Scientific and research apparatus and instruments; photographic, audiovisual, and optical apparatus and instruments; measuring, detecting, and testing apparatus and instruments; apparatus and instruments for recording, transmitting, reproducing or processing sound, images or data; recorded and downloadable media, computer software, blank digital or analogue recording and storage media; computers and computer peripheral devices; testing apparatus not for medical purposes; distance recording apparatus; downloadable image files; biochips; data processing apparatus; diagnostic apparatus, not for medical purposes; measuring devices, electric; frequency meters; computer programs, recorded; computer software, recorded; computer programs, downloadable; computer software applications, downloadable; interfaces for computers; laboratory trays; laboratory robots; lasers, not for medical purposes; magnifying glasses [optics]; microscopes; microtomes; objectives [lenses] [optics]; containers for microscope slides; prisms [optics]; spectroscopes; microscopic apparatus and instruments; LED microscopes; microscopes with digital image recording; digital microscopic high throughput scanners; digital and fully automated microscopes; remote-controlled microscopes; microscopes for medical purposes; biologic microscopes; lighting assemblies, reflectors, lenses, objectives, and prisms for microscopes; slides for microscopes; processors for microscopes; computer software for microscopes; computer software for image processing; computer software for image processing of images recorded via microscopes; laboratory apparatus and instruments for the preparation of specimens; x-ray, magnetic resonance, tomosynthesis, ultrasound, and microscopic apparatus and instruments for analysis of tissue samples; computer software for digitizing of slides for viewing, integration with other data, management and analysis, in particular in the areas of virtual microscopy, digital pathology, digital hematology, and medical information technology; automated digital scan system, consisting of computer hardware and computer software, in particular comprising optical microscopes, motorized sample positioning, digital image recording, data processing, manipulation and display, in particular for being used in scanning and digitizing microscope slides in research and clinical applications; content management software for digitized microscope slides; microscopes for use in medical laboratories; microscope system comprising a plurality of networked digital microscopes and a laboratory robot for distributing slides among the digital microscopes.