Patent ID: 7511622

Claim:
A method of manufacturing an RFID label assembly, said method comprising the steps of: (a) providing a precursor RFID label assembly, said precursor RFID label assembly comprising a plurality of RFID labels spaced apart from one another and releasably mounted on top of a common web, said common web having a top surface and a bottom surface, at least some of said RFID labels being defective at least some of said RFID labels not being defective; (b) testing all of said RFID labels for the purpose of detecting defective RFID labels; and (c) removing from said common web all RFID labels found in step (b) to be defective, while retaining on the common web all RFID labels found in step (b) not to be defective, thereby yielding an RFID assembly that includes all of the RFID labels found not to be defective in step (b) while lacking all of the RFID labels found to be defective in step (b); and wherein each of said RFID labels comprises a print-receptive face sheet, said method further comprising, after said step of removing all RFID labels found in step (b) to be defective, the step of printing onto said print-receptive face sheet of at least one of said RFID labels remaining on said common web.