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A brand name is given by a manufacturer or supplier, so that it is a brand and it is followed by that way. The actual generic name is normally the drug name and therefore it can go by just what the drug is. A simple explanation to that is, we have Panadol, which we have had for years, which is a brand name by a particular pharmaceutical giant and we have paracetamol, which we all are used to these days. It is one and the same medication, but one is the generic name for it and the other is a brand name for it.