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Intermec Technologies and Symbol Technologies have finally reached an agreement that settles their RFID intellectual property (IP) dispute. In addition, all other pending and anticipated legal actions have been placed on hold while the two companies attempt to resolve their remaining intellectual property disputes.
In June 2004, Intermec filed a patent infringement suit against Matrics Corp. (now Symbol Technologies), related to Intermec''s RFID patents. Under terms of this agreement between the two companies, Symbol Technologies has joined Intermec''s Rapid Start RFID intellectual property licensing programme. 116.30.197.100 This article is copyright 2005 UsingRFID.com.
Both companies say the agreement is a fair compromise of the issues related to RFID and that subsequent efforts to reach resolution of all legal disputes is in the best interests of shareholders and customers, and will encourage accelerated adoption of RFID and automated data collection technologies within the industry.
Sharing patents
Intermec''s Rapid Start programme provides access to a number of Intermec RFID patent portfolios, including RFID tags and fixed and portable readers. Symbol Technologies is also providing Intermec with access to its RFID intellectual property by exercising the cross-licensing provisions of the Rapid Start programme. In addition, Intermec is to file for dismissal of its RFID lawsuit in the Delaware district court.
Team players
At the same time, Intermec has released the names of companies now participating in the licensing programme (for which registration was required before August 31st, 2005). These technology developers will soon be providing licensed RFID equipment based on the shared IP portfolio:
Accu-Sort
Avery Dennison
AWID
Datamax
EM Micro
Feig Electronics
Hand Held Products
LXE
Metrologic
Paxar
PSC
Psion Teklogix
SAMSys
Sato
Symbol Technologies
Texas Instruments
ThingMagic
Toppan Printing
Zebra Technologies
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