The Need for Authentication Technologies

• The global counterfeit industry generates an estimated $670 billion annually.
• Annual earnings from the sale of counterfeit and substandard medicines is over $32 billion worldwide.
• The global anti-counterfeit packaging market is expected to be worth $79.3 billion by 2014, growing at an estimated CAGR of 8.6% from 2009 to 2014
• North America is the largest segment in the anti-counterfeit market and is expected to reach $49 billion by 2014, accounting for nearly 62% ofthe revenues growing at a CAGR of 6.8%.
• Asia is the following largest market and is expected to reach $14 billion by 2014 with a highest CAGR of 19.7%.

Currently, Authentication Technologies range from specialized printing techniques, special inks, dyes, and fibers, placed on customized paper and film substrates, to holograms and watermarks, to sophisticated molecular/biochemical taggants to electronic codes and secure databases.

The most basic Anti-Counterfeit Devices can be read directly by the naked eye. Most of them require reading instruments. And some of them require specialized knowledge and skill including forensic labs.

Each of the Current Anti-Counterfeiting Devices and Techniques has certain shortcomings:

• They are superficially placed, embossed or printed on the branded item or ID document. Thus they can be 'lifted', duplicated, vandalized, destroyed or removed without a trace.
• They rely on production techniques to that can be re-created, reverse engineered, copied.
• They do batch processing i.e. they do not allow for individual marking of each item with variable/unique data e.g. photograph, random alpha-numeric code, biometric data etc.
• They are expensive at the individual item level. They require masters to be made for each piece of data to be marked.
• They help authenticate the goods after-the-fact. They are not preventive. They require intrusive interrogation as in a forensics lab.
• They may compromise consumer/user privacy or are vulnerable to 'hacking'.
• They are not environment-friendly.

Technological Advantage

The virtually invisible, encrypted image cannot be photographed, scanned or copied and re-created from a genuine article. Adaptability

The technology can be tailored to diverse industry environments using a range of production processes Execution Flexibility

Licensing, technology transfer and customized product/packaging solutions, integrated with the current supply chain and manufacturing processes Patent Protection

The technology is proprietary and patents have been filed in the United States, and internationally under the Patent Co-operation Treaty (PCT)

Unique Combination of Product Features

• The mark is Clear i.e. virtually invisible, no inks or coloration, no superficial labels.
• The mark is Encrypted — not reproducible by known duplication techniques.
• The mark is Protected and Hidden below the Surface of product, ID card or package.
• The Process enables each Individual mark to be Unique -in the form of text, barcodes, serial/random codes, illustrations, logos, tonal images and photographs.
• The Process is Versatile — to mark Glass, Crystal, Plastics, Ceramics & Composites.
• The Readout is Objective and Definitive — either present or absent, no gray areas.
• The Reader enables Direct Human Viewing as well as Machine Vision.
• The Reader enables Saving and Retrieving of images from a secure database/archive.

Our Clear-and-Secure marks are impossible to replicate using currently available alternative technologies such as reprography, printing, embossing, etching or marking.