They already had approval for 200mg way back in 2010, this is for 400, 600 and 800. I would imagine Ibuprofen being a popular drug the market size would be big and so would be the number of players with approvals. I could find about 20 names approved for various Ibuprofen dosage on the orange book. Some one who is familiar with Ibuprofen and its technical/chemical name can dig out and provide accurate numbers.
On a related note, found this article relavent to the discussion.
And yet today, almost 25 years after the expiration of the ibuprofen patent, Advil still owns 51% of the market. That’s more than twice the combined share of all generic ibuprofen products, despite the fact that Advil is functionally equivalent to its rivals and quite a bit more expensive.
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