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Why do drug companies market medications with different names for different countries?

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Question by Entropy: Why do drug companies market medications with different names for different countries?
Example: Citalopram is branded as Celexa in the USA and Cipramil in the UK. I thought if they kept it the same then the drug would be more successful and “recognised” – especially online – so more people would ask their Drs for it.

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Answer by ?i? Iria ?i?
It’s because when a drug is no longer patented, other companies can create it and market it. Although they are allowed to do this if the drug isn’t protected by patent they can’t use the original maker’s trade name for the drug. Some companies don’t bother to create their own trade name and just use the generic, but others do which is why you get the different names. Im guessing sometimes companies’ patent will cover the country of origin but will not cover restricting other countries from making the drug.

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2 Responses to "Why do drug companies market medications with different names for different countries?"

  • The Big K says:
    January 27, 2011 at 6:18 am

    It has nothing to do with the generic equivalent of the drugs. Just about all countries approve drugs themselves, meaning, a drug in the US might not be used in Britain or Germany. That being said, all countries have naming restrictions on drugs. For example in the US, due to medical errors there is a push now to make sure new drugs do not have names similar to previous ones. Also in some cases the name changes because of how the company named it. There is an old anti-inflammatory in the US named Ansaid, it was named this way: Another Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug. This might change in other countries to use the words in their language.

    You also have to remember that some drugs are named based on their ultimate use. (Think Gas-X) That tells us in the US what the drug does, but would mean nothing to a German, so they might use the German word for Gas.

  • Mechanic says:
    January 27, 2011 at 6:59 am

    Different names different prices . That way you can scam larger prices out of the richer countries , then deny you are doing so by quoting they are different products names. Drug companies are the biggest scam merchants in the world they have what we need badly and take full advantage of that fact.

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