Tag: Patent system
Huawei regains first place in European patent statistics
Product presentation by Huawei in Barcelona The Chinese company filed the highest number of new inventions with the European Patent Office last year. (Photo: Reuters) Munich The Chinese IT supplier…
Patent protection for corona vaccines should fall
Biontech production in Marburg The pharmaceutical companies defend their patents. (Photo: dpa) Brussels Developing countries should be allowed to produce Covid-19 vaccines regardless of patent protection. That is at the…
How Biontech wants to solve the vaccine problem in Africa
Frankfurt The Mainz-based company Biontech is pushing ahead with its production plans for Africa with the development of a modular production system for mRNA vaccines. The manufacturing plants will be…
Curevac share: head of technology leaves biotech company
Mariola Fotin-Mleczek Curevac’s Chief Technology Officer will leave the company at the end of January. (Photo: CureVac) Frankfurt At the Tübingen Curevac, the upheaval continues with another prominent departure from…
Biontech and Pfizer expand vaccine alliance
Vaccine from Biontech and Pfizer The first clinical studies for the new vaccine are scheduled to start in the second half of the year. (Photo: Reuters) Frankfurt After the huge…
German companies are making up ground
Jet by Lilium (illustration) The air taxi should someday fly autonomously over cities like New York. (Photo: lilium) Munich Most of the inventions relating to air taxis still come from…
Biontech and Moderna build plants in Africa
Biontech provided the latest evidence of the ambitious expansion plans last week with the announcement that it would build a state-of-the-art production facility for mRNA-based vaccines in Rwanda in cooperation…
Heckler & Koch versus Haenel: patent dispute in court
Weapons manufacturer The legal dispute also has an impact on the major order from the German Federal Armed Forces. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf In the bitter legal dispute between the two…
Guest comment: release the patents on corona vaccines!
The vaccination inequality is growing. Without the overdue release, humanity cannot defeat the virus pandemic, analyzes François Hollande. .source site