Advanced Anti-Counterfeit Technology IP Portfolio Available for Sale by ICAP Patent Brokerage

CHICAGO, April 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ICAP Patent Brokerage announces for sale an anti-counterfeit method and system from Tracer Detection Technology Corp. The portfolio broadly covers the self-authenticating or online authenticating of objects in order to prevent the unauthorized manufacture and selling of a good.

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"We are excited to offer this IP package of innovative anti-counterfeit tools to our global base of buyers. This portfolio offers solutions for the problems and losses related to counterfeiting currently affecting multiple sectors worldwide," says Dean Becker, CEO of ICAP Patent Brokerage.

Key Characteristics & Benefits
The IP package includes a family of sophisticated and robust solutions for authenticating objects such as labels or hang-tags placed on items, coatings, molded substrates, currency bills, and stock and bond certificates. It does so by exploiting random patterns, which have been pre-encoded in a message, and optical characteristics unique for each item to be authenticated.

The portfolio provides for a number of potential embodiments including dichroic fibers, proprietary dyes, microbubbles and flecs, sealing tape, and watermarking. The embodiments act as reliable anti-counterfeiting measures when compared against the pre-encoded message, which can be a self-authenticating code, such as a bar code, or against an on-line database.

This set of innovative technologies offers firms protection against product piracy, and thereby provides a solution for minimizing the resultant economic damage of counterfeiting. End customers also benefit from this by having a streamlined means for verifying the authenticity of products instantly, in real time, at the point of purchase and beyond. This consumer empowerment allows purchasers to easily distinguish between a genuine product and a fake simply by utilizing a smart phone, POS scanner, computer or other reader device.

Further, the patents also offer an extremely effective method for protecting brand integrity and geographic markets for retailers who operate in the high-end luxury goods market where brand control is at a premium. Similarly, this authentication technology is of particular value to security-critical firms as well as those engaged in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals and anti-counterfeiting solutions.

See the technical description for this anti-counterfeit technology IP sales offering.

To learn more about the assets available for sale in this portfolio:
Contact Paul Greco of ICAP Patent Brokerage at (212) 815-6692 or via email at [email protected].

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About ICAP Patent Brokerage
ICAP Patent Brokerage is a division of ICAP plc and the world's largest intellectual property brokerage and patent auction firm.

About ICAP
ICAP is the world's leading interdealer broker and provider of post trade risk and information services. The Group matches buyers and sellers in the wholesale markets in interest rates, credit, commodities, FX, emerging markets and equity derivatives through voice and electronic networks. Through our post trade risk and information services we help our customers manage and mitigate risks in their portfolios. For more information, go to www.icap.com.

SOURCE ICAP Patent Brokerage

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