There are many cases where a manufacturing process is not at all innovative but the end product is. Consider the humble computer mouse. There was no manufactur

There are many cases where a manufacturing process is not at all innovative but the end product is. Consider the humble computer mouse. There was no manufacturing ingenuity needed to build it. I don’t know enough about pharmaceutical manufacturing, but it’s quite possible Moderna and Pfizer don’t own any manufacturing IP (if I understand correctly some of their specialized equipment is developed by other companies). That means all they can really patent is their chemistry.