Olympus Partnership Development Group (PDG), San Jose, CA, was formed in October 2001 and is part of the R&D division of Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, Japan. Its primary mission is to represent Olympus` MEMS foundry business and MEMS chip products. It was established to accelerate the success of partner companies through technology and business alliances. PDG also provides access to Olympus resources in R&D, engineering, precision manufacturing from prototyping to ramp up, sales, marketing, distribution and financial investment.

Olympus is a member of the Micro/Nanofabrication Technology Foundry Network System Concept Fact Finding Committee made up of nine universities and laboratories and 13 corporations.

http://www.semiconductor-technology.com/projects/olympus/

They have the experienced in-house team to ascertain if there is any patent infringement.

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