Method of authentication of items put into circulation field

Abstract

This invention can be used for anti-counterfeit protection of items fabricated under a specific trademark. The object of the invention disclosed herein is to provide an efficient and universal anti-counterfeit protection of commercial products and allow consumers, wholesalers and interested regulatory authorities to rapidly and reliably check the authenticity of products and other items put into circulation. The authentication system administrator manufactures and provides the manufacturer of an authentic product with the requested quantity of authentication marks. Each authentication mark includes a set of symbols. One part of this set is open for reading (overt) and is the identification combination. The authentication marks are attached to the products in such a manner that reading the identification combination is impossible without causing permanent damage to the protective media. Then the manufacturer provides the authentication system administrator with a description of the items bearing such authentication marks. The authentication system administrator checks the identification combination contained in the request against the identification combination whose serial number in the authentication database coincides with the serial number of the item and, if the respective identification procedure the description of the item that is available in the database as related to the authentication mark provided by that person. The person performing authentication concludes as to the authenticity of the item if the product description in this person's possession coincides with the product description received from the authentication system administrator.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to the manufacture and sale of any type of commercial product and is applicable to articles manufactured under certain trade marks (including: pharmaceuticals, fragrances and cosmetics, and substances or raw materials used in the manufacture of these articles; cigarettes and tobacco, food products, including bottled alcohol Anti-counterfeiting protection of beverages, parts or units of machines, mechanical and electronic equipment, electronic media, printed matter, and other products with general properties and put into circulation on a large scale). [0002] Currently, due to the counterfeiting or unauthorized production of various items under the trademarks owned by the product manufacturer, the manufacturer of the product suffers a great loss both materially and morally. One method of anti-counterfeiting protection could be commercial verification of released products, a process that includes the manufacturer's confirmati...

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Another disadvantage of this invention is that it does not imply repeated verification of the same item, and that conclusions about the verification of the item are solely the responsibility of the database administrator, while the product verifier has no information concerning the product, the item verifier has no information about the Verified product information, i.e. information that can be used to make independent judgments related to the verification of the item in question