FORT LEE, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Neurologix, Inc. (OTCBB:NRGX) today announced that it has received a Notice of Allowance from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (US PTO) for intellectual property central to the company’s approach to the treatment of epilepsy. The patent allowance specifically refers to Neurologix’s patent application, “Methods and Compositions for the Treatment of Neurological Disease,” which covers the treatment of seizures associated with temporal lobe epilepsy by direct administration into the brain’s temporal lobe of an AAV vector encoding Neuropeptide Y (NPY). Neurologix is a biotechnology company engaged in the development of innovative therapies for the brain and central nervous system, including Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, Huntington’s disease and other disorders.
