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Dorsey nanotechnology group: Delivering superior service to nanotechnology companies

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5 COMPETITION Once you’ve staked out your intellectual property, it’s sometimes necessary to defend it. Our IP lawyers can help you formulate a proactive management plan for your brand, trade secrets, patents or other intellectual property. And our tenacious litigators will protect your assets in the courtroom.

4 MANUFACTURING Count on us for help with your manufacturing operations. Our real estate and environmental teams can help get your plant built. Our technology licensing attorneys will assist in your agreements with other companies. And our employment law group can help you manage the human resources issues.

3 PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT Some nanotechnology companies must negotiate a tangled web of state and federal regulations, e.g., clinical trials, FDA and USDA approvals, consumer protection—count on Dorsey to help you manage your regulatory challenges.

2 COMPANY FORMATION AND CAPITALIZATION Young companies often intend to become public or be acquired by larger competitors. Count on us for advice on venture capital funding, strategic alliances, initial public offerings and more.

1 INNOVATION Helping companies leverage and protect their most important assets—their intellectual property. Dorsey’s team of experienced attorneys and advisors vigorously establish and defend your company’s patents, trademarks, trade secrets copyrights, domain names and more.

6 EXPANSION When your company is ready for a major transaction—a merger, acquisition, joint venture or public offering—you can rely on Dorsey. We’re a leading fi rm in mergers and acquisitions. Consistently ranked among the top fi rms for completed deals.

T he burgeoning fi eld of nanotechnology promises advances that we can only begin to imagine today—revolutionary developments in medicine, materials science, communications, food production, transportation, electronics and more. But the promise of nanotechnology won’t be fulfi lled unless companies can bring technologies to market and capitalize on their scientifi c achievements.

To meet the industry’s unique challenges, we work with companies at the “nano” level, advising on the fundamental legal and business issues that can make or break a nanotechnology venture: start-up fi nancing, technology licensing, joint venture agreements, intellectual property issues, regulatory approvals and more. We also help with concerns every business must face—issues like taxation, employment law, fi nance, and corporate governance.

Companies rely on Dorsey through each stage of their development because our attorneys understand both the legal and technical issues involved. Many of our lawyers have advanced scientifi c degrees and industry experience in nanotechnology and related fi elds. This background informs everything they do: from patent applications to venture capital fi nancing, from licensing agreements to mergers and acquisitions, from patent litigation to initial public offerings.

Count on Dorsey every step of the way

Dorsey is proud to shape a brighter future for all of us. And Dorsey is proud to be part of that promising future by working with many technology leaders. In the past year we have represented an exciting variety of nanotechnology enterprises:

• A nano-material company developing proprietary molecules that self-assemble to form crystalline fi lms useful in a variety of applications such as optical fi lms and liquid crystal displays.

• A company developing atomic layer deposition processes and equipment to produce new dielectric and gate materials, processes and devices for future generations of semiconductors.

• A fi rm using proprietary molecules that form nano-aggregates for use in fuel cell membranes and biosensors.

• A company developing testing solutions for sub 130nm semiconductor technology and biochips. The testing solutions involve the ability to modify and create semiconductor components post fabrication.

• BioMEMS company providing low background coatings for the immobilization of biomolecues, such as DNA and proteins, etc., and surface modifi cation for microfl uidic devices.

Also in the past year, our attorneys have been featured presenters at

conferences and seminars for the nanotechnology industry. In these

forums, our lawyers have discussed intellectual property licensing,

commercialization of nanotechnology, fi nancing and more.

• the Foresight Institute, 2005

• IBF Nanotech Investing Forum, February 2005

• NanoSig’s Commercialization and Investment Forum, July 2004

• Fitzsimmons Business Seminar Denver Colorado, November 2004

• IBF Biotech Investing Conference November, 2004

We’ve earned special recognition for the

legal services nanotechnology companies

need most.

Intellectual Property

• Dorsey was included in the select list of fi rms used most

frequently for patent prosecution and intellectual property

counseling work according to law.com, “Who Protects America.”

• According to Managing Intellectual Property, Dorsey is ranked

among the top 30 largest U.S. intellectual property fi rms in 2003.

• Dorsey has the 7th largest patent practice among general

practice fi rms, based on number of attorneys and agents as

ranked in Intellectual Property Today.

• Dorsey represents three of the top fi ve ranked universities based

on U.S. patents received in 2003. (U.S. Patent and Trademark

Offi ce)

Corporate Transactions

• Dorsey ranked second in 2004 among law fi rms for the number

of completed U.S. deals, and seventh in worldwide completed

deals, according to Thomson Financial data.

• Dorsey does deals with cutting-edge companies: in the life

sciences industry alone, Dorsey has completed more than 115

deals worth more than $7 billion over the past 10 years.

Litigation

• Eight Dorsey lawyers have been named to the American College

of Trial Lawyers. Membership in the ACTL is by invitation only

and limited to only 1% of total lawyers per state or Canadian

province.

• In a survey by IP Law & Business, March 2003, Dorsey ranked 3rd

in the number of patent lawsuits fi led on behalf of plaintiffs, and

11th in combined plaintiff and defendant patent lawsuits fi led in

the United States during 2002.Please see our Web site for a Dorsey offi ce near you.

www.dorsey.com