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(Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court handed Moderna Inc a win on Tuesday, affirming a decision to cancel an Arbutus Biopharma Corp patent related to the companies’ legal fight over Moderna’s blockbuster COVID-19 vaccines.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office tribunal’s ruling that the patent for Arbutus’ lipid nanoparticle (LNP) technology was invalid based on an earlier Arbutus patent that disclosed the same invention.<\/p>\n

Moderna challenged the patent at the PTO’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board in 2018, and the board invalidated it in 2019.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Genevant declined to comment on the Tuesday decision. A Moderna spokesperson said the company was pleased with the ruling.<\/p>\n

The Federal Circuit’s decision does not affect an ongoing lawsuit filed by Arbutus and Genevant Sciences \u2014 a joint venture between Arbutus and Roivant Sciences Ltd \u2014 against Moderna last year in Delaware for allegedly infringing other related LNP patents.<\/p>\n

Warminster Township, Pennsylvania-based Arbutus said in the lawsuit that Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Moderna began challenging its patents at the PTO after failing to acquire a license to its LNP technology. <\/p>\n

The technology is used to deliver RNA to target cells without being attacked by the body’s immune system. <\/p>\n

Arbutus separately sued Pfizer and BioNTech for patent infringement last week over their COVID-19 shots, in a lawsuit that also does not include the canceled patent.<\/p>\n

The Federal Circuit case is Arbutus Biopharma Corp v. ModernaTX Inc, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, No. 20-1183.<\/p>\n

(Reporting by Blake Brittain in Washington)<\/p>\n

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