Moderna is suing Pfizer and its biotech partner BioNTech for allegedly infringing on the “foundational” patent for the mRNA technology that forms the foundation of both companies’ COVID-19 vaccines.
In a press release issued Friday morning, Moderna announced the lawsuits and alleged that the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine “infringes patents Moderna filed between 2010 and 2016 covering Moderna’s foundational mRNA technology.”
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“This groundbreaking technology was critical to the development of Moderna’s own mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, Spikevax,” the company said in its statement.
“Pfizer and BioNTech copied this technology, without Moderna’s permission, to make Comirnaty.”
Comirnaty is the commercial name for the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
More to come.
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