"Our goal is not to keep others from using our technology. Our goal is rather to actively see to it that our technology is available on all continents as safely and as widely as possible," CEO Ugur Sahin told Reuters TV on Wednesday when asked whether he would pursue breaches of patents or patents pending in Africa.
Sahin's pledge on property rights echoes a similar statement by Moderna, which in 2020 said it would not enforce patents related to COVID-19 vaccines during the pandemic. Separately, South African-American businessman Patrick Soon-Shiong opened a vaccine plant in Cape Town in January, intended to help his NantSA company make COVID-19 shots in future.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus welcomed BioNTech’s initiative as a complement to WHO’s technology transfer hub involving Afrigen.
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