Appeal No. 96-3553
Application 08/324,476
DECISION ON APPEAL
This appeal is from the final rejection of claims 1
through 8, all of the claims pending in the application.
The invention relates to an arrangement for marking
motor vehicles with identification information to deter theft
and/or unauthorized sale. Claims 1 and 8 are illustrative and
read as follows:
1. Arrangement for preventing theft of a vehicle
comprising:
microscopic information carriers having dimensions in
the range of microns, each of said information carriers being
encoded with identifying secondary information concerning the
vehicle, said information carriers being contained in a vehicle
coating of said vehicle at least at selected locations, said
vehicle coating being selected from the group consisting of a
top coating paint, an inner coating paint, an underseal coating
and a protection wax coating;
whereby said secondary information encoded on said
information carriers may be detected and compared with stored
primary information concerning said vehicle to detect alteration
of said secondary information.
8. Arrangement for marking of vehicles to hinder theft
or unauthorized sale, comprising:
information carriers permanently applied to the
vehicle, said information carriers being encoded with data in the
form of secondary information which coincides with primary
information concerning the identity of the vehicle, which
primary information is stored in a manner that is not accessible
to manipulation;
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