Bayer's Monsanto has sued Pfizer, BioNTech and Moderna for allegedly misusing its messenger RNA technology in COVID-19 vaccines. The patent infringement lawsuits say the companies have copied ...

Bayer's agrochemicals unit Monsanto has filed lawsuits in the US against the manufacturers of mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines, claiming that they used its patent-protected technology in their products.

German chemicals giant Bayer, which acquired Monsanto in 2018, has filed patent infringement lawsuits in the Delaware federal court alleging that the companies copied technology developed by Monsanto ...

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court will decide whether to block thousands of lawsuits alleging Monsanto failed to warn people that its popular weedkiller could cause cancer. The court on Jan. 16 agreed to ...

The US Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear a bid by German chemicals giant Bayer to put an end to a wave of lawsuits over the weedkiller Roundup. Bayer has spent more than $10 billion settling ...

Problems with a 25-year-old landmark paper on the safety of Roundup’s active ingredient, glyphosate, have led to calls for the E.P.A. to reassess the widely used chemical. By Hiroko Tabuchi In 2000, a ...

A Moderna spokesperson said the company is aware of the lawsuit and will defend itself. Spokespeople for Pfizer, BioNTech and Johnson & Johnson did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Bayer has filed separate lawsuits against the creators of three COVID-19 vaccines, claiming they violated intellectual property developed by Monsanto, the crop science company the German company ...

(Beyond Pesticides, January 7, 2026) Chemical manufacturers may have suffered a short-lived setback in their quest for statutory immunity from lawsuits due to their failure to warn those harmed by ...

The reversal comes as the EPA faces a 2026 deadline to reassess the widely used herbicide A landmark scientific paper published in 2000 that helped cement glyphosate’s reputation as a safe herbicide ...