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Translated patents Volume

This document is a format and structure sample of the RFID 2004 Translated Patents.  It shows the entire structure of that volume.  THE DATA IN THIS SAMPLE IS ACCURATE.  However, only two of the 84 patents are shown and in one case, only half the translation is shown.  The purpose of the sample is to allow a potential buyer to determine the type and depth of information provided in the report. Because of the eliminated material, this sample is substantially reduced in size from the original report, which is over 400 pages long.  This document is only equivalent to 18 pages.

RFID 2004 - Introduction to The Overall Report

This section is a duplicate of the introduction from the Technology Summary.  It is provided with the Translated Patents because is shows an overview of the structure of the entire report as well as describing the structure and content of the Translated Patents volume.  Only the parts related to the Translated Patents volume are shown here. To see this section in detail, please look at the sample Technology Summary.

Report physical structure

The material which makes up RFID 2004 is physically structured into 3 documents which can be purchased separately or in combination:

1. Technology Summary                 100+ pages 
2. Data Base Appendix                    200+ pages
3. Translated Patents                       400+ pages  (This document)

The Translated Patents   (this document) takes 81 patents issued in 2003, and translates the abstract and claims into technical English.  Verbatim copies of the patent abstracts and claims are also included.  These patents were selected because they presented true technical improvements to RFID tag or radio system technology.  The other RFID relevant patents issued in 2003, 217 in total, were aimed at application methods.  The applications were implemented with commercially available RFID products.

Introduction to The Translated Patents Volume

The Translated Patents volume takes 81 patents issued in 2003, and translates the abstract and claims into technical English.  Verbatim copies of the patent abstracts and claims are also included.  These patents were selected because they presented true technical improvements to RFID tag or radio system technology.  The other RFID relevant patents issued in 2003, 217 in total, were aimed at application methods.  The applications were implemented with commercially available RFID products.

Because of the legal language, reading patents can be very difficult and therefore a very expensive effort.  To simplify this effort, all of the RFID related patents in 2003 that made significant technical improvements were translated into technical English.  This is how it was done.

Each of the patents were read completely by the author.  Based on his extensive electronic system background, the abstract and claims were then reworded in summary form in technical English.  A short statement was made summarizing what the patent was about and comments were provided for any special considerations.  Some of the patents were disjoint, meaning the claims, abstract, title and discussion addressed different things.  In this case, comments were provided for each of the sections.  For non-legal personnel who have to work with these patents, using the translations will greatly reduce their effort and make the results more accurate.  The document has the following sections.

( Some material in the Translated Patents volume is repeated from the main document because the Translated Patents volume can be purchased as an independent work.)

Introduction

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Translated Patent Selection Criterion

A detailed review of how the patents were selected. (repeat of the material from the Technology Summary)

What is Passive RFID

This section gives a basic definition of RFID and describes the technical elements and nomenclature used in the technology. (repeat of the material from the Technology Summary)

Translated patents - Technical Summary ( English Translations )

This section provides English language translations for the Abstract and Claims of 84 patents.  81 are from 2003.  3 are prior to 2003 and are included because they present fundamental technology for RFID.  Each patent has the following subsections:

What The Patent Covers

This is a short summary which describes the major technical contribution of the patent.

Comments

This subsection presents opinions of the author which qualify the overall patent summary.

Abstract

This is a reworded summary of the patent Abstract.  If the Abstract is disjoint and doesn’t address the rest of the patent, which occasionally occurs, the wording stays true to the original abstract.  This is pointed out in the comments.

Claims

This is a summary of the technical material presented in the patent Claims.  The claims are reworded on a claim by claim basis so the structure and dependencies are retained.  Claim structuring is added.

Description

This is an optional subsection which is included if the description section of the patent introduces significant material which was not addressed in the claims.

Translated patents – Verbatim

This section presents the same patents as the previous English language translation section.  In this section, the Title, Abstract and Claims are copied directly from the U.S. Patents providing the original legal wording for comparison.

Translated Patents Selection Criterion

This section describes how the 84 patents in this section were selected from the total of 4000+ reviewed.

What is RFID?

This section is duplicated from the Technology Summary report for the convenience of those who only purchased this separable part.