OUR STRATEGY  > INVESTMENT AND EXPANSION More R&D Resources More New-Product Sales More Patents FULL RANGE OF  ORTHOPAEDIC PRODUCTS METHOD AND PRODUCT PATENTS  FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY The addition of Centerpulse not only strengthened Zimmer’s leading posi- tion in reconstructive orthopaedics, but also added new spine and dental businesses. Today, Zimmer offers more than 100,000 orthopaedic product SKU’s. Our pending acquisi- tion of Implex Corp., the developer of Trabecular Metal Technology, will allow us to use our extensive R&D resources to apply this technology  to new areas. We will also expand the existing Implex line of  Trabecular Metal spinal products to be sold through the new Zimmer Spine divi- sion. Our dental business will also benefit by Zimmer’s R&D strength  in reconstructive orthopaedics. Zimmer owns or controls through licenses more than 1,000 patents, signaling and protecting our technol- ogy leadership. We received a unique methods patent covering 17 claims related to our  MIS 2-Incision Total Hip Replacement, and five additional patents are pending. We are building our intellectual property with five patents pending for our  MIS Transformation Technology Hip Fixation concept. Two patents  relevant to the concept are already issued. And we have filed seven patent applications for our  MIS Quad-Sparing TM Knee Methods  and Instrumentation. Computer-aided design is used in the development of MIS instrumentation. NEW PRODUCT OFFERINGS 7