There are generic versions of both over-the-counter and prescription medications, but not all drugs have generic equivalents. Generic drugs can only be produced when a patent on a brand name drug expires or when a patent has never existed. They are generally cheaper than the equivalent brand name drug because of much lower marketing and development costs. Because a generic competitor can hurt a brand name manufacturer's profits, drug companies have used legal action and regulatory delays to slow the introduction of generics, or have paid generic manufacturers to postpone the production and marketing of generics. The Medicare overhaul legislation passed in 2003 contained sections designed to speed the introduction of generic drugs by making it easier to challenge weak or invalid drug patents.
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- Generic mood, a grammatical mood used to make generalized statements like Snow is white
- Generic antecedents, referents in linguistic contexts, which are classes.
- Generic role-playing game system, a framework that provides rule mechanics for any setting—world or environment or genre
- Generic drug, a drug identified by its chemical name rather than its brand name
In computer programming:
- Generic function, a computer programming entity made up of all methods having the same name
- Generic programming, (e.g. Free Pascal, C++, Java and C# generics) a computer programming technique that allows one value to take different datatypes in a type-safe manner
- GENERIC, a component of the GNU Compiler Collection.
In mathematics:
- Generic filter, a mathematical filter that satisfies certain properties.
- Generic point, a special kind of point whose behavior reflects the behavior of a closed subset of an algebraic variety or scheme.
- Generic property, a formal definition of a property shared by almost all objects of a certain type. (For example, almost all functions in a given class or almost all points in a given space.)
- GENERIC formalism, a mathematical framework to describe irreversible phenomena in thermodynamics
In business:
- Generic brand, a brand for a product that does not have an associated brand or trademark other than the trading name of the business providing the product
- Genericized trademark, a trademark that sometimes or usually replaces a common term in colloquial usage
- an ordinary language word which is not a registered tradename.
- Porter generic strategies, a category scheme of business strategies
- Semi-generic, a term used in the United States for certain wine designations that hold no legal meaning
In toponymy:
- the component of a place name that indicates the type of place. For example, in the names Santa Monica Boulevard and Mount Everest, the generics are Boulevard and Mount.
In zoology:
- anything pertaining to a genus.
In music:
- Album - Generic Flipper
- The Nintendo cover-band The Advantage was originally called Generic, and the band Generic is occasionally mentioned in scribblings by members of the band or their labels.
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In the GNU Compiler Collection, GENERIC is an intermediate representation common to all the front-ends of GCC. The middle-end of GCC, starting with the GENERIC representation and ending after the expansion to RTL, contains all the optimizers and analyzers working independently of the compiled language and independently of the target architecture.
The GENERIC representation contains only the subset of the imperative programming constructs optimized by the middle-end.
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