Holography News articles from May 2007

Holography News archives from May 2007

Key claims of ITW dot matrix patent rejected.(COMPANY NEWS)
May 1, 2007... On May 1 the US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) issued a final rejection of Claims 1, 4 and 6 of patent number 6,486,982, titled System for making a hologram of an image by manipulating object beam characteristics to reflect image data,...

MIT progress towards domestic HoloVideo.(COMPANY NEWS)
May 1, 2007... A team at the Object-Based Media (OBM) group in the Media Lab at MIT has reported significant progress on a 'Mark III' real-time holographic video viewer, with the aim of demonstrating a viewer which in size and cost would be acceptable in a...

ABNH appoints financial advisors for strategic review.(COMPANY NEWS)
May 1, 2007... As reported in last month's Stockwatch (see HN Vol 21, No 4), a group of shareholders had joined together legally to nominate a representative for election to the board of American Bank Note Holographics. This type of action normally occurs...

Machine-readability proves key to hologram contract.(COMPANY NEWS)
May 1, 2007... A leading Turkish bank has placed a contract for HoloSure[TM], a machine-readable hologram--together with several hundred PocketSure[TM] hand-held readers, according to InkSure and its Turkish partner, hologram manufacturer and security...

Hologram Industries: correction & update.(COMPANY NEWS)
May 1, 2007... French embossed hologram producer Hologram Industries has reported that sales for the first quarter of 2007 were [euro]4.8m ($6.5m), an increase of 56% on the same period in 2006 and a continuation of the upturn in the last quarter of that...

Holography provides key to securing Hungarian tax stamps.(CASE STUDY)
May 1, 2007... In a move to maintain government revenues and keep ahead of the counterfeiters, Hungary is a notable example of a country which has upgraded its tax stamps over a number of years. Key to this upgrade has been the use of holograms, with...

European Standards back on the agenda?(INDUSTRY NEWS)
May 1, 2007... The European Standards Committee (CEN--Comite Europeen de Normalisation) has invited interested parties to participate in the preliminary meeting for a proposed Workshop Agreement on a Counterfeiting Prevention and Technical Dissuasion...

Curtis launches Veritas with hologram.(COMPANY NEWS)
May 1, 2007... Specialist paper manufacturer Curtis Fine Papers has launched Veritas, a new range of premium business stationery incorporating a number of security features, including a hologram. The stationery is available in a variety of different...

Only Intrepid shows major gains.(STOCKWATCH)
May 1, 2007... The tracked companies mostly had another steady month, as did the London and Taiwan Stock Exchanges, both of which finished the period fractionally above where they started. The US markets, Dow Jones and NASDAQ, on the other hand, rose...

Optical Document Security conference.(CONFERENCES)
May 1, 2007... Optical Document Security conference--a follow-on conference from the biannual Optical Security and Counterfeit Deterrence Techniques conference--will take place from January 23-25, 2008, in San Francisco. The conference typically hosts...

Exhibitions and conferences.(Calendar)
May 1, 2007... CardTech.SecurTech May 15-17, 2007 San Francisco, CA, USA www.ctst.com 2nd Authentication Connections Forum September 17-19, 2007 Minneapolis, MN, USA www.acf-acd.com HoloExpo 2007 September 25-27,...

Innovations that fizzle out.(10 YEARS AGO)
May 1, 2007... Holography News[R] of May 1997 reported two separate and exciting innovations which, from ten years on, only show that what appears a breakthrough with a glorious future may not realise its inventors' aspirations. LightVision Confections...

More hindsight views.(10 YEARS AGO)
May 1, 2007... The lead item in the May 1997 issue was an approach by Advanced Deposition Technologies Inc to buy Foilmark Inc. AD Tech, which was a contract vacuum and sputtering coating company, provided high-refractive-index coatings to several hologram...

Holography the main winner of AIMCAL awards.(AWARDS NEWS)
May 1, 2007... At the recent Products of the Year awards presented by the Association of Industrial Metallizers, Coaters and Laminators (AIMCAL), holography yet again proved the main winner, picking up four out of the eight awards (which are made in...