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Originally posted by GASlick
I wouldnt buy it from them. Wouldnt touch it if someone else did and offered it to me.
There is no such thing as GENERIC viagra. The were proper in saying its chemical name right (sildenafil citrate). However, Pfizer has a world wide patent on the drug that is good for many years to come. Same is true with Cialis.
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I thought you all might want to know that there is generic Cialis. The same is most likely true with Viagra also (Wednesday, 8 November, 2000, 12:38 GMT Pfizer loses Viagra patent, from the BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1013244.stm:
And the Cialis patent is all but gone too:
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/mi...E=Feb+10,+2005
Statement to the Media: Lilly ICOS Pleased with European Patent Office's Decision to Affirm Revocation of Pfizer's Patent on Treatment of Erectile Dysfunction
BOTHELL, Wash. and INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Feb. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Lilly ICOS LLC (NYSE: LLY and NASDAQ: ICOS), marketer of Cialis(R)
(tadalafil), a PDE5 inhibitor indicated for the treatment of erectile
dysfunction (ED), is pleased with the European Patent Office's (EPO) final
decision to affirm its earlier decision to revoke Pfizer's method-of-use
patent - European Patent EP-B-0702555, containing claims for the use of any
PDE inhibitor for the manufacture of an oral treatment for ED. The ruling was
made following a three-day hearing by a Board of Appeal of the EPO, which
concluded on Thursday, February 3, 2005. Lilly ICOS offered the following
statement regarding the decision:
-- This decision by the Board of Appeal confirmed our view that the patent
was invalid.
-- The decision makes it clear that Pfizer is not entitled to exclusivity
in the area of oral PDE5 inhibitors for erectile dysfunction (ED) in many of
the countries in Europe.
-- The decision affirms the EPO's previous decision to revoke this patent
in 2001, and is consistent with a final UK decision to revoke Pfizer's
corresponding patent in 2002.
-- Cialis is available in Europe to help millions of men who suffer from
ED. Cialis is the only oral ED treatment shown to improve erectile function
up to 36 hours in most men.
So has anyone bought this generic Cialis online and gotten it? If so, where?