Medtech manufacturers may soon have clearer guidelines on how to get their products through the FDA’s 510(k) process—with the changes meant to address the widespread criticism of the regulatory pathway in recent years by ...
St. Jude Medical and Volcano Corp. have apparently decided to stand down when it comes to lawsuits related to technologies including tunable lasers used in optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging systems. The two companies have agreed ...
Robotic-assisted surgery device maker Intuitive Surgical has announced an acceleration of its $1 billion share buyback program from Goldman, Sachs & Co. in an effort to prop up its dwindling stock price. The embattled Sunnyvale, ...
US-based vehicle maker General Motors (GM) has urged a local court to offer protection from certain lawsuits being filed against the company over a recall led by faulty ignition switches. The company has been facing an increase in ...
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The arms of Intuitive Surgical's da Vinci Xi Surgical System, as shown on its website. Few, it seems these days, are happy with Intuitive Surgical. Following on the heels of the debut of its latest Da Vinci Xi robotic surgery offering, ...
Lenovo is buying up patents related to 3G and 4G technologies from U.S.-based Unwired Planet for US$100 million, as the company sets about expanding with its proposed Motorola Mobility acquisition. The 21 patent families Lenovo is ...
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Faulty software in Toyota's popular Prius hybrids has forced the Japanese automaker to recall 1.9 million of such vehicles worldwide. The huge recall—representing more than half of all Prius cars ever sold—shows how Toyota has ...
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The Nicaraguan government has granted a concession to a mysterious Chinese company owned by Jing Wang, a little-known Hong-Kong based businessman, to build an inter-oceanic canal. This would provide an alternative to the Panama Canal that, ...
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Google has exited the smartphone manufacturing business and shored up Android's legal defenses in the smartphone patent wars in a single week. The technology giant sold off Motorola Mobility to Lenovo in a US $12.5-billion deal on Wednesday ...
The Android ecosystem and wearable technology will probably get a boost from the patent deal Google and Samsung have struck, but the agreement is unlikely to have an influence on Samsung’s intellectual property disputes with Apple, ...
If you didn’t know, now you know: there probably shouldn’t be any expectation that credit card information—or any personal details stored in digital form—is completely safe from hackers. Just as shoppers in the ...
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A New Mexico judge has granted a preliminary injunction preventing Valley Meat Co. LLC from opening its long-sought horse processing plant in Roswell. The ruling came on the same day President Barack Obama signed into law a bipartisan ...
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Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay: Judge Rejects Legal Challenge Against Health Insurance Subsidies A legal challenge against health care insurance subsidies for ...
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'Smart' Contact Lenses Would Measure Sugar Levels in Diabetics Google is working on smart contact lenses that would measure sugar (glucose) levels in the tears of people with diabetes. If successful, the contacts would offer diabetics a ...
Apple has added a new patent to its flexible patent arsenal in Korea, according to a Patently Apple report. The report uncovered a discreetly filed patent under engineer member names, and noted as Apples patent lawsuits with Korean ...
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