0 A company's me-too product is one that is designed to be similar to a very popular product made by another company. --
1 used to describe a company's product that is designed to be similar to a popular product made by another company: --
In the case of me-too products, imitation has replaced innovation.
The world of household cleansers is rife with me-too products.
With beta-blockers and statins, me-too drugs have improved results, and increased competition while lowering prices.
Much of the me-too drug phenomenon is actually a result of independent parallel research at rival companies.
The second criticism we must expect is that "too many drugs are being developed"—"me-too drugs" as they are often called—when we already have sufficient of them.
Surely the fact that it takes a long time to obtain a patent licence on a drug means that the "me-too" drugs have at least been very much decreased.
I have had enough of "me-too-ism".
First, no one can predict what research—which, after all, takes a long time and which may begin on a "me-too" drug—will ultimately produce.
Some of us are worried about what are called the "me-too" drugs and the manufacture of more and more of them.
