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Yeon secures IP rights in Europe and Taiwan

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Yeon Technology, a Taiwan-based RFID developer, has announced it has secured design protection for four of its RFID devices in the European Union. Additionally, it has received three patents in Taiwan for technology related to its UHF antenna designs.

Yeon Technology is a subsidiary of the YFY Group, a conglomerate of Asian businesses that began with the packaging manufacturer Yuen Foong Yu Paper Manufacturing. The RFID business was founded in 2006, and has in the past claimed some breakthroughs in the development of low-cost, RFID-enabled packaging materials. [end] 

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