Friday, March 11, 2005 in News
“EPCglobal received two new claims from Intermec Technologies, an Everett, Wash.-based RFID systems provider and one of the largest holders of RFID patents, that Intermec will charge reasonable and nondiscriminatory (RAND) royalties for the use of two pieces of intellectual property it says are part of a draft Application-Level Events (ALE) specification that EPCglobal is hoping to standardize. The purpose of the ALE specification is to provide an interface for filtering and consolidating EPC-related data from a variety of sources. ”