Bosch Purchases Fast Logic(TM) Portfolio License

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Wed Aug 27, 2008 9:00am EDT

CUPERTINO, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
Alliacense today announced that Robert Bosch GmbH has purchased a
Fast Logic(TM) Portfolio license from The TPL Group. Bosch
manufactures and sells a wide range of automobile systems, consumer
tools and appliances, as well as industrial and trade products and
services.

   "We welcome Bosch as one of our first Fast Logic Portfolio
licensees," said Joe Minville, Vice President, Licensing for
Alliacense. Noting the widespread use of the Fast Logic Portfolio
technologies, he added, "We are actively engaging dozens of other
companies worldwide to discuss Fast Logic Portfolio licensing
opportunities."

   The Fast Logic Portfolio protects innovative design techniques
that have enabled many past and currently available commercial
products to achieve significant performance advantages. The related
patents are fundamental to dozens of microprocessor-based key features
and benefits in contemporary consumer and commercial products ranging
from mobile phones, personal computers and servers to automobile
systems, scientific instruments and medical equipment.

   "This Fast Logic Portfolio agreement marks an important milestone
as our fifth royalty producing licensing program under Alliacense
management since the company's founding in 2004," said Mac Leckrone,
President of Alliacense. "We are obviously pleased with the market's
response to our unique approach to licensing."

   About the Fast Logic Portfolio

   The Fast Logic Portfolio contains intellectual property that was
initially developed by Thunderbird Technologies of Morrisville, NC.
The Fast Logic Portfolio includes many popular design techniques for
the implementation of high-speed logic circuits that improve the
speed, power consumption, and noise immunity of digital CMOS based
integrated circuits. The Fast Logic Portfolio technologies are used
widely in the memory and logic circuits on which modern
microprocessor-based systems rely. After pursuing the technologies for
over a decade, Thunderbird entered into a joint venture with TPL in
2007 to strengthen and extend their R&D efforts as well as to
commercialize the proprietary Fast Logic Portfolio technologies.

   About the Bosch Group

   The Bosch Group is a leading global supplier of automotive and
industrial technology, consumer goods, and building technology. The
Bosch Group comprises Robert Bosch GmbH and its more than 300
subsidiaries and regional companies in roughly 50 countries. The
special ownership structure of Robert Bosch GmbH guarantees the
entrepreneurial freedom of the Bosch Group, making it possible for the
company to plan over the long term and to undertake significant
up-front investments in the safeguarding of its future. The company
was set up in Stuttgart in 1886 by Robert Bosch (1861-1942) as
"Workshop for Precision Mechanics and Electrical Engineering." To
learn more, visit www.bosch.com.

   About Alliacense

   Alliacense is a TPL Group Enterprise executing best-in-class
design and implementation of Intellectual Property (IP) licensing
programs. As a cadre of IP licensing strategists, technology experts,
and experienced business development/management executives, Alliacense
focuses on expanding the awareness and value of TPL's IP portfolios.
Founded in 1988, The TPL Group has emerged as a coalition of high
technology enterprises involved in the development, management and
commercialization of proprietary product technologies as well as the
design, manufacture and sales of proprietary products based on those
technologies and corresponding IP assets. For more information, visit
www.alliacense.com.

   Alliacense and Fast Logic are trademarks of Technology Properties
Limited (TPL).

   All other trademarks belong to their respective owners.

Alliacense
Shawn Clark, 408-446-4222
shawnc@tplgroup.net

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