Wrong par­ty, wrong court: Mod­er­na fights back against patent in­fringe­ment case sur­round­ing its Covid-19 vac­cine

Ar­bu­tus and Genevant filed a law­suit back in Feb­ru­ary ac­cus­ing Mod­er­na of steal­ing the for­mer’s patent­ed lipid nanopar­ti­cle tech­nol­o­gy for its Covid-19 vac­cine. On Fri­day, Mod­er­na put its hands up, claim­ing that the plain­tiffs are su­ing the wrong par­ty in the wrong court.

Mod­er­na re­quest­ed a dis­missal on Fri­day, ar­gu­ing that Ar­bu­tus and Genevant should re­al­ly be su­ing the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment, as the vac­cine was sup­plied to the feds through a con­tract as part of the coun­try’s emer­gency re­sponse ef­forts.

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