PRE RECORDED DISKETTES CD ROM DISCS

Brand	Owner	Address	Description
RIGHTCLICK	Centrifugal Force, Inc.	1560 Broadway, Suite 1004 New York NY 10036	pre-recorded diskettes and CD-ROM discs containing software used for accounting and financial analysis, and user manuals sold as a unit therewith;
	Where the owner name is not linked, that owner no longer owns the brand

Technical Examples

The method and apparatus described utilise the fact that CDs manufactured from the same master will have distinctive physical characteristics attributable to the physical manufacturing process of the master to distinguish counterfeit CDs from genuine discs. For a genuine disc, the relative angular orientation of specified sections of the recorded data are determined and recorded. The relative angular orientation of the same sections of data on a test disc are also determined. Where the relative angular orientations are the same it is concluded that the test disc derives from the same source as the genuine disc and is therefore bona fide. Where there is no correlation, the test disc may be identified as counterfeit. The relative angular orientations, or other physical characteristics of the discs, may be physically measured, or may be calculated from information gained by reading the data on the disc. The disclosed technique can also be used to copy protect discs.