Bilcare Ltd a leading pharmaceutical packaging and clinical research company has acquired a Singapore based company named Singular ID, for Rs 55 crores ($19.58 billion). The acquisition made through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Bilcare Singapore Pte, represents a significant step forward in ongoing war against counterfeit drugs and pharmaceuticals products.
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TOKYO, Jan 17, 2008 Dai Nippon Printing Co. (TSE:7912) will market a new hologram label that combines 3-D computer graphic images with microscopic lettering.
Branded products use hologram labels to prove their authenticity, but in recent years the technology of forgery has advanced so far that it is difficult to distinguish real hologram labels from bogus hologram labels just by looking at the 3-D CG image.
To help people identify real labels, Dai Nippon Printing will incorporate the word GENUINE in microscopic lettering into the hologram. The letters are drawn with a line width of only 50 microns and are technically difficult to print, but readily viewable using a magnifying glass.
Dai Nippon Printing will charge 5 yen apiece for orders of 2 million labels and hopes to generate revenue of 3 billion yen (US$28 million) with this business during the next three years.
Sources: http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/997853/
The federal government has enlisted the help of a Switzerland-based company for a battle against counterfeit tobacco.
SICPA Product Security has been hired by the Canada Revenue Agency to help design new hidden security features such as holograms that will be mandatory on all cigarette packages and tobacco tins manufactured in or imported to Canada.
The new features will replace the current low-tech stamps that indicate federal taxes have been paid on the product - ones that counterfeiters have been able to easily duplicate.
Under a three-year contract finalized earlier this month, SICPA will be part of a joint venture with the Canadian Bank Note Company in Ottawa, which prints much of the country’s paper currency.
While the exact size of the illegal trade is hard to pinpoint, governments, police and cigarette manufacturers agree it is a major problem.
A survey released last year by the Canadian Tobacco Manufacturers Council suggested one in five cigarettes smoked in Canada was contraband.
Sources: http://www.cjob.com/news/index.aspx?dir=national&src=ext&rem=./n0109107A.xml
Delhi:Hungama Mobile has joined hands with UK based Friend Media Technology to provide solutions to curb piracy. According to the company sources, the two companies will provide the software solutions by its latest technological innovation-eXpose. They will also offer customised software solutions for the media and entertainment industries that empower them to identify and control the use and misuse of their intellectual properties and brands.
Sources: The Hindustan Times
MUMBAI: The voter identity card scam came to light when a DNA scribe was issued a fake I-card on December 5 at Shastri Nagar Municipal School in Dharavi. Police investigation into the case has, however, proved that some BMC officials had sensed sinister dealings by employees of Vakrangi Software Limited—the firm making the I-cards—much earlier. They had even alerted their superiors, but no action was taken.
Raghunath Jathar, a BMC official posted at the school, caught a Vakrangi employee trying to make a fake voter I-card by pasting a tampered hologram on it. The employee even showed Jathar how to tamper with the hologram using water. Jathar told the cops that he had conveyed the incident to his superiors. Jathar also noticed another Vakrangi employee, Vikrant Magare, often carrying a personal pen drive into the room where the cards were being made. He handed over the pen drive to his superior, Sunand Gaggar, a day after DNA published the story on December 6. Police seized the pen drive and found it was formatted, but contained no data.
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New Delhi: Taking a tough stand against video piracy, a session court here as ordered sealing of a Delhi-based factory allegedly engaged in counterfeiting of hindi-films CD’s.
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Pune-based pharma packaging company Bilcare Research has launched a product to help check the menace of counterfeit drugs. The product has a label with a unique bar code made out of nanotechnology and fingerprinting.
The customer has to swipe the drug packet in the scanner or at select ATMs to verify the authenticity of the drug. MNC pharma major Pfizer vice-president John L LaMattina was also present at the function, which was attended by former president APJ Abdul Kalam.
Sources: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com
Penang, MALAYASIA: The Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry will introduce a refined hologram sticker to be affixed to genuine VCDs, CDs and DVDs to combat piracy. According to Minister Datuk Shafie Apdal the introducing sticker would have better security features.
He said the hologram label, which has running serial numbers, would help the public identify original products from pirated ones.
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Sources:http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/12/11/nation/20071211135642&sec=nation
De La Rue Holographics has been awarded a contract by Copyright Promotions Sport (CPS) to provide a highly secure brand authentication solution for The Football Association (The FA) enabling it to track and manage the England 3 Lions brand once it has been licensed.
The England Three Lions Crest is considered to be one of the most valuable sporting brands, not only in the UK but across the world. De La Rue will deliver a brand licensing solution, within the UK and Europe, incorporating a highly intuitive hologram with a secure online track and trace system. The FA’s own holograms will be originated and manufactured in a fully integrated production site in the UK then shipped to licensees and applied to hang tags and packaging of all England merchandise.
De La Rue’s solution will mean that The FA’s brand is protected against the threats from counterfeit, grey market diversion and piracy. Consumers will also benefit as they can instantly recognise and select authentic products in a climate where there are many companies seeking to produce counterfeit products in an attempt to lure consumers into buying unofficial merchandise.
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Sunday August 26 2007 12:20, HYDERABAD: The Hyderabad busted an est-ever haul of fake currency in the city — Rs 2.36 crore — and arrested four persons, including a UAE national. Already, the accused are believed to have circulated about Rs 17 lakh in the city. The Rs 500 and 1,000 denomination notes were printed in Pakistan and were sent in containers by ship via Dubai to Mumbai.
Disclosing details at a press conference on Saturday, Hyderabad Police Commissioner Balwinder Singh said the entire gang comprised at least 13 persons, including three from Pakistan. ‘‘The first consignment amounting to Rs 19 lakh in bogus currency arrived in the city in April, the second of Rs 55 lakh shortly thereafter. The third consignment reached the city a few days ago,’’ Singh added. The UAE national, Alkaz Khamis, was operating from Dubai through a front company, West India Import-Export.