- How long after a drug is patented can a generic version be made?
The sauce-label talk continues with a Bill Cosby spaghetti-sauce episode reference, a store-brand soda called Hee-haw, and the redesigned Pepsi logo, plus a joke about being banned from American Samoa over a hand gesture. The conversation turns to Walmart-style generic names like Walprofen for ibuprofen, whether generics are literally the same thing, a 300-dollar-a-pill heart medicine with no generic, and how long a patent lasts before generics appear -- the chat answers ten years. One host complains his insurance now only covers Claritin instead of the Allegra D that actually works for his allergies.