NameProtect Upgrades their Back Office Operations by Replacing Existing Solution with VIMA’s ImageMatch™ Library

"We’ve been building a reputation as the most accurate, fastest, and highest value solution to image recognition, searching, and annotation challenges.”

Santa Barbara, CA - December 6th, 2004 - VIMA Technologies announced today that NameProtect, Inc. of Madison, Wisconsin signed a multi-year contract to use VIMA’s new ImageMatch™ Library in their back office operations to speed up copyright infringement identification for their clients.

“Basically they were dissatisfied with the value they were getting from their previous image matching vendor. We’ve been building a reputation as the most accurate, fastest, and highest value solution to image recognition, searching, and annotation challenges. Once we got the chance to compete for their business and after an extensive trial, we dislodged the incumbent and negotiated a contract that was a win for both companies and most importantly, NameProtect’s customers”, explained David Telleen-Lawton, VIMA’s CEO.

NameProtect Inc. is the premier provider of eMarket Intelligence and tools focused on increasing Brand Value and shareholder equity in the corporate market place. NameProtect empowers their clients with proactive, filtered, and actionable eMarket Intelligence supporting the protection of brand assets, recovery of diverted revenues, and detection of online identity theft & fraud in today's global economy. VIMA’s ImageMatch™ software speeds up the identification of copyright protected images ranging from logos to product depictions. NameProtect’s has more than 500 clients in the technology, financial, manufacturing, energy and retail sectors, including JP Morgan Chase, 3M, BP, Unilever, Target, Nestle and MasterCard.

NameProtect is VIMA’s first ImageMatch™ client outside of the stock photo industry. VIMA has been instrumental in litigation support for their customers in the stock photo industry using previous versions of their ImageMatch™ software to help them identify their images among thousands of images copied and displayed without license on fraudulent sites.

About VIMA Technologies, Inc.
VIMA’s patented image search and image categorization processes allow it to lead the industry in content-based image search and categorization for both speed and accuracy. VIMA is probably best known for the only active learning image search solution in the market and the only company offering tunable image categorization and filtering solutions. VIMA Technologies, Inc. is a privately financed company located in Goleta California, just across the street from the University of California at Santa Barbara. For more information, visit: www.VIMAtech.com.

NameProtect, Inc.
is a trademark and digital brand protection company that provides a comprehensive suite of trademark research, trademark watching and advanced online brand monitoring services that help practitioners meet the evolving Intellectual Property challenges of the digital era. With its VigilActive® online monitoring service and Internet Intelligence Index, NameProtect is helping major brand holding companies from around the globe police and protect their brands. NameProtect’s customers include leading law firms, Fortune 500 companies and other businesses worldwide. Founded in 1997, NameProtect is headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, and privately held. Additional information about NameProtect can be obtained via the company’s Web site located at: www.NameProtect.com.

VIMA Technologies, Inc. is located at 120 Cremona Drive, Goleta, California 93117. You can reach us by telephone at 805-685-7067 or via email at info@VIMAtech.com.

For Media Inquiries, contact:

David Telleen-Lawton
Phone: (805)685-7067
Fax: (805)685-2178
DTL@VIMAtech.com