The research, development, manufacture, industrialization, promotion and marketing of medical products, devices and software, as well as the management of intellectual property rights and technical and scientific consulting in the aforementioned fields. The company may also engage in any other activity that has a direct or indirect connection with these purposes; it may in particular create branches, participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad, acquire companies with an identical or similar purpose, or merge with such companies, carry out all operations and conclude all contracts suitable for developing and expanding its purpose or relating directly or indirectly thereto.