09.09.2007

ECB Fails to Invalidate DSS “Money Printing Patent” at Federal Patent Court

Posted in Patents at 19:16 pm by TMSJ

As reported by IPKat, the German Bundespatentgericht (Federal Patent Court) has recently published its decision on the validity of a patent held by Document Security Systems for a method of printing money — or rather, a method for printing documents in a way wich makes it impossible to reproduce them with the help of devices using optical scanning (photocopiers etc.).

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