Campaigners weigh in as Moderna COVID-19 vaccine patent fight goes public

12 November 2021

A row over who was responsible for developing the Spikevax COVID-19 vaccine has spilled out into the public domain.

The New York Times reported on a year-long dispute between US biotech Moderna (Nasdaq: MRNA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), citing a letter written by the campaign group Public Citizen to NIH director Francis Collins.

Public Citizen wrote to express its concern that patent applications filed by Moderna did not list federal scientists as co-inventors of the jab.

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