What are chemical and physical anti-counterfeiting technologies?

Chemical and physical anti-counterfeiting technologies use special substances to mark and verify objects. They exploit the inherent randomness of the patterns produced when certain chemical processes The main purpose of these technologies is authentication without simultaneous unique product identification.

What is the anti-counterfeiting technology guide?

Technology ofers numerous solutions to protect ownership rights and defend legitimate supply chains. However, the market for anti-counterfeiting technologies is broad and complex. The technologies are evolving fast and information about them is not easily accessible. That is where the Anti-Counterfeiting Technology Guide (or ACT Guide) comes in.

How to verify a product's authenticity?

In order to verify a product’s authenticity, a special reading device will analyse its signature both two-dimensionally and three-dimensionally, and compare it to the signatures in the database. This technology can be used to secure a wide variety of products against counterfeiting, as it is compatible with many diferent types of material.

Who developed the anti-counterfeiting technology guide?

The EGACT produced the first version of the guide that explained the existing anti-counterfeiting technologies (knowledge base). Observatory adapted that document into the present Guide for SMEs and general users. The Expert Group on the Impact of Technologies collaborated in the validation of some of the technologies.

What are the different types of anti-counterfeiting technologies for digital media?

a machine-readable format. It includes There are four types of anti-counterfeiting technologies for digital media which fall into two main categories: digital rights management (DRM) systems and automatic content recognition technologies. DRM systems are designed to combat large-scale counterfeiting of audiovisual works.

What is anti-counterfeiting content recognition?

The anti-counterfeiting Automatic content recognition technologies in general aim to identify content that is in a media file or being played on a device. They are developed for a variety of purposes, intellectual property protection being just one of them.