Re:Moderna mRNA sequence released to GitHub [pdf]
by Taniwha on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @06:57AM
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Doesn't this describe almost ANY vaccine - I think that it's probably bad public policy to allow anyone to patent ALL COVID vaccines - I think that patenting a particular vaccine (a particular mRNA string) should be allowed, but not effective wildcards in the RNA
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Re:Moderna mRNA sequence released to GitHub [pdf]
by mlyle on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @01:35PM
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No. It doesn't describe the viral vector vaccines (J&J/AstraZeneca). It doesn't describe the inactivated virus vaccines. It doesn't include the viral fragment (NovaVax) vaccines. And it wouldn't describe some possible mRNA vaccines because of differences in formulation or differences in targeting.
While this particular Moderna claim would likely affect BioNTech/Pfizer's mRNA vaccine, it's not clear whether it would survive in litigation, too.
As to a "specific string"-- if you could just pad a few codons onto the end and not be violating the patent, that's not too worthwhile.
Re:Moderna mRNA sequence released to GitHub [pdf]
by OnlyANeurosci on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @11:18AM
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Technically you wouldn't even have to do that. Just change a few codons to alternative codons, it wouldn't even change the amino acids being produced.