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Intermec Claims RFID is Proprietary
seeks2know writes "Line56.com reports that Intermec is claiming patents on RFID chips, readers, and tags. They have launched their first lawsuit against Matrics. They seek to sell licenses to all RFID manufacturers. Erik Michielsen of ABI Research states '...this definitely clouds the UHF Generation 2 standards discussions and is fueling considerable animosity in the industry.'
Interestingly, the patents that Intermec is claiming were acquired in their acquisition of IBM's RFID laboratory in December, 1997. Another case of a submarine patent strategy?"
Kerry fact of the day: Missed 2/3 of all Senate votes, worst attendance record in US Senate.
And John Edwards has an equally bad voting record, it's quite hard to be a senator and run for office at the same time.
However, should Kerry's vote ever be needed to really decide an issue, the Democrats could simply filibuster until he returns to delay the vote.
The fact is, ever since the primary election season, whenever Kerry or any presidential-hopeful senator has been in town, the Republicans have used their control of the agenda to see to it that there would be no roll calls taken so that Kerry and Edwards could end up with the worst voting records.
So far, only one issue has been lost by the Democrats by one vote... but you even need to throw an asterisk next to that because it was an absolute lopsided issue with several Democrats voting with the Republicans. The exact number of Republicans needed crossed over and voted against a bill they actually supported in order to generate that one-vote decison "on the record" that wasn't one in reality.