The news is a clear win for Intermec, who also announced yesterday the complete list of Rapid Start participants: Accu-Sort, Avery Dennison, AWID, Datamax, EM Micro, Feig Electronics, Hand Held Products, LXE, Metrologic, Paxar, PSC, Psion Teklogix, SAMSys, Sato, Symbol Technologies, Texas Instruments, ThingMagic, Toppan Printing, and Zebra Technologies. The fact that 19 companies — including some of the industry's leaders — have joined the program is another feather in the cap for the company that had raised the industry's ire last year when it announced its intention to charge for the use of patents that affect key RFID technology. Also notable is that a few of the names — Avery Dennison, AWID, Symbol, ThingMagic, and Symbol — are part of the recently announced RFID patent consortium initiative.