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The VALIDATE project investigates the use of Cholesteric Spherical Reflectors as secure identification tags to combat product counterfeiting. It aims to assess the commercial viability of this technology, which offers unique, hard-to-replicate identifiers for various products.
Product counterfeiting, sometimes related to the theft of the original, has emerged as a significant economic issue, with the market value of pirated products equalling or exceeding the gross domestic product of some European countries. A 2016 report from OECD in cooperation with the EU Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) found that in 2013 counterfeit products sold were worth €375 billion, totalling 2.5% of global trade.
Counterfeit products range from high-end consumer luxury goods, to busine…
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