I can remember Merk's Januvia beating NVS' Galvus by several weeks in filing for Diabetes. NVS got an "approvable" letter but opted to never file the additional information. Instead NVS gained approval for Galvus in in many countries outside of the US but gave up on the US.
Sometimes there is an advantage to the first filer in that some degree of benchmarking may occur.
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