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generic drug

A medication sold under its generic name usually legal only after the patent has expired or if no patent was issued for the substance Generic drugs are usually less expensive than proprietary medications...


generic

generic 1 : common or descriptive and not entitled to trademark protection : nonproprietary [the name of a drug] 2 : having a nonproprietary name [ drugs] ...


generic name

The name for a medication as used in the pharmacopoeia it cannot be a trademark The name is typically given by the inventor or discoverer of the drug but must be approved by a national or international naming authority...


Drug formulation

Drug formulation, drug is defined in clause (d) of para 2 to include 'bulk drugs' and 'formulations'. Clause (f) then defines 'formulation' to mean any medicine processed out of or containing one or more bulk drugs or drug. Thus formulation is a medicine which may comprise even of one bulk drug by itself or more than one bulk drug. The definition of 'formulation' is thus very wide and includes even one bulk drug where that one bulk drug by itself is treated as a medicine, Balakrishna Pillar v. Matha Medicals, (1991) 2 SCC 203 (207). [Drugs (Price Control Order, 1979]...


Generically

With regard to a genus or an extensive class as an animal generically distinct from another or two animals or plants generically allied...


Drugs, Dangerous

Drugs, Dangerous. The importation, exportation, manufacture, sale, and use of opium and other dangerous drugs is regulated by the (English) Dangerous Drugs Act, 1920 to 1932. Raw opium may only be imported and exported under license and at approved ports, and regulations are authorized for restricting its production, possession, sale, and distribution. The importation or exportation of opium prepared for smoking is absolutely prohibited. Medicinal opium, morphine, cocaine, ecgonine, heroin, and new drugs specified by Order in Council may only be imported or exported by license: their manufacture and sale are regulated. Wide powers of arrest are given to the police and severe penalties provided for offenders against these Acts. The (English) Extradition Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 39), includes offences in relation to dangerous drugs and attempts to commit such offences, among extradition crimes. See also the Pharmacy Act, 1868, and the (English) Poisons and Pharmacy Act, 1908. See CH...


Manufactured drug

Manufactured drug, means--(a) all coca derivatives, medicinal cannabis, opium derivatives and poppy straw concentrate;(b) any other narcotic substance or preparation which the Central Government may, having regard to the available information as to its nature or to a decision, if any, under any International Convention, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare to be a manufactured drug. [Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (61 of 1985), s. 2 (xi)]But does not include any narcotic substance or preparation which the Central Government may, having regard to the available information as to its nature or to a decision, if any, under any International Convention, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare not to be a manufactured drug....


generic term

generic term Terms that the relevant purchasing public understands primarily as the common or class name for the goods or services. These terms are incapable of functioning as trademarks denoting source, and are not registrable. Examples include: "Classes Online" for classes provided via the Internet, "Pizza.com" for pizza ordering and delivery services, and "Live Plants" for plant nurseries. Source: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ...


Genericalness

The quality of being generic...


drug-free zone

drug-free zone : a statutorily designated area or place (as a public park or beach or a school bus) within which the distribution of or possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance is an aggravated felony ;esp : such an area including and extending outward usually 1000 feet from the real property of a public or private school [it is irrelevant whether a person is aware that he or she is carrying on the prohibited drug activity in a drug-free zone "State v. Silva-Baltazar, 886 P.2d 138 (1994)"] ...


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