One of the American manufacturers of a Covid-19 vaccine is suing two other makers, saying their technology was copied by their rivals. Moderna has accused US company Pfizer and German drug manufacturer BioNTech of the infringement.
Moderna said Pfizer and BioNTech’s vaccine Comirnaty infringes on patents Moderna filed several years ago protecting the technology behind its preventive shot, Spikevax. The company filed patent infringement lawsuits in both US federal court and a German court.
A Pfizer spokeswoman declined to comment, saying the company had not been served with a copy of the litigation. Moderna and Pfizer’s two-shot vaccines both use mRNA technology to help patients fight coronavirus.
