Moderna sues Pfizer for infringing patents over COVID vaccine

U.S. biotechnology firm Moderna Inc. said Friday it is filing patent infringement lawsuits over a COVID-19 vaccine developed by U.S. pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. and its German partner BioNTech SE, alleging a key technology was copied."We are filing these lawsuits to protect the innovative mRNA technology platform that we pioneered, invested billions of dollars in creating, and patented during the decade preceding the COVID-19 pandemic," Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel said in a statement.The Massachusetts-based company was relatively unknown prior to the acceleration of the coronavirus pan…READ FULL ARTICLE