US_district_court pauses MRNA’s patent-infringement suit vs PFE/BNTX pending USPTO input: https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/pfizer-wins-pause-modernas-covid-19-patent-lawsuit-2024-04-12/ Moderna's patent lawsuit claiming Pfizer and BioNTech copied its COVID-19 vaccine technology will be put on hold while the U.S. Patent Office determines whether two of the three Moderna patents at issue are valid, a Massachusetts federal court said on Friday. U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns stayed the closely watched case over Moderna's objections after determining that the Patent Office's rulings would "simplify" the patent-infringement lawsuit, according to an entry on the court's docket.