This blog may help people explore some of the 'hidden' issues involved in certain media treatments of environmental and scientific issues. Using personal digital images, it's also intended to emphasise seasonal (and other) changes in natural history of the Swansea (South Wales) area. The material should help participants in field-based modules and people generally interested in the natural world. The views are wholly those of the author.
Saturday 27 August 2022
Litigation Across the Nation?
Both Moderna and Pfizer made billions of dollars from sales of their Covid19 vaccines. Moderna is now suing Pfizer for patent infringement (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/26/moderna-sues-pfizer-biontech-covid-vaccine-patent-infringement). Moderna is also suing Pfizer's German partner, BioNTech, claiming that they copied its RNA technology. Moderna maintain 'their' technology was developed years before the pandemic, when searching for a cure for MERS. Pfizer is also being sued, on different grounds, by other US vaccine producers. I suppose the US lawyers now want their cut? It seems a rather sad postscript to a successful application of science to attempt to deal with a serious public health emergency.
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