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The problem with EpiPen is that you can only get an alternative if your doctor prescribees it. epipen is patented on the user interface so patients can't get th
by lonelappde 7y ago
The problem with EpiPen is that you can only get an alternative if your doctor prescribees it. epipen is patented on the user interface so patients can't get the alternatives on an EpiPen prescription
(which you will recall from Oracle v Google and others is usually not allowed, but pharma gets to do it).
- eesmith 7y agoI mean to use EpiPen here in the same generic sense that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epinephrine_autoinjector https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epinephrine_autoinjector uses in sentences like "Teva Pharmaceuticals filed an ANDA to market a generic EpiPen" and "Sandoz submitted an ANDA to sell a generic EpiPen". Since "The first modern epinephrine autoinjector, the EpiPen, was invented in the mid-1970s at Survival Technology in Bethesda, Maryland by Sheldon Kaplan[10][11] and was first approved for marketing by the FDA in 1987", at least those patents have expired. And this article is, after all, talking about generics - authorized generics, certainly, but still generics. However, you are right - the "Epipen" is a trademark for an epinephrine autoinjector. As such, it can be applied to many things, eg, "Sudafed" packages might not contain pseudoephedrine as they once all did.