BioNTech threatens legal action against CureVac over mRNA vaccine IP spat - Reuters

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• A day after CureVac (NASDAQ:CVAC) filed an intellectual property infringement suit in a German court against BioNTech (NASDAQ:BNTX), the latter is prepared to take its own legal actions, Reuters reported.
• The dispute is over technologies used in BioNTech's (BNTX) mRNA vaccines, including for COVID-19. The company markets its COVID vaccine with Pfizer (PFE).
• In a statement, BioNTech (BNTX) said its mRNA work is original. "We are aware that it is not unusual that other companies in the pharmaceutical industry, having witnessed the success of COMIRNATY, are now suggesting that the vaccine potentially infringes their intellectual property rights."
• CureVac (CVAC) said it would not seek an injunction that could impact production of the COVID vaccine.

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[sts66]

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"At the height of the pandemic, it would not have occurred to CureVac to point out patent infringement, but now that there is better control over the pandemic, it believed it was the right time to do so, Haas said."

What a load of horseshite. CVAC also indicated they were eyeballing MRNA for potential IP infringement too - pure money grab that will end up with nobody but the lawyers making any money.

[Wilbodave]

@sts66

They waited until they had a good idea how much profit was made from the vaccines before they decided to sue. The article suggests they are late to the party with their own vaccine, so whatever they're claiming was stolen from them probably isn't worth much if they weren't able to use it themselves.

Long PFE

[Youngster101]

Warfare in biowarfare.
Humanity will extinct humanity.

[danrichman54]

Best defense is a strong offense.

[josephaoppenheim]

Good.