Following a public comment period, the Federal Trade Commission has approved a final order settling charges that Honeywell International, Inc.’s acquisition of rival scan engine manufacturer Intermec Inc. was anticompetitive. The FTC’s complaint charged that the proposed acquisition would reduce competition in the U.S. market for two-dimensional (2D) bar code scanners. 2D scan engines are used in products such as retail store scanners to translate an image (often a UPC barcode) into a digital format that can be interpreted and analyzed by a computer.
First proposed in September, the FTC’s order preserves competition in the market for 2D scan engines by requiring Honeywell to license its and Intermec’s patents for 2D scan engines to Datalogic IPTECH s.r.l for the next 12 years. The Commission vote approving the final order was 4-0. (FTC File No. 131-0070; the staff contact is David Morris, Bureau of Competition, 202-326-3156)
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