London HC decision fuels continued legal battle between Pfizer, Moderna over COVID vaccine patents
Written By : Ruchika Sharma
Medically Reviewed By : Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli
Published On 2024-07-04 10:40 GMT | Update On 2024-07-04 10:40 GMT
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London: Pfizer and Moderna's legal dispute over their competing COVID-19 vaccines is poised to persist following a mixed ruling from London's High Court regarding two of Moderna's patents, likely prompting a flurry of appeals in the London leg of the litigation.
In September 2022, Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech initiated legal action against Moderna, seeking the invalidation of two patents held by Moderna. In response, Moderna swiftly countered, alleging infringement of its patents just days later.
The competing lawsuits over the companies' two vaccines, which helped save millions of lives and made the companies billions of dollars, are just one strand of ongoing litigation around the world focusing on messenger RNA (mRNA) technology.
Moderna had argued Pfizer and BioNTech copied mRNA advances it had pioneered and patented well before the COVID-19 pandemic began in late 2019.
U.S.-based Moderna was seeking damages for alleged infringement of its patents by Pfizer and BioNTech's Comirnaty shot on sales since March 2022.
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