9 [Magnetic, optical and electronic information carriers in the form of foil strips, tags, stickers, labels, vignettes, stamps, bands, tokens, coins, discs, cards and plates, all containing encoding devices, diffraction filters and diffractive gratings, hologram-like elements, or combinations thereof, for use in personal identification, authentication, and financial transactions; encoded identification devices and authentication devices, namely, data carriers in form of foil sheetings and foil bands, stickers, labels, bands, threads, discs, cards or plates with magnetic areas/layers, optically active layers, optical integrated circuits, electrically conductive layers or electronic integrated circuits for storing, processing and/or display of information; electric, electronic, optical and opto-electronic circuits, particularly in the form of foil sheetings and foil bands, stickers, labels, bands, threads, discs, cards or plates, each with microprocessors, printed coils and printed circuits, each for application in the field of passive labelling, tracking and tracing of goods or identification of persons and objects; optical diffraction structures, holographic structures or combinations thereof, in the form of diffraction filters and diffraction gratings, and combinations of holograms and diffraction filters and gratings, contained in foils, in semi-finished plastic materials or semi-finished plastic laminates, for use in the creation of identification devices or authentication devices; optical security feature carriers in the form of encoded information carriers for use in manufacturing banknotes; integrated circuits and electronic components, in form of printed circuits, foil sheetings and foil bands, stickers, labels, bands, threads, discs, cards or plates of polymers; opto-electronic energy converters, solar cells, light-emitting diodes or laser diodes; antennas; optical display devices, namely, LCD-displays and organic light-emitting diodes; all afore-mentioned goods also encodable as well as with optically active interference layers, polarization layers and/or liquid crystal layers and/or with optically active spatial structures; magnetic, optical, electric and electronic parts and components in form of foil sheetings and foil bands, stickers, labels, bands, threads, discs, cards or plates that are encoded or provided with optical structures, for storing, processing and/or display of information; identification devices, authentication devices and money replacement means, namely, data carriers in form of chips, cards, discs, magnetic plates, stamps, plates, tokens, bands as well as sheets and foils of plastic, synthetic materials, paper or metal, that are encoded or provided with optical structures; data carriers that are encoded or provided with optically active layers and areas, in form of stamping dies, sheets and foils of metal, for the manufacture of identification devices, authentication devices and money replacement means; covers and sheaths, inherently stable sheaths of plastic, except for packaging purposes, stamping foils, namely, hot stamping foils and laminating foils, also in form of bands, except for packaging purposes, all afore-mentioned goods containing encoding devices, optical diffraction structures, holographic structures or combinations thereof, for use as identification devices, authentication devices or money replacement means or for use for banknotes, bills or payment means; electronic security tags and labels for goods; electric and optical data processing apparatus; electric components as far as contained in this class, namely, electric, optical and electronic switches, sensors, integrated circuits, capacitors, inductors, resistors, diodes, memory chips, data storage chips, transponder chips, electric and optical data carriers, solar cells; blank magnetic data carriers; magnetic data carriers pre-recorded with identification information and authentication information; peripheral devices for computers; portable mini-computers, mobile telephones, personal digital assistants (PDA); portable data processing apparatus and checking/testing devices, namely, checking and testing devices for optically variable devices, optical structures, diffractive structures, electric and electronic signals and magnetic structures; electronic databases in the field of product and document validation and authentication, tracking and tracing of goods and documents and identity validation and authentication, recorded on computer media, and computer databases, namely, computer software for creating searchable databases of information and data;] computer software, particularly computer database software and client software for use in gaining access to computer databases; computer software for checking and verifying brand source identification for goods and documents, and computer software for tracking and tracing the transport and physical location of goods and documents; computer software for checking and verifying the authenticity of documents [; computer software for database administration and database management; computer software for encryption and decryption of information and data; downloadable electronic documentations in the field of product and document authentication, in the field of securing products and documents against falsification/counterfeiting, in the field of product design and plastics processing, and downloadable electronic publications in the nature of books, manuals and newsletters in these aforementioned fields; electric equipment for the controlling, remote-control and supervision of industrial installations and machines, namely, electric control panels, electrical controllers, computer hardware for controlling, remote-controlling and supervision of industrial installations and machines; optical security foils mainly consisting of plastics, namely, foils containing tamper-proof magnetic, optical or electrically conductive structures]