Because Trump didn't warp speed it as much as the vaccine was?
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Scientists have studied the use of mRNA as a novel therapeutic since the early 1990s5. However, it wasn’t until 2005 that a group of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania published findings on mRNA technology that have since been deemed critical to the development of mRNA based therapies
6. SEC filings highlighted by Knowledge Ecology International reveal a series of sublicenses for mRNA-related patents that stem from the University of Pennsylvania to both Moderna and BioNTech
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9. The 2017 filings indicate that the University of Pennsylvania exclusively licensed their patents to mRNA RiboTherapeutics, which then sublicensed them to its affiliate CellScript. CellScript proceeded to sublicense the patents to Moderna and BioNTech; however, the patent numbers are redacted in all the filings, making it difficult to determine which are relevant to the production of COVID-19 vaccines.
Another key aspect of an mRNA vaccine platform is the ability to deliver the mRNA to a cell using a lipid nanoparticle. Some early work on lipid nanoparticles was done jointly by the University of British Columbia and Arbutus Biopharmaceuticals in 1998. SEC filings show that patents relating to this early technology were solely assigned to the University of British Columbia and then licensed back to Arbutus
10. Further analysis reveals that in 2012 Arbutus licensed a set of patents relating to the delivery of nucleic acids to Acuitas Therapeutics. In 2016, Acuitas entered into a development and option agreement with CureVac, which included access to patents on lipid nanoparticle technology
11. Acuitas also granted a sublicense to Moderna; however, in 2016 Arbutus declared that Acuitas’s sublicense to Moderna was improper and took to the Canadian legal system for remedy
10. The litigation in Canada was eventually settled, but in 2018 Moderna began filing inter partes reviews (IPR), a procedure for challenging the validity of a US patent before the US Patent and Trademark Office, on three of Arbutus’s patents, which concluded with the cancellation of claims in two of the three challenges
12. Moreover, Arbutus also entered into an agreement with Roivant to spin out Genevant, which received a license for the patent portfolio on lipid nanoparticles
13. Genevant sublicensed the patents to BioNTech, who then entered into an agreement with Pfizer to develop a COVID-19 vaccine
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16. It is also important to note that the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Moderna entered into an agreement in 2019 to co-develop coronavirus vaccines; however, this was before the identification and spread of SARS-CoV-2
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A network analysis of COVID-19 mRNA vaccine patents | Nature Biotechnology