{"id":4618,"date":"2025-03-11T01:01:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T01:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/german-court-rules-pfizer-biontech-infringed-modernas-covid-19-vaccine-patent\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T01:01:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T01:01:02","slug":"german-court-rules-pfizer-biontech-infringed-modernas-covid-19-vaccine-patent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/german-court-rules-pfizer-biontech-infringed-modernas-covid-19-vaccine-patent\/","title":{"rendered":"German Court Rules Pfizer, BioNTech Infringed Moderna&#8217;s COVID-19 Vaccine Patent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>Freshfields has won a D\u00fcsseldorf regional court patent dispute on behalf of client Moderna against German COVID-19 vaccine inventors BioNTech and Pfizer. BioNTech, represented by Taylor Wessing, and Pfizer, advised by Munich IP-firm df-mp, will have to pay \u201cappropriate compensation and damages\u201d to Moderna for infringement of its patent rights related to the mRNA vaccine according to the judgment. The damages have not yet been calculated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>BioNTech said an appeal to the European Patent Office\u2019s Technical Board of Appeal is pending, however, and the judgment will \u201cnot change our unwavering and unequivocal stance that this patent is invalid\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freshfields has won a D\u00fcsseldorf regional court patent dispute on behalf of client Moderna against German COVID-19 vaccine inventors BioNTech and Pfizer. BioNTech, represented by Taylor Wessing, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5023,143,500,1820,3136,5024,891,5022,351,2781],"class_list":["post-4618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-biontech","tag-court","tag-covid19","tag-german","tag-infringed","tag-modernas","tag-patent","tag-pfizer","tag-rules","tag-vaccine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}