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Cambridge, UK and New York, USA (May 4, 2010) – Science and technology focused busines intelligence provider CambridgeIP today announced the acquisition of Boliven.com for an undisclosed sum Boliven.com is one of the world’s top information portals for R&D, IP and business development professionals.

Quentin Tannock, Co-Founder and Chairman of CambridgeIP said, "This acquisition provides a platform to CambridgeIP’s continued innovation in analytics and value added services for R&D intensive industries. We have exciting plans to augment the existing Boliven.com with CambridgeIP capabilities and services, increasing the value of Boliven.com to high-technology businesses, their investors and advisors. We are delighted to welcome Boliven as part of the CambridgeIP family and Thomas D. Lehrman, Founder and CEO of Boliven LLC, as a member of our Advisory Board."

"Our goal all along at Boliven has been to make it possible for IP and R&D professionals to develop new business opportunities around the trusted data and information that they use every day." said Thomas D. Lehrman. "We're very happy about the progress we have made in building a leading technology platform and professional network in our field providing users a unique set of search, analytic and professional networking tools. CambridgeIP will enable Boliven.com to help leading technology enterprises more directly as they seek to enhance the productivity of their R&D, business development and intellectual property functions."

"We will continue to deliver on our mission to enable the use of patent and non-patent technical literature across a wider spectrum of industries and users in innovative ways, in both developed and emerging emarkets" added Ilian Iliev, Co-Founder and CEO of CambridgeIP.

About CambridgeIP

CambridgeIP is a business intelligence provider to R&D intensive industries including Health & Life Sciences and CleanTech. The company was founded in 2006 by Ilian Iliev (CEO) and Quentin Tannock (Chairman).

CambridgeIP's proprietary methods and software tools leverage leading edge data mining and data analysis techniques providing clients with critical information and fact-based advice and technology intelligence. CambridgeIP works with major corporations, innovation and product design consultancies, academic research institutes & public sector organisations helping to gather Patent-based business intelligence; obtain competitive intelligence; identify and undertake due diligence on collaboration partners or acquisition targets; and improve recruitment through rapid identification of relevant technical experts. CambridgeIP runs www.boliven.com - the leading science literature database and analytics platform enabling access to over 100 million patents, journal articles and other documents. As CambridgeIP develops www.boliven.com R&D departments will identify new opportunities for open innovation, consumers will have greater choice of free and paid-for IP information services across many industry sectors. Strategy and business development professionals will gain new tools to identify potential partners, licensing and acquisitions opportunities. CambridgeIP is physically based in Cambridge, UK and in London, UK and has representation in the USA and Switzerland. We work with clients around the globe.

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