Moderna has secured a partial victory in its intellectual property battle with Pfizer and BioNTech over the development of Covid-19 vaccines, after a London court found one of the US company’s patents had been infringed. The High Court in London on Tuesday found that Pfizer and BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine infringed a patent that Moderna filed in 2011 covering a part of the mRNA platform, which was central to the jabs.
The judgment on the 2011 patent aligns with a recent ruling by the European Patent Office, but clashes with a separate decision in the Netherlands, in a sign of varying conclusions over the case from courts in different jurisdictions. England is the first to have ruled on the validity of Moderna’s pledge not to enforce its patent. Moderna, Pfizer and BioNTech were three of the biggest corporate winners from the pandemic as their jabs were the widest used across the world.
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