Method of preventing counterfeiting

• US 20020024215A1
• Filed: 06/08/2001
• Published: 02/28/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 06/22/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kam F.U. Wong
• Original Assignee: Kam F.U. Wong
• Inventors: Wong, Kam Fu
• Application Number:
  US09/876,907
• Publication Number:
  US 20020024215A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 283/72
• CPC Class Codes: G07D 7/0047 using checkcodes, e.g. coded numbers derived from serial number and denomination
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/086 by passive credit-cards adapted therefor, e.g. constructive particularities to avoid counterfeiting, e.g. by inclusion of a physical or chemical security-layer for security documents G07D7/00; for the reading of record-carriers in general G06K7/00; for the design of coded credit-cards G06K19/10

Abstract

A method of preventing counterfeiting of an item, comprising the steps of: providing an item, the authenticity of which is to be verified; providing a bank note having a serial number marked thereon; physically associating the bank note with the item; and marking at least a part of the serial number on the item.

Also disclosed is a combination of an item, the authenticity of which is to be verified, and a bank note having a serial number marked thereon, wherein the bank note is physically associated with the item and the item has at least a part of the serial number of the bank note marked thereon.

Claims

1. A method of preventing counterfeiting of an item, comprising the steps of:

providing an item, the authenticity of which is to be verified;

providing a bank note having a serial number marked thereon;

physically associating the bank note with the item; and

marking at least a part of the serial number on the item.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein the at least part of the serial number comprises the whole of the serial number.

3. A method according to claim 1, wherein the step of physically associating the bank note with the item comprises the step of rendering the at least part of the serial number visible.

4. A method according to claim 1, wherein the item includes packaging, and the step of physically associating the bank note with the item comprises the step of physically associating the bank note with the packaging.

5. A method according to claim 1, wherein the step of physically associating the bank note with the item comprises the step of providing a transparent surface, the bank note being located between the item and the transparent surface.

6. A method according to claim 1, wherein the step of physically associating the bank note with the item comprises the steps of:

providing a bag having an at least partially transparent area; and

placing the bank note within the bag.

7. A method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of marking the at least part of the serial number of the bank note on the item in at least one further location.

8. A method according to Claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

providing at least one further bank note; and

physically associating the at least one further bank note with the item.

9. A method according to claim 8, wherein the step of providing at least one further bank note comprises the step of providing one further bank note.

10. A method according to claim 8, wherein the step of providing at least one further bank note comprises the step of providing two further bank notes.

11. A combination of an item, the authenticity of which is to be verified, and a bank note having a serial number marked thereon, wherein the bank note is physically associated with the item and the item has at least a part of the serial number of the bank note marked thereon.

12. A combination according to claim 11, wherein the at least part of the serial number comprises the whole of the serial number.

13. A combination according to claim 11, wherein at least part of the bank note is rendered visible.

14. A combination according to claim 11, further comprising a transparent surface, the bank note being located between the item and the transparent surface.

15. A combination according to claim 11, further comprising a bag having an at least partially transparent area, the bank note being located within the bag.

16. A combination according to claim 11, wherein the at least part of the serial number is marked in at least one further location on the item.