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14 July 2022Americas

Moderna, Pfizer face escalating COVID vaccine patent suits

New lawsuit comes months after the pair were accused of infringing lipid nanoparticle technology.

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7 July 2022   Germany-based CureVac has accused BioNTech of infringing four patents related to messenger ribonucleic acid technology.
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