In December 2004, EPCglobal formed a position that the 9 patents held by Intermec Technologies Corporation are not necessary to practice the Generation-2 standard developed by EPCglobal.
Subsequent to EPCglobal's position, Intermec informed EPCglobal that based on their findings,Intermec is relieved of any obligation to grant licenses under that intellectual property and gives Intermec the right to set any terms and conditions it wishes if it chooses to license that intellectual property. As a result, Intermec immediately withdrew its previous commitment to license this intellectual property and to do so on RAND terms.
Following are documents providing the exchange between EPCglobal and Intermec, as well as a document containing Intermec's commentson EPCglobal's IP assessment.
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Market Statistics & information by Venture Development Corporation - A White Paper on Mobile Devices , WLAN Infrastructure, Software and Services
- New research by VDC indicates that traditional laser scanners are losing ground to imagers.
- VDC's analysis of the Symbol acquisition of Matrics
-The worldwide market for enterprise mobility device platforms is forecast to reach $12.3 billion by 2008.
- Market for POS application software to reach nearly $1 billion by 2008.
- White Paper on the AIDCApplication Software Market
- According toVDC's: "Retail Automation Equipment: North American Vertical Market Analysis," more than one third (37.2%) of retailers responding to a Web survey in 2002 cited plans to replace or upgrade POS terminals/workstations by year-end 2003.
- Venture Development Corporation has recently adjusted their market size and compound annual growth rate (CAGR) numbers for RFID in the Supply Chain
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Data, Analysis, and Information by R.W. Baird& Company - RFID to Get Boost, But Investment Options Remain Limited
- Will Tech Data capture market share from ScanSource with its entrance into the bar code market?
- Healthcare Market Moving Towards Increased Bar Coding
- RFID Explained, A Basic Overview
- Information on ScanSource
- Fourth Quarter 2004 Revenue Pre-Release
- Baird Maintains Outperform for ScanSource
- Information on Symbol Technologies
- Positive Bar Code Survey Results
- Positive Reseller Comments
- Information onUNOVA (Intermec Technologies Parent)
- Intermec Results Solid; IAS Mix Unfavorable
- Information on Zebra Technologies
- Third Quarter Results
- Baird Recommends to Buy Zebra on Weakness
- Read RFID Monthly, R.W. Baird's newsletter providing an overview of RFID industry development and the financial performance and valuation multiples of leading RFID companies.
- October 2004
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Data, Analysis, and Information by Raymond James& Associates
- Information on Symbol Technologies
- Symbol Beats 3rd Quarter Expectations
- Information on Zebra Technologies
- Zebra Third Quarter 2004 Results
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Vertical Markets
Information and resources on specific vertical markets is a new addition tothe site. We have started this area with a focus on healthcare. Click herefor more information about this market.
- The Chinese government has as interagency groupresponsible for drafting standards for RFID tracking technology. How will the outcome of their work influence standards in the RFID arena? Click here to find out more.
- EPCglobal has a complete repository of all published Auto-ID Center white papers. Click here to view.
- A new web site called “Competence Center AutoID”, was launched in Germany that allowspotential customers to search via a detailed search path for a certain solutions and to find companies that can offer such a solution. The customer can directly contact all companies he found by a request form. In addition application reports demonstrate the capabilities of Auto ID. Currently this site only exist in German language.
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Industrial Data & Information, Inc has produced the third edition of the "Glossary of Supply Chain Terminology For Logistics, Manufacturing, Warehousing, & Technology". Reviews of the glossary, table of contents, etc., are available on IDII's website at: http://www.IDII.com/gsct_info.htm.
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If you are responsible for implementing or managing in-house RFID label printing operations, Avery Dennison Printer Systems has developed a featurette of three tips that may be helpful for you. Click here to see them.
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Educational Resources
InsightU and The Center For Auto ID at Ohio University
Through a relationship with InsightU and The Center For Automatic Identification at Ohio University, SCAN/DCR is pleased to provide information that will help you define, design and use AIDC technology. Here you will finde-books, self-directedon line education and information about livetelephone conferences.
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