Prospective Grant Of Exclusive License: Prophylactic and/or Therapeutic Vaccines Against HIV and HCV

This is notice in accordance with 15 U.S.C. 209(c)(1) and 37 CFR 404.7(a)(1)(i) that the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services, is contemplating the grant of a limited field of use exclusive worldwide license to practice the inventions embodied in U.S. Patent Application Serial Number 08/ 375,100, filed January 19, 1995, entitled "Peptomers with Enhanced Immunogenicity" now United States Patent Number 5,750,332 issued May 12, 1998 and U.S. Patent Application Serial Number 07/283,849 filed December 13, 1988, entitled "Synthesis of Chloroacetyl and Bromoacetyl Modified Peptides for the Preparation of Synthetic Peptide Polymers, Conjugated Peptides and Cyclic Peptides' and now U.S. Patent Number 5,066,716 issued on November 18, 1991 to AriaVax, Inc. of Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.A. The United States as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services is an assignee of these patent rights.