All posts tagged "Intellectualproperty"

SAN DIEGO — Moderna, Pfizer and BioNTech were named in lawsuits Tuesday that accuse them of stealing a patented method developed by researchers from The Scripps Research Institute that made the COVID-19 vaccine possible. The two separate patent infringement lawsuits — one against Moderna for its Spikevax vaccine and one against Pfizer and its partner BioNTech for its Comirnaty vaccine — were filed in federal court in San Diego by Promosome. The firm, which has offices in San Diego and New York City, develops and commercializes discoveries from the late Nobel Prize laureate Gerald Edelman and V......

NEW YORK — Ed Sheeran sang and played guitar on the witness stand in a Manhattan courtroom Thursday, a very musical effort at disproving allegations his hit tune “Thinking Out Loud” is a ripoff of Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get it On.” Appearing on day three of the trial, Sheeran pulled out an acoustic guitar, strumming chords and briefly crooning what he said were his song’s original lyrics, “I’m singing out now ... ” The brief performance came during Sheeran’s recollection of writing the tune one evening in early 2014 at his England home in a collaboration with his longtime pal Amy Wadge. In writi......