The U.S. FDA granted Emergency Use Authorization for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in December 2020. A week later, authorities approved Moderna's vaccine's emergency use. Now, Moderna is suing Pfizer for stealing the mRNA technology.
Pfizer and its partner BioNTech are being sued by Moderna for allegedly violating its patents by using its technology to create the COVID-19 vaccine.
Moderna said it believed the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine breached proprietary mRNA technology that it had started developing years before the outbreak took hold and filed complaints in both the U.S. and Germany on Friday.
Moderna claimed that Pfizer and BioNTech stole its "groundbreaking technology" without authorization in order to create their own coronavirus vaccine.
“Pfizer and BioNTech took four different vaccine candidates into clinical testing, which included options that would have steered clear of Moderna’s innovative path,” the company alleged in a press release on Friday.
“Pfizer and ...
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