December 23, 2005
Patent pool by the RFID Consortium
The RFID Consortium is laying down a structure for preparing a patent pool for the intellectual property required for UHF RFID standards developed by EPCGlobal and ISO. The consortium first stated its plan to form a patent pool in August 2005 and in September 2005; it chose MPEG LA, LLC for administrating the RFID patent licensing process.
The consortium has eight official members including Alien Technology, Applied Wireless Identifications Group (AWID), Avery Dennison, Moore Wallace, and Symbol Technologies. A patent-pool consortium will allow the equipment providers to interact with a single body for licensing related matters. morerfid.com reports:
Consortium patent pool participants benefit by sharing in the consortium's royalty stream according to a patent pool formula devised by the participating companies.
Read More: The RFID Patent Pool
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