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Moderna and the U.S. are in a patent dispute over the company's Covid vaccine, with potential consequences for future distribution and profits.

Tuesday, November 9, 2021 2:43 PM EST

The vaccine grew out of a four-year collaboration between Moderna and the N.I.H., the government's biomedical research agency.

But the company's patent application names several employees as the sole inventors of a crucial component of its coronavirus vaccine, excluding three government scientists.

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