System and method for authenticating sports identification goods
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1. A sports garment authentication method comprising:
- providing the sports garment or a piece of the sports garment, wherein the sports garment or the piece of the sports garment comprises a nucleic acid material having an artificial sequence obtained by digestion and ligation of extracted DNA and having a particular sequence of nucleic acid bases associated with said sports garment, the nucleic acid material being linked by a linking group comprising an alkylene moiety, to an upconverting phosphor particle;
obtaining a sample of said particular nucleic acid material;
detecting the particular sequence of nucleic acid bases of the nucleic acid material by performing a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) on the nucleic acid material; and
verifying said sports garment or piece of said sports garment is genuine by detecting said particular sequence of nucleic acid bases of the nucleic acid material obtained from said sports garment or said piece of sports garment.
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Abstract
A method for authenticating and verifying garment to be genuine is described. The method for authenticating a garment comprises applying a particular nucleic acid material/marker associated with a particular sequence of nucleic acid bases to a dye or paint and applying the marker to the garment. The method also comprises collecting a sample from the garment and verifying the garment is genuine by detecting the particular nucleic acid material on or within the garment.
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45 Claims
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1. A sports garment authentication method comprising:
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providing the sports garment or a piece of the sports garment, wherein the sports garment or the piece of the sports garment comprises a nucleic acid material having an artificial sequence obtained by digestion and ligation of extracted DNA and having a particular sequence of nucleic acid bases associated with said sports garment, the nucleic acid material being linked by a linking group comprising an alkylene moiety, to an upconverting phosphor particle; obtaining a sample of said particular nucleic acid material; detecting the particular sequence of nucleic acid bases of the nucleic acid material by performing a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) on the nucleic acid material; and verifying said sports garment or piece of said sports garment is genuine by detecting said particular sequence of nucleic acid bases of the nucleic acid material obtained from said sports garment or said piece of sports garment. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A method for authenticating sports garment comprising the steps of:
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providing a sports garment having an associated optical reporter marker, the optical reporter marker having at least one light emitting upconverting phosphor particle linked by a linking group comprising an alkylene moiety, to at least one nucleic acid material having an artificial sequence obtained by digestion and ligation of extracted DNA, the nucleic acid material having an identifiable portion, detecting the optical reporter marker associated with the garment with a light source, obtaining a sample of the optical reporter marker from the garment of interest for analysis; and analyzing the collected sample to detect the presence of the identifiable portion of the nucleic acid material linked to the upconverting phosphor particle. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A method for authenticating a sports garment comprising the steps of;
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providing a sports garment having an associated optical reporter marker, the optical reporter marker having at least one light emitting upconverting phosphor particle linked by a linking group comprising an alkylene moiety, to a nucleic acid taggant, the nucleic acid taggant having a plurality of artificial polymorphic double stranded (ds) DNA fragments each having an artificial sequence obtained by restriction digestion and ligation of extracted DNA, said artificial polymorphic dsDNA fragments having an identifiable portion, detecting the optical reporter marker associated with the sports garment with a light source, obtaining a sample of the optical reporter marker from the sports garment for analysis, analyzing the sample to detect the presence of the identifiable portion of the artificial polymorphic (ds)DNA fragments linked to the upconverting phosphor particle by performing a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) on the collected sample comprising said artificial polymorphic (ds)DNA fragments using specific primers, thereby producing specific length amplicons; and verifying that the sports garment is genuine by detecting the specific lengths of said specific length amplicons amplified from said artificial polymorphic dsDNA fragments in said sports garment. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 42, 43)
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39. A method for authenticating a sports garment, comprising:
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providing a optical reporter marker linked by a linking group comprising an alkylene moiety, to at least one nucleic acid taggant; applying the marker compound to at least one sports garment, which sports garment enters at least one supply chain; locating and collecting a sample of the optical reporter marker from said sports garment after said sports garment has entered said supply chain; and identifying said nucleic acid taggant from said sports garment.
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40. A kit for authenticating sports garment comprising:
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a container comprising an optical reporter marker linked by a linking group comprising an alkylene moiety, to at least one nucleic acid taggant; and an applicator for applying a sample of the optical reporter to the sports garment.
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41. A method for authenticating a sports garment comprising the steps of;
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providing a sports garment having an associated optical reporter marker, the optical reporter marker having at least one light emitting upconverting phosphor particle covalently linked by a linking group comprising an alkylene moiety, to a nucleic acid taggant, the nucleic acid taggant having a plurality of polymorphic DNA fragments each having an artificial sequence obtained by restriction digestion and ligation of extracted DNA, at least one of said polymorphic DNA fragments having an identifiable portion, detecting the optical reporter marker associated with the sports garment with a light source, obtaining a sample of the optical reporter marker from the sports garment for analysis, analyzing the collected sample to detect the presence of the identifiable portion of the at least one polymorphic DNA fragment having an identifiable portion and covalently linked to the upconverting phosphor particle by performing a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) with specific primers to produce specific amplicons and hybridizing the specific amplicons with a probe specific to the identifiable portion; and thereby verifying that the sports garment is genuine by detecting said identifiable portion in the specific amplicons. - View Dependent Claims (44, 45)
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