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Rival Covid-19 jab developers face off in High Court patent trial

Source: PA Wire

Rival developers of Covid-19 jabs have faced off at the High Court in London as a weeks-long trial over life-saving vaccine technology patents began.

Pharmaceutical giant and drug manufacturer BioNTech are locked in a legal dispute with vaccine maker Moderna over the use of messenger RNA (mRNA) technology in coronavirus jabs amid parallel litigation, the and other countries.

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