Drug Naming Now Costs $28,000 a Word: Inside the USAN, INN, and FDA System That Decides What Every Medicine Is Called
In September 2025, the FDA sent more than 50 warning letters to compounding pharmacies and telehealth sellers of semaglutide and
The -Mab Suffix Is Dying. Here’s the Naming System Replacing It
In October 2021, the WHO’s INN Expert Group voted to retire the single most recognizable suffix in pharmaceutical nomenclature. Every
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The AB Rating Is the Whole Business Model: Why America’s Branded Generics Live or Die on One Orange Book Letter
In November 2014, the FDA changed two letters next to a drug’s name in a government database, and a $1.23
Ro vs. Hims & Hers: What the Compounding Crackdown Actually Did
On February 7, 2026, Hims & Hers pulled a $49 compounded copy of Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy pill off the market
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Before You Call: What a Pharma Strategy Team Must Verify Before Approaching a Drug’s Owner
The Short Answer A strategy team that wants to license, co-promote, or acquire a drug asset needs to answer four
From Patent Cliff to Partnership Pipeline: The Buy-Side and Sell-Side Framework Behind the 2023-2026 Deal Wave
In the fourteen months after Bristol Myers Squibb agreed to pay up to $14.4 billion for Karuna Therapeutics, its lead
The Supply Agreement Clause Nobody Negotiates: What Happens When the Patent Gets Invalidated Early
In fiscal year 2021, 167 of the 199 patent settlements pharmaceutical companies filed with the Federal Trade Commission contained a
If Your Patent Database Can’t Answer ‘What Can We Do With This?’ It Isn’t Strategic Intelligence
On June 4, 2026, the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that Hikma Pharmaceuticals did not induce patent infringement by selling a
Your Formulary Committee Is Budgeting Around a Patent Date That’s Already Been Extended Twice
Enbrel’s first composition patent expired in 2010. The drug is still exclusive in the United States sixteen years later, and
