EP0760991B1 - Identifikationsmarkierungen und herstellungsverfahren dazu - Google Patents

Identifikationsmarkierungen und herstellungsverfahren dazu Download PDF

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EP0760991B1
EP0760991B1 EP95919528A EP95919528A EP0760991B1 EP 0760991 B1 EP0760991 B1 EP 0760991B1 EP 95919528 A EP95919528 A EP 95919528A EP 95919528 A EP95919528 A EP 95919528A EP 0760991 B1 EP0760991 B1 EP 0760991B1
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  • This invention relates to identification markers and their application, and particularly to such markers for products.
  • products as used herein is to be widely interpreted to include any product usefully susceptible to marking such personal property items owned by individuals and corporately, and items capable of removal as widely varied as automobiles and watches, for example, and to products comprising toxic and/or hazardous materials, for example.
  • the identification of products can be important particularly to prove ownership in the event of loss of that product through theft or accidental misplacement, for example.
  • the subsequent recovery of the product requires accurate identification of the product so that the correct product is returned to the owner. This problem is significant even where the particular item is visibly marked with a serial number or such other device since there is rarely a properly recorded serial number of individual personal property.
  • Serial number plate While the use of a Serial number plate is of limited value for indicating ownership, another method for marking a product involves physically marking a serial number on the item with an indelible ink or by engraving the serial number on the item for example.
  • Each of the foregoing techniques for property identification can be circumvented, for example, by the simple removal of the serial number or replacement of the serial number plate with another plate. The ease by which these marking systems are circumvented has created a significant problem in product recovery.
  • Another problem with the foregoing techniques for property identification is that the certain marking tag systems are inappropriate in that they may interfere with the function or even aesthetic appearance of the product. For example, an item of jewellery such as a valuable gem stone mounted in a ring setting is difficult, if not impossible, to mark with an identification system that cannot be easily circumvented.
  • EP-A-160504 discloses a method of numbering documents such as bank notes which are produced and used in large numbers and which, for a given series, are identical one with another except for a unique multi-digit number upon each individual document, the number thus uniquely identifying that document within the series.
  • the document suggests rendering unauthorised reproduction of the document more difficult by ensuring that at least two characters in the identifying number differ from another (in addition to any differences in the letters or digits which they represent) in one or more visible characteristics. Suggested characteristics are different heights or widths or different type styles.
  • Document GB 1095286 discloses a security device used in security papers in which fine security ribbons having a width of substantially 0.75mm include printed characters of a height of substantially 0.4mm. Alternative inks for the characters are disclosed, together with the insertion of mutilated portions of the design in regions between the printed design.
  • Document EP 310707 discloses a document with magnetically detectable anti-forgery means including a plate-like element embedded in a strip of plastic or aluminium film. This strip supports mutually spaced regions obtained with a deposition of magnetic material. The regions of magnetic material are readable with a magnetic reading head applicable externally to the plate-like element.
  • tag particles each of which carrying an identical indicia.
  • These tag particles are of a small miniature size and may be generally circular of no more than 1 or 2mm in diameter or strip or thread-like of no more than 1 or 2mm width, for example, and carry microscopic identification indicia.
  • the tags may be produced by any convenient method from any suitable material and may be, for example, punched, essentially as miniature particles, from a microfiche film having an identical plurality of indicia printed, or slit from an elongate film.
  • tag tags are referred to herein as "marker tags of the kind described".
  • the tag particles may be loosely spread over and throughout the product concerned, and/or may be adhered to the product, and indeed may be applied to one or more surfaces of the item of property by being suspended in a liquid adhesive such as a lacquer for example which is then sprayed upon the relevant surface or surfaces, adhering the tag particle to those surfaces under the dried adhesive or lacquer layer.
  • tag marker is strip or thread-like it may be used specifically in this form with the product concerned, such as, for example, tear strips on wrapped products, woven into hems of cloth, and security threads in banknotes, these being formed of plastics film, for example, which may be metallised.
  • a weaknesses of any form of security labelling system is that exact copies can be made of the labels and these copies can then be used to mark items for which they were not intended in an attempt to alter or mask genuine identity of those items.
  • labels can be made in the style of legitimate labels but with different indicia and these counterfeit labels can be used in an attempt to alter or mask the identity of items.
  • the invention also provides an identification marker tag as set out in claim 12.
  • the appropriate plurality of identifying indicia are produced on a computer screen which is then photographed and reduced in size to form the microfiche. Since the printing is computer generated, it is possible to impose encryption features on any or all of the characters for any particular indicia identification text, and also to produce a highly varying pattern of background printing, such as a series of rectilinear and curvilinear lines of the kind frequently used on bank notes as referred to above. It is clear that by recording the nature of the encryption and the nature of the background printing employed on every batch, it would be a relatively simple task to differentiate between counterfeit labels and legitimately produced ones. For simplicity, this recording can be held on a computer which is programmed to store a log of all labels produced with the associated encryption data.
  • the invention includes within its scope tagging particles made using the method hereinabove specified.
  • Figure 1 there is shown schematically a marker tag 1, grossly enlarged, punched out from a film including microscopic identification characters 2.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates character variations for the tag of Figure 1.
  • the lower line shows encryption where:-

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  1. Verfahren zur Herstellung eines Identifikationsmarkierungskennzeichens (1) allgemein planarer Ausführung, wobei eine in gleicher Ebene liegende Abmessung weniger als 2 mm beträgt und das Identifikationsangaben (2) trägt, bei dem man die sichtbaren physischen Eigenschaften des Druckinhalts (2), mit dem das Markierungskennzeichen versehen wird, bei seiner Herstellung verändert, gekennzeichnet durch Aufzeichnen der Art der Veränderung, um dadurch Produkte zu identifizieren.
  2. Verfahren nach Anspruch 1, bei dem das Markierungskennzeichen (1) zwischen oder innerhalb von und zwischen Chargen von Markierungskennzeichen oder Chargengruppen derartiger Kennzeichen mit den physischen Eigenschaften des Druckinhalts (2) versehen wird.
  3. Verfahren nach Anspruch 1 oder 2, bei dem die Kennzeichen (1) in Form von Streifen oder Fäden vorliegen.
  4. Verfahren zur Herstellung mehrerer Identifikationsmarkierungskennzeichen, wobei jedes Kennzeichen durch das Verfahren nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche hergestellt wird, einschließlich Versehen des Druckinhalts (2), mit dem die Kennzeichnungsmarkierung versehen ist, mit einem gedruckten Hintergrund auf die Kennzeichnungsmarkierung, wobei der gedruckte Hintergrund bei der Herstellung der Markierungskennzeichen über eine Zahl von ählichen Kennzeichen (1) verteilt wird, wodurch kein Kennzeichen mit einem anderen identisch ist.
  5. Verfahren nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, bei dem die Markierungskennzeichen (1) aus einem durch Photographie eines Rechnerbildschirms, auf dem der Druckinhalt von dem Rechner erzeugt wird, oder einer anderen rechnererzeugten Ausgabe hergestellten Materialfilm gestanzt oder geschnitten werden, wobei eine derartige Erzeugung durch den Rechner Veränderungen der Beschriftungsmerkmale des Druckinhalts und ein variierendes Muster des Hintergrunddrucks erleichtert.
  6. Verfahren nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, bei dem die Größe mindestens eines der Zeichen des Druckinhalts (2) verändert wird.
  7. Verfahren nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, bei dem der Stil mindestens eines Zeichens des Druckinhalts (2) verändert wird.
  8. Verfahren nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, bei dem mindestens eines der Zeichen des Druckinhalts (2) aus seiner wahren Ausrichtung gedreht wird.
  9. Verfahren nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, bei dem mindestens eines der Zeichen des Druckinhalts (2) aus seiner normalen Position verschoben wird.
  10. Verfahren nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, bei dem mindestens eines der Zeichen des Druckinhalts (2) so ausgebildet ist, daß sich die Dicke einer oder mehrerer seiner Linien von anderen Zeichen des Druckinhalts (2) unterscheidet.
  11. Verfahren nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, bei dem dem Druckinhalt (2) ein zusätzliches Zeichen auf Zufallsbasis hinzugefügt wird.
  12. Identifikationsmarkierungskennzeichen allgemein planarer Auführung, wobei eine in gleicher Ebene liegende Abmessung weniger als 2 mm beträgt und das zur Identifikation von Produkten Identifikationsangaben (2) trägt, wobei die sichtbaren physischen Eigenschaften des Druckinhalts (2), mit dem das Markierungskennzeichen (1) versehen wird, während seiner Herstellung verändert und aufgezeichnet werden.
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