Unique Polymer Chain DNA Could Stop Counterfeit Goods Cold

Sometimes the fake counterfeit version is so close to the original, that you cannot tell the difference. It hardly matters if it is an expensive watch, a car part, or a toy. Nowhere on Earth is there more counterfeit goods made today than in China. They know they have a problem and that this challenge makes many companies very leery of building factories there. It's going to be an even bigger problem for their own manufacturers and Chinese brands in the future.

Perhaps, there is a way to prevent such things from happening, and in solving this problem perhaps we can use the technology discovered for other things as well. Let me explain my thinking on this, as I believe it's worth mentioning.

In fact, there was an interesting article in PlasticsToday Magazine titled "Ceramic Nano-particles Could Help Processors Beat Copycats and Pirates," written by Matt Defosse and published online on November 9, 2010, and also appearing in the print version. The article states in the introduction, "A small company in Southern Germany has developed a new means to help plastics processors, their customers, and others take some of the sting out of the damage done by product piracy. The high-tech solution relies on a material used for centuries to give a product "its own DNA."

Now then, this is an awesome idea, and I once had an acquaintance who had come up with a device which allowed recyclers to instantly identify the type of plastics used to sort robotically. So, the technology to determine what's in the plastic already exists, but I was thinking about other uses for it. For security purposes such as plastic badges, gate keys, and even nose cones for fighter aircraft to determine if it was friendly or foe? Okay, so now I've piqued your curiosity, so let's talk.

Is it possible to use such strategies to determine red force or blue force in the modern battlespace, to catch spies and those who engage in industrial espionage? Could be, and it makes perfect sense. Not only can we instantly prevent counterfeit goods, we can protect US retailers from being ripped off with fake goods, and consumers from buying unsafe products. Maybe we might even protect our nation's security, and stop the bad guys from stealing our proprietary information in the first place.

Indeed, this is exactly what we discussed the other day in our think tank, and we believe we are onto something, something that has commercial value and could be very big. Please consider all this.