Business SK bioscience wins patent lawsuit against Pfizer
By Diplomacy Journal Lee Kap-soo SK bioscience announced on May 11 that the Supreme Court of Korea has ruled in its favor in a patent infringement lawsuit filed by large global pharmaceutical giant Pfizer over its 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13). In 2020, Pfizer claimed that SK bioscience’s export of PCV13 individual conjugate bulk substances and research-use finished products to Russia infringed on the composition patent of its vaccine, Prevnar 13. However, the Supreme Court ruled that the individual conjugates comprising PCV13 do not fall within the scope of Pfizer’s patent