Segnalo un contributo, molto ben argomentato (a mio parere), sulla recente causa intentata da Moderna contro Pfizer e BioNTech. Il tema riguarda il valore legale di dichiarazioni con cui un titolare di brevetto si impegna pubblicamente a non far valere il proprio titolo legale (con importanti ricadute sulle "licenze pubbliche" piu' in generale).

No Take-Backs: Moderna’s Attempt to Renege on its Vaccine Patent Pledge
August 29, 2022

By Jorge L. Contreras

On October 8, 2020, Moderna, the maker of one of the first mRNA-based vaccines for COVID-19 and the recipient of billions of dollars of U.S. government funding, announced that it felt “a special obligation … to use our resources to bring this pandemic to an end as quickly as possible.” As a result, it publicly promised that “while the pandemic continues, Moderna will not enforce our COVID-19 related patents against those making vaccines intended to combat the pandemic.” Moderna broke that promise on August 26, 2022, when it sued Pfizer and BioNTech, the producers of a competing mRNA vaccine, for patent infringement in the U.S. and Germany. This post explains why Moderna’s lawsuits should fail given its irrevocable and continuing nonenforcement pledge.

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