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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120104741 | SANITIZING LID AND DISPATCH SERVICE THEREOF An apparatus can include a generally planar portion approximately in a plane. The apparatus can also include a lip portion extending in a direction generally orthogonal to the plane. The generally planar portion is joined to the lip portion at a circumferential edge of ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120080877 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING OPTICAL EFFECTS ON MEDIA Methods and systems for optical effects in pigments, inks, and on media. One aspect of this disclosure involves a pigment particle which includes a core, having a fluorescent material and having a spherical shape, and a shell surrounding the core; the shell includes a p... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120038140 | CUSTOMISED SECURE DOCUMENT AND PROCEDURE FOR SECURING A DOCUMENT A method for securing a document (1), and a secure document (1) including a data medium (2) and an optical security component (3). The medium (2) includes a first surface (12) and a second surface (13). The optical compon... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120025514 | SECURITY ELEMENT INCLUDING TWO STACKED DISTINCT PATTERNS, SECURITY DOCUMENT CONTAINING SAME, AND RELATED METHODS The invention relates to a security element (1) that comprises an at least partially transparent substrate, on the front and back of which are formed first (3) and second (4) markings in the form of metallisations and/or printings, respectively, the... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120018992 | PRINTED SECURITY FEATURE FOR SECURE BOOKLETS A security feature for use with secure booklets, especially those having a spine, for example passports, identification booklets and other types of ID3-sized documents. In one example, the security feature is printed across the spine of the booklet onto two adjacent pag... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120021096 | NEW ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY FOOD PRODUCTS AND METHODS TO PRODUCE THEM The invention relates to reducing or minimising the environmental footprint comprising a water footprint and a carbon footprint of a food product.... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120013116 | Method of Advertising Household and Commercial Product Brand Names A method of advertising and applying brand identification to toiletry products. The disclosed method includes providing a brand name, a specific product name or further details regarding the product or the company on the product itself. As the product is dispensed or co... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20110298204 | DOCUMENT SECURITY BY ALIGNING VISIBLE AND HIDDEN MARKS A printed document includes a security mark with visible and hidden portions. The document includes a security mark defined by at least one first security mark constituent, at least one second security mark constituent, and at least one third security mark constituent, ... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110298203 | DOCUMENT AUTHENTICATION ENHANCEMENT PROCESSES Disclosed are anti-counterfeiting methods which use a fiduciary marker encoded with the location of a hidden security feature. Documents produced by the methods, and methods for verifying authenticity of documents produced by the methods, are also disclosed.... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110269560 | SYSTEM AND ARTICLE FOR ADVERTISING An insert for a golf cup which includes: a base having a central hole and one or more drainage apertures; a cylindrical wall; wherein the insert has a shape which substantially corresponds to the internal region of the cup in which the insert fits the insert characteris... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110260440 | DISPOSABLE CUP WITH INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL FLUID LEVEL INDICATORS AND METHOD A method for using an associated visual implementing apparatus with which a first person may audibly or otherwise specify, e.g., a head nod, to a second person the amount of unoccupied volume or void to be available in an illustrated cup when partially filled with coffe... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110198836 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR A BASEBALL SCOREBOOK An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for a baseball scorebook. The apparatus includes a lineup card with an identifier area, and a scoresheet having at least one identifier area. One of the lineup card or scoresheet includes a carbonless copying feature that c... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110187094 | SHEET WITH WRISTBAND A printable form comprising a printable upper surface and a wristband releasably bonded to the printable upper surface. In at least one embodiment the wristband may be detached from the printable upper surface and secured around a body part for use in identification.... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110187093 | NOVELTY NOTES A non-counterfeit replica of a real U.S. paper bill and a method of promoting a business with a non-counterfeit replica of a real U.S. paper bill having an obverse side and a reverse side which is oppositely positioned one from the other. A dollar denomination is dispos... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110181033 | APPARATUS AND METHOD TO VERIFY IDENTITY AND DOCUMENTS A method to verify the authenticity of an identification document comprising one or more physical characteristics, one or more text areas, and one or more design elements, by determining if the one or more physical characteristics can be verified, and determining if the... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110157183 | DEPICTION ARRANGEMENT The invention relates to a depiction arrangement for security papers, value documents, electronic display devices or other data carriers, having a grid image arrangement for depicting a target image (40) that is broken down into two or more partial target images ... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110148092 | Laser Imaging and Its Use In Security Applications A method of forming an invisible indicium on an article that comprises an outer opaque layer and an inner, laser-imageable layer, which comprises (5) irradiating the article with a laser, whereby the laser radiation passes through the opaque layer, and causes the... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110140408 | METHOD OF PRINTING A LOTTERY TICKET WITH A SCRATCH-OFF LAYER DEFINING A MULTI-COLOR PATTERN A lottery ticket has game data printed on a substrate in a game data area either directly onto the substrate or onto a covering layer where the game data area is firstly covered by a scratch-off layer which contains a white pigment following which the scratch-off layer ... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110133893 | Recycle bag identification tag A recycle identification (ID) tag and method for organizing and labeling a recycle ID tag connected by an attachment mechanism to an aperture in a flat body at a first end, and the attachment mechanism connected to a recycle bag at a second end. A first identifying insc... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110115209 | TARGETED MASS MAILING SYSTEM AND METHOD A targeted mass mailing system and method including use of a pre-engineered subassembly. The subassembly is a unit of printable substrate which is processed according to at least one client-specified rule and which includes a unique identifier having associated code tha... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110109077 | Sketching Device for Copy Paper Apparatus and methods for facilitating writing on copy paper are presented. A sketching device can be inserted between upper and lower sets of copy paper to facilitate writing or sketching on the upper set while acting as a barrier to prevent undesired imprinting of the... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110012336 | SECURITY SHEET INCLUDING A STRIPPABLE RIBBON FOR EXPOSING MASKED INFORMATION, AND METHOD FOR MAKING SAME A security sheet that includes an information to be exposed and a preferably fibrous substrate in which is preferably totally embedded a ribbon that has a surface A and a surface B and is strippable along the surface B thereof, the information to be exposed being carrie... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20100313374 | Plural hue cleaning implements A cleaning implement comprising a multiply re-usable device and a disposable refill. The device has a handle for grasping by a user and a white attachment portion, for removable attachment of the refill. The device is substantially a first color having a first hue and t... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100308570 | Security Element and Method for the Production Thereof The invention relates to a security element (12) for securing value objects, with
| 12/09/2010 |
| 20100264640 | DEVICE FOR OBCURING PRINTED INDICIA AND METHOD OF USE A device for obscuring printed indicia includes a printable substrate, an indicia printed on a first surface of the substrate, an irreversible thermochromic material operably associated with the printable substrate which does not affect readability of the indicia when n... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100264641 | Two-Sided Counterfeit-Resistant Certificate And Method A certificate and method is provided that reduces the likelihood of counterfeiting via photocopier by providing various features that would require the use of a color duplex copier in order to effectively copy the certificate. Requiring the use of a color duplex copier ... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100237603 | INDICIA MEANS UV responsive indicia means comprising a substrate bearing indicia at least partly provided by one or more UV-sensitive materials, the indicia-bearing substrate being protected from exposure to UV radiation by a removable wrapper or peelable covering comprising a polyme... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100207376 | SECURITY ELEMENT WITH METALLISATION The present invention relates to a security element (20) for security papers, value documents and the like, having a substrate (22) and an opaque metallization 24, 26) arranged on the substrate. According to the invention in the security element is ... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100133803 | METHOD OF PROCESSING REPLY CARDS In a reply card enabling a recipient of said reply card to answer at least one request made by a sender of said reply card by taking a determined physical action on at least one identified zone of said reply card, provision is made for at least one identified zone of sa... | 06/03/2010 |
| 20100117348 | Fish Labeling System The invention is a system to allow a fishmonger or other fish seller to label fish for the sustainable use of that fish. The provider of the invention collects data and color-codes the data upon a flow chart. The flow chart combines the data into a single color code. Th... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100102116 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MAKING A CHANGE OF ADDRESS The invention in one aspect consolidates COA reject data to a central location and provides reports and queries that allow analysis of this data and to answer customer complaints as to why their change was not processed. In another aspect the invention provides an impro... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100095566 | Greeting card A new kind of greeting card uses the stock removed from a cut opening to create a raised portion on another page. To make the card, a die cuts around a portion of the perimeter of an area on the stock that will be transferred to form the raised portion of the card. This... | 04/22/2010 |
| 20100084847 | Pocket-Sized Disposable Photo Album Kit A kit is provided that assists a customer to produce a pocket-sized, disposable photo album. The kit generally has some paper that has been perforated and scored into a grid of wallet-sized rectangles, some adhesives, and instructions for use. A customer prints wallet-s... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20100084849 | System and Method for Linking Digital and Printed Contents Using Unique Content Identifiers One embodiment of a method for linking digital and printed contents includes receiving a request to retrieve a data element identified by a content identifier, identifying a storage location associated with the content identifier, retrieving a data element stored at the... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20100072739 | OPTICALLY VARIABLE SECURITY ELEMENT The present invention relates to an optically variable security element for protecting articles against counterfeiting, to a process for the production of a security element of this type, and to the use thereof.... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100052307 | SECURITY ELEMENT FOR DOCUMENTS OF VALUE The invention relates to a security element for securing value documents which has magnetic material. Further, the invention relates to a value document, a transfer material and a method for checking such a security element or value document. Along the security element,... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100038894 | PERSONALIZED BOOK Embodiments of the present disclosure include personalized books as well as methods and kits for providing personalized books. One method includes, providing an adult with a list of interview information to be obtained from a child; providing the adult with a list of pa... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100038279 | Pharmacy Bottles A pharmacy bottle for prescription medication is shown that conveys information thereon to the patient that is clear and understandable. Colored rings are attachable to the cap of the pharmacy bottle to convey general information. Increased surface area of the pharmacy ... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100001505 | Method for evaluating environmental standards of consumer items using single value to produce a calculated printed representation The invention provides for a methodology for analyzing overall environmental impact, especially regarding greenhouse gas emissions, of consumer item(s). Factors include those that directly and indirectly impact the local, national and global environment of the planet. O... | 01/07/2010 |
| 20090308922 | Hidden-code voting and marking systems A paper ballot voting system is described that allows voters to verify that their ballots are correctly counted and provide substantiating evidence if they are not. The systems work whether or not automation is available in the polling place. In other aspects special pe... | 12/17/2009 |
