According to Mark Murry (CEO of Arbutus), “We have seen no evidence of a Moderna delivery system that is free of our intellectual property. Not in their publications, their presentations, or in the examples in their patent filings.”
Read more about this in a Forbes article: Moderna Can’t Escape My Intellectual Property, Says Arbutus CEO
Three credible articles discuss in detail the nature of Moderna’s (MRNA) potential violation of patents held by Arbutus (ABUS) regarding its LNP (Lipid NanoParticle) technology—the delivery mechanism of the much-anticipated mRNA1273 vaccine candidate.
Is Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine Using Arbutus Biopharma’s Patents?
Strong Presumption Moderna Covid Vaccine Infringes on Arbutus IP
ABUS – More Nuggets of the Covid Gem:
Other pages that discuss patent infringement or the technologies behind RNAi vaccines:
Pfizer’s covid vaccine found 90% effective but raises IP questions
mRNA vaccines: intellectual property landscape
Nanotechnology’s role in the race to find a Covid-19 vaccine
Nanotechnology for COVID-19: Therapeutics and Vaccine Research
Curevac muddies the Moderna/Arbutus waters further
Moderna’s Mysterious Coronavirus Vaccine Delivery System
Current issues of RNAi therapeutics delivery and development
