Reaction to Generics?

[Geoff_M]

Another difference can be due to manufacturing patents that generics makers don't have access to. When Motrin 800 mg went generic, it's maker, Upjohn, still had an advantage because they made it with a patented dry compression process that made tablets that easily disolved in the stomach. Generics makers at that time had to use a wet compression tablet process that produced tablets that didn't disolve nearly as easily... and sometimes didn't entirely in the patient.