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Three strategies for managing loss of exclusivity successfully

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Drug prices to plummet in wave of expiring patents”. Price decay after loss of brand exclusivity”. These are just three headlines that come up when you Google “drug patent expiry”. Eli Lilly’s Humalog compound and formulation patents expired in 2013 and 2014, respectively. “Patent losses could sink Allergan”.

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The Lilly Digest

Ramblings of a pharmacist

For example, “In the compounding period of 1941, the average pharmacy filled about 5,000 prescriptions a year, approximately 15 a day.” ” I can’t imagine a typical pharmacy filling 15 prescriptions total per day. prescription transaction. In other words, the $55.96