{"id":10885,"date":"2026-03-03T23:02:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T23:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/moderna-settles-covid-vaccine-suit-roivant\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T23:02:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T23:02:20","slug":"moderna-settles-covid-vaccine-suit-roivant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/moderna-settles-covid-vaccine-suit-roivant\/","title":{"rendered":"STAT+: Moderna to pay Roivant up to $2.25 billion to settle patent lawsuit behind mRNA vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    STAT+: Moderna to pay Roivant up to $2.25 billion to settle patent lawsuit behind mRNA vaccines<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Moderna has agreed to pay Roivant up to $2.25 billion to settle claims that the mRNA vaccine developer infringed on Roivant\u2019s patents in its Covid-19 shot.<\/p>\n<p>Roivant will receive $950 million and then another $1.3 billion if Moderna\u2019s attempts to have parts of its liability offloaded to the federal government fail upon appeal. If the full amount is paid, it will be among the largest patent settlements in history.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is probably the largest ever,\u201d said Jacob Sherkow, a professor of law and medicine at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/03\/03\/moderna-settles-covid-vaccine-suit-roivant\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Continue to STAT+ to read the full story\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Jason Mast<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/03\/03\/moderna-settles-covid-vaccine-suit-roivant\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STAT+: Moderna to pay Roivant up to $2.25 billion to settle patent lawsuit behind mRNA vaccines Moderna has agreed to pay Roivant up to $2.25 billion to settle claims that the mRNA vaccine developer infringed on Roivant\u2019s patents in its Covid-19 shot. Roivant will receive $950 million and then another $1.3 billion if Moderna\u2019s attempts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2194,2208,153,2563,2493,2176,2152,2195],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-10885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech","category-drug-development","category-legal","category-moderna","category-patents","category-pharma","category-stat","category-vaccines","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}