JERUSALEM--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BioLineRx (NASDAQ:BLRX)(TASE:BLRX), a biopharmaceutical development company, announced today that it has received from the European Patent Office a notice of intention to grant a European patent claiming the salt of BL-1020, a first-in-class orally available treatment for schizophrenia. n March 2012, the Company announced that a European patent was granted claiming BL-1020's composition and its use for the treatment of schizophrenia, which will be valid through September 2022. The current patent, when granted, will be valid through June 2026, thereby effectively extending the patent protection term of the drug product in Europe by almost four years. Member patents of this family are pending in the U.S., Japan, India, China, Korea, Mexico, Israel and Australia.
