The Generic Challenge: Understanding Patents, Fda And Pharmaceutical Life-cycle Management - Softcover

Voet, Martin A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1581124309 ISBN 13: 9781581124309

Publisher: Brown Walker Pr, 2005

Synopsis

The Generic Challenge is a must read for pharmaceutical executives and managers, and regulatory, legal, business development, R&D and strategic marketing professionals and anyone who has an interest in the future of the leading American pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries and the high value jobs they provide. It explains clearly and understandably the role of patents, FDA regulation of generic drugs and the Hatch Waxman Act on drug development today and how improvements in innovative drug products provide enhanced benefits to patients while extending the commercial lives of the drugs. There is simply no other book of its kind available on this important subject. Chapters 1-2 cover patents generally and patent enforcement and infringement Chapter 3 covers pharmaceutical, biological and medical device patents Chapters 4-5 cover FDA and drug product exclusivities Chapter 6 covers the Hatch Waxman Act and recent Medicare Act Amendments Chapter 7 puts it all together with Pharmaceutical Life-Cycle Management

About this title

About the Author

Martin A. Voet is a Senior Vice President and Chief Intellectual Property Counsel for a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company with over 20 years experience in intellectual property practice. He has degrees in chemistry, business and law and years of practical experience in patenting pharmaceutical products, litigating with generic companies over them and providing practical, hands-on planning for pharmaceutical life-cycle management.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brown Walker Pr
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1581124309
• ISBN 13: 9781581124309
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 116