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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
If innovator products like Xerox, Maggi, Bislery etc would not have been effective and quality-filled then people would not have demanded even other brands with these brand names. In present paper, an attempt has been made to describe in details about generic and brand names of a drug and a formulation respectively. Various rationales and cases have been mentioned to make paper lucid and comprehensive. Names of a drug A marketed drug has three names: a chemical name, a generic name, and a brand name.Chemical name: A chemical name is decided on the basis of chemical structure of drug and is used primarily by researchers. A drug's chemical name is long and usually difficult to pronounce and remember; consumers, physicians, and pharmacists are therefore better served by referring to the drug's generic name. The chemical name is generally not used in practice, unless it becomes the established or used name such as sodium chloride. Chemical names are not given in any of the standard manuals, such as the Physicians' Desk Reference, official books like United States Pharmacopeia (USP), or available software.Generic name: Drug’s official name is generic name throughout its lifetime world over regardless of who made it, how it was made, where it was devised. Generic name is commonly used by health care professionals and is usually created when a new drug is ready to be marketed. Although the manufacturer or sponsor of the drug has the exclusive right of manufacture during the 17 years of the drug's patent, it never owns the generic name. The manufacturer or sponsor of the drug usually initiates the request for a generic name, but the generic name is always in the public domain and there is no need of using such letters as TM or ® or © with generic names. Once
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