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NEW YORK, NY -- (Marketwire) -- 08/28/12 -- TNI BioTech, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: TNIB) announced that it acquired exclusive licensing rights to all of the proprietary technical information, know-how, procedures, IND, protocols, methods, prototypes, designs, data and reports, which are not readily available to others through public means, and which are owned, generated or developed through experiments or testing by Dr. Bernard Bihari.

TNI BioTech, Inc. acquired the portfolio for 500,000 shares of the company's stock and other consideration. As part of the agreement, the company agreed to maintain the patents and, in cases where additional patents have not been maintained in the last two years, TNI BioTech, Inc. plans to petition the United States Patent and Trademark Office to revive them immediately.

The acquired portfolio contains six patents and applications related to:

•Cancer of the prostate, lymphoproliferative syndrome, including such diseases as malignant lymphoma, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, Hodgkin's lymphoma, and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma •Infectious diseases such as chronic herpes virus infections, including chronic genital herpes caused by the herpes simplex virus, Type 2, and chronic infections due to the Epstein-Barr virus, and chronic inflammatory conditions including chronic fatigue syndrome •A treatment method for humans infected with HTLV-III (AIDS) virus, including patients clinically diagnosed as suffering from AIDS, those suffering from AIDS-related complex (ARC)

The portfolio includes all reissues or modification, reexaminations, or other related U.S. patent filings directed to the same subject matter. Licensed Patents refer to U.S. Patent No. U.S. Patent Number 6,586,443, U.S. Patent Number 6,384,044, U.S. Patent Number 6,288,074, U.S. Patent Number 5,356,900, U.S. Patent Number 5,013,739, U.S. Patent Number 4,888,346.

Bernard Bihari, MD, was the discoverer of the clinical effects of Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) in humans. In his groundbreaking clinical trial of patients with HIV/AIDS at Downstate Medical Center in 1985-86, Dr. Bihari discovered the significant effectiveness of LDN in protecting the battered immune systems of those who were infected. Equipped with the clinical trial knowledge, he entered private practice in an attempt to counter the then untreatable disease by using LDN -- and did so in some cases dramatically.

Dr. Bihari, by 2003, had been treating 350 AIDS patients using LDN in conjunction with accepted AIDS therapies. During 7 years of treatments, between 1996 and 2003, over 85% of his patients showed no detectable levels of the HIV virus -- a much higher success rate than most current AIDS treatments, and with no significant side effects. It is also worth noting that many HIV/AIDS patients have been living symptom-free for years, while taking only LDN with no other medications. Two studies in the African country of Mali, demonstrated LDN's successful use in HIV/AIDS, as published in October, 2011 in the Journal of AIDS and HIV Research.

Additionally, in the mid-1990s, Dr. Bihari found that patients in his practice with cancer, such as lymphoma or pancreatic cancer, also benefited from LDN. People with autoimmune diseases, such as lupus, also often showed prompt control of disease activity while taking LDN.