP) is 2.8% WPI.
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