Comments on: Static over RFID

A key patent holder wants royalties. If that starts a trend, adoption of the wireless tagging technology could suffer.

[royc]

I agree

With the folks wanting money.

This may be the only way to stop this thing. ;)

But the courts will toss it out. Uncle want's it too bad.

[Myron.S]

Not RFID

And I was on the verge of recommending the use of RFID technology within the company I work for, only to find that some leech holding a patent will be trying to coin it in. Gtreed as always.

I think I'll stick to bar-codes. Cheaper.

I can just see it now, far into the future. A asteriod hurtling to Earth that will wipe out nearly all of life on this planet and the laser that can knock it out is 99% built, but it don't get built in time and life is wiped out, because some stupid company wants the royalty to use the last patented component. Shesh! Ok, off-topic, but a curious twist to the topic.

On, topic now, how the hell can humanity progress then everyone is suing everyone else because a patent is violated. Why not just share everything? Just drop the friggin greed!

Want honesty? I don't really want to live on this screwed up planet.

[zaz.net]

Not the first time you've paid a royalty for something.

It is how companies make money. There are millions of items that have held patents. Just because you are used to paying a set price and not knowing each individual patent does not mean they don't have them.

There is a little cover of plastic at the end of a shoe lace that used to have a patent on it. Each pair of shoes or shoe laces that sold with this bit of plastic on them made some inventor very rich.

The tab on your 12 oz can of Pepsi had a patent, and every company wanting to sell soda in a can had to pay this fee for every can they produced.

CD's and audio tapes also had patents. Every new piece of technology has had a patent on it and someone makes money from that patent. Otherwise the incentive to bring new technology out to customers would be lost if anyone could duplicate it.

Mostly I see this as an effort by Intermec to deal a blow to one of their bigger competitors. I think it's more political motivated than over money.

[Michael Grogan]

Honestly now...

I don't want to live on this planet after RFID becomes commonplace and mandatory. Let's hope patent battles permanently bury this scabrous tech before it buries us.

[zaz.net]

Can't stop it...

This is an innevitable product evolution. Patents only cover a technology for a short period of time and then they become public domain. Even if a patent frenzy stifles adoption now, it will eventually be a non-issue and hundreds (instead of today's dozens) of companies will come to market quickly with RFID in it's patent free days.