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UK leg of global litigation over mRNA tech sees patents ruled valid and invalid | Justice Meade follows EPO in decision on Moderna’s EP 565 patent | Pfizer and German partner BioNTech on the hook for EP 949 | Opinion on Moderna’s COVID pledge also handed down.

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