(BFW) AbbVie, Boehringer, Pfizer Drugs Face Generic Challengers: FDA


AbbVie, Boehringer, Pfizer Drugs Face Generic Challengers: FDA
2014-12-03 20:25:56.624 GMT


By Catherine Larkin
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- FDA posts recent generic-drug
applications with paragraph IV patent certification, meaning
generic cos. see brand-name patents as invalid or not infringed.
* Names of generic applicants aren’t disclosed
* Brand-name products listed:
* Boehringer’s Pradaxa eq. to 75mg base and 150mg base
* Novartis’s Durezol 0.05%
* Pfizer’s Nexium OTC 20mg
* AbbVie’s AndroGel 1.62% (1.25g and 2.5g packets)
* Afaxys’s ella 30mg
* Afaxys’s ella 30mg</li></ul>
FDA link: http://1.usa.gov/14y06yF

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