7 January 2009
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Trademarks

"Black Hole Quencher", "BHQ", "CAL Fluor", "Quasar", "Pulsar" and "SuperROX" are registered trademarks of Biosearch Technologies, Inc. "RealTimeDesign", "RTD", "ValuProbe", and "BHQplus" are trademarks of Biosearch Technologies, Inc. "The Inescapable Solution", "Chemistry for Genomics" and "Advancing Nucleic Acid Technology" are servicemarks of Biosearch Technologies, Inc.

The Black Hole Quencher technology is protected in the United States and other countries by U.S. patents and continuations numbered 7,019,129, 7,019,129B1 and 7,019,312B2 issued to Biosearch Technologies, Inc. The CAL Fluor technology is covered by U.S. patent number 7,334,701. The Quasar technology is covered by U.S.P.T.O. patent application number US2005/0214833A1. The Pulsar technology is covered by U.S.P.T.O. patent application US2004/0146895A1.

Molecular Beacons for R&D purposes are manufactured for R&D applications under license issued by the Public Health Research Institute. "Scorpions" is a registered trademark of DxS, Ltd. of Manchester, UK and are manufactured for R&D applications under license issued by DxS to Biosearch Technologies, Inc. "Amplifluor Direct" is a registered trademark of the Serologicals Corp. and are manufactured for R&D applications under license issued by Serologicals. "MGB" is a trademark of Nanogen, Inc. "Plexor" is a trademark of Promega Corp. and are manufactured for R&D applications only.

"TaqMan" and "LightCycler" are registered trademarks of Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. "Prism" is a registered trademark of Applied Biosystems. "iCycler", "Opticon2" and "Chromo 4" are registered trademarks of Bio-Rad Laboratories. "SmartCycler" and "SmartCycler II" are registered trademarks of Cepheid. "Rotor-Gene" is a trademark of Corbett Research. "MX 3000P" and "MX4000" are registered trademarks of Stratagene, Inc.

"Texas Red", "Alexa", "Pacific Blue", "Marina Blue", "BODIPY", "Oregon Green", "Rhodamine Green" and "Rhodamine Red" are trademarks of Molecular Probes, Inc.

"Cy", "Cy Dye" and "Sepharose" are trademarks of GE Healthcare.

"AMPS" as used is an acronym for aminomethylpolystyrene and should not be confused with the "AMPS®" trademark held by The Lubrizol Corporation as a trademark for their product 2-acrylamido-2-methylpropanesulfonic acid.

Black Hole Quencher dyes for incorporation into dual-labeled fluorogenic probes are available only through Biosearch Technologies, Inc. and selected licensed vendors world-wide.

PCR Licensing

Certain aspects of PCR technology may be proprietary, and may be claimed by US patents including patents owned by Roche Molecular Systems Inc. or licensed by Roche from Life Technologies (formerly Applied Biosystems, Inc.), in certain fields. Depending on your specific application you may wish to obtain a license from Roche or Life Technologies to practice certain aspects of PCR. In addition, the 5' nuclease assay and certain other homogeneous amplification methods used in connection with the PCR process may be claimed by certain patents of Roche or Life Technologies, including U.S. Patents 5,210,015 and 5,487,972, owned by Roche Molecular Systems, Inc, and U.S. Patent 5,538,848, owned by Life Technologies. The purchase of Biosearch Technologies products does not, either expressly or by implication, provide a license under any patent rights owned by Roche or Life Technologies. Inquiries about obtaining a license under such rights can be made by contacting the Director of Licensing, Life Technologies, 850 Lincoln Centre Drive, Foster City, CA 94404 or the Licensing Department at Roche Molecular Systems Inc., 1145 Atlantic Avenue, Alameda, CA 94501.

Product Usage

All products offered for sale by Biosearch Technologies are sold under the condition that they be used for research purposes only and are prohibited from use in diagnostic applications unless explicitly authorized by agreement with Biosearch.

Black Hole Quencher® (BHQ) dyes are sold to the purchaser for internal R&D use only and are not to be used for clinical or clinical diagnostic purposes. Neither the BHQ dyes nor the compounds synthesized with them are to be re-packaged or re-sold. Separate licenses for other than the aforementioned internal R&D application may be available. Please inquire via info@biosearchtech.com.

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