Gearing up for the generic game Indian companies prepare to take the first strike as blockbuster drugs face patent expiries

摘要

Global generic companies are bracing up for largest change set to happen in the pharmaceutical industry.The post-2005 period will witness an unprecedented number of drugs going off-patent in the US.In the next five years,analysts estimate that drugs with sales of US55-US65-bn would go off-patent in the US alone.