The name for a medication, as used in the pharmacopoeia; it cannot be a trademark. The name is typically given by the inventor or discoverer of the drug, but must be approved by a national or international naming authority.
a designation or identification, such as code name, code number, trade name, or brand name, used to identify a chemical by a designation other than its chemical name.
A word used to name a class or category of product or service - a generic name cannot be registered as a trademark for the thing the if describes (e.g. the word "WOOD" could not be used as a trademark for things made of wood, although it could be used for products and services unrelated to wood).(FR:Nom générique, IT:Nome generico )
Name for a chemical class or family that may be the same as the generic chemical identity for simple compounds, or even a more general name for complex chemicals. For example, aromatic, cycloaliphatic, and heterocyclic epoxies can be grouped together as epoxy resins.
Official name (for example, of a drug).
The term "generic name" has three meanings when referring to a drug. First, it may be the chemical name of a drug. Second, it may refer to the chemical makeup of a drug rather than to the advertised brand name. And finally, generic is any drug marketed under its chemical name without advertising. Generic drugs are less expensive than brand-name drugs are chemically identical and meet U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) standards for safety, purity, and effectiveness.
a drug's original name assigned by the individual or company that originally marketed the drug.
a common name of the product or service the mark identifies
The same drug or product that is manufactured by several companies under different trade names. It may be less expensive that the trade name.
a common name used to identify a drug, as opposed to a brand name used by a particular company (e.g., TMP-SMX is the generic name the drug sold as Bactrim or Septra).
A non-proprietary name for a material.
A designation or identification used to identify a chemical by other than its chemical name (e.g., code name, code number, trade name, brand name).
The genus name, always capitalized. It should be italicized, but sometimes is not when it appears without the species name. The generic name is frequently abbreviated to a single letter, as in "H. sapiens.." (see classification)
A word used by most people to name a class or category of product or service, such as "personal computer" or "cellular phone." No one person may have trademark rights to a generic name.
A drug ingredient name adopted by the United States Pharmacopoeia Convention. The chemical name is used when a name from the United States Adopted Names (USAN) name is not available. A sample chemical name is Ibuprofen. Advil and Motrin are brand names for Ibuprofen. A product marketed primarily by reference to its chemical content rather than by brand name. Generic drugs are those prescription products that are no longer covered by patents. A generic drug is a copy of an existing pharmaceutical compound. See Drug Name.