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No Take-Backs: Moderna’s Attempt to Renege on its Vaccine Patent Pledge

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An estimated 500,000 patents were pledged under the Open COVID Pledge, with over a million more pledged under a similar Japanese effort. Like the Open COVID Pledge before it, Moderna’s pledge expressly states that it is valid only “ while the pandemic continues. 2008)) and Germany. Pfizer made such a vaccine. Katzer (Fed.