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Anoto Group AGM Information 2010

May 6, 2010

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AGM Information

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Report from Annual General Meeting in Anoto Group AB (publ.)

Lund, May 6, 2010 - At the Annual General Meeting of Anoto Group AB in Lund, May 5, 2010, the following resolutions were passed.

Annual report, adoption of report etc.

The AGM adopted the consolidated income statements and balance sheets. The annual report was distributed and approved. The Board Members and CEO were discharged from liability. No dividends are to be paid.

CEO Statement

The CEO of Anoto Group, Anders Norling, gave his comments on the most significant events during 2009 and also reported on the first quarter interim report for 2010 announced on May 5.

Election of Board of Directors and Directors fees

The AGM resolved according to the slightly changed proposal presented by the Nomination Committee at the AGM that the Board shall consist of 6 members, after which Board Members Hans Otterling, Stein Revelsby and Charlotta Falvin were re-elected, and Joonhee Won, Paddy Padmanabhan and Jörgen Durban were elected new Board Members until the end of next year's AGM.

The AGM also resolved to elect Jörgen Durban Chairman of the Board.

Joonhee Won, born 1965, holds an MBA from Harvard University and is the chairman of TIME Education, an Asian education company, and TStone Corp where he also is CEO. Joonhee Won has a long experience from the private equity industry where he among other positions has held leading positions with Smith Salomon Barney and Lehman Brothers in Asia and USA.

Paddy Padmanabhan, born 1955, holds an MBA from the University of Florida. He is Managing Director at DoubleDay Holdings and a board member of Expedata and Vision Objects. Paddy Padmanabhan has a long experience in management consulting and leading M&A efforts in high technology businesses. He has served as a practice leader in the Transaction Advisory practice at Ernst & Young and as director in the Management Consulting practice at PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

Jörgen Durban, born 1956, holds an LL.M from Stockholm University. He is an independent consultant, primarily in the bank industry and was previously managing partner of Linklaters in Sweden. Jörgen Durban is independent from the company and larger shareholders.

The annual Board fee is to be SEK 1 325 000, out of which SEK 450 000 is to be paid to the Chairman of the Board (unchanged) and SEK 175 000 to each of the other Board Members (unchanged).

The AGM resolved that the Auditors shall be reimbursed according to approved invoice.

Resolution on Nomination Committee

The AGM resolved in accordance with the Board's proposal for Nomination Committee to commission the Chairman of the Board to contact the four largest shareholders in Anoto, according to the list of shareholders at the end of September 2010, and ask them to appoint one representative each to form the Nomination Committee together with him until a new Nomination Committee has been appointed. The representative for the largest shareholder in the Nomination Committee shall be Chairman of the Committee. The majority of the Nomination Committee shall not be Board Members.

In case a shareholder that has appointed a member to the Nomination Committee materially reduces his holding of shares in the Company, the member that has been appointed by such shareholder shall resign, if the Nomination Committee so decides. Instead, another major shareholder shall in consultation with the remaining members be offered to appoint a member of the Nomination Committee. If a shareholder becomes one of the four major shareholders during the work of the Nomination Committee, the committee can decide to offer this shareholder a position on the Nomination Committee.

The names of the members of the Nomination Committee, the shareholders they represent and information on who has been appointed Chairman shall be presented as soon as the members have been appointed, however, no later than six months prior to the Annual General Meeting 2011. No remuneration shall be paid for the work carried out by the Nomination Committee. The Company shall pay reasonable costs for the recruitment of Board Members.

Authorization

The Annual General Meeting resolved in accordance with the Board's proposal to authorize the Board of Directors to, on one or several occasions prior to the next Annual General Meeting, resolve on an issue of a maximum of 12,000,000 new shares with provisions for non-cash payment or payment against set-off of claims and/or directed share issue to the capital market or else on conditions enabling the waiving of shareholders' preferential rights. The reason for permitting issues of new shares waiving the shareholders' preferential rights is to enable company/business acquisitions against full or part payment in the form of shares or cash after a direct issue to the capital market.

In a cash issue, the issue price for the new shares shall be fixed to a price close to the price for the share on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm.

Should the authorization be fully exercised it would result in a dilution of approx. 8.5 percent based on the total number of shares after full exercise of the authorization.

Resolution on guidelines for compensation to the Executives of the Company

The Annual General Meeting resolved in accordance with the Board's proposal on the guidelines for compensation and other employment conditions to the CEO and other executives of the Company.

For more information: Jörgen Durban Chairman of the Board Anoto Group AB (publ.) Phone: +46 703 26 66 81

About Anoto Group:

Anoto Group is the company behind and world leading in the unique technology for digital pen and paper, which enables fast and reliable transmission of handwritten text into a digital format. Anoto operates through a global partner network that focuses on user-friendly forms solutions for efficient capture, transmission and storage of data within different business segments, e.g. healthcare, bank and finance, transport and logistics and education. The Anoto Group has around 110 employees, offices in Lund (head office), Boston and Tokyo. The Anoto share is traded on the Small Cap list of OMX Nordic Exchange in Stockholm under the ticker ANOT. For more information: www.anoto.com.