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Re:Covid: US backs waiver on vaccine intellectual property by beckman466 on Thursday May 06, 2021 @06:07AM (#27061115)
If you are knowledgeable on this, please could you write a short list of the total amount of patents the vaccine currently consists of, or link to a good source?
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Re:Covid: US backs waiver on vaccine intellectual property by blywi on Thursday May 06, 2021 @09:38AM (#27063021)
This is good summary of the intellectual property situation for mRNA vaccine. The link was posted 2 weeks ago on the Twitter stream of Katalin Kariko, pioneer of mRNA vaccine technology and VP at BioNTech.

https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2021/04/11/mrna-ip-competitive-la...

https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2021/04/21/mrna-ip-competitive-la...

https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2021/04/30/mrna-patent-competitiv...

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Re:Covid: US backs waiver on vaccine intellectual property by refurb on Thursday May 06, 2021 @07:11AM (#27061525)
That’s not easy information to get. Startups pay a lot of money to do a “freedom to operate” study to see what patents are out there and who owns what. You can pay companies for high level info, but it’s not easy at all.
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Re:Covid: US backs waiver on vaccine intellectual property by meepmorp on Thursday May 06, 2021 @07:32AM (#27061682)
You did say

> There are plenty of other parents needed to make the actual vaccine

So asking for the other patents involved is a reasonable question, especially since your assertion presumably involves knowing - at least vaguely - what said patents might be.

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