FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

MARKSMEN TO DELIVER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INVESTIGATION AND RECOVERY THROUGH VERISIGN’S DIGITAL BRAND MANAGEMENT SERVICES.

Marksmen's Market Leading Expertise Gives Enterprises Vital Business Information To Protect Their Brands

Glendale CA., May 9, 2002 – Marksmen Inc., a market leader in Intellectual property investigation and recovery today announced that Marksmen’s service offerings will be distributed in the United States as part of the VeriSign Digital Brand Management Services portfolio. Markmen will offer Internet domain name and trademark recovery for VeriSign Inc.’s customers.

“VeriSign has clearly made the move to provide one-stop shopping in the area of digital brand management and protection services”, said Ken Taylor, president and chief executive officer of Marksmen. “We are pleased to be an important part of what we feel are robust enterprise solutions that will become the industry standard much like VeriSign has achieved with authentication and security.”

Marksmen currently works with Fortune 500 companies, the world’s most prominent IP law firms, Big 5 accounting partnerships and top technology corporations. Marksmen investigates, patrols and negotiates the rights to Trademarks, Patents, Copyrights and Internet Domain Names with three distinct product lines:

Investigations

Marksmen specializes in IP Investigations and helps companies clear or protect their brands by identifying conflicts, infringement, priority channels of trade and/or abandonment.

Recovery

Marksmen negotiates the purchase or sale of trademark rights and domain names keeping their client’s identity a secret and their costs down. Marksmen keeps apprised of the latest requirements of the various domain registries worldwide to expedite registrations and transfers.

Internet Watch

Marksmen’s eBeagle^® service polices enterprise brands on the Internet by investigating Web sites, META tags and hidden text to dig up and identify content misuse. eBeagle® also finds unauthorized use of logos and design marks and monitors top level and country code domain name registrations.

About Marksmen

Founded in 1998, Marksmen is a world leader in IP protection services, including trademark clearance and enforcement investigations, determining business method patents and processes, establishing and locating prior art, due diligence, worldwide on-ground investigations, litigation support and Internet related infringements. Additionally, Marksmen negotiates for the purchase or sale of IP rights internationally and monitors the Internet for both Web content and domain name registrations.

For more information please see the company’s website at www.marksmen.com or contact:

Jeremy Johnson
818.827.5471
jjohnson@marksmen.com