Moderna sues Pfizer/BioNTech for patent infringement over COVID vaccine

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5. It was Moderna that Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna gave her mRNA patent permission to

to use in developing the covid vaccine. Her atomic mapping of RNA got her the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020. Before then, Moderna had done extensive work in flu viruses but couldn't touch Covid 19 reliably.

To her, Moderna had superior lab work history in virus vaccine development, and so she joined them to use the CRISPRCas9 enzyme's RNA to pinpoint, then cut genetic code from the covid virus to create, then deliver in their vaccine delivery system (using lipids, I think).

She also knew that, as it had in the past, Moderna's labs could team up with the superior production systems of Pfizer to do mass covid vaccine production for the country and world.

That Pfizer helped itself to actual mRNA vaccine development sounds like legal overstepping, even if its source was from some paper or lab in China. Guess the jurisdiction here still holds and courts will decide.