The company is filing patent infringement lawsuits against Pfizer.
Moderna is suing Pfizer and BioNTech over alleged infringement of its mRNA vaccine technology patents, the company“We are filing these lawsuits to protect the innovative mRNA technology platform that we pioneered, invested billions of dollars in creating, and patented during the decade preceding the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Moderna chief executive officer Stéphane BancelModerna said in 2020 that it would not enforce its patents during the pandemic to allow for an unhindered public health...
The lawsuit shouldn’t have a major effect on vaccine availability — Moderna said that it’s not looking to remove the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine, known commercially as Comirnaty, from the market. It’s looking for payment, said Shannon Thyme Klinger, Moderna’s chief legal officer, in the statement: “Moderna expects Pfizer and BioNTech to compensate Moderna for Comirnaty’s ongoing use of Moderna’s patented technologies.
It’s not asking for damages from vaccines sold to the United States government. But the US is planningModerna and Pfizer / BioNTech both developed COVID-19 vaccines using mRNA. The shots introduce tiny snippets of the coronavirus’ genetic material to the body for it to create antibodies against. In the legal filing, Moderna alleged that Pfizer / BioNTech copied two elements of its mRNA vaccine. The first is a chemical modification to the mRNA that prevents the body from attacking the vaccine before it can work in the body. mRNA vaccines thatThe second is the bit of the virus that the vaccines train the body to recognize — both companies’ vaccines target the full coronavirus spike protein, which is the part of the virus that lets it penetrate human cells.
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