Posted on 08/26/2022 7:08:09 AM PDT by DoodleBob
Moderna is taking Pfizer and Germany's BioNTech to court, claiming the rival drugmakers copied its technology in developing their COVID-19 vaccine.
In documents filed in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts and in Germany, Moderna claims Pfizer and BioNTech violated its intellectual property rights on key parts of its messenger RNA technology, which it had patents on from 2010 to 2016.
"We believe that Pfizer and BioNTech unlawfully copied Moderna's inventions, and they have continued to use them without permission," Shannon Thyme Klinger, chief legal officer for Moderna, a biotechnology startup based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said Friday in a statement.
Pfizer had not yet reviewed the suit and could not yet comment on the filing, the company stated in an email. BioNTech did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Moderna and Pfizer's two-shot vaccines both use mRNA technology to help patients fight the coronavirus. Those vaccines work by injecting a genetic code for the spike protein that coats the surface of the coronavirus.
Will Fauci testify?
I thought they would fight over which company killed the most people
Good time to round the criminals up and make a home at GITMO for them.
Yes, sit down and enjoy the popcorn for at least a decade.
Let them tear each other apart.
Probably about survival. All Moderna has really is the fake vaxes. They have to sue partners in crime to stay afloat.
Nobody can sue these companies right now so it is all about the money.
This could be interesting though.
I believe that Moderna were working on mRNA vaccines long before Pfizer did, so....
Yep, unsuccessfully and they were almost broke but they got a sudden influx of cash just in time for covid.
Greed usually is the downfall of all crooks. 🙂
It’s interesting-—Pharmaceutical companies suing each other for something that doesn’t work and causes numerous side affects. Maybe they’ll want to think this one through....
Correct. Moderna is the pharmaceutical equivalent of Theranos. Whatever its original intentions, it is for all practical purposes today a fake company, with nothing of true value to sell.
The long and the short of it is, the widely-touted mRNA platform, as a means of delivering therapeutic treatments (and, for that matter, vaccines), at least in human applications, doesn't work. It just doesn't. And, apparently, it cannot be made to work, no matter how hard they may have tried. It's a garbage product, and dangerous garbage at that.
Someone ought to go through the discovery documents with a fine-toothed comb.
I’ll be all kinds of knowing corner-cutting, disregard for safety, and other hijinks will be found, if one knows where to look.
I was just gonna say the same thing. I’m sure there’s lots of nifty information in there that will get released while they funny each other in court that may be someday some enterprising lawyers could use to sue them over the side effects of their “safe and effective” vaccine.
It's like the German Nazis declaring war on Japan in 1943. Go to town!
Ok, that’s great.
"We're suing you for copying our formula for DeathshotsTM."
The mRNA narrative is beginning to crumble. Trump even being blamed now.
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