Generic Zoloft
While Pfizer, one of the largest pharmaceutical manufacturing sources in the world, challenges copycat makers of generic Zoloft (or any generic version of a brand pharmaceutical Pfizer manufactures under their own patent), the reality is that there are always scientists, inventors, and engineers working on reinventing the wheel…or on refining medications and treatments such as generic Zoloft—making such a recreation more affordable and more accessible. Pfizer owns the patent to Zoloft. In fact, Pfizer owns two patents relating to Zoloft, so when Teva, a generic drug manufacturer filed an ANDA (an Abbreviated New Drug Application) to get its newly developed generic Zoloft version of sertraline hydrochloride (Zoloft®) approved, Pfizer challenged with a dispute—instead of suing, which the company had a right to do, within 45 days of Teva’s ANDA filings.. Teva did [attempt to] sue, based on infringement of rights to create, develop, and manufacture a simulation that it claimed was not stepping on Zoloft’s toes, but the District Court