The company's purpose is to search for, develop and market licenses and patents, manufacture and contractually manufacture devices and medical technologies and products and accessories related to health protection, as well as any activity in this context; marketing, sales, distribution, import and export of devices and medical technologies as well as products and accessories related to health protection, as well as any activity in this context; the acquisition, commercial operation and transfer of rights and technologies in intellectual property, including patented or non-patented know-how; the acquisition and transfer of tangible assets and private property anywhere, as well as the acquisition and transfer of participations or other interests in companies, branches, businesses or other units, including their management and administration, with the exception of activities prohibited by the BewG. The company may provide direct or indirect financing to its direct or indirect subsidiaries and its direct or indirect parent companies and their direct or indirect subsidiaries, whether through loans or other financing, and provide security of any kind for the liability of such other companies, in particular in the form of guarantees of any kind and pledges or security assignments of the company's assets, whether paid or unpaid. It may also carry out all commercial, financial or property transactions that are directly or indirectly related to its purpose.