Receipt of the decision on granting patent protection for theinvention in the territory of Japan.

TheExecutive Board of Genomtec S.A. ("Company", "Issuer") registered inWroclaw, Poland, hereby reports that today The Company has learned abouta positive decision of the Japanese Patent Office granting the Companypatent protection for an invention entitled _quot;A method of detectinggenetic material in a biological sample and a device for itsimplementation_quot;. Granting a patent is conditional on the Issuer payingthe required official fees for which the Management Board of GenomtecS.A. has agreed.The invention covers the keytechnical solutions related to the proprietary contactless heating andtemperature detection system developed for POCT platforms, includingGenomtec ID.The Issuer informs that this is the first patentgranted by the Japanese Patent Office and the fourth patent received bythe Company. The Issuer is pending over twenty patent applications allover the world.The Issuer's Management Board decided that thereceipt of the above patent is confidential information, as in the caseof an entity operating on the molecular diagnostics market, it isnecessary to effectively protect intellectual and industrial property.Properly secured intellectual and industrial property may constitute theIssuer's competitive advantage - and its safe commercialization ispossible provided that full protection is ensured on selected markets.Inthe opinion of the Management Board, a high level of intellectualproperty protection will also provide the Company with an appropriatenegotiating position before signing commercial agreements with selectedpartners in the scope of implementing the commercialization strategy.Patentproceedings are aimed at securing key interests and are in line with theIssuer's development strategy, which includes building a portfolio ofintellectual property rights. POCT diagnostics using the Genomtec IDplatform is the key area of the Issuer's operations. For these reasons,in the opinion of the Management Board, this information meets thecriteria of confidential information within the meaning of Art. 7 sec. 1MAR.