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 Secure product group. "Copy Detection is a powerful new anti-counterfeiting frauds system that 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 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 frauds 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. frauds that provides innovative strategies to expand, increase, and protect the international business of corporations.

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 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 frauds also has an elemental tag detectable by frauds these analyses, which one frauds can use to identify the product as that of a particular manufacturer. The taggants are developed specifically with your company''s unique signature for totally covert product protection frauds and authentication.

The first Metals Analysis Probe (MAP) portable XRF instrument was used at the Church Rock mine in New Mexico and in a U.S. patent was issued for the instrument. Now, keymaster, Inc. (KTI) has world-leading patent-pending technology in the areas of X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) and elemental taggant technology. The company is pioneering the application of these technologies in the fields of brand protection/authentication, anti-counterfeiting, security, loss prevention and quality control. The world leader in digital watermarking solutions, today introduced Copy Detection, a covert security feature that can be applied to packaging, labels, tags and other printed documents, and tools to facilitate field inspection of suspected counterfeit goods. Through patented techniques in digital watermarking.

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