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Research and Markets, a Dublin, Ireland, market research company, has published a report, "Worldwide Government Policy and Initiatives in Nanotechnology 2004," that it says gives a comprehensive overview of government policy and initiatives in nanotechnology worldwide from Canada to Taiwan, Australia to the Ukraine. For more information, visit: www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c1365 . . . Molecular Imprints Inc (MII), an Austin, Texas, manufacturer of step-and-flash imprint lithography equipment, has made an agreement with semiconductor equipment manufacturers KLA-Tencor Corp.,of San Jose, Calif., to distribute MII’s advanced lithography systems in the US and Asia. MII also announced that Brewer Science, a supplier of chemical solutions and equipment for the microelectronics and optoelectronics industries, will be a distributor of the imprint materials and resists used in all of MII’s nanolithography systems. Brewer Science, based in Rolla, Mo., was also an investor in MII’s Series B funding round.