GeoVax Receives Notice of Allowance For Cancer Vaccine Patent

Adds to Growing Portfolio of Intellectual Property Assets

ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. 09, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GeoVax Labs, Inc. (Nasdaq: GOVX), a biotechnology company developing immunotherapies and vaccines against cancers and infectious diseases, today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued a Notice of Allowance for Patent Application No. 17/876,682 to GeoVax, titled “Vaccinia Viral Vectors Encoding Chimeric Virus Like Particles.” The allowed claims add to GeoVax’s intellectual property protection related to its vector platform for expressing a tumor associated antigen (TAA) in virus-like particles (VLPs) from a recombinant Modified Vaccinia Ankara (MVA) viral vector, further demonstrating the GeoVax technical expertise.