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by Stephanie Neil, MA Editorial Staff Posted on Friday, November 03, 2006 3:10:08 PM   There's intellectual property in every piece of technology. It's just a fact of business life. So Intermec Technologies Corp., which has a broad portfolio of passive radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, recently decided to give its licensees a break by launching the RFID Rapid Start Licensing Program. The program, which kicked off in June and continues through to the end of August, is geared toward simplifying and reducing the fee for licensing its RFID IP. It gives companies access to its 145 patents -- many of which apply to EPCGlobal's Gen2 spec -- in the hopes of enabling them to get product to market faster and cost effectively. It also offers amnesty for any past infringement. Intermec, which has been at the center of an IP dispute with Symbol Technologies, and to a lesser extent with EPCGlobal over the royalty-free Gen2 spec, is trying to make a chivalrous gesture with this program. [Click to continue] |