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And yet somehow I can buy generic Claritin for pennies a pill, so somehow it must have worked out.

• Alex3917 14y ago
  Incorrect. It took several years to resolve, over which time the con artists at Schering-Plough (now Merck) stole several billion dollars from consumers, none of which has ever been reimbursed.
  • twoodfin 14y ago
    Several billion dollars isn't really that much money in consumer terms. American consumers spend something like a billion dollars on scented candles each year. Besides, it doesn't seem to me like there was much of a delay at all in getting generic loratadine to consumers: http://www.nj.com/news/stories/0827_claritin.html http://www.nj.com/news/stories/0827_claritin.html The patent expired in December 2002 and Geneva/Novartis had first-challenger exclusivity for 6 months. By August 2003, only a month or so later, the lawsuit was decided and the floodgates opened.