Infrared Licensing

While attempting to publish an article for ASHI (American Society of Home Inspectors), and talking with their Chicago office editor, I learned that there is a company that feels they have the right to tell all home inspectors the proper way to inspect a home with infrared cameras. Not only do they have the right, but they have a patent on it. In other words, they are trying to tell me how to use my own infrared equipment, which I have been properly trained to use by the camera manufacturers. They claimed to have a patent on the procedures to inspect a home with infrared, which of course included their own specific infrared camera and software.
Needless to say, I was amazed! I have spent the last three years inspecting with infrared. This person in Alabama is not a member of ASHI, the governing body for home inspectors nationwide, nor is he a licensed home inspector. He came up with a technique to perform an IR inspection, and is trying to force me, and all other home inspectors nationwide, to buy their license, use their equipment, and get their permission by virtue of paying their fees.
I must state for the record that nobody, short of the authorized licensing entity for this state (Nevada Real Estate Division) has the right to tell me how to do my job. That includes the company in Alabama, who thinks they can have all inspectors pay homage to them, or we cannot use our tools of the trade. Its like selling me a car then telling me where I can drive it.

People never cease to amaze me.