Moderna sues Pfizer/BioNTech for patent infringement over COVID vaccine

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Moderna sued Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech on Friday for patent infringement in the development of the first COVID\u002D19 vaccine approved in the United…

The lawsuit, which seeks undetermined monetary damages, was filed in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts. The suit also would be filed also in the Regional Court of Duesseldorf in Germany, Moderna said in a news release.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.

Moderna’s COVID vaccine – its lone commercial product – has brought in $10.4 billion in revenue this year while Pfizer’s vaccine brought in about $22 billion. Just a decade old, Moderna, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, had been an innovator in the messenger RNA vaccine technology that enabled the unprecedented speed in developing the COVID-19 vaccine.Article content

But Moderna said it did expect companies such as Pfizer and BioNTech to respect its intellectual property rights, and it is seeking royalty payments based on sales after March 8, 2022, and excluding sales to the U.S. government or to low-income countries.

“Pfizer and BioNTech took four different vaccine candidates into clinical testing, which included options that would have steered clear of Moderna’s innovative path. Pfizer and BioNTech, however, ultimately decided to proceed with a vaccine that has the same exact mRNA chemical modification to its vaccine,” Moderna said.Article content

 

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Ridiculous! Stop with the suing. Move onn

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