* Aperio Awarded Patent for High Performance Viewing of Digital Slides: Aperio Technologies, Inc., (Aperio), a global leader in digital pathology for the healthcare and life sciences industry, announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued the company patent No. 7,738,688 entitled, "System and Method for Viewing Virtual Slides." Read full story.
* Philips and Dako join forces in digital pathology: Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) and Dako, a Danish company specializing in tissue-based cancer diagnostics, today announced that they have signed an agreement to integrate a selection of Dako’s image analysis applications into Philips’ future digital pathology solutions. Read full story.
* BioImagene Collaborates with America's Best Hospitals, to Advance the Field of Digital Pathology- BioImagene, Inc., the leading provider of innovative digital pathology solutions has added ten new academic medical centers to its roster of collaborators during the last quarter. Many of these collaborators have been named “America's Best Hospitals 2010-2011: The Honor Roll” by U.S. News and World Report. Read full story
* Olympus America Licenses Digital Pathology Patents to BioImagene, Inc. - Olympus America Inc. has signed a nonexclusive worldwide licensing agreement with BioImagene, Inc. of Sunnyvale, California, allowing BioImagene to access an extensive portfolio of Olympus patents in the field of digital pathology and virtual microscopy. This is the most recent of several licenses that Olympus has granted for the technologies, which are considered critical for developing future digital imaging and data handling systems for pathology. Read full story

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