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(“VerifyMe,”
−Removed: the “Company,”
+Added: or the “Company,”
“we,”
−Removed: or “us”) is a technology solutions provider
−Removed: specializing in brand protection functions such as counterfeit prevention, authentication, serialization, track and trace
−Removed: features for labels, packaging and products.
−Removed: The Company was formed in Nevada on November 10, 1999.
−Removed: Leveraging our covert
−Removed: luminescent pigment, RainbowSecure®, which we began commercializing in 2018, we also developed the patented
−Removed: VeriPAS™
−Removed: software system in 2018 which covertly and overtly serializes products to remotely track a product’s
−Removed: “life cycle”
+Added: “us,”
+Added: or “our”) is a technology solutions provider specializing
+Added: in brand protection and supply chain functions such as counterfeit prevention, authentication, serialization, consumer engagement,
+Added: track and trace features for labels, packaging and products.
+Added: The Company was formed as LaserLock Technologies, Inc., in Nevada
+Added: on November 10, 1999.
+Added: Until 2018, we were primarily engaged in the research and development of our technologies.
+Added: We began to commercialize
+Added: our covert luminescent pigment, RainbowSecure®, in 2018, and we also developed the patented VeriPAS™
+Added: software system
+Added: in 2018 which covertly and overtly serializes products to track a product’s “life cycle”
for brand owners.
−Removed: We believe VeriPAS™
−Removed: is the only invisible covert serialization and
−Removed: authentication solution deployed through variable digital printing on HP Indigo printing systems with a smartphone tracking
−Removed: and authentication system.
+Added: believe VeriPAS™
+Added: is the only invisible covert serialization and authentication solution deployed through variable digital
+Added: printing on HP Indigo printing systems with a smartphone tracking and authentication system.
VeriPAS™
−Removed: is capable of fluorescing, decoding, and verifying invisible RainbowSecure®
−Removed: codes in the field –
−Removed: designed to allow investigators to quickly and efficiently authenticate product throughout the
−Removed: distribution chain, including warehouses, ports of entry, retail locations, and product purchased over the Internet for
−Removed: inspection and investigative actions.
−Removed: This technology is coupled with a secure cloud based track and trace software engine
−Removed: which allows brands and investigators to see where products originate and where they are deployed with geo location mapping
−Removed: and intelligent programable alerts.
+Added: is capable of fluorescing,
+Added: decoding, and verifying invisible RainbowSecure®
+Added: codes in the field designed to allow investigators to quickly and efficiently
+Added: authenticate product throughout the distribution chain, including warehouses, ports of entry, retail locations, and product purchased
+Added: over the Internet for inspection and investigative actions.
+Added: This technology is coupled with a secure cloud-based track and trace
+Added: software engine which allows brands and investigators to monitor the complete supply chain from product origination to the end
+Added: user utilizing geolocation mapping and intelligent programable alerts.
Brand owners access the VeriPAS™
−Removed: software over the Internet.
−Removed: Brand owners can then
−Removed: set rules of engagement, establish marketing programs for customer engagement and control, and monitor and protect their
−Removed: products’
+Added: software through
+Added: a web portal over the Internet.
+Added: Brand owners can then set rules of engagement, gather rich business intelligence, establish marketing
+Added: programs for customer engagement and control, monitor and protect their products’
“life cycle.”
−Removed: We have derived minimal revenue from our VeriPAS™
−Removed: software system and have
−Removed: derived limited revenue from the sale of our RainbowSecure®
−Removed: We believe the brand protection technologies
−Removed: we own, once fully developed, can be used to enable businesses to reconstruct their overall approaches to security—from
−Removed: brand protection, product diversion and counterfeit identification to employee or customer monitoring.
−Removed: The Company is currently
−Removed: testing a pre-printed labeling system containing VeriPAS™
−Removed: for third party on-line retailers to affix to their products that
−Removed: allows the third party retailer to engage with their customer through marketing and data gathering.
−Removed: In addition these pre-printed
−Removed: labels containing VeriPAS™
−Removed: labels will allow the receiving customer to authenticate the product with their personal smartphone.
−Removed: The Company is also developing a thread made of fabric containing covert RainbowSecure®
−Removed: Ink that will be sewn into clothing
−Removed: and apparel for authentication.
−Removed: A VeriPAS™
−Removed: readable code for apparel labels is also being developed with a third party apparel
−Removed: manufacturer.
−Removed: Potential applications of our technologies are available in different types of products and industries—e.g.,
−Removed: banking, gaming, apparel, tobacco, cosmetics, food, beverages, plastics, metal, event and transportation tickets, manufactured
−Removed: goods, tax stamps, fabrics, parts, driver’s licenses, insurance cards, passports, computer software, on-line retail and
−Removed: credit cards.
−Removed: We have had revenue generating sales through re-seller agreements of our technology and through direct sales of
−Removed: our technology to global brand owners, and label and packaging printers.
−Removed: Our brand protection
−Removed: technologies involve the utilization of invisible and/or color changing inks, which are compatible and printed with modern digital
−Removed: and standard printing presses.
−Removed: The inks may be used with certain printing systems such as digital, offset, flexographic, silkscreen,
−Removed: gravure, inkjet and toner based laser printers.
−Removed: The inks can be used to print both static and variable images utilizing digital
−Removed: printing presses and third party digital inkjet systems which are attached to traditional printing presses.
−Removed: Our invisible ink can
−Removed: be used in fixed images, variable images or serialized codes, bar codes or QR codes.
−Removed: We have developed a product which attaches
−Removed: to a smart-phone that reads our invisible ink codes into sophisticated cloud based track and trace software.
−Removed: We also have a product
−Removed: that informs users that our invisible ink is present for authentication.
−Removed: Based upon our experience, we believe that the ink technologies
−Removed: may be incorporated into most existing manufacturing processes.
−Removed: Until 2018, we were primarily engaged
−Removed: in the research and development of our technologies.
−Removed: In order to penetrate the security printing market, we modernized our invisible
−Removed: ink technology, called RainbowSecure®.
−Removed: We created the ability to utilize RainbowSecure®
−Removed: as an invisible code that contained
−Removed: data that could be read into sophisticated software that resides in the cloud.
−Removed: To accomplish this task, we created our VeriPAS™
−Removed: Smartphone Authenticator, a device that attaches to a smartphone.
−Removed: After several prototypes, this device was successfully tested
−Removed: in 2018 and is now being manufactured.
−Removed: The first units have been leased to one customer in Taiwan starting in June 2019 and one
−Removed: customer in the United States starting in September 2019 and are ready for leasing to brand owners, inspectors and print service
−Removed: providers around the world.
−Removed: See “Business Update:
−Removed: at page 2 for
−Removed: additional information.
−Removed: In conjunction with our smartphone reading
−Removed: device, we finalized our VeriPAS TM cloud-based software which gives brand owners the ability to monitor, control, track,
−Removed: engage with the customer, gather data from the end user and protect their products complete life cycle.
−Removed: This software resides in
−Removed: the cloud and can be accessed over the Internet.
−Removed: The software generates serialization codes available for purchase by brand owners.
−Removed: These codes are then printed on labels and packaging in both visible codes for consumers to engage and invisible codes known as
−Removed: RainbowSecure®
−Removed: which trained brand inspectors review with our reading device.
+Added: We have derived
+Added: minimal revenue from our VeriPAS™
+Added: software system and have derived limited revenue from the sale of our RainbowSecure®
+Added: Our brand protection technologies involve
+Added: the utilization of invisible and/or color changing inks, which are compatible and printed with modern digital and standard printing
+Added: The inks may be used with certain printing systems such as digital, offset, flexographic, silkscreen, gravure, inkjet
+Added: and toner-based laser printers.
+Added: The inks can be used to print both static and variable images utilizing digital printing presses
+Added: and third-party digital inkjet systems which are attached to traditional printing presses.
+Added: Our invisible ink can be used in fixed
+Added: images, variable images or serialized codes, bar codes or QR codes.
+Added: We have developed a product which attaches to a smartphone
+Added: that reads our invisible ink codes into sophisticated cloud-based track and trace software.
+Added: We also have a product that informs
+Added: users that our invisible ink is present for authentication.
+Added: Based upon our experience, we believe that the ink technologies may
+Added: be incorporated into most existing manufacturing processes.
Business Update
−Removed: In 2019, we focused our efforts primarily
−Removed: on the completion of our products and began the introduction of our products into the market and forging relationships that could
−Removed: help generate revenue in future periods.
−Removed: Beginning on October 15, 2019, we entered
−Removed: into a consulting agreement with G Prime LLC for services involving the development of relationships with brand owners and others
−Removed: in the food, pharmaceutical, medical device, household good and industrial products packaging industry.
−Removed: This agreement continues
−Removed: until either party terminates at any time upon 30 days prior written notice to the other or as otherwise mutually agreed.
−Removed: On October 1, 2019, we entered into a representative
−Removed: agreement with J.A.G.
−Removed: Associates, Ltd.
−Removed: to represent us in the sale of our products in the U.S.
−Removed: and globally.
−Removed: This two-year agreement
−Removed: can be terminated by either party upon 60 days prior written notice.
−Removed: Effective as of May 30, 2019, we entered
−Removed: into a leasing agreement and purchase agreement with a Forbes Top 50 Private Company that sells nutrition, personal care, beauty
−Removed: and home care products around the globe.
−Removed: This is our first direct contract with a brand owner who prints some of its own packaging
−Removed: and labels using HP Indigo printing presses.
−Removed: They lease our equipment and software including VeriPAS™
−Removed: technology products
−Removed: in conjunction with HP Indigo printing presses, our strategic partner.
−Removed: This one year leasing agreement can be terminated by either
−Removed: party upon 90 days’
−Removed: prior notice.
−Removed: This client began printing labels that include our technology in the fourth quarter of
−Removed: In addition, the client leased six units of the Company’s VeriPAS™
−Removed: Smartphone Authenticator to outfit their global
−Removed: brand inspectors’
−Removed: On May 28, 2019, pursuant to a memorandum
−Removed: of understanding, we began a strategic partnership with INX International Ink Company, the third largest producer of inks in North
−Removed: America, to co-develop inkjet inks to be used for inkjet printing in combination with high speed, high volume label and packaging
−Removed: printing presses.
−Removed: The specially formulated inks will enable these printing presses to print our RainbowSecure®
−Removed: invisible ink
−Removed: technology, which includes our variable VeriPAS™
+Added: Recent Developments
+Added: In March 2021, we signed a sales agency agreement with Syntax
+Added: Ltd., HP Indigo’s authorized channel partner for China.
+Added: Syntax is the only distributor authorized to sell and support HP
+Added: Indigo products in China, and now has an exclusive agreement to sell our technology solutions for HP Indigo products in China.
+Added: We also granted Syntax a non-exclusive right to sell our other products in China.
+Added: In February 2021, David Sandello joined VerifyMe as Director
+Added: of Sales and Business Development of North America to focus on expanding our revenue operations and to accelerate growth.
+Added: brings 15 years of experience building, scaling and leading revenue organizations including new sales and growth through existing
+Added: account management teams.
+Added: In February 2021, we
+Added: received an initial purchase order for 2 million pre-printed anti-counterfeiting labels.
+Added: The labels will be utilized for track and trace
+Added: and brand protection for 2 million boxes of surgical gloves, a personal protective equipment (“PPE”) necessity in fighting
+Added: the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
+Added: This initial purchase order for complete pre-printed tamper-evident labels with VeriPAS™
+Added: brand protection
+Added: and consumer engagement is the first order under our strategic partnership with Renavotio (OTC:
+Added: This is a custom-designed tamper
+Added: proof label containing multiple layered technologies embedded and printed by VerifyMe.
+Added: In February 2021, we
+Added: entered into a strategic partnership with INX International Ink Company (“INX”).
+Added: INX will supply us with conventional and
+Added: ink jet inks that incorporate our RainbowSecure®
+Added: marking technology for resale to our customers.
+Added: The inks are developed and ready
+Added: for market for metal container decorating, dry offset printing, gravure shrink sleeves, and flexographic fabric printing.
+Added: The inks developed,
+Added: and expected to be developed, under the supply agreement are applicable to a broad range of uses, including aluminum beverage cans and
+Added: bottles, labels and packaging for the cannabis industry, personal protective equipment, aerospace parts, motor vehicle parts, weapons
+Added: and ammunition, silicon chips and medical equipment.
+Added: In February, 2021, as part of our public offering of an aggregate 1,750,000
+Added: shares of common stock, we generated aggregate gross proceeds of $9.2 million and net proceeds of $8.5 million, less underwriting discounts
+Added: and commissions and other offering expenses, including the partial exercise of the over-allotment option resulting in gross proceeds of
+Added: $530 thousand.
+Added: In January 2021,
+Added: we signed Authentik, a company registered in Pakistan, as an independent sales contractor.
+Added: Our relationship with Authentik will
+Added: expand our global reach across critical industries, including pharmaceutical and food.
+Added: December 31, 2020
+Added: In 2020, we focused our
+Added: efforts primarily on the completion of our products, and began the introduction of our products into the market and forging relationships
+Added: that could help generate revenue in future periods.
+Added: We continue to expand our business and grow organically.
+Added: We also plan to pursue acquisition
+Added: opportunities that will allow us to accelerate our growth plans.
+Added: In November 2020, we
+Added: announced a share repurchase program to spend up to $1.5 million to repurchase shares of our common stock over the next nine months.
+Added: date, no shares have been purchased, but the Company reserves the right to make purchases at any time under the terms set out in this
+Added: In June 2020,
+Added: we completed the closing of our underwritten public offering of an aggregate of 2,173,913 units at a price to the public of $4.60
+Added: Each unit issued in the offering consisted of one share of common stock and one warrant to purchase one share of common
+Added: stock at an exercise price of $4.60.
+Added: The common stock and warrants began trading on the Nasdaq Capital Market (“Nasdaq”)
+Added: on June 18, 2020, under the symbols “VRME”
+Added: and “VRMEW,”
+Added: respectively.
+Added: We received gross proceeds of $10.0
+Added: million, before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and other estimated offering expenses.
+Added: Concurrent with the offering,
+Added: we also effectuated a reverse split of our issued and outstanding common stock and treasury stock at a ratio of 50-to-1.
+Added: In March 2020, we completed the private placement of $1,992,000
+Added: senior secured convertible debentures (the “2020 Debentures”).
+Added: We used $750,000 of the net proceeds to redeem prior
+Added: outstanding convertible debentures issued in 2019.
+Added: In connection with the issuance of the 2020 Debentures, we also issued warrants
+Added: (“2020 Warrants”) to purchase 498,000 shares of common stock.
+Added: Each of the 2020 Warrants had a three-year term and were
+Added: immediately exercisable at an exercise price of $7.50 per share.
+Added: On June 22, 2020, we cancelled the 2020 Warrants for twenty-three
+Added: of the twenty-five warrant holders and issued to the holders of the cancelled 2020 Warrants an aggregate of 179,200 shares of common
+Added: Also on such date, the 2020 Debentures were automatically converted into an aggregate of 637,513 shares of common stock
+Added: and warrants to purchase 573,479 shares of common stock upon closing of our listing on Nasdaq.
+Added: In January 2020, we received a Notice of
+Added: Allowance for the U.S.
+Added: Patent Application from the U.S.
+Added: Patent & Trademark Office for the dual code authentication process
+Added: relating to our invisible QR code and smartphone reading system “Dual Code Authentication Process.”
+Added: COVID-19 Pandemic
+Added: The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted businesses
+Added: and affect production and sales across a range of industries, as well as caused volatility in the financial markets, which negatively
+Added: impacted our results of operations for 2020, and could further negatively impact our sales and results of operations.
+Added: has also caused a major spike in demand for safety products such as masks and gloves, COVID-19 test kits, medications, and vaccines
+Added: to treat the virus, which we believe has further caused an increase in counterfeit products.
+Added: Our suite of technology solutions
+Added: for global manufacturers, distributors and sellers are designed to allow consumers to prove authenticity and we have proactively
+Added: reached out to global manufacturers who are seeking to provide their customers authenticity in their products.
+Added: Please see Item
+Added: 1A, “Risk Factors—Risks Relating to the COVID-19 Pandemic”
+Added: “Management’s Discussion and
+Added: Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—COVID-19 Pandemic”
+Added: in this Report for additional information
+Added: regarding certain risks associated with the pandemic and the pandemic’s effect on our results of operations.
+Added: Commercialization
+Added: of our Technologies
+Added: In 2020, we entered
+Added: into a number of strategic partnerships and agreements to accelerate the commercialization of our technology and announced a number
+Added: of commercial milestones achieved by the Company, including:
+Added: In October 2020, we entered into an agreement with OWS Capital to market, promote and sell our
+Added: security authentication technology solutions, including the VerifyMe®
+Added: as Authentic®
+Added: labels, in the United Arab Emirates
+Added: and Middle East.
+Added: In October 2020, we extended our agreement with Micro Focus
+Added: International PLC (“Micro Focus”) for three years.
+Added: The original agreement was entered into in December 2017.
+Added: Focus cross-sells our technology and supports our VeriPAS™
+Added: software platform.
+Added: To date, no sales have been made on our behalf
+Added: by Micro Focus, and limited revenue has been derived from our VeriPAS™
+Added: supply chain serialization, track and trace technology.
+Added: In September 2020, we were notified that a Forbes Top 50 Private Company that sells nutrition,
+Added: personal care, beauty and home care products, expects to add additional distribution in three additional countries;
+Added: Japan, Vietnam
+Added: The client also ordered RainbowSecure®
+Added: ink technology to meet required production volumes for products, in the
+Added: first quarter of 2021.
+Added: In June 2020, we entered into a new partnership with Corsearch, Inc.
+Added: (“Corsearch”),
+Added: a brand clearance and protection leader, pursuant to which we have the right to use and offer Corsearch’s technical search
+Added: platform ZERO®
+Added: to our customers and Corsearch will have the right to offer its brand clients the full suite of our technologies
+Added: to protect their e-commerce products.
+Added: is an online monitoring and enforcement platform that monitors and processes all
+Added: information relating to a brand’s products, trademarks, copyrights, designs and patents.
+Added: The initial term of the agreement
+Added: is two years and becomes auto renewable after the initial period.
+Added: To date, we have not derived revenue from this technology.
+Added: are beginning to demonstrate this technology to our customers as part of a broader strategy for a comprehensive provider of brand
+Added: protection solutions, for e-commerce as well as our proprietary physical and digital supply chain product offerings .
+Added: In June 2020, we executed a Technology Integration and Sales Referral Agreement with SmartGlyph
+Added: Limited (“SmartGlyph”), a U.K-based digital solutions provider, for a two-year term, to integrate technologies and
+Added: establish a sales referral relationship.
+Added: Under the agreement, the combined offering will include the VeriPAS™
+Added: Authenticator and its mobile app, VeriPAS™
+Added: serialization, track and trace technology and RainbowSecure®
+Added: ink and SmartGlyph’s
+Added: barcodes and multi-faceted, “software only”
+Added: coding platform.
+Added: In addition, the agreement includes a cross-selling agreement,
+Added: pursuant to which the receiving party will pay the referring party a referral fee equal to 10% of the purchase price of the products
+Added: purchased by a customer of the receiving party who was introduced by the referring party.
+Added: In June 2020, we received our first order for VeriPAS™
serialization, track and trace technology
−Removed: Pursuant to the memorandum of
−Removed: understanding, either party may terminate the strategic partnership at any time after September 1, 2019.
−Removed: Testing of the inkjet
−Removed: inks commenced in the third quarter of 2019and is still on-going.
−Removed: On May 3, 2019, we entered into a one
−Removed: year leasing contract with Identity Management Systems Co., Ltd., for the lease of one of our new VeriPAS™
−Removed: Authenticators which includes the VeriPAS™
−Removed: This lease is expected to allow us to introduce and sell our
−Removed: products and services to the East Asia markets.
−Removed: The contract can be terminated by either party with 90 days’
−Removed: On April 24, 2019, we entered into a
−Removed: license agreement with Niagara, a western New York label manufacturer with 33 years’
−Removed: allows Niagara to offer our brand protection technology solutions to brand owners throughout the United States through the
−Removed: leasing of our VeriPAS™
−Removed: Smartphone Authenticators.
−Removed: These VeriPAS™
−Removed: Smartphone Authenticator read the invisible
+Added: in the cannabis industry, combined with our VerifyMe®
+Added: as Authentic®
+Added: The VeriPAS™
+Added: serialization, track
+Added: and trace technology is being utilized on pre-printed tamper-proof labels in order for the client to protect itself from counterfeit
+Added: products containing contaminants.
+Added: The solution also allows the end-consumer to download the compulsory certificate of origin, directly
+Added: from their smartphone, by scanning the overt barcode on the tamper-proof label.
+Added: We derived approximately $16 thousand in revenue
+Added: related to this order, and we received a similar reorder in the first quarter of 2021.
+Added: In June 2020, we entered into a strategic partnership with Techind Engineers & Consultants-Impex
+Added: (“Techind”), part of the Gohar Group, of India, with a two-year term, pursuant to which Techind provides our VeriPAS™
+Added: serialization, track and trace technology to a broad range of industries and clients of Techind, with a specific focus on the pharmaceutical
+Added: and food and beverage industries.
+Added: We have demonstrated our solution to a number of global companies with a presence in India through
+Added: our partnership with Techind.
+Added: Our Anti-Counterfeit Technologies and
+Added: In the areas of authentication and serialization of physical
+Added: goods, we offer clients the following brand protection security and anti-counterfeit technologies:
RainbowSecure®
−Removed: codes into the cloud and are recorded in our serialization, track and trace software platform,
VeriPAS™
−Removed: This license has a one year term that automatically renews for successive one year terms unless 90
−Removed: prior notice of non-renewal is given by either party.
−Removed: The agreement can also be terminated by either party with
−Removed: 90 days’
−Removed: prior notice.
−Removed: On April 11, 2019, we entered into a one-year
−Removed: reseller agreement with Arca, a leading label and packaging company based in Milan, Italy.
−Removed: Pursuant to the agreement, we offer
−Removed: our brand protection technology solutions to brand owners throughout Europe through the leasing of our patented VeriPAS™
−Removed: Smartphone Authenticators which read the invisible codes into the cloud and are recorded in the Company’s VeriPAS™
−Removed: Our devices are expected to be leased to brand owners by Arca in exchange for recurring revenue.
−Removed: The agreement can be
−Removed: terminated by either party with 90 days’
−Removed: prior notice.
−Removed: Anti-Counterfeit Technologies and Products
−Removed: Recent developments
−Removed: in copying and printing technologies have made it easier to counterfeit a wide variety of documents and products.
−Removed: Counterfeiting
−Removed: can be divided into the following two types:
−Removed: “Traditional Counterfeiting”
−Removed: which includes mainly paper type documents and instruments
−Removed: such as bank checks, birth certificates, credentials, identification documents, stock certificates, currency, lottery tickets,
−Removed: credit cards, driver’s licenses, event and transportation tickets, coupons, and travelers’
−Removed: Traditional Counterfeiting targets are mainly paper type instruments which can be traditionally copied, scanned, color copied,
−Removed: hand drawn, etc., by both professionals and consumers alike;
−Removed: “Modern Counterfeiting”
−Removed: which consists of the actual counterfeiting of major brand
−Removed: owners’
−Removed: products such as expensive luxury items like jewelry, purses, military items (sabotage), drug manufacturing, golf
−Removed: clubs, consumables like tobacco, alcohol, food and beverages.
−Removed: Not only is the packaging and labeling counterfeited, the actual
−Removed: products are counterfeited as well.
−Removed: There are even reports of whole companies being counterfeited.
−Removed: Although Traditional
−Removed: Counterfeiting targets are extremely important and cause mainly financial harm, Modern Counterfeiting targets on the other hand
−Removed: are much more sophisticated.
−Removed: Organized crime, consumers, small and large businesses, and even governments may partake in
−Removed: Modern Counterfeiting.
−Removed: consumers at risk, but brand owners are also at risk.
−Removed: Normally brand owners are financially impacted when someone is
−Removed: selling or diverting their products.
−Removed: The financial impact seems to be the lesser of the risk factors.
−Removed: the additional, more impactful risk, facing brand owners and drug manufacturers is the liability issue.
−Removed: A brand owner
−Removed: may be called to a court room to prove that a product is authentic or counterfeit to avoid major liability exposure in the
−Removed: form of judgements and fines, as well as the extremely severe negative marketing exposure for such issues.
−Removed: Brand owners do not want their products
−Removed: published under the name of a product that injured or harmed a consumer.
−Removed: Our covert RainbowSecure®
−Removed: technology can be
−Removed: utilized by brand owners to authenticate products, labels and packaging in those circumstances.
−Removed: We believe that losses and
−Removed: liability from such counterfeiting is increasing substantially with improvements in counterfeiting technology as well as the proliferation
−Removed: of highly skilled and well-funded counterfeiters.
−Removed: It is therefore imperative that all brand owners, beverages, food and drug
−Removed: manufacturers utilize the best counterfeit prevention technologies available for their products.
+Added: supply chain serialization, track and trace technology
+Added: VeriPAS™
+Added: Smartphone Authenticator
+Added: VerifyMe Beeper
+Added: VerifyMe®
+Added: RainbowSecure®
+Added: technology was
+Added: our first technology to be patented.
+Added: It combines an invisible ink with a proprietary tuned laser to enable counterfeit products to be
+Added: In 2017, we signed a five-year contract with Indigo Division of HP Inc.
+Added: (“HP Indigo”) to print this technology on
+Added: packages and labels on their 6000 series presses.
+Added: Our technology has been tested and approved by HP Indigo 6000 series presses and
+Added: more recently was qualified on HP Indigo’s 6900 series presses.
+Added: In addition, we successfully trialed production on their 7900 press
+Added: series used for sheet-fed products like folded cartons and plastic cards.
+Added: HP Indigo informed us that other press models will be qualified
+Added: once clients formally request in writing the need for qualification for current unqualified models.
+Added: In addition, HP Indigo is producing
+Added: sample secure government products such as tax stamp samples for governments with our RainbowSecure®
+Added: invisible ink technology.
+Added: has showcased these samples at various global government and print service providers trade shows.
+Added: Customers can use a handheld beeping
+Added: device, our VerifyMe Beepers, tuned to authenticate the unique frequency of our RainbowSecure®
+Added: invisible ink, to broadcast a beeping
+Added: sound to confirm the authenticity when placed on products, labels and packaging containing our RainbowSecure®
+Added: VerifyMe Beepers
+Added: are being commercialized and leased to customers, typically for one year.
+Added: In December 2017, we signed a contract with Micro Focus to use
+Added: RainbowSecure®
+Added: in their Global Product Authentication Service (GPAS).
+Added: The technology also features a unique double layer of security
+Added: which remains entirely covert at all times and provides licensees with additional protection.
+Added: Under the contract with Micro Focus, we
+Added: have a re-seller agreement where we sell the combined Micro Focus GPAS with our RainbowSecure®
+Added: identifier under our own trademarked
+Added: name, VeriPAS™.
+Added: In May 2019, we entered into a strategic partnership with INX, the third largest producer of inks in North America,
+Added: to co-develop inkjet inks to be used for inkjet printing in combination with high speed, high volume label and packaging printing presses.
+Added: In 2020 INX, in conjunction with Print Craft Inc., successfully-tested an appeal garment containing our RainbowSecure®
+Added: garment survived the 50 wash and dry cycle test.
+Added: Sales and marketing efforts for this new VerifyMe secure apparel technology are commencing
+Added: in 2021 in conjunction with INX and Print Craft Inc.
+Added: In February 2021, INX completed the development of a version of our RainbowSecure®
+Added: security ink for metal objects and INX is now co-marketing the new security ink to its global clients.
+Added: The specially formulated inks will
+Added: enable these printing presses to print our RainbowSecure®
+Added: invisible ink technology, which includes our variable VeriPAS™
+Added: serialization,
+Added: track and trace technology.
+Added: We believe RainbowSecure®
+Added: is particularly well-suited to closed and controlled environments that want
+Added: to verify transactions within a specific area, as well as labels, packaging, textiles, plastics and metal products which need authentication.
+Added: We have derived limited revenue from the sale of our RainbowSecure®
+Added: VeriPAS™
+Added: serialization, track and trace technology combines the covert identifier of RainbowSecure®
+Added: with the Micro Focus GPAS
+Added: which provides brand owners geographical business intelligence on counterfeiting as well as the ability to authenticate
+Added: labels, packaging and products.
+Added: Using information from a smartphone screen, our VeriPAS TM technology, can
+Added: provide authentication and data submission information.
+Added: A customer or end-user can scan information from a product label or
+Added: QR code and send it to the cloud where our VeriPAS TM software can verify authenticity of the product, as well
+Added: as track and trace the product from production through delivery.
+Added: Certain clients are in the testing stage with this product.
+Added: Revenue was received for the first time in 2020 and a new order was received in the first quarter of 2021.
+Added: To date, we have
+Added: recognized minimal revenue from this technology.
+Added: VeriPAS ™
+Added: Authenticator technology is a piece of hardware with a built-in lighting system and software that scans invisible RainbowSecure®
+Added: Product investigators attach their smartphone to this device which then reveals the hidden RainbowSecure®
+Added: the smartphone screen which are then sent to the VeriPAS TM software in the cloud for authentication and data submission.
+Added: These devices have been commercialized and are being leased to customers.
+Added: Leases are typically one year in length and are auto-renewable.
+Added: A Forbes Top 50 Private Company added additional leases in 2020 for its international brand inspector team.
+Added: Revenue from this product
+Added: is at an initial stage and minimal at this time.
+Added: VerifyMe Beeper technology
+Added: is an authentication tool which we are marketing to customers in conjunction with our RainbowSecure®
+Added: Beeper is a handheld beeping device is tuned to authenticate the unique frequency of our RainbowSecure®
+Added: invisible ink and will
+Added: broadcast a beeping sound to confirm the authenticity when placed on products, labels and packaging containing our RainbowSecure®
+Added: The VerifyMe Beeper is designed for use by customers who desire instant authentication on items, such as event tickets at
+Added: an entry gate.
+Added: Our customized beeper will only positively identify a product bearing our unique anti-counterfeit solution.
+Added: technology is being commercialized and leased to customers, typically for one year auto-renewable terms.
+Added: We are in the process
+Added: of upgrading the functionality of this device so that it connects to a mobile phone via Bluetooth allowing authentication attempts
+Added: to be recorded in the cloud by geo-location with time and date stamp.
+Added: VerifyMe®
+Added: as Authentic®
+Added: are dual-purpose pre-printed labels with a visible serialized QR code for consumer scanning purposes, and an invisible serialized
+Added: IR code for inspector scanning, authentication and tracking purposes.
+Added: This label can be either a standard label or designed
+Added: with tamper evident features.
+Added: It was developed to provide covert brand protection for e-commerce retailers, to enable consumer
+Added: product authentication, promotion, engagement and education through the visible serialized QR code.
+Added: This technology has been successfully
+Added: launched with tamper evident features and is being used in the cannabis sector by one customer, without the covert IR component.
+Added: VerifyMe®
+Added: Web TM includes,
+Added: through our collaboration with Corsearch, a brand clearance and protection leader, technologies and services that better enable
+Added: customers to effectively tackle counterfeit websites, domains and e-commerce platforms offering counterfeit products.
+Added: we have not derived revenue from this technology.
We believe that our brand protection security
−Removed: anti-counterfeit technologies may be useful to businesses desiring to authenticate a wide variety of materials and products.
−Removed: best solution for brand owners and manufacturers is to layer as many technologies as they can to protect their products.
−Removed: Brand Protection Printing Technology
+Added: technologies, coupled with our contract with HP Indigo, can be used to enable brand owners to securely prevent counterfeiting,
+Added: prevent product diversion and authenticate labels, packaging and products and alleviate the brand owner’s liability from
+Added: counterfeit products which physically harm consumers.
+Added: Our covert technologies give brand owners the ability to control, monitor
+Added: and protect their products life cycle.
+Added: Also, our technologies allow brand owners to prove whether the product causing an issue
+Added: is authentic or counterfeit.
+Added: Brand Protection Technology
Our brand protection technologies include
(i) a technology utilizing invisible ink taggant that can be revealed by use of a special calibrated laser light for authentication
−Removed: purposes, (ii) an ink technology, which allows invisible codes to be printed, and (iii) a color changing technology that is
−Removed: activated by certain types of lights.
−Removed: Based on our knowledge and test results, we believe none of these technologies can be copied
−Removed: or scanned by counterfeiters.
+Added: purposes, (ii) an ink technology, which allows invisible codes to be printed, and (iii) a color changing technology that is activated
+Added: by certain types of lights.
+Added: Based on our knowledge and test results, we believe none of these technologies can be copied or scanned
+Added: by counterfeiters.
We believe the useful life of our technologies on a label or package is at least 20 years.
−Removed: Our technologies can be printed on labels and packaging and can also be applied to metals, plastics and textiles.
−Removed: Other possible
−Removed: variations of our laser-based technology involve multiple color responses from a common laser, visible marks of one color that
−Removed: turn another color with a second laser, or visible and invisible marks that turn into a multicolored image.
−Removed: These technologies
−Removed: provide users with the ability to authenticate products and detect counterfeit documents.
−Removed: Applications include the authentication
−Removed: of documents having intrinsic value, such as currency, checks, travelers’
−Removed: checks, gift certificates and event tickets, and
−Removed: the authentication of product labeling and packaging.
−Removed: When applied to product labeling and packaging, our technologies can be used
−Removed: to detect counterfeit products with labels and/or in packaging that do not contain the authenticating marks invisibly printed on
−Removed: the packaging or labels of legitimate products, as well as to combat product diversion (i.e., the sale of legitimate products through
−Removed: unauthorized distribution channels or in unauthorized markets).
−Removed: We believe that our technologies also could be used in a manner
−Removed: that permits manufacturers and distributors to track the movement or pinpoint geographically where counterfeiting of products is
−Removed: We can track and trace from production to ultimate consumption when coupled with our VeriPAS ™
−Removed: 2017, we signed a five-year contract with the Indigo Division of HP Inc.
−Removed: (“HP Indigo”) to print this technology on
−Removed: packages and labels on their 6000 series digital presses.
−Removed: The 6000 series digital qualified presses are mainly used to print both
−Removed: static and variable high-quality images such as personalized labels and packaging for brand owners.
−Removed: We have also successfully run
−Removed: pilot production on the HP Indigo 7800 series press used for sheet-fed products like folded cartons and plastic cards.
−Removed: informed the Company that other press models will be qualified once clients formally request in writing the need for qualification
−Removed: for current unqualified models.
−Removed: In addition, HP Indigo is producing sample secure government products such as tax stamp samples
−Removed: for governments with our RainbowSecure®
+Added: In 2017, we signed a five-year contract
+Added: with the HP Indigo to print this technology on packages and labels on their 6000 series digital presses.
+Added: The 6000 series digital
+Added: qualified presses are mainly used to print both static and variable high-quality images such as personalized labels and packaging
+Added: for brand owners.
+Added: In 2020, our technology was qualified on HP Indigo’s 6900 series presses, and we also successfully trialed
+Added: production on their 7900 press series used for sheet-fed products like folded cartons and plastic cards.
+Added: HP Indigo informed us
+Added: that other press models will be qualified once clients formally request in writing the need for qualification for current unqualified
+Added: In addition, HP Indigo is producing sample secure government products such as tax stamp samples for governments with our
+Added: RainbowSecure®
invisible ink technology.
−Removed: HP Indigo is showcasing these samples at various global government
−Removed: and print service providers trade shows.
+Added: HP Indigo has showcased these samples at various global government and print service
+Added: providers trade shows.
This solution is marketed as RainbowSecure®
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technology prints covert serialization numbers, codes or images
−Removed: either fixed or variable mainly on labels and packaging which are revealed when using our hand-held authentication devices.
−Removed: In addition, in 2019, HP Indigo significantly
−Removed: increased their own marketing of our RainbowSecure®
+Added: either fixed or variable mainly on labels and packaging which are revealed when using our hand-held authentication devices, we
+Added: call our VeriPAS™
+Added: Smartphone Authenticators.
+Added: In combination with a smartphone, these authenticators utilize special calibrated
+Added: laser light for authentication purposes.
+Added: VeriPAS™
+Added: Smartphone Authenticators are being commercialized and leased to customers,
+Added: typically for one year.
+Added: In addition, in 2020, HP Indigo increased
+Added: their own marketing of our RainbowSecure®
invisible ink technology.
−Removed: HP Indigo had VerifyMe, Inc.
−Removed: join them in their
−Removed: trade show booth in the Global LabelExpo trade show held in Brussels, Belgium in September 2019.
−Removed: HP Indigo has trained their world-wide
−Removed: sales force on VerifyMe’s technology to show to both print service providers and brand owners.
−Removed: HP Indigo has also installed
−Removed: the Company’s technology offerings in their HP Experience Centers located in Tel Aviv, Israel, Singapore, Barcelona, Spain
−Removed: and Alpharetta, Georgia where customers can perform tests and get hands on experience with the Company’s technologies.
−Removed: also believe business will be generated from both internal sales efforts as well as from our strategic partner S-One Labels and
−Removed: Packaging LLC, a division of S-One LP (“S-One”) which has agreed to provide us with global sales, distribution, and
−Removed: promotion support for our products and employs representatives on an as needs basis to promote our products.
−Removed: Under the terms of
−Removed: our agreement with S-One, S-One will act as a sales and marketing contractor for our printed products and services on a global
−Removed: basis and will assist us in fulfilling our obligations under our signed current and future reseller agreements with global and
−Removed: domestic print providers and brand owners.
−Removed: As an add-on track
−Removed: and trace feature of our RainbowSecure®
−Removed: covert imaging, we have contracted with Micro Focus International PLC (“Micro
−Removed: Focus”), a global software developer to utilize their visible QR code system, GPAS, which is printed on labels and packaging
−Removed: along with our covert RainbowSecure®
−Removed: to store our hidden covert serial number in the cloud for product diversion investigators
−Removed: to authenticate with a proprietary app on a mobile device.
−Removed: The Micro Focus GPAS allows customers to use their smartphone
−Removed: to scan a product’s QR code or send the code via a text message.
−Removed: Immediate results help verify whether the product is real
−Removed: or counterfeit.
−Removed: This helps save customers from potential physical harm and businesses from facing lawsuits, loss of revenue and
−Removed: brand erosion.
−Removed: In addition to the anti-counterfeiting image, the Micro Focus Track and Trace software has a “big data”
−Removed: gathering system with real-time analytics which geographically locate and identify counterfeiting activity by using an easily configured
−Removed: rules engine.
+Added: We collaborated with HP Indigo at the Asia Security Group
+Added: Virtual High Security Printing & Brand Protection Conference & Exhibition in December 2020 to showcase our RainbowSecure®
+Added: solution on HP Indigo’s digital printing presses.
+Added: HP Indigo also highlighted our RainbowSecure®
+Added: invisible ink and VeriPAS™
+Added: Smartphone Authenticator in a webinar in July 2020.
+Added: HP Indigo has trained their world-wide sales force on our technology to show
+Added: to both print service providers and brand owners.
+Added: HP Indigo has also installed our technology offerings in their HP Experience
+Added: Centers located in Tel Aviv, Israel, Singapore, Barcelona, Spain and Alpharetta, Georgia where customers can perform tests and
+Added: get hands on experience with our technologies.
+Added: We also believe business will be generated
+Added: from both internal sales efforts as well as from our strategic partners.
+Added: S-One Labels and Packaging LLC, a division of S-One LP
+Added: (“S-One”), has agreed to provide us with global sales, distribution, shipping, warehousing and promotion support for
+Added: our products and employs representatives on an as needs basis to promote our products.
+Added: Under the terms of our agreement with S-One,
+Added: S-One will act as a sales and marketing contractor for our printed products and services on a global basis and will assist us in
+Added: fulfilling our obligations under our signed current and future reseller agreements with global and domestic print providers and
+Added: brand owners.
+Added: In addition, in 2020 we entered into a consulting arrangement to develop relationships with brand owners, converters
+Added: and other stakeholders in the food, pharmaceutical, medical device, fashion, apparel, household good and industrial products packaging
+Added: industry, focusing on markets in the United Kingdom, European Union, Middle East and Asia.
+Added: As an add-on track and trace feature of
+Added: our RainbowSecure®
+Added: covert imaging, we have contracted with Micro Focus, a global software developer to utilize their visible
+Added: QR code system, GPAS, which is printed on labels and packaging along with our covert RainbowSecure®
+Added: to store our hidden covert
+Added: serial number in the cloud for product diversion investigators to authenticate with a proprietary application on a mobile device.
+Added: The Micro Focus GPAS allows customers to use their smartphone to scan a product’s QR code or send the code via a text message.
+Added: Immediate results help verify whether the product is real or counterfeit.
+Added: This helps save customers from potential physical harm
+Added: and businesses from facing lawsuits, loss of revenue and brand erosion.
+Added: In addition to the anti-counterfeiting image, the Micro
+Added: Focus GPAS has a “big data”
+Added: gathering system with real-time analytics which geographically locate and identify counterfeiting
+Added: activity by using an easily configured rules engine.
Our covert or invisible RainbowSecure®
−Removed: system works as an extra layer of protection for the GPAS system.
−Removed: When a professional product investigator scans the Micro Focus visible QR code with a special app on a smartphone it brings him
−Removed: or her to our secure cloud application to see what the hidden serialization number printed by the HP Indigo is for that particular
−Removed: label or package.
−Removed: The product investigator then uses the RainbowSecure®
−Removed: reading device to compare the hidden serialization
−Removed: number against the cloud number to prove authenticity.
−Removed: Under the contract
−Removed: with Micro Focus, VerifyMe has a re-seller agreement where we sell the combined Micro Focus GPAS system with our RainbowSecure®
−Removed: identifier under our own trademarked name, VeriPAS TM .
−Removed: The first pre-printed “VerifyMe As Authentic”
−Removed: were printed containing VeriPAS™
−Removed: in the fourth quarter of 2019.
−Removed: These labels were tested with a third party Amazon retailer.
−Removed: No revenue has been received yet.
−Removed: We also have a strategic partnership with
−Removed: INX International Ink Company, the third largest producer of inks in North America, to co-develop inkjet inks to be used for inkjet
−Removed: printing in combination with high speed, high volume label and packaging printing presses.
−Removed: The specially formulated inks will enable
−Removed: these printing presses to print our RainbowSecure®
+Added: system works as an extra layer
+Added: of protection for the GPAS.
+Added: When a professional product investigator scans the Micro Focus visible QR code with a special application
+Added: on a smartphone it brings him or her to our secure cloud application to see what the hidden serialization number printed by the
+Added: HP Indigo is for that particular label or package.
+Added: The product investigator uses the RainbowSecure®
+Added: reading device, the smartphone
+Added: authenticator, to compare the hidden serialization number against the cloud number to prove authenticity.
+Added: Under the contract with Micro Focus, VerifyMe
+Added: has a re-seller agreement where we sell the combined Micro Focus GPAS with our RainbowSecure®
+Added: identifier under our own trademarked
+Added: name, VeriPAS™.
+Added: Minimal revenue has been recognized from VeriPAS™.
+Added: We also have a strategic partnership with INX,
+Added: the third largest producer of inks in North America, to co-develop inkjet inks to be used for inkjet printing in combination with high
+Added: speed, high volume label and packaging printing presses.
+Added: The specially formulated inks enable these printing presses to print our RainbowSecure®
invisible ink technology, which includes our variable VeriPAS™
−Removed: serialization,
−Removed: track and trace technology.
−Removed: Testing of the inkjet inks commenced in the third quarter of 2019 and is on-going.
−Removed: In addition, effective as of May 30, 2019,
−Removed: we entered into an equipment and software leasing contract with a Forbes Top 40 Private Company that sells nutrition, personal
−Removed: care, beauty and home care products around the globe.
−Removed: See “Business Update”
−Removed: above for further information about this
+Added: serialization, track and trace technology.
+Added: The inks are developed
+Added: and ready for market for metal container decorating, dry offset printing, gravure shrink sleeves, and flexographic fabric printing.
+Added: inks developed, and expected to be developed, under our partnership agreement are applicable to a broad range of uses, including aluminum
+Added: beverage cans and bottles, labels and packaging for the cannabis industry, personal protective equipment, aerospace parts, motor vehicle
+Added: parts, weapons and ammunition, silicon chips, and medical equipment.
+Added: This development has significantly expanded the market and availability
+Added: of our technology to the broader and more voluminous label and packaging manufacturing industry.
+Added: In addition, in May 2019, we entered into
+Added: an equipment and software leasing contract with a Forbes Top 50 Private Company that sells nutrition, personal care, beauty and
+Added: home care products around the globe.
+Added: In September 2020, we received notice that this client plans to expand to cover additional
+Added: products and three additional countries;
+Added: Japan, Vietnam and Taiwan.
We believe that our brand protection security
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is authentic or counterfeit.
−Removed: In addition to
−Removed: packaging and labels, our brand protection security printing technologies can be applied to authenticate important credentials
−Removed: such as driver’s licenses, plastics, metal, apparel, birth certificates, immigration documents, gaming, apparel, currency,
−Removed: event and transportation tickets, passports, computer software, and credit cards.
−Removed: Brand Protection and Physical Goods Anti-Counterfeit Industry
−Removed: We believe one
−Removed: of the most important areas for our technology is authentication, which is the act of confirming that objects such as currency,
−Removed: passports, casino chips, credit cards, stock certificates, pharmaceuticals, stamps, identification cards, lottery tickets, and
−Removed: so forth, are real and not forgeries.
−Removed: With the advent of new technologies, including the color copier and other printing technologies
−Removed: and templates and the availability of the Internet, counterfeiters have had access to technologies which make it easier to produce
−Removed: counterfeit items.
−Removed: Counterfeiters are often located in foreign nations where counterfeiting is subject to little or no viable threat
−Removed: of prosecution.
−Removed: While some currency
−Removed: and credit cards have introduced holograms, seals, and embedded strips in order to add a level of protection, most such methodologies
−Removed: are expensive and, in some cases involve a time-consuming production process.
−Removed: In other instances, such as when printing cigarette
−Removed: tax stamps or hundreds of millions of pieces used in a popular restaurant chain’s contest game pieces, the authentication
−Removed: process must be extremely inexpensive and easy to use or it will not be cost effective.
−Removed: Currently many national currencies lack
−Removed: a sufficient layer of protection to deter counterfeiting and can easily be counterfeited.
−Removed: We believe major shifts are occurring in
−Removed: how counterfeit products get in the hands of consumers.
−Removed: Many consumers are purchasing counterfeit products online.
−Removed: biometric technology is becoming increasingly popular which can tie individuals to their documents and transactions.
−Removed: We have multi-factor
−Removed: technology using biometrics in our digital verification technology.
−Removed: Our entry into the biometrics technology business is further
−Removed: described below under “Digital Authentication Technologies and Products.”
−Removed: Counterfeiting is a continuously evolving
−Removed: economic crime.
−Removed: It presents companies, governments and individuals with a unique set of problems and has become a sophisticated
−Removed: network of counterfeiting.
−Removed: Counterfeiting devalues corporate reputations, hinders investment, and imposes costs upon many people
−Removed: We believe counterfeiting is a serious threat to the global and U.S.
−Removed: economies and a threat to national security.
−Removed: significance of this problem was recently recognized by the U.S.
−Removed: Department of Homeland Security which issued a Report to the U.S.
−Removed: President on January 24, 2020 entitled “Combating Trafficking in Counterfeit and Pirated Goods.”
−Removed: https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/20_0124_plcy_counterfeit-pirated-goods-report_01.pdf.
−Removed: Additionally, on February 7, 2020, Peter Navarro, director of the U.S.
−Removed: Office of Trade and Manufacturing, recently referred to
−Removed: the counterfeiting problem as it pertains to Chinese exports as an “epidemic”
−Removed: which the U.S.
−Removed: government is committed
−Removed: to stopping in 2020.
−Removed: The anti-counterfeiting
−Removed: industry is segmented into four general categories:
−Removed: (i) Optical technologies –
−Removed: use of light, i.e.
−Removed: (ii) Electronic
−Removed: magnetic strips and smart cards;
−Removed: (iii) Biotechnologies –
−Removed: uses characteristics of biological proteins such as antibodies,
−Removed: enzymes and DNA;
−Removed: and (iv) Chemical technologies - includes photochromic (or light-reactive) and thermochromic (or heat-reactive)
−Removed: We operate in the chemical technologies
−Removed: and security ink sectors of the industry.
−Removed: Products in this industry change color when exposed to either heat or light and revert
−Removed: to their original color when exposed again.
−Removed: Generally, the effect is reversible as often as required.
−Removed: Inks have also been developed
−Removed: that are invisible to the human eye, but which can be read by bar-code scanners.
−Removed: Other reactive inks change color when brought
−Removed: into contact with specific substances, such as ink from a felt-tipped pen.
−Removed: Based on technology,
−Removed: the label and packaging market, including the anti-counterfeit packaging industry, has been segmented as follows:
−Removed: Coding & printing technology (Track and Trace)
−Removed: Radio Frequency Identification (“RFID”)
−Removed: Security labels
−Removed: Packaging design
−Removed: Others (digital mass sterilization, digital mass encryption, and surveillance technologies)
−Removed: We operate in
−Removed: the coding and printing technology, security labels segments in the anti-counterfeit packaging industry.
+Added: Our technologies can be printed on labels
+Added: and packaging and can also be applied to metals, plastics and textiles.
+Added: In addition to packaging and labels, our brand protection
+Added: security printing technologies can be applied to authenticate important credentials such as tax stamps, driver’s licenses,
+Added: plastics, metal, apparel, birth certificates, immigration documents, gaming, apparel, currency, event and transportation tickets,
+Added: passports, computer software, and credit cards.
+Added: We can track and trace from production to ultimate consumption when coupled with
+Added: our VeriPAS™
+Added: proprietary software.
The Opportunity
−Removed: Recent developments
−Removed: in printing technologies have made it easier to counterfeit a wide variety of documents.
−Removed: Lottery tickets, gift certificates, event
−Removed: and transportation tickets and travelers’
−Removed: checks are all susceptible to counterfeiting, and we believe that losses from such
−Removed: counterfeiting have increased substantially due to improvements in technology.
−Removed: Counterfeiting has long caused losses to manufacturers
−Removed: of brand name products, and we believe that these losses have increased as the counterfeiting of labeling and packaging has become
−Removed: Counterfeiters
−Removed: have become so good at their unlawful activity that spotting the difference between legitimate and counterfeit products can be
−Removed: Counterfeiters have many ways to subvert legitimate brands.
−Removed: These may include taking an out-of-date product and selling
−Removed: it in packaging and labels that have been forged;
−Removed: sometimes, the packaging, labels and product itself are all counterfeited.
−Removed: Counterfeiters
−Removed: might also use legitimate packaging coupled with fake products.
−Removed: We believe our pigment security systems are a cost-effective solution
−Removed: for printer and packagers and are easily integrated into their existing manufacturing process.
−Removed: As counterfeiting
−Removed: continues to increase and losses to manufacturers and others continue to escalate, we believe that those entities will seek better
−Removed: technologies to minimize their exposure.
−Removed: These technologies, however, must also be cost-effective, easy to integrate, and highly
−Removed: resistant to counterfeiting themselves.
−Removed: The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, or OECD, in its March 2019 press
−Removed: release, estimated that global trade related counterfeiting accounts for 3.3% of world trade or approximately $509 billion.
−Removed: We offer products
−Removed: in two related market segments.
−Removed: We offer security ink taggants in the anti-counterfeiting/authentication industry and a software
−Removed: product called VeriPAS TM in the identifier/track and trace industry.
We believe our brand protection products
−Removed: have applications in the following areas:
−Removed: Printing and Packaging –
−Removed: Counterfeiting in packaging has greatly intensified in recent
−Removed: years, causing concerns for consumers and financial concern for businesses worldwide.
−Removed: Billions of dollars per year are at stake
−Removed: for companies as they seek to ensure that the products sold with their logos and brands are authorized and authentic.
−Removed: The proliferation
−Removed: of counterfeiting requires brand owners and their converter/printer partners to work together to create a multi-layered protection
−Removed: plan so that their packaging and labels protect their brands and deter those trying to profit at their (and their reputation’s)
−Removed: Identification Cards and Secure Documents –
−Removed: Governments are increasingly vulnerable
−Removed: to counterfeiting, terrorism and other security threats at least in part because currencies, identity and security cards and other
−Removed: official documents can be counterfeited with relative ease.
−Removed: Governments must also enforce the various anti-counterfeiting and anti-piracy
−Removed: regimes of their respective jurisdictions which becomes increasingly difficult with the continued expansion of global trade.
−Removed: overt and covert ink pigment platform can provide secure, forensic, and cost-effective anti-counterfeiting, anti-piracy and identification
−Removed: solutions to local, state, and federal governments as well as the defense contractors and the other companies that do business
−Removed: Our pigment solution can be used for many types of identification and official documents, such as:
−Removed: o Permanent resident, or “green”
−Removed: cards and visas;
−Removed: o Driver’s licenses;
−Removed: o Social Security cards;
−Removed: o Military identification cards;
−Removed: o National transportation cards;
−Removed: o Security cards for access to sensitive physical locations;
−Removed: o other important identity cards, official documents and security-related cards.
−Removed: In connection with the development of our VeriPAS™
−Removed: Smartphone Authenticator, we are currently seeking to expand our business in this market but have not yet generated sales in this
−Removed: Pharmaceuticals –
−Removed: The pharmaceutical industry faces major problems relative to counterfeit,
−Removed: diluted, or falsely labeled drugs that make their way through healthcare systems worldwide, posing a health threat to patients
−Removed: and a financial threat to producers and distributors.
−Removed: We believe counterfeit prescription pharmaceuticals are a growing trend,
−Removed: widely recognized as a public health risk and a serious concern to public health officials, private companies, and consumers.
−Removed: Counterfeiting
−Removed: can apply to both branded and generic products and counterfeit pharmaceuticals may include products with the correct ingredients
−Removed: but fake packaging, with the wrong ingredients, without active ingredients or with insufficient active ingredients.
−Removed: on this threat, many countries have started to address vulnerabilities in the supply chain by enacting legislation which, among
−Removed: other things, requires the implementation of a comprehensive system designed to combat counterfeit, diluted or falsely labelled
−Removed: pharmaceuticals.
−Removed: These systems are often referred to as serialization, or in the United States as e-Pedigree (electronic pedigree).
−Removed: and the Federal Drug Administration (“FDA”) mandated serialization requirements were implemented in November 2018 and
−Removed: are now required in all aspects of the pharmaceutical supply chain, from the manufacturer to the packager, wholesaler, distributor
−Removed: and final dispensing entity.
−Removed: The e-Pedigree provides an “audit trail,”
−Removed: or documented evidence, to help identify and
−Removed: catch counterfeiting and diversion.
−Removed: Serialization requires manufacturers, or third-party packagers in some virtual supply chains,
−Removed: to establish and apply to the smallest saleable unit package or immediate container a “unique identification number.”
−Removed: Our unique pigments embedded in the ink of a unique serialized barcode can provide a layered security foundation for a customer
−Removed: solution in this market.
−Removed: all pharmaceutical companies will eventually comply with the legislation at some point in the future.
−Removed: Our RainbowSecure®
−Removed: as well as our VeriPAS™
−Removed: track and trace system can address the need for product identifiers.
−Removed: We plan on selling directly
−Removed: to the pharmaceutical industry and their printers.
−Removed: We also expect to engage third party marketing and sales companies to present
−Removed: our solutions to the drug and pharmaceutical industry.
−Removed: entered into a strategic partnership to assist us with marketing our products to the pharmaceutical industry.
+Added: have applications in many areas.
+Added: Currently, we are aggressively marketing opportunities in the following:
Consumer Products –
−Removed: Counterfeit items are a significant and growing problem with all
−Removed: kinds of consumer-packaged goods, especially in the luxury retail and apparel industries.
−Removed: Our unique ink pigments can be incorporated
−Removed: in dyes and used by manufacturers in these industries to combat counterfeiting and piracy of actual physical goods.
−Removed: expressed as inks can also be used on packaging, as well as to track products that have been lost in transit, whether misplaced
−Removed: We currently have a contract to assist with securing certain cosmetic products.
+Added: Counterfeit items are a significant and growing
+Added: problem with all kinds of consumer-packaged goods, especially in the luxury retail and apparel industries.
+Added: We believe our technologies
+Added: are particularly suited for the cosmetics, health and beauty and apparel industries.
+Added: We give the consumer the ability to test a
+Added: products authenticity instantly with a smartphone.
+Added: We can protect brand owners from liability litigation, product diversion and
+Added: lost financial sales with our unique ink pigments which can be incorporated in dyes and used by manufacturers in these industries
+Added: to combat counterfeiting and piracy of actual physical goods.
+Added: Our pigments expressed as inks can also be used on packaging, as
+Added: well as to track products that have been lost in transit, whether misplaced or stolen.
+Added: We currently have a contract to assist with
+Added: securing certain cosmetic products.
+Added: Pharmaceuticals/nutraceuticals –
+Added: We believe counterfeit prescription
+Added: pharmaceuticals are a growing trend, widely recognized as a public health risk and a serious concern to public health officials,
+Added: private companies, and consumers.
+Added: Counterfeiting can apply to both branded and generic products and counterfeit pharmaceuticals
+Added: may include products with the correct ingredients but fake packaging, with the wrong ingredients, without active ingredients or
+Added: with insufficient active ingredients.
+Added: The United States enacted legislation requiring the implementation of a comprehensive system
+Added: designed to combat counterfeit, diluted or falsely labelled pharmaceuticals, referred to as serialization or electronic pedigree
+Added: (e-Pedigree).
+Added: Our unique pigments embedded in the ink of a unique serialized barcode can provide a layered security foundation
+Added: for a customer solution in this market.
+Added: We are seeking to expand our business in this market and believe that as additional pharmaceutical
+Added: companies seek to comply with the legislation we believe our products will provide attractive alternatives to address the need
+Added: for product identifiers.
+Added: We expect to engage third-party marketing and sales companies to present our solutions to the drug and
+Added: pharmaceutical industry.
Food and Beverage –
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as supply chains become more global and as imaging and manufacturing technology become more accessible.
−Removed: There have been numerous
−Removed: reports of counterfeit foods, including long-grain rice labelled and sold as basmati rice, Spanish olive oil bottled and sold as
−Removed: Italian olive oil, and mixtures of industrial solvents and alcohol sold as vodka.
−Removed: Although many of these stories have emerged from
−Removed: and Europe, the fake-food problem is also relevant in the United States.
−Removed: the fake-food problem is often due to product laundering, dilution and intentionally false labeling.
−Removed: We believe our pigments and
−Removed: authentication tools can help in the battle against counterfeit foods and beverages.
−Removed: We are currently marketing our products in
−Removed: Our Solutions
−Removed: In the areas of
−Removed: authentication and serialization of physical goods, we offer clients the following products as anti-counterfeit systems:
−Removed: RainbowSecure®
−Removed: VeriPAS TM Global Product Identifier, Track and Trace System
−Removed: SecureLight®
−Removed: SecureLight+®
−Removed: VeriPAS™
−Removed: Smartphone Authenticator
−Removed: VerifyMe Beeper
−Removed: VerifyMe As Authentic Labels
−Removed: RainbowSecure ®
−Removed: was our first technology to be patented.
−Removed: It combines an invisible ink with a proprietary tuned laser to enable counterfeit products
−Removed: to be exposed.
−Removed: In 2017, we signed a five-year contract with HP Indigo to print this technology on packages and labels on their
−Removed: 6000 series presses.
−Removed: Our technology has been tested and approved by HP Indigo 6000 series presses and more recently we have
−Removed: successfully run pilot production on the 7800 press which runs on HP Indigo’s newer series 4 platform, and will open up
−Removed: sheet-feed products like folded cartons and plastic cards.
−Removed: In December 2017, we signed a contract with Micro Focus to use RainbowSecure®
−Removed: in their Global Product Authentication, Track and Trace system (software).
−Removed: The technology also features a unique double layer
−Removed: of security which remains entirely covert at all times and provides licensees with additional protection.
−Removed: RainbowSecure®
−Removed: particularly well-suited to closed and controlled environments, such as casinos that want to verify transactions within a specific
−Removed: area, as well as labels, packaging, textiles, plastics and metal products which need authentication.
−Removed: In May 2019, we entered into
−Removed: a strategic partnership with INX International Ink Company, the third largest producer of inks in North America, to co-develop
−Removed: inkjet inks to be used for inkjet printing in combination with high speed, high volume label and packaging printing presses.
−Removed: specially formulated inks will enable these printing presses to print our RainbowSecure®
−Removed: invisible ink technology, which includes
−Removed: our variable VeriPAS™
−Removed: serialization, track and trace technology.
−Removed: We have derived minimal revenue from our VeriPAS™
−Removed: software system and have derived limited revenue from the sale of our RainbowSecure®
−Removed: VeriPAS ™
−Removed: technology combines
−Removed: the covert identifier of RainbowSecure®
−Removed: with the Micro Focus Track and Trace software which provides brand owners geographical
−Removed: business intelligence on counterfeiting as well as the ability to authenticate labels, packaging and products.
−Removed: Based on our discussions
−Removed: with other serialization, track and trace software providers we expect to add alternatives to clients beyond the Micro Focus GPAS
−Removed: This technology is currently being co-marketed with RainbowSecure®
−Removed: and our VeriPAS™
−Removed: Smartphone Authenticator
−Removed: Several clients are in the testing stage with this product.
−Removed: To date, we have not derived revenue from this technology.
−Removed: SecureLight ®
−Removed: technology was developed as a result of our investment in new proprietary color changing inks that could penetrate broader markets.
−Removed: During the past decade, we have refined our technology and its applications, and now have what we believe to be the easiest, most
−Removed: cost effective and efficient authentication technology available in the world today.
−Removed: Our technology, known as SecureLight®,
−Removed: takes advantage of the new ubiquitous energy efficient fluorescent lighting to change the color of ink, resulting in hundreds
−Removed: of new applications ranging from credit cards to driver’s licenses, passports, stock certificates, clothing labels, currency,
−Removed: ID cards, and tax stamps.
−Removed: The technology can also be used to protect apparel, pharmaceuticals, and virtually any other physical
−Removed: product, such as fabrics, plastics, ceramics and metal.
−Removed: In 2018, we received notice that patents involving this technology were
−Removed: approved in various European nations.
−Removed: We are attempting to commercialize this product.
−Removed: SecureLight +®
−Removed: technology combines the covert characteristics of RainbowSecure®
−Removed: and the overt characteristics of SecureLight®.
−Removed: This provides
−Removed: a solution which can be authenticated in two different ways - by proprietary tuned laser devices, and also by anyone with fluorescent
−Removed: lighting, including end consumers.
−Removed: In 2018, we received notice that patents involving this technology were approved in various
−Removed: European nations.
−Removed: SecureLight+®
−Removed: has been successfully deployed in one country’s drivers’
−Removed: licenses and another country’s
−Removed: voter registration card program.
−Removed: We have begun to commercialize this product.
−Removed: VeriPAS ™
−Removed: Smartphone Authenticator technology is a piece of hardware with a built-in lighting system and software that scans invisible
−Removed: RainbowSecure®
−Removed: Product investigators attach their smartphone to this device which then reveals the hidden RainbowSecure®
−Removed: images on the smartphone screen which are then sent to the VeriPAS TM software in the cloud for authentication and data
−Removed: These devices have been commercialized and are being leased to customers.
−Removed: Leases are typically one year in length.
−Removed: VerifyMe Beeper
−Removed: technology is an authentication tool which we are marketing to customers in conjunction with our RainbowSecure®
−Removed: Authentication is provided in the form of an LED indicator, a camera device which reveals the hidden serialization numbers and
−Removed: codes on a viewing screen and an audible beeping device when placed on a label, product or package containing the RainbowSecure®
−Removed: The handheld beeping device is tuned to authenticate the unique frequency of our RainbowSecure®
−Removed: invisible ink
−Removed: and will broadcast a beeping sound to confirm the authenticity when placed on products, labels and packaging containing our RainbowSecure®
−Removed: ink technology.
−Removed: The VerifyMe Beeper is designed for use by customers who desire instant authentication on items, such as event
−Removed: tickets at an entry gate.
−Removed: Our customized beeper will only positively identify a product bearing our unique anti-counterfeit solution.
−Removed: This technology is being commercialized and leased to customers.
−Removed: VerifyMe®
−Removed: as Authentic™
−Removed: technology is a dual-purpose pre-printed label with a visible serialized QR code for consumer scanning
−Removed: purposes, and an invisible serialized IR code for inspector scanning, authentication, and tracking purposes.
−Removed: This label was
−Removed: developed to provide covert brand protection for on-line retailers, while enabling consumer product authentication, promotion,
−Removed: engagement and education through the visible serialized QR code.
−Removed: This technology is being commercialized to prospective customers.
+Added: We believe our pigments
+Added: and authentication tools can help in the battle against counterfeit foods and beverages.
+Added: We are currently marketing our products
+Added: in this market.
Our Raw Material Suppliers
−Removed: Our security pigments
−Removed: are manufactured from naturally occurring inorganic rare earth materials.
−Removed: The manufacturing process includes both chemical and
−Removed: mechanical elements.
+Added: Our security pigments are manufactured
+Added: from naturally occurring inorganic rare earth materials.
+Added: The manufacturing process includes both chemical and mechanical elements.
In many cases, we produce pigments that are unique to a customer or product line.
−Removed: This uniqueness can be achieved
−Removed: through a variety of techniques, including custom formulation or combination of our proprietary pigments and/or incorporation of
−Removed: other specialized taggants.
−Removed: There are many
−Removed: manufacturers of these types of specialized pigments and we intend to maintain multiple simultaneous relationships to ensure ample
−Removed: sources of supply.
−Removed: We provide pigment
−Removed: mixing instructions for the specific uses of each client based on their existing equipment and processes.
−Removed: We maintain policies
−Removed: and procedures to monitor, track and log access to and disposition of all pigment.
−Removed: Our customers are also required to agree to
−Removed: and implement these policies and procedures.
−Removed: Digital Authentication Technologies and Products
−Removed: We believe accurate
−Removed: identification of human beings in electronic transactions, also known as Digital Identity Management, will continue to be a large
−Removed: and rapidly growing market.
−Removed: In today’s world the need for verification of the unique identity of human beings participating
−Removed: in those transactions has become more important.
−Removed: In general, every electronic transaction has a least two actors –
−Removed: and a relying party.
−Removed: The relying party has a business need to eliminate or reduce risk associated with the identification of the
−Removed: Electronic financial
−Removed: theft and electronic theft of private information often make headlines.
−Removed: We believe the majority of this harm can be traced to weak
−Removed: authentication systems, such as username/password, yet these weak systems continue to be used in most of the world’s transactional
−Removed: Cybersecurity is a growing threat requiring continuously evolving forms of electronic security.
−Removed: Historically,
−Removed: stronger authentication solutions, such as biometric, two-factor and multi-factor solutions have been difficult to use and expensive
−Removed: to deploy and operate.
−Removed: The proliferation of smartphones and tablets provide an infrastructure for disruptive solutions that leverage
−Removed: the mobile nature of these devices and the multi-sensor computing capabilities.
−Removed: VeriPAS™
−Removed: Smartphone Authenticator is
−Removed: a digital identity management software platform that provides extensible authentication mechanisms that can be dynamically invoked
−Removed: to achieve a specified degree of identity assurance.
−Removed: The VeriPAS™
−Removed: Smartphone Authenticator platform incorporates a risk engine
−Removed: that associates individual risk parameters and scores with every unique authentication mechanism.
−Removed: The risk engine then generates
−Removed: aggregate risk scores based on the specific combination of individual authentication mechanisms used to confirm the identity of
−Removed: the human being.
−Removed: We are now enhancing this product and
−Removed: getting it ready for deployment into the financial services industry.
−Removed: We cannot assure you we will generate any revenues
−Removed: from these efforts.
−Removed: Digital Authentication Technology
−Removed: We believe that the digital technologies
−Removed: we own will enable businesses and consumers to reconstruct their overall approaches to security—from identity and authentication
−Removed: to the management of legacy passwords and PINs.
−Removed: We empower our customers to take advantage of the full capabilities of smart mobile
−Removed: devices and provide solutions that are both simple to use and deliver the highest level of security.
−Removed: These solutions can be applied
−Removed: to corporate networks, financial services, e-gov services, digital wallets, mobile payments, entertainment, subscription services,
−Removed: and social media.
−Removed: The challenges associated with digital
−Removed: access control and identity theft are problems that are highly relevant in the world today.
−Removed: Consumers, citizens, employees, governments
−Removed: and employers demand comprehensive solutions that are timely, reliable but not intrusive.
−Removed: The current widespread use of passwords
−Removed: and personal identification numbers, or PINs for authentication has proven to be unsecure and inadequate.
−Removed: Individuals increasingly
−Removed: expect anywhere-anytime experiences—whether they are making purchases, crossing borders, accessing services or logging into
−Removed: online accounts or corporate resources.
−Removed: They expect those experiences to ensure the protection of their privacy and to provide
−Removed: uncompromising confidentiality.
−Removed: Verification is the front door of all access
−Removed: and transactions.
−Removed: The most fundamental action is to identify “who the person is and how you identify yourself.”
−Removed: believe our VerifyMe digital authentication is the building block that answers that question.
−Removed: Our verification technology ensures
−Removed: that users are who they say they are.
−Removed: Our technology becomes their virtual credentials which are protected from fraud and
−Removed: There are hundreds of millions of identities stolen annually.
−Removed: It is absolutely crucial to know which users have the
−Removed: right to access particular information or transactions, and whether or not unauthorized users have been prevented from accessing
−Removed: those same critically important items.
−Removed: In today’s world we have global workforces,
−Removed: customers, systems and data.
−Removed: Unfortunately, we have the same global sophisticated cybercrime.
−Removed: Therefore, vetting users and
−Removed: access also means asking important questions about authentication, such as which authentication method is most appropriate given
−Removed: a resource, channel or specific risk factor.
−Removed: We believe that our digital verification
−Removed: technology meets user expectations for ease of use, privacy and overall experiences especially in financial and healthcare enterprises.
−Removed: For connected organizations, the authentication process is like the front door.
−Removed: To users, it is important not only to smoothly
−Removed: reach the systems or data they need, but to know that their own account access and data is secured.
−Removed: Authentication is crucial,
−Removed: but it needs to be frictionless to avoid frustrating users whether they are customers, partners, or employees.
−Removed: Passwords are no longer enough.
−Removed: been proven time and time again that even strong credentials can be stolen, cracked or coaxed from end users.
−Removed: Given today’s
−Removed: threat landscape, good security requires strong authentication practices, one of which is multi-factor authentication (“MFA”).
−Removed: Our MFA system requires no passwords at all.
−Removed: By using multiple independent factors VerifyMe’s
−Removed: verification system significantly increases the effort that cybercriminals must exert to break in and access the protected transaction
−Removed: Also attempts that fail for lack of additional factors raise immediate red flags to end users and their financial
−Removed: or data system administrators.
−Removed: Additionally, our MFA does not use tokens
−Removed: or complicated, tiered passwords.
−Removed: Passwords are replaced by our MFA technology.
−Removed: Passwords are lost, stolen, forgotten, constantly
−Removed: changed, etc.
−Removed: Our MFA removes the need for passwords.
−Removed: The person’s biometrics combined with other non-password factors become
−Removed: their password.
−Removed: Our digital technologies involve the utilization
−Removed: of multiple authentication mechanisms, some of which we own.
−Removed: These mechanisms include biometric factors, knowledge factors, possession
−Removed: factors and location factors.
−Removed: Biometric factors include facial recognition with liveness detection, finger print and voice recognition.
−Removed: Knowledge factors include a personal gesture swipe and a safe and panic color choice.
−Removed: Possession factor includes devices that the
−Removed: user has in their possession such as a smartphone, smart watch, and other wearable computing devices.
−Removed: The location factor geo-locates
−Removed: the user during a secure login.
−Removed: We surround these authentication mechanisms with proprietary systems that improve the usability
−Removed: and the security of the solutions.
−Removed: Our solutions allow the assessment and quantification of risk using a sophisticated patented
−Removed: heuristic scoring mechanism.
−Removed: We have specialized systems that perform ‘liveness’
−Removed: detection to insure the subject of
−Removed: authentication is in fact a live human being.
−Removed: We have software systems that introduce learning capabilities into our solutions
−Removed: to improve the ease of use and flexibility.
−Removed: We believe that by using a host of factors,
−Removed: our proprietary scoring system gives a 99% assurance that the person behind the transaction is the person they say they are.
−Removed: The digital technologies we own will enable
−Removed: businesses and consumers to reconstruct their overall approaches to security—from identity and authentication to the management
−Removed: of legacy passwords and PINs.
−Removed: We empower our customers to take advantage of the full capabilities of smart mobile devices and provide
−Removed: solutions that are both simple to use and deliver the highest level of security of five or more factors and a patented scoring
−Removed: Our digital multi-factor
−Removed: verification software solutions can be applied to:
−Removed: Cryptocurrencies
−Removed: Blockchain Authentication
−Removed: Corporate Networks
−Removed: Digital Drop Box Access
−Removed: Physical Access
−Removed: Financial Transaction Services
−Removed: Medical Insurance
−Removed: Digital Wallets
−Removed: Government (e-gov services)
−Removed: Pharmaceutical
−Removed: Entertainment
−Removed: Mobile Payments
−Removed: Purchaser Authentication
−Removed: Notary Authentication
−Removed: Electronic Forms
−Removed: Voting Systems
−Removed: Subscription services
−Removed: Employee Time Systems
−Removed: Digital Authentication Industry
−Removed: The growth in
−Removed: Internet banking and Internet commerce and the increasing use and reliance upon proprietary or confidential information that is
−Removed: remotely accessible by many users by businesses, government and educational institutions, has made information security a paramount
−Removed: We believe that enterprises are seeking solutions that will continue to allow them to expand access to data and financial
−Removed: assets while maintaining network security.
−Removed: vendor in the user authentication market delivers on-premises software/hardware or a cloud-based service that makes real-time authentication
−Removed: decisions for users who utilize an arbitrary endpoint device (that is, not just Windows PCs or Macs) to access one or more applications,
−Removed: systems or services in a variety of use cases.
−Removed: Where appropriate to the authentication methods supported, a vendor in this market
−Removed: also delivers client-side software or hardware that end users utilize to make those real-time authentication decisions.
−Removed: market is mature, with several vendors offering products that have been continuously offered during the past three decades (although
−Removed: ownership has changed over that time).
−Removed: However, new methods and vendors continue to emerge, with the most rapid growth occurring
−Removed: within the past decade in response to the changing market needs for different trade-offs among trust, user experience and total
−Removed: cost of ownership.
−Removed: The greater adoption of user authentication over a wider variety of use cases, the impact of mobile, cloud and
−Removed: big data analytics, and the emergence of innovative methods continue to be disruptive.
−Removed: While over 100
−Removed: authentication vendors currently operate in the market, the vast majority deliver two-factor authentication solutions.
−Removed: few vendors that market biometric solutions simply combine them with a password for two-factor security.
−Removed: Internet and Enterprise Security .
−Removed: the advent of personal computers and distributed information systems in the form of wide area networks, intranets, local area networks
−Removed: and the Internet, as well as other direct electronic links, many organizations have implemented applications to enable their workforce
−Removed: and third parties, including vendors, suppliers and customers, to access and exchange data and perform electronic transactions.
−Removed: As a result of the increased number of users having direct and remote access to such enterprise applications, data and financial
−Removed: assets have become increasingly vulnerable to unauthorized access and misuse.
−Removed: Individual User Security .
−Removed: addition to the need for enterprise-wide security, the proliferation of personal computers, personal digital assistants and mobile
−Removed: telephones in both the home and office settings, combined with widespread access to the Internet, have created significant opportunities
−Removed: for electronic commerce by individual users such as electronic bill payment, home banking and home shopping.
−Removed: The continued
−Removed: reliance by most enterprises on passwords and PINs has resulted in daily identity theft and data breaches, with massive attacks
−Removed: being announced almost every week.
−Removed: The companies that have been attacked and compromised private data include top brands in finance,
−Removed: retail, entertainment, technology and governments.
−Removed: Strong Digital Authentication Market
−Removed: A strong authentication
−Removed: market has emerged, initially led by two-factor authentication solutions.
−Removed: Two-factor authentication solutions combine a password
−Removed: with a second factor, which typically involves proving possession of some object through a one-time password token that generates
−Removed: rotating secret codes, a telephone call via a callback or a SMS message, or an email address via emailing a secret code.
−Removed: three-, four- and five-step methods are expensive and typically used by banks and high-level government operations.
−Removed: biometric technology will play a larger role.
−Removed: Password Manager/Digital Wallet Market
−Removed: Until companies
−Removed: figure out a better way to protect their data in the cloud, we believe that the best solution is to enforce higher security with
−Removed: password managers.
−Removed: Password managers provide tools to encrypt text files that can store passwords that are not web based,
−Removed: such as Windows and Outlook passwords, Lotus Notes passwords, administration passwords including local and domain accounts, BIOS
−Removed: passwords, encrypted hard drive passwords, cell phone and voicemail passwords and iPad and iPhone passwords.
−Removed: managers promise greater security while improving the user experience.
−Removed: The best password
−Removed: managers sync to the cloud across all dominant platforms and require MFA.
−Removed: There are currently no password managers that utilize
−Removed: more than two-factor authentication and none that incorporate additional biometric mechanisms.
−Removed: The Opportunity
−Removed: Biometric Systems Market
−Removed: According to researchandmarkets.com the biometric systems market
−Removed: is expected to reach $65.3 billion by 2024 from $33 billion in 2019 growing at a CAGR of 14.6%.
−Removed: We believe the biometric system
−Removed: market is expected to grow at a modest rate due to cohesive support by governments worldwide and regulations favorable to growth
−Removed: of the biometrics market.
−Removed: The main reason for the adoption of this technology is security.
−Removed: In today’s era, theft and breach
−Removed: of security is easily possible, which we believe supports the growth of demand in this market.
−Removed: Simultaneously, we believe, a growth
−Removed: in cyber-attacks and crimes are pushing the demand for biometric security.
−Removed: By verticals, the biometric system market
−Removed: is segmented as Banking, Financial Services, Insurance (“BFSI”), consumer electronics, automotive, government and others.
−Removed: Due to economic growth across the globe, we believe demands for automotive vehicles is increasing, along with increasing vehicle
−Removed: thefts, thus the growing automotive production is anticipated to push the demand for biometric systems for vehicle security.
−Removed: the BSFI sector we believe the biometric market is trending toward growth due to increased thefts and cybercrimes.
−Removed: We expect the
−Removed: consumer electronics market will dominate this market as manufacturers are investing heavily to make their devices more secure.
−Removed: By geography, the market is segmented
−Removed: as the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa and Asia Pacific.
−Removed: In the Americas, this market is expected to grow due to security
−Removed: and scrutiny of employees.
−Removed: The Asia Pacific region is adopting the new technologies of biometrics for more security and efficiency.
−Removed: In North America, the implementation of various governmental initiatives has supported growth in the biometric system market.
−Removed: Major industry players according to researchandmarkets.com are NEC Corporation (Japan), Aware (US), Cross Match Technologies (US);
−Removed: Thales Group (France), Safran (France), ASSA ABLOY AB (Sweden), and Fujitsu Ltd.
−Removed: As identity theft and data breaches continue to increase and losses to service providers and individuals continue to escalate,
−Removed: we believe both enterprises and consumers will seek better solutions to protect their interests.
−Removed: These solutions must be cost
−Removed: effective, easy to integrate, and simple to use.
−Removed: Any transaction or action which requires
−Removed: authentication of an individual is a potential opportunity for a strong multi-factor solution such as VeriPAS™
−Removed: Authenticator.
−Removed: We believe this is a large market opportunity, within which we are focused on five specific segments:
−Removed: Subscription services market, where revenue is commonly lost due to multiple individuals sharing
−Removed: user credentials to access information and services;
−Removed: Online gaming market, where financial transactions are performed and geo-location is very important
−Removed: to maintaining compliance with state/country regulations;
−Removed: Financial services market, where there is a large financial risk to identity theft and fraud, including
−Removed: banking, purchases, mobile payments, and digital wallets;
−Removed: Access control market, where the identity of individuals is key to allow access to buildings as
−Removed: well as digital access to data;
−Removed: Social Media Market to identify people versus robots or imposters.
−Removed: VerifyMe MFA delivers
−Removed: an electronic authentication solution for identifying individual human beings.
−Removed: When subject attempts to access an Internet resource
−Removed: and asserts an identity, VeriPAS™
−Removed: Smartphone Authenticator attempts to authenticate the asserted identity.
−Removed: It does this utilizing
−Removed: multiple strong authentication mechanisms, involving at least three independent factors.
−Removed: around mobile apps that incorporate a password manager and single sign on capability.
−Removed: In addition to facilitating strong authentication
−Removed: during the logon process to the enterprise resource or service, VeriPAS™
−Removed: Smartphone Authenticator also lets the user conveniently
−Removed: integrate and protect all of their legacy username and passwords.
−Removed: VeriPAS™
−Removed: Smartphone Authenticator has several advantages,
−Removed: including, among other things:
−Removed: Fast and Easy to Use –
−Removed: VeriPAS™
−Removed: Smartphone Authenticator replaces passwords and PINs
−Removed: with a quick, intuitive and user-friendly interface.
−Removed: Our customers can authenticate end users in multiple ways (multi-factor) in
−Removed: the same timeframe as a conventional password login.
−Removed: The service is platform agnostic (available for IOS, Android, Mac and PC),
−Removed: and scalable for use on wearable personal devices.
−Removed: Support for Any Authentication Method –
−Removed: VeriPAS™
−Removed: Smartphone Authenticator has
−Removed: the ability to authenticate individuals using facial recognition, fingerprint, voice scanning, retina scanning, swipe pattern recognition,
−Removed: location detection and approved IP detection.
−Removed: We believe that the VeriPAS™
−Removed: Smartphone Authenticator can provide the highest
−Removed: levels of confidence, security and account protection to a businesses’
−Removed: customers, all within seconds.
−Removed: VeriPAS™
−Removed: Authenticator is not limited to specific authentication factors.
−Removed: Our platform can support any available authentication mechanism,
−Removed: including those that require policy-driven mechanisms.
−Removed: We are continuing to add new authentication mechanisms, including
−Removed: mechanisms suitable for wearable devices and new biometrics.
−Removed: Multi-Factor Confidence Scores –
−Removed: Depending on the desired level of confidence, different
−Removed: online and mobile application accounts can require varying quality scores.
−Removed: As the desired level of security increases, so does
−Removed: the required quality score to complete a sign-in transaction.
−Removed: As the quality score increases, additional authentication factors
−Removed: are added to the sign-in process.
−Removed: Secure Platform, Easy to Integrate –
−Removed: VeriPAS™
−Removed: Smartphone Authenticator can be delivered
−Removed: either as managed service from our secure cloud or as licensed software which can be operated with existing infrastructure.
−Removed: VeriPAS™
−Removed: Smartphone Authenticator also features the following benefits:
−Removed: o Available to be white-labeled and integrated into existing digital platforms;
−Removed: o Non-Stop, audited, monitored, private cloud service;
−Removed: o Three independent, fault tolerant, redundant data centers;
−Removed: o Global load balancing and traffic management;
−Removed: o High level commercial API’s can be integrated in hours;
−Removed: o Complete audit information, including fresh biometrics.
−Removed: o MFA utilizes a number of factors including, without limitation, the following:
−Removed: Factor 1 –
−Removed: Something you have
−Removed: a possession device –
−Removed: typically this is a registered mobile device, which we can authenticate either via SMS or
−Removed: email round robin protocol.
−Removed: Something you know –
−Removed: a knowledge factor –
−Removed: we currently utilize a color gesture swipe.
−Removed: This requires
−Removed: the subject to confirm their secret color and appropriately connect dots on a matrix consistent with their registered gesture pattern.
−Removed: Something you are –
−Removed: we utilize facial recognition to authenticate images captured in real-time using the
−Removed: registered devices built in camera, with images that were stored in the subject’s profile during registration.
−Removed: Our platform can
−Removed: be distinguished from competitors in that it is not limited to any of the above authentication mechanisms.
−Removed: MFA currently supports
−Removed: many more authentication mechanisms and we intend to continue expanding this list.
−Removed: For example, our platform is not
−Removed: limited to facial recognition as a biometric mechanism.
−Removed: It currently supports voice, fingerprint and other mechanisms.
−Removed: In addition, MFA
−Removed: includes a risk-scoring engine that is able to enforce complex, customer specific authentication policies and shield them from
−Removed: the underlying complexity of evaluating multiple, independent authentication mechanisms.
−Removed: This risk engine allows us to constantly
−Removed: add new authentication mechanisms as they emerge.
−Removed: We see the emerging market of wearable devices as providing new authentication
−Removed: mechanisms that will be very simple and reliable for the end-user.
−Removed: Because our risk engine insulates the enterprise from the complexity
−Removed: of having to interface with all these different platforms, they are available to benefit from and insure their customers can utilize
−Removed: these devices to their full potential.
−Removed: MFA is platform
−Removed: agnostic (available for IOS, Android, Mac, Linux and Windows) and scalable for use on wearable personal devices.
−Removed: The digital platform
−Removed: is an enterprise solution, which combines multiple independent authentication factors and can also determine geo-location utilizing
−Removed: a number of mechanisms including GPS, cell tower triangulation and IP/WIFI address.
−Removed: Because the service utilizes biometrics
−Removed: and liveness detection, it eliminates the possibility that users might share their authentication credentials, or that user accounts
−Removed: can be accessed by other individuals.
−Removed: The combination of biometrics and geo-location provides extremely strong transactional evidence,
−Removed: making it nearly impossible for an end-user to refute having been part of a transaction.
−Removed: During 2019, we spent approximately $36,000 on hosting of our
−Removed: MFA software and have spent approximately $300,000 on software and hardware development since the beginning of 2018.
−Removed: sales in 2019 in relation to our MFA technologies due to further refinement to address new smartphone capabilities.
−Removed: now work on both Apple IOS and Android phone systems.
−Removed: In 2018 and 2019, we developed applications (“APPs”) which are
−Removed: used in conjunction with the MFA technology.
−Removed: These APPs are now fully functional however, we expect to enhance and upgrade the
−Removed: visual appearance and functionality of the APPs to enhance a customer’s experience.
−Removed: Although this product is fully developed
−Removed: and ready for deployment, we have only passively marketed it with just a website presence.
−Removed: We have had no sales to date.
−Removed: is concentrating most of its financial resources on security printing brand protection technology sales.
−Removed: The Company hired an independent
−Removed: consulting group, who reviewed the current MFA market and our MFA software system and concluded that the product is viable, marketable,
−Removed: and has the ability to increase the Company’s revenue.
−Removed: The Company intends to implement the product once adequate funding
−Removed: becomes available.
+Added: This uniqueness can be achieved through a variety
+Added: of techniques, including custom formulation or combination of our proprietary pigments and/or incorporation of other specialized
+Added: There are many manufacturers of these types of specialized pigments and we intend to maintain multiple simultaneous relationships
+Added: to ensure ample sources of supply.
+Added: Accordingly, we are not dependent on any principal suppliers.
+Added: Manufacturing and Distribution
+Added: We rely on third-party strategic partners
+Added: to manufacture and distribute our RainbowSecure®
+Added: We provide these strategic partners with pigment mixing instructions
+Added: for the specific uses of each client based on their existing equipment and processes.
+Added: We maintain policies and procedures to monitor,
+Added: track and log access to and disposition of all pigment.
+Added: Our customers are also required to agree to and implement these policies
+Added: and procedures.
+Added: In relation to our other products, such our hand held VerifyMe Beeper and VeriPAS™
+Added: Smartphone Authenticator devices,
+Added: as well as our VerifyMe®
+Added: as Authentic®
+Added: tamper-proof labels, we provide instructions for the design of these products
+Added: and rely on our strategic partners for manufacturing and distribution.
Our Intellectual Property
Intellectual property is important to our
−Removed: The current patent and trademark portfolios consist of 9 granted US patents and one granted European patent validated
−Removed: in four countries, four pending US and foreign patent applications, four registered US trademarks, one EU foreign registration
−Removed: and one Colombian foreign registration, and seven pending US and foreign trademark applications.
+Added: The current patent and trademark portfolios consist of eleven granted US patents and one granted European patent
+Added: validated in four countries, nine pending US and foreign patent applications, six registered US trademarks, two EU trademark registrations,
+Added: one Colombian trademark registration, one Australian trademark registration, one Japanese trademark registration, one Mexican trademark
+Added: registration, one Singaporean trademark registration, and four pending US and foreign trademark applications.
In addition, seven patent applications
−Removed: were abandoned.
−Removed: We plan on considering the filing for reinstatement on some of the abandoned patent applications.
−Removed: We have attempted
−Removed: to achieve sufficient flexibility in our products and technologies so as to provide cost-effective solutions to a wide variety
−Removed: of counterfeiting problems.
−Removed: We intend to generate revenues primarily by selling pigment to manufacturers who incorporate our technologies
−Removed: into their manufacturing processes and their products as well as through licensing fees where we are providing unique or custom
−Removed: While some of
−Removed: our granted patents are commercially ready, we believe that others may have commercial application in the future but will require
−Removed: additional capital and/or a strategic partner in order to reach the potential markets.
−Removed: All of our patents are related to the inventions
−Removed: described above.
−Removed: Our patents expire between the years 2019 and 2033.
−Removed: The expiration date of a pending application that matures
−Removed: into a registration depends upon the issuance date and any adjustment under 35 U.S.C.
−Removed: It is cost prohibitive
−Removed: to register patents in every country.
−Removed: We continue to develop new anti-counterfeiting technologies and we apply for patent
−Removed: protection for these technologies in countries with the most market potential and strong patent enforcement tools.
−Removed: new product or process is developed, we may seek to preserve the economic benefit of the product or process by applying for a patent
−Removed: in each jurisdiction in which the product or process is likely to be exploited.
+Added: are abandoned.
+Added: We plan on considering filing for revival of some of the abandoned patent applications.
+Added: We have attempted to achieve sufficient
+Added: flexibility in our products and technologies so as to provide cost-effective solutions to a wide variety of counterfeiting problems.
+Added: We intend to generate revenues primarily by selling pigment to manufacturers who incorporate our technologies into their manufacturing
+Added: processes and their products as well as through licensing fees where we are providing unique or custom solutions.
+Added: While some of our granted patents are commercially
+Added: ready, we believe that others may have commercial application in the future but will require additional capital and/or a strategic
+Added: partner in order to reach the potential markets.
+Added: All of our patents are related to the inventions described above.
+Added: Our registered
+Added: patents expire between the years 2021 and 2038.
+Added: The expiration date of a pending application that matures into a registration depends
+Added: upon the issuance date and any adjustment under 35 U.S.C.
+Added: It is cost prohibitive to register patents
+Added: in every country.
+Added: We continue to develop new anti-counterfeiting technologies and we apply for patent protection for these technologies
+Added: in countries with the most market potential and strong patent enforcement tools.
+Added: When a new product or process is developed, we
+Added: may seek to preserve the economic benefit of the product or process by applying for a patent in each jurisdiction in which the
+Added: product or process is likely to be exploited.
The issuance of
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−Removed: We have trademarked
−Removed: the VerifyMe TM brand in the United States and have pending applications with respect to our brand internationally.
−Removed: However, our name and brand could be confused with brands that have similar names, including but not limited to Verified.Me, a
−Removed: service offered to Canadians by SecureKey Technologies Inc.
−Removed: We have a pending application for the VerifyMe name in Canada but
−Removed: can make no assurances regarding its approval.
−Removed: We are aware of names and marks similar to our service marks being used from time
−Removed: to time by other persons that could result in confusion and may diminish the value of our brands and adversely affect our business.
−Removed: “Risk Factors.”
−Removed: We have been involved
−Removed: in research and development since our inception and intend to continue our research and development activities, funds permitting.
−Removed: Through 2012, our research and development focused on pigment technologies.
−Removed: Since 2012, we have allocated research and development
−Removed: efforts between digital and pigment technologies.
−Removed: We hope to expand our technology into new areas of implementation and to develop
−Removed: unique customer applications.
−Removed: We spent approximately $5,000 and $188,000 during the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively,
−Removed: on research and development.
+Added: We have trademarked the VerifyMe TM
+Added: brand in the United States and have registered and pending applications with respect to our brand internationally.
+Added: our name and brand could be confused with brands that have similar names, including but not limited to Verified.Me, a service offered
+Added: to Canadians by SecureKey Technologies Inc.
+Added: We have a pending application for the VerifyMe name in Canada but can make no assurances
+Added: regarding its approval.
+Added: We are aware of names and marks similar to our service marks being used from time to time by other persons
+Added: that could result in confusion and may diminish the value of our brands and adversely affect our business.
+Added: See Item 1A “Risk
+Added: Factors”
+Added: for additional information regarding the risk of confusion of our name with other brands and other intellectual
+Added: property risks.
+Added: Prior to 2019,
+Added: we had been involved primarily in research and development since our inception.
+Added: Through 2012, our research and development focused
+Added: on pigment technologies.
+Added: From 2012 through 2018, we allocated research and development efforts between digital and pigment technologies.
+Added: Since 2019 our primary focus has shifted from research and development to commercialization of our products.
+Added: Current research and
+Added: development efforts are focused on expanding our technology into new areas of implementation and to develop unique customer applications.
+Added: We spent approximately $19 thousand and $5 thousand during the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively, on research
+Added: and development.
+Added: We are now researching the conversion of our VeriPAS™
+Added: cloud-based platform into an Ethereum de-centralized blockchain network to increase its security.
+Added: We are looking at an existing
+Added: Ethereum Blockchain-as-a-Service ("BaaS") platform system that we would upgrade with our patented digital features.
+Added: goal for the new platform will be to provide a comprehensive blockchain platform offering product lifecycle management, supply
+Added: chain process control, data mining, consumer engagement, product certification, and process certification.
+Added: We envision that this
+Added: new blockchain network could be utilized by any sized business, to further enhance brand protection and value as well as to possibly
+Added: enable us to expand into new business models.
Sales and Marketing
−Removed: Brand Protection
−Removed: We plan on marketing
−Removed: directly with HP Indigo 6000 series and HP Indigo 7800 series press owners as well as the label and packaging printing industry,
−Removed: including both traditional and digital printers and users to address their clients’
+Added: The rise of e-commerce is a major opportunity
+Added: for our products and technologies.
+Added: Both brand owners and counterfeiters conduct a rapidly growing proportion of their trade online.
+Added: sites such as Amazon, Alibaba and, eBay and social media networks, including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, have become major hubs for
+Added: counterfeits.
+Added: These e-commerce sites continue to outperform brick-and-mortar retail growth, and such performance has been accelerated
+Added: by the significant travel restrictions, mandated closures and other effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
+Added: A virtual global marketplace provides
+Added: multiple benefits for counterfeiters.
+Added: We have identified the following factors that make it easier for counterfeiters to deceive customers
+Added: about the authenticity of the products they are buying:
+Added: Product inspection occurs after payment and delivery;
+Added: Counterfeiters base themselves in jurisdictions where the laws on counterfeiting are less stringent;
+Added: Product images on a website are often all the consumer has, to view and inspect prior to the sale.
+Added: We view this is a major opportunity to
+Added: address this growing problem.
+Added: VerifyMe has developed two strategies to address the growing e-commerce counterfeiting issue.
+Added: VerifyMe®
+Added: as Authentic®
+Added: tamper proof labels.
+Added: This new pre-printed product is sold to large
+Added: and small brand owners who want to provide their customers with the ability to instantly authenticate their product upon receipt using
+Added: their customers own smartphone camera.
+Added: The brand owner works with us to design the label and its security features and we manufacture
+Added: the labels, through our strategic partnerships, and sell them to the brand owner to affix to their products for their customer to authenticate.
+Added: As a side benefit the brand owner has the ability to engage with its customer and gather business intelligence about them.
+Added: VerifyMe®
+Added: Web TM is another new e-commerce product line that VerifyMe markets
+Added: to brand owners.
+Added: This product is a search tool that brand owners subscribe to which reports back to the brand owner any counterfeit
+Added: websites and or counterfeit products that are found on the internet.
+Added: VerifyMe provides reports to the brand owner and shuts down
+Added: the counterfeiting sites and products by legal means.
+Added: In our opinion, standard historical optical security features
+Added: such as holograms and Yellow UV Ink are still used but their effectiveness and usage are declining.
+Added: Our product line has a standard optical feature
+Added: known as RainbowSecure®
+Added: Security Ink Taggant.
+Added: The differentiator between our standard ink taggant feature and existing products is
+Added: that our RainbowSecure®
+Added: feature can be printed on digital presses making each label, package, or product completely unique with its
+Added: own digital signature.
+Added: In addition, our invisible code can be read into the cloud with a smartphone.
+Added: This solution is invisible to the
+Added: human eye, and each code is unique and stored in the cloud for each product, thereby preventing a counterfeiter from matching the codes
+Added: to products that contain our RainbowSecure®
+Added: Our software also provides intelligent monitoring capabilities.
+Added: if a counterfeit is suspected or a product is not in the correct location (i.e.
+Added: product diversion) the brand owner is alerted by our software.
+Added: In conjunction with HP Indigo, we have modernized RainbowSecure®
+Added: by creating unique signatures in the form of invisible codes that can be imbedded onto labels, packages and products that can be
+Added: read with a smartphone into a supply chain management cloud-based software known as VeriPAS™.
+Added: We market directly with HP Indigo to owners
+Added: of the 6000 series and HP Indigo 7900 series digital presses as well as the label and packaging printing industry, including both
+Added: traditional and digital printers and users to address their clients’
needs for our covert serialization.
−Removed: We expect those printers to market and resell our technologies to both current and future brand owner clients.
−Removed: HP Indigo has trained
−Removed: their international digital press salesforce in various security printing technologies including our RainbowSecure®
+Added: We expect those
+Added: printers to market and resell our technologies to both current and future brand owner clients.
+Added: HP Indigo has trained their international
+Added: digital press salesforce in various security printing technologies including our RainbowSecure®
and VeriPAS™
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HP Indigo sales people have generated multiple leads on our behalf.
−Removed: In September 2017, we entered into a five-year
−Removed: contract with HP to supply HP Indigo Digital press ink canisters containing our technology pigment for use by HP Indigo digital
−Removed: press owners who print our security feature on labels and packages for their brand owners.
−Removed: Additionally, we enter into reseller
−Removed: agreements with print service providers (“PSP”).
−Removed: Pursuant to one of these agreements, a global label manufacturer
−Removed: began printing our technology in July 2018 and has major brand owners as clients which can utilize our technologies to protect
−Removed: their product labels and packaging from counterfeiting and product diversion.
−Removed: This label printer owns and operates printers and
−Removed: manufacturing equipment which can implement our technology.
+Added: In 2017, we entered into a five-year contract with HP to supply
+Added: HP Indigo digital press ink canisters containing our RainbowSecure®
+Added: pigment for use by HP Indigo digital press owners who print
+Added: our security feature on labels and packages for their brand owners.
+Added: Additionally, we enter into reseller agreements with print
+Added: service providers.
+Added: Pursuant to one of these agreements, a global label manufacturer began printing our technology in July 2018
+Added: and has major brand owners as clients which can utilize our technologies to protect their product labels and packaging from counterfeiting
+Added: and product diversion.
+Added: This label printer owns and operates printers and manufacturing equipment which can implement our technology.
This reseller also has manufacturing facilities around the globe.
−Removed: In addition to
−Removed: the printing industry, we expect to market directly to all brand owners who utilize labels and packaging for their products.
−Removed: owners can be licensed directly by VerifyMe and direct their personal printer to print their labels and packaging with the VerifyMe
−Removed: printing technologies.
−Removed: The brand owner will therefore pay their royalties directly to VerifyMe based on the number of labels
−Removed: and packages units that their printer applied the technology to.
−Removed: In 2019, the Company entered into a leasing agreement and purchase
−Removed: agreement with a major brand owner.
−Removed: This particular brand owner is on the “Forbes Top 50 Private Companies list”.
−Removed: brand owner began printing labels that include our product in the fourth quarter 2019.
−Removed: Additionally, we intend to engage third
−Removed: parties to market, sell and support our brand protection security technologies on a global basis for a contracted fee based on
−Removed: Our targeted third parties will already have a successful track record in supporting HP Indigo owners as well
−Removed: as traditional printing clients.
−Removed: We have a strategic partnership with S-One.
−Removed: S-One provides VerifyMe with global sales, distribution, and promotion support for the Company’s products and employ multiple
−Removed: representatives on an as needs basis to promote the Company’s products.
−Removed: Under the terms of the Company’s agreement
−Removed: with S-One, S-One acts as a sales and marketing contractor for the Company’s printed products and services on a global basis
−Removed: and assists the Company in fulfilling the Company’s obligations under the Company’s signed current and future reseller
−Removed: agreements with various global and domestic print providers and brand owners.
−Removed: The FDA implemented the identifier track
−Removed: and trace portion of the Title II of the Drug Quality and Security Act in November 2018, entitled the “Drug Supply Chain
−Removed: Security Act.”
−Removed: This regulation requires drug manufactures and re-packagers to add product identifiers, such as our RainbowSecure®
−Removed: technology as well as our VeriPAS TM track and trace system, to certain prescription drug packages beginning in 2018.
−Removed: We expect to engage third party marketing and sales companies to present our solutions to the drug and pharmaceutical industry.
−Removed: The FDA intends to continue implementing the Drug Supply Chain Security Act to ensure that a full electronic identification system
−Removed: for prescription drugs is implemented by 2023.
−Removed: We believe that the pharmaceutical industry has been slow to adopt the mandates
−Removed: due to the low fines associated with the mandate versus the cost of the implementation.
−Removed: In addition, our track and trace partner,
−Removed: Micro Focus has agreed to cross sell our technologies as part of their Global Product Authentication System called “GPAS”.
+Added: In addition to the printing industry,
+Added: we expect to market directly to all brand owners who utilize labels and packaging for their products.
+Added: Brand owners can be licensed
+Added: directly with us and direct their personal printer to print their labels and packaging with our printing technologies.
+Added: owner will therefore pay their royalties directly to us based on the number of labels and packages units to which their printer
+Added: applied the technology.
+Added: In 2019, we entered into a leasing agreement and purchase agreement with a major brand owner who is on
+Added: the Forbes Top 50 Private Companies list.
+Added: The brand owner began printing labels that include our product in the fourth quarter
+Added: of 2019 and, in 2020, we received notice that this client plans to add additional products and three additional countries Japan,
+Added: Vietnam and Taiwan.
+Added: To date, we have derived limited revenue from this contract.
+Added: In lieu of building, training, and supporting
+Added: a world-wide internal sales force, we have engaged with multiple strategic partners who have existing government and brand owner relationships
+Added: in their particular geographical locations.
+Added: These strategic partnerships include both paid and commissioned sales only contract arrangements.
+Added: These strategic partners are located in the Middle East, Europe, United Kingdom, India, China and Pakistan.
+Added: We plan to continue to build
+Added: new strategic partnerships throughout the globe.
+Added: We have also established a network of commission only paid consultants within the United
+Added: These consultants mainly focus on brand owners and they are not constricted geographically.
+Added: We have also entered into commissioned
+Added: sales contract arrangements with the global sales staff of our vendors, HP Indigo and S-One.
+Added: We have a strategic partnership with S-One pursuant
+Added: to which S-One provides us with global sales, distribution, shipping, help desk, warehousing and promotion support for our products and
+Added: employs representatives on an as needs basis to promote our products.
+Added: Under the terms of our agreement with S-One, S-One acts as a sales
+Added: and marketing contractor for our printed products and services on a global basis to mainly print service providers (“PSP”)
+Added: and assists us in fulfilling our obligations under our current and future reseller agreements with various global and domestic PSPs and
+Added: brand owners.
+Added: In addition, we have cross-selling agreements
+Added: with some of our strategic partners.
+Added: Micro Focus, our track and trace partner, has agreed to cross sell our technologies as part
+Added: of their GPAS.
We are also contracted with Micro Focus to re-sell their GPAS product with our RainbowSecure®
and our VeriPAS™
−Removed: Authenticator technology under our own trademarked name, VeriPAS TM which stands for VerifyMe Global Product Authentication
−Removed: An additional marketing strategy is to
−Removed: incorporate our technology into the high-speed inkjet hardware that traditional Flexo and Commercial Printers use to add a variable
−Removed: data feature for their clients.
−Removed: Some of the major brand segments that need
−Removed: our type of label, packaging and serialization identifier products are:
−Removed: (a) Consumer Product Security:
−Removed: Pharmaceuticals
−Removed: Aviation parts
−Removed: Any other label/ packaging requirements
−Removed: (b) Documents of Value:
−Removed: Stock certificates and bonds
−Removed: Event tickets
−Removed: Lottery tickets
−Removed: (c) Homeland Security:
−Removed: Driver’s licenses
−Removed: Container seals
−Removed: Pallet security
−Removed: (d) Military:
−Removed: (e) Product Diversion Tracking:
−Removed: Pharmaceuticals
−Removed: Apparel/licensed merchandise
−Removed: Cosmetics and fragrances
−Removed: Watches and jewelry
−Removed: (f) Financial Services and Products
−Removed: Consumer login credentials
−Removed: Online transaction approval
−Removed: Financial documents/promissory notes
−Removed: We plan for our
−Removed: sales and marketing strategy to include an outreach program and sales programs that tailor the product to the governmental body
−Removed: or merchant, as well as key partnerships with authorities and merchants whose products or audiences can be complementary to our
−Removed: In particular, we intend to focus on building relationships with key partners who can deliver our products to their existing
−Removed: and prospective customers in target markets, i.e., commercial printers/packagers, plastic card manufacturers and financial services
−Removed: intermediaries.
−Removed: HP Indigo’s Experience Centers located in Tel Aviv, Israel, Singapore, Barcelona, Spain and Alpharetta, Georgia
−Removed: have all been trained and outfitted with samples, including our VerifyMe Beepers, and VeriPAS™
−Removed: Smartphone Authenticators
−Removed: to demonstrate the technology to customers who visit the centers.
−Removed: Customers can perform tests and receive hands on experience with
−Removed: our technologies.
−Removed: HP Indigo also
−Removed: invited VerifyMe to man a station in the security printing sections of their trade show booths such as the global LabelExpo show
−Removed: held in Brussels, Belgium in September 2019 and in Singapore in March 2019.
−Removed: HP Indigo also has VerifyMe display their solutions
−Removed: at their annual VIP print service provider event held in Tel Aviv every year.
−Removed: HP Indigo has invited VerifyMe to attend additional
−Removed: trade shows in 2020 including one in Singapore, Dusseldorf, Germany and Orlando, Florida.
−Removed: Multi-Factor Biometric Authentication
−Removed: We expect to market
−Removed: our MFA digital software technology by our website only.
−Removed: We are taking a very passive marketing approach at this time and concentrating
−Removed: our resources on security printing products.
−Removed: When funding allows, we may expand marketing plan at that time.
−Removed: targeted market segment is the financial services industry.
−Removed: This includes both the traditional banking and crypto financial
−Removed: transaction industries.
−Removed: Our second targeted market segment is expected to be the healthcare industry.
−Removed: The third targeted
−Removed: market is expected to the gaming industry.
−Removed: The fourth target market segment we expect to market to will be governments.
−Removed: Governments can be both foreign and domestic as well as federal, state and local levels.
−Removed: We anticipate
−Removed: that all of these market outreaches will be made directly by us and we also plan to use third party marketing vendors who specialize
−Removed: in software sales.
−Removed: We are also seeking business partners with revenue and proven business models.
−Removed: In 2019 we invested in developing
−Removed: sales channels and pursuing opportunities in the digital authentication area.
+Added: Smartphone Authenticator technology under our own trademarked name, VeriPAS™.
+Added: Additionally, entered into a cross-selling
+Added: agreement with SmartGlyph in 2020, pursuant to which we have agreed to integrate our technologies with their barcodes and multi-faceted,
+Added: “software only”
+Added: coding platform and sell to our respective customers.
+Added: We plan for our sales and marketing strategy
+Added: to include an outreach program and sales programs that tailor the product to the governmental body or merchant, as well as key
+Added: partnerships with authorities and merchants whose products or audiences can be complementary to our own.
+Added: In particular, we intend
+Added: to focus on building relationships with key partners who can deliver our products to their existing and prospective customers in
+Added: target markets, i.e., commercial printers/packagers, plastic card manufacturers and financial services intermediaries.
+Added: into an agreement with OWS Capital to market, promote and sell our security authentication technology solutions to the UAE government
+Added: and companies located in the Middle East.
+Added: HP Indigo’s Experience Centers located in Tel Aviv, Israel, Singapore, Barcelona,
+Added: Spain and Alpharetta, Georgia have all been trained and outfitted with samples, including our VerifyMe Beepers, and VeriPAS™
+Added: Smartphone Authenticators, to demonstrate the technology to customers who visit the centers.
+Added: Customers can perform tests and receive
+Added: hands on experience with our technologies.
+Added: In addition, we collaborated with HP Indigo
+Added: at the Asia Security Group Virtual High Security Printing & Brand Protection Conference & Exhibition in December 2020 to
+Added: showcase our RainbowSecure®
+Added: solution on HP Indigo’s digital printing presses.
+Added: HP Indigo also invited us to man a station
+Added: in the security printing sections of their trade show booths such as the global LabelExpo show held in Brussels, Belgium in September
+Added: 2019 and in Singapore in March 2019.
+Added: HP Indigo has us display solutions at their annual VIP print service provider event held in
+Added: Tel Aviv every year as well as invited VerifyMe to attend other trade shows in 2020, however, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, these
+Added: shows were postponed or cancelled.
+Added: Due to the strong security background of our management
+Added: team, we have undertaken a major overhaul of our website to position us as a “one stop shop”
+Added: for brand protection technologies,
+Added: and as an expert advisor to brand owners to consult with them on their brand protection issues.
+Added: Our new website is expected to launch
+Added: in mid-April 2021.
+Added: In addition to the website, a new social media advertising program will be launched to targeted customers.
+Added: In addition to the website and social media expansion, we have
+Added: recently signed on new salespeople from a large competitor to enhance our sales team.
+Added: We anticipate that additional hiring of experienced
+Added: salespeople will continue for the foreseeable future.
The market for protection from counterfeiting,
−Removed: diversion, theft and forgery is a mature more than 25-year old industry dominated by a number of large, well-established companies,
−Removed: particularly in the area of traditional overt security technologies where repeating static produced images are commonly used.
−Removed: is due to the fact that security printing for currency production began in Europe over a century ago and has resulted in the establishment
−Removed: of old-line security printers which have branched out into brand and product protection as well.
−Removed: In North America, brand protection
−Removed: products, such as tamper-resistant packaging, security labels, and anti-theft devices are readily available and utilized on a widespread
−Removed: In recent years, however, demand has increased for more sophisticated overt and covert security technologies with a strong
−Removed: desire for technologies that can provide variable images and data.
+Added: diversion, theft and forgery is a mature industry dominated by a number of large, well-established companies, particularly in the
+Added: area of traditional overt security technologies where repeating static produced images are commonly used.
+Added: Security printing for
+Added: currency production began in Europe over a century ago and has resulted in the establishment of old-line security printers which
+Added: have branched out into brand and product protection as well.
+Added: In North America, brand protection products, such as tamper-resistant
+Added: packaging, security labels, and anti-theft devices are readily available and utilized on a widespread basis.
+Added: In recent years, however,
+Added: demand has increased for more sophisticated overt and covert security technologies with a strong desire for technologies that can
+Added: provide variable images and data.
Competitors can be segregated into the following groups:
−Removed: Security Ink Manufacturers:
−Removed: These are generally well-established companies such as SICPA and Sun Chemical, whose core business
−Removed: is manufacturing and selling printing inks;
−Removed: (ii) System Integrators:
−Removed: These companies have often evolved from other sectors in the
−Removed: printing industry, mainly security printing manufacturers, technology providers, or packaging and label manufacturers.
−Removed: These companies
−Removed: offer a range of security solutions, enabling them to provide a complete suite of solutions tailored to the customer’s specific
−Removed: needs and requirements.
−Removed: The companies in this space include 3M, DuPont, Opsec, Honeywell, and Avery Dennison;
−Removed: (iii) System Consultancy
−Removed: These companies offer a range of technologies from several different providers and tailor specific solutions to end-users;
−Removed: (iv) Traditional Authentication Technology Providers:
−Removed: These purveyors include companies like American Banknote Holographics, Crown
−Removed: Roll Leaf and Digimarc, which provide holograms and digital watermarking, respectively;
−Removed: (v) Product Diversion Tracking Providers.
−Removed: Applied DNA Sciences Next-Generation Technology Providers LLC falls into this group, along with several companies such as Applied
−Removed: DNA Sciences, Authentix, DNA Technologies, and Identif, Kodak Traceless, which provide on-product and in-product tagging technologies;
−Removed: (vi) Traditional Security Printers:
−Removed: This group includes traditional security printers such as Thomas de la Rue, Canadian Banknote,
−Removed: and Banknote Corporation of America, and Portals, whose core products are printing the world’s currencies;
−Removed: and (vii) Biometric
−Removed: Solution Providers:
−Removed: These companies offer biometric authentication capabilities to be integrated with existing mobile device authentication,
−Removed: such as OT-Morpho and ImageWare Systems.
−Removed: Amazon has recently become a competitor
−Removed: with their new “Project Zero”
+Added: (i) security ink manufacturers who are
+Added: generally well-established companies whose core business is manufacturing and selling printing inks;
+Added: (ii) system integrators who
+Added: have often evolved from other sectors in the printing industry, mainly security printing manufacturers, technology providers, or
+Added: packaging and label manufacturers, and who typically offer a range of security solutions that enable them to provide a complete
+Added: suite of solutions tailored to the customer’s specific needs and requirements;
+Added: (iii) system consultancy groups who offer
+Added: a range of technologies from several different providers and tailor specific solutions to end-users;
+Added: (iv) traditional authentication
+Added: technology providers which provide holograms and digital watermarking;
+Added: (v) product diversion tracking providers which provide on-product
+Added: and in-product tagging technologies;
+Added: and (vi) traditional security printers whose core products are printing the world’s
+Added: In general, we believe competition in our principal markets is primarily driven by product performance, features and
+Added: ease of implementation, technology effectiveness, digital instant verification;
+Added: new laws and regulations;
+Added: innovation and timing of new product introductions;
+Added: ability to develop, maintain and protect proprietary products and technologies;
+Added: sales and distribution capabilities;
+Added: technical support and service;
+Added: brand loyalty;
+Added: applications support;
+Added: and breadth of product
+Added: In 2020, new blockchain as a service (“BAAS”)
+Added: technology companies have surfaced.
+Added: These are mainly early-stage development companies that have begun to enter the marketplace using
+Added: de-centralized blockchain networks to authenticate and validate products as well as traditional supply chain management including serialization,
+Added: track and trace and internet of things (“IoT”) connectivity using codes, near field communication and RFID chips.
+Added: that converting our VeriPAS™
+Added: cloud-based platform into a de-centralized blockchain network will allow us to compete in this space
+Added: with the advantage of blending our physical technologies for an enhanced product offering.
+Added: Amazon has become a competitor with their
+Added: new “Project Zero”
brand protection system utilizing their “Transparency”
serialization product.
−Removed: Amazon’s product serialization service provides a unique code for every unit that is manufactured, and the brand puts these
−Removed: codes on its products as part of its manufacturing process, which Amazon scans and verifies.
−Removed: This differs from our covert luminescent
−Removed: pigment which is incorporated in the labeling process and our invisible covert serialization and authentication solution.
−Removed: Also HP Indigo, is selling a yellow ultra
−Removed: violet ink as a security product for an inexpensive price that directly competes with our products.
−Removed: There are a number of providers
−Removed: of inexpensive ultra violet inks in the marketplace, however, we believe these inexpensive ultra violet inks do not provide the
−Removed: level of security and safety that our products provide.
−Removed: New types of security competition is also
−Removed: increasing, such as retail website monitoring, brand investigations, RFID and near field communications (“NFC”) products
−Removed: using low powered radio signals.
+Added: Amazon’s
+Added: product serialization service provides a unique code for every unit that is manufactured, and the brand puts these codes on its
+Added: products as part of its manufacturing process, which Amazon scans and verifies.
+Added: This differs from our covert luminescent pigment
+Added: which is incorporated in the labeling process and our invisible covert serialization and authentication solution.
+Added: Also, HP Indigo is selling a yellow ultraviolet
+Added: ink and a color changing ink as a security product at inexpensive prices that directly competes with our products.
+Added: number of providers of inexpensive ultraviolet inks in the marketplace, however, we believe these inexpensive ultraviolet inks
+Added: do not provide the level of security and safety that our products provide.
+Added: New types of security competition are also
+Added: increasing, such as retail website monitoring, brand investigations, RFID and near field communications products using low powered
+Added: radio signals to connect to products.
To compete effectively, we are seeking
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sufficient resources to develop and market our services to the market effectively.
−Removed: We expect competition with our products
−Removed: and services to continue and intensify in the future.
−Removed: We believe competition in our principal markets is primarily driven by:
−Removed: product performance, features and liability;
−Removed: new laws and regulations;
−Removed: product innovation and timing of new product introductions;
−Removed: ability to develop, maintain and protect proprietary products and technologies;
−Removed: sales and distribution capabilities;
−Removed: technical support and service;
−Removed: brand loyalty;
−Removed: applications support;
−Removed: breadth of product line.
−Removed: If a competitor
−Removed: develops superior technology or cost-effective alternatives to our products, our business, financial condition and results of operations
−Removed: could be significantly harmed.
+Added: We expect competition with our products and
+Added: services to continue and intensify in the future.
Major Customers/Vendors
−Removed: During the year
−Removed: ended December 31, 2019, two customers accounted for 97% of total sales.
−Removed: During the year ended December 31, 2018, four
−Removed: customers accounted for 100.0% of total sales.
−Removed: Generally, a substantial percentage of our sales have been made to a small number
−Removed: of customers and is typically on an open account basis.
−Removed: During the years
−Removed: ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, we purchased 100% of our pigment from one vendor.
−Removed: VerifyMe utilizes
−Removed: multiple vendors including the pigment vendor for engineered RainbowSecure®
−Removed: authentication devices.
−Removed: As of March 6, 2020, we had one full-time employee, our Chief Executive Officer, three part-time employees, our Chief Financial Officer,
−Removed: our Chief Technology Officer, our Vice President of Sales and two outside contractors, including our Chief Operating Officer and
−Removed: our Chairman.
+Added: During the year ended December 31, 2020,
+Added: two customers accounted for 92% of total sales.
+Added: During the year ended December 31, 2019, two customers accounted for
+Added: 97% of total sales.
+Added: Generally, a substantial percentage of the Company's sales has been made to a small number of customers and
+Added: is typically on an open account basis.
+Added: During the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, the Company
+Added: purchased 100% of pigment from one vendor.
+Added: Additionally, during the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, the Company purchased
+Added: 100% of canisters from one vendor.
+Added: As of December 31, 2020, two customers
+Added: accounted for 96% of total accounts receivable.
+Added: As of December 31, 2019, two customers accounted for 97% of total accounts receivable.
+Added: Employees and
+Added: External Sales Force
+Added: As of March 19, 2021, we had three full-time employees, our
+Added: Chief Executive Officer, our Chief Financial Officer, our Director of Sales and Business Development, North America, one part-time
+Added: employee, our Chief Technology Officer, and four paid consultants, including our Chief Operating Officer and our Chairman.
+Added: of the nature of our business, our employees and consultants can, and do, conduct their work for us remotely.
+Added: In lieu of building,
+Added: training and supporting a world-wide internal sales force, we have engaged with multiple strategic partners who have existing government
+Added: and brand owner relationships in their particular geographical locations.
+Added: These strategic partnerships include both paid and commissioned
+Added: sales only contract arrangements.
+Added: These strategic partners are located in the Middle East, Europe, United Kingdom, India, China
+Added: and Pakistan.
+Added: We plan to continue to build new strategic partnerships throughout the globe.
+Added: We have also established a network of over a dozen commission-paid
+Added: sales consultants within the United States.
+Added: These consultants mainly focus on brand owners and they are not constricted geographically.
+Added: We have also entered into commissioned sales contract arrangements
+Added: with the global sales staff of our vendors, HP Indigo and S-One.
Available Information
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them to, the SEC.
+Added: We have not incorporated by reference into this Report the information included, or that can be accessed through,
+Added: our website and you should not consider it to be part of this Report.
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