EQS-News: CureVac Announces Decision of German Federal Patent Court in Broad Patent Litigation with BioNTech SE
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Tuesday, December 26, 2023
CureVac will appeal before the German Federal Court of Justice.
Key Points:
- CureVac will appeal before the German Federal Court of Justice.
- The ruling represents a first decision on validity in ongoing patent litigation between CureVac and BioNTech SE in Germany, which involves a total of eight CureVac intellectual property rights.
- “We consider the patent court’s decision unfortunate also in view of the positive preliminary opinion on EP 1 857 122 B1 the court provided earlier this year.
- The decision is only one of many that will be made regarding the use of CureVac’s intellectual property in the development of Comirnaty®.