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Patent wars: Moderna’s battle for the spoils of Covid vaccines

Ending of pharma group’s IP truce spells fight for future of mRNA technology

In autumn 2020, as drugmakers raced to get vaccines to market in the face of the biggest public health crisis in a generation, Moderna made a bold pledge: it would not enforce its patents against rivals developing Covid-19 jabs.

This year, however, almost two years after Pfizer and BioNTech beat it to the first approved mRNA jab, Moderna fired back with a lawsuit over patents for a technology that could open the door to many more vaccines.

If Moderna wins, it could gain a slice of billions of dollars in revenues from the BioNTech/Pfizer Covid jab. Perhaps more importantly, it would also signal to investors and Big Pharma that the Massachusetts-based company is primed to dominate the future mRNA market.

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