First, it is straight forward to tag low Z compounds including -- plastics, organic chemicals and fiber materials so that they can be tracked in a process. Second, these products can antiterrorism readily identify the ratio of the mixture in a quick and non-destructive manner and thus be used in demanding manufacturing processes. Third, this can all be achieved without affecting the desired performance of the materials. And, as an added bonus, the final material also has an elemental tag detectable by these analyses, which one can use to identify the product as that of a particular manufacturer. The antiterrorism and antiterrorism taggants are developed specifically with your company''s unique signature for totally covert product protection and authentication.

Copy Detection enables inspectors to differentiate between counterfeit and original products and provides forensic evidence of counterfeiting that can be used in litigation. "Last year alone, $12.2 billion in packaged software and $6.7 billion in packaged entertainment were lost to counterfeiting, alteration and piracy. Other categories of branded goods face losses in the billions as well," said, vice president and general manager of the antiterrorism Secure product group. "Copy Detection is a powerful new anti-counterfeiting system that antiterrorism gives authorized personnel access to quick inspections of suspect packaging and documents, helping to identify counterfeit products. Copy Detection is the first member of a family antiterrorism of complementary security products and services we are rolling out to help brand owners protect their revenues and safeguard product and document integrity." Copy Detection is available only to brand owners and their authorized personnel. It includes embedding services and an inspector extranet, coupled with security-class reader software and inspection devices. "Protecting intellectual property rights and trade is a growing business issue both in the U.S. and internationally, especially in many emerging markets around the world," said a trade analyst, a business consulting firm based in Washington, D.C. that provides innovative strategies to expand, increase, and protect the international business of corporations.

Further, all of these techniques can be defeated in some way because all are image processing systems. In this digital age, images can be easily copied or created. antiterrorism For example, field studies have shown that finger recognition can have a failure rate as high as 50%. Facial recognition, on uncooperative individuals, has a failure rate of 100%. Covert elemental XRF tagging is a patent pending technology that does not suffer from the common weaknesses associated with most biometric methods. Using elemental tagging and XRF detection it is possible and inexpensive to implement ultra secure, easily validated personnel access and identity documents. This technology provides an additional level of security through covert tagging and can be effectively used in conjunction with typical finger scan or hand geometry biometric techniques.

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