Moderna Sues Pfizer & BioNTech for Patent Infringement over Covid-19 Vaccine Tech
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Moderna Sues Pfizer & a collaborator of the Pfizer vaccine for patent infringement using MRNA technology which Moderna held patents for. Moderna had allowed other companies to use their technology during the pandemic, but is looking for "royalties" to state it simply for sales of the vaccine from a certain date, except for sales made to the US government and to some less wealthy countries.
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Moderna Sues Pfizer and BioNTech Over Covid Vaccine Technology - The New York Times
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