Bavarian Nordic's MVA-BN® patent stands in European validity challenge

Kvistgård, Denmark, October 5, 2010 - Bavarian Nordic A/S (OMX: BAVA) announced
today that the company successfully defended its core patent covering the MVA-
BN® technology despite aggressive attempts from competitors to revoke the patent
in Europe.

The patent was granted in December 2005 and after the nine month opposition
period in which any third party can file an opposition against any patent
granted in a European jurisdiction, seven companies opposed the patent. The
opposition proceeding has been pending at the European Patent Office for several
years.

After an oral hearing in the first instance the Opposition Division today
rendered its decision to uphold the patent with certain amended claims.

Bavarian Nordic's President & CEO, Anders Hedegaard commented: "We are very
pleased with the decision by the first instance to uphold our core patent, thus
confirming its uniqueness. We have substantially invested our resources to
develop our MVA BN® technology and our efforts have led to the creation of
valuable intellectual property, which we successfully have defended today."



Asger Aamund
Chairman of the Board


Contact
Anders Hedegaard, President & CEO. Phone +45 23 20 30 64

About Bavarian Nordic
Bavarian Nordic is a leading industrial biotechnology company developing and
producing novel vaccines for the treatment and prevention of life-threatening
diseases with a large unmet medical need. The company's clinical pipeline
targets cancer and infectious diseases, and includes seven development
programmes. Two programmes under preparation for Phase III: PROSTVAC(TM), a
therapeutic vaccine for advanced prostate cancer is being developed under a
collaboration agreement with the National Cancer Institute, and IMVAMUNE®, a
third-generation smallpox vaccine is being developed under a contract with the
US government.

Bavarian Nordic is listed on NASDAQ OMX Copenhagen under the symbol BAVA.

For more information please visit www.bavarian-nordic.com

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