Owner Assa Abloy AB a Swedish Corporation

Convention US 4 April 2006 78/853,856

Service Davies Collison Cave

Various Convention priority claimed: 4 April 2006, United States of America, No. 78/853,856 in respect of RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID) SYSTEMS AND THEIR INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS, NAMELY, RFID CREDENTIALS, READERS AND WRITERS FOR COMMUNICATING WITH THE RFID

Filing Date 4 October 2006

Class 9 Electronic apparatus and instruments; radio frequency identification (RFID) systems and their individual components, namely, RFID credentials, readers and writers for communicating with the RFID credentials, and programmers for programming the RFID credentials, wherein the RFID credentials are in the form of cards, tags, or keys, and wherein the RFID credentials and the readers and writers communicate using RFID contactless or RFID proximity technology; magnetic stripe systems and their individual components, namely, magnetic stripe cards and readers for communicating with the magnetic stripe cards; Wiegand systems and their individual components, namely, Wiegand credentials and readers for communicating with the Wiegand credentials, wherein the Wiegand credentials are in the form of cards, tags or keys; RFID reader and writer modules for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs); contact smart chip modules; multiple technology-based credentials and readers and writers, which combine one or more RFID systems with one or more systems selected from magnetic stripe systems, Wiegand systems, contact smart chip systems, key pad systems, bar code systems, biometric systems, anti-counterfeiting systems, and photo identification systems; data routers for computer networks used in the fields of security and access control; and software for issuing and managing RFID credentials