by s9800078 | Mar 30, 2020
The Auto-ID Center was a unique partnership between industry and academia. Strictly speaking, the intellectual property belongs to the universities where the research is being conducted. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where the Auto-ID Center started,...
by s9800078 | Mar 30, 2020
EPCglobal charges membership fees. Members are issued Electronic Product Codes to use on their products. EPCglobal doesn’t charge licensing fees to vendors that want to build RFID tags and readers based on the EPC standards.
by s9800078 | Mar 30, 2020
EPCglobal says that it is a royalty-free standard because a vendor doesn’t need to use technology patented by anyone to practice the standard. However, the standard is royalty free in only the most narrowest sense. Most experts say that today there is no...