pls help to translate below sentencebefore the compound went generic in the mid-1990s.pls explain what the mean of "went generic"tks alot

pls help to translate below sentencebefore the compound went generic in the mid-1990s.pls explain what the mean of "went generic"tks alot
pls help to translate below sentence
before the compound went generic in the mid-1990s.
pls explain what the mean of "went generic"
tks alot

pls help to translate below sentencebefore the compound went generic in the mid-1990s.pls explain what the mean of "went generic"tks alot
你知道patents是什么吗?
如果你编造一个compound,然后有那个patent,别人不可以用你做得东西.
比方说 如果我编造了药,别的公司不可以卖因为国家不让他们.如果有patent,别的公司几年后就可以卖.
went generic就是说 现在 别的公司可以卖你编造的compound
如果你看不懂,我用英文.
The sentence has to do with patents, which are like copyrights, but they apply to inventions. So if you invent a compound and have a patent on it, other people can't manufacture that compound.
For example, let's say I invented a medicine, and get a 20-year patent on it. Then nobody else can copy and sell my medicine for the next 20 years. After 20 years, the medicine's patent expires. This is what they meant by the compound "going generic"– the patent expired and anybody can legally manufacture it.

went generic表示通用的，使..变得一般，或是使..变得通用

这里generic是相对于proprietary而言的
proprietary drug 指拥有专利的药品
generic drug是指没有专利保护的药品。多数情况下，专利药品的专利保护期过了之后，即转变为generic drug
下面是一段英文解释
In most cases, generic products are available once the pat...

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这里generic是相对于proprietary而言的
proprietary drug 指拥有专利的药品
generic drug是指没有专利保护的药品。多数情况下，专利药品的专利保护期过了之后，即转变为generic drug
下面是一段英文解释
In most cases, generic products are available once the patent protections afforded to the original developer have expired. When generic products become available, the market competition often leads to substantially lower prices for both the original brand name product and the generic forms. The time it takes a generic drug to appear on the market varies. In the US, drug patents give twenty years of protection, but they are applied for before clinical trials begin, so the effective life of a drug patent tends to be between seven and twelve years.
你的句子before the compound went generic 就是指这种药物化合物失去专利保护之前，即成为generic drug之前。

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go 有become变为的意思
例如
go bald, blind, mad, pale, bankrupt 变秃、变瞎、变疯、变苍白、破产
Her hair is going grey. 她的头发日见花白.
This milk has gone sour. 这牛奶馊了
go generic 应该可以理解为变得一般，变得一般化