LONDON: A row between pharmaceutical firms Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech comes to court in London on Tuesday over patents for Covid vaccine technology that helped save millions of lives during the pandemic.
At issue is US firm Moderna 's claim that its American competitor Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech breached patent law over its Comirnaty vaccine. Moderna claims it is due compensation for products manufactured after March 7 last year. But Pfizer and BioNTech deny infringement, and want two Moderna patents withdrawn as 'invalid.'The hearing is due to start at the High Court in London from 0930 GMT and is expected to last until mid-May. A ruling will come at a later date.
Such vaccines work by delivering genetic instructions to turn some of the host's cells into virus-like particles, priming the immune system to mount a response.Such vaccines were approved within months of a global pandemic being declared by the World Health Organization in March 2020.Moderna said in 2020 that it would not enforce Covid-19-related patents while the pandemic continued.
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