EQS-News: CureVac Announces Developments in Patent Litigation with Pfizer/BioNTech

CureVac filed a patent infringement lawsuit in Germany against BioNTech in early June 2022. A nullity action covering one of the patents at issue (EP 1 857 122 B1) was filed by Pfizer/BioNTech in September 2022. In the U.S., Pfizer/BioNTech filed its case in the federal district court of Massachusetts in late July 2022, asking for confirmation that Comirnaty® does not infringe three CureVac patents. These patents are included in the nine relevant U.S. patents of CureVacs counter­claim: 11,135,312; 11,149,278; 11,286,492; 11,345,920; 10,760,070; 11,241,493; 11,471,525; 11,576,966; and 11,596,686.

CureVac is represented in the U.S. by Mark H. Izraelewicz from Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP and represented in Germany by Oliver Jan Jüngst from Bird&Bird and Andreas Graf von Stosch from Graf von Stosch Patentanwaltsgesellschaft.

CureVac Media and Investor Relations Contact

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CureVac, Tübingen, Germany

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sarah.fakih@curevac.com

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