Moderna was hit with a new patent lawsuit on Wednesday in Delaware federal court from Northwestern University, which accused the company of misusing the school's innovations to develop its blockbuster COVID-19 vaccine Spikevax.

The Evanston college claims Moderna could not have developed the vaccine as quickly as it did in 2020 without its own researchers' technological breakthroughs.

Northwestern University has filed a lawsuit against Moderna, alleging the company used its patented lipid nanoparticle technology without permission in the development of its COVID-19 vaccines.

British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline sued Moderna in U.S. federal court in Delaware on Tuesday, accusing its American rival of violating GSK's patent rights in messenger RNA (mRNA) technology with its blockbuster COVID-19 vaccine Spikevax.

Nearly six months after lodging a similar complaint against Pfizer and BioNTech over the partners’ COVID shot Comirnaty, GSK is targeting Moderna in a pair of lawsuits alleging the Massachusetts-ba | GSK is targeting Moderna in a pair of lawsuits claiming the mRNA specialist violated multiple patents with its vaccines Spikevax and mRESVIA.

GSK filed two lawsuits at the US District of Delaware on 15 October saying that Moderna’s mRNA vaccine product Spikevax infringed up to seven patents covering lipid mRNA vaccine formulation technology. It is also suing Moderna for infringing the same mRNA technology through the sale of its recently approved RSV shot mResvia.

A British drugmaker, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), has sued American pharmaceutical company Moderna claiming it violated patent rights in its mRNA technology used to develop its COVID-19 and RSV vaccines.