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Bayer Aspirin - Million Dollar Money Drop tonight had the couple Casey and Kyle looking to make a million dollars after answering 7 questions. While the couple struggled to find the right answer, they definitely did their best in the short time alloted to answer the common knowledge questions. While one could argue the questions are easy, they aren't that easy and people don't always go through life knowing useless trivia. The question tonight that really stumped the couple was number 4 where they lost a majority of their money. The question for the competition of number was was: Which one of these were introduced first? Bayer Aspirin Band-Aid Brand Bandages Bayer Asprin Nyquil The answer was Bayer Aspirin. In case you are interested here is the 'cheat sheet' for the question: When was Bayer Aspirin introduced? The first year of introduction for Bayer Aspirin was 1897 When was Band-Aid Brand Banages introduced? 1921 When was Nyquil introduced? 1960...

Bayer Petition Rejected - In February, the Delhi high court had dismissed an appeal by Bayer, which sought to link regulatory approval of generic medicines with their patent status . Bayer filed a special leave petition before the Supreme Court against the high court order . Patent linkage is a system in which a drug controller refuses to grant or delays a marketing approval to a generic company to manufacture and sell a drug, if the drug is already patented. Bayer had sought the drug regulator to stop registering a generic version of a patented cancer drug, and hence block generic competition. This was perhaps the only case filed in the high court, where a drug MNC had taken the government to court. While dismissing the appeal, the Supreme Court bench, consisting of Justice Alam and Justice Lodha, said that it did not want to differ from the Delhi high court order. Sources said the Patents Act gives right to drug companies to seek recourse in the courts, in case there is an infrin...