CureVac Strengthens Ongoing Patent Litigations Bringing Additional Cases Under New Intellectual Property Rights
- Cases in Germany and the U.S. broadened by asserting additional, new intellectual property rights
- Three new intellectual property rights added to infringement lawsuit against Pfizer/BioNTech in Germany, increasing number of asserted intellectual property rights to eight
- Tenth patent added to CureVac’s counterclaim against Pfizer/BioNTech in the U.S., covering innovations in mRNA purification methods highly relevant to the manufacturing of Comirnaty®
CureVac N.V. (“CureVac”), a global biopharmaceutical company developing a new class of transformative medicines based on messenger ribonucleic acid (“mRNA”), today announced that it has strengthened its position in the ongoing patent litigations with Pfizer/BioNTech in Germany and the U.S. by expanding the scope of both cases by asserting new intellectual property rights.