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Firm hopes FDA will make therapy, revenue possible

Saturday, January 4, 2003
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
By Michael Yeomans

This is the year a start-up generic drug firm from Cranberry could produce its first revenue, if it can battle its way out of the courts and win Food and Drug Administration approval for its inaugural product.

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Label Issues Are Delaying Generic Drugs

Friday, January 3, 2003
New York Times
By Melody Peterson
When the patent on Rebetol, a drug used to treat hepatitis C, expired in June, patients hoped that they would be able to buy a generic form of the medicine to help lower the $20,000 cost of treatment.

They are still waiting.

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Three Rivers Counter-Sues Schering Plough Corporation Over Ribavirin Patent Issue

November 26, 2001
Three Rivers Pharmaceuticals, LLC, a startup generic drug manufacturer, last week sued Schering Corporation in United States Federal District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. Three Rivers asserts that Schering has engaged in unfair competition under Pennsylvania law. [more]

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By Pamela Gaynor, Post-Gazette Staff Writer
Correction/Clarification: (Published April 18, 2002) In our April 11 story about Three Rivers Pharmaceuticals, we said Hepatitis C is contracted through contact with unsterile needles. In reality, blood is the medium through which the disease is transmitted, and needles are only one source of contaminated blood.

Anyone in Pittsburgh who thinks about generic drug makers probably thinks automatically of Mylan Laboratories, not tiny Three Rivers Pharmaceuticals.

Mylan, of course, is a granddaddy in the industry, accustomed to doing combat with brand-name drug makers that don’t easily give up long-held rights to pharmaceutical compounds — even when their patents reach expiration.

Three Rivers, on the other hand, is a mere wannabe, just trying to break into the business. At this point, it has no sales, not even a pill that it’s permitted to sell.

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Three Rivers Counter-Sues Schering Plough Corporation Over Ribavirin Patent Issue

November 26, 2001

Three Rivers Pharmaceuticals, LLC, a startup generic drug manufacturer, last week sued Schering Corporation in United States Federal District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. Three Rivers asserts that Schering has engaged in unfair competition under Pennsylvania law. [more]

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