9 Apparatuses and instruments in the nature of printers, thermographers, photocopiers, facsimile machines, readers, scanners, pattern matchers, optical recognition, embossers and engravers for authenticating and verifying products, and software for the control and use of such printers, thermographers, photocopiers, facsimile machines, readers, scanners, pattern matchers, optical recognition, embossers, and engravers; apparatuses and instruments in the nature of printers, thermographers, photocopiers, facsimile machines, readers, scanners, cameras, pattern matchers, imagers, optical recognition, image processers, embossers and engravers for checking and verifying documents, and software for the control and use of such printers, thermographers, photocopiers, facsimile machines, readers, scanners, cameras, pattern matchers, imagers, optical recognition, image processers, embossers and engravers; apparatuses and instruments in the nature of printers, thermographers, photocopiers, facsimile machines, readers, scanners, cameras, pattern matchers, imagers, optical recognition, image processers, embossers and engravers for detecting the authenticity of documents, papers, data and data carriers of all kinds, and software for the control and use of such printers, thermographers, photocopiers, facsimile machines, readers, scanners, cameras, pattern matchers, imagers, optical recognition, image processers, embossers and engravers; apparatuses and instruments in the nature of printers, thermographers, photocopiers, facsimile machines, readers, scanners, cameras, pattern matchers, imagers, optical recognition, image processers, embossers and engravers for identifying coded, hidden or embedded markings, and software for the control and use of such printers, thermographers, photocopiers, facsimile machines, readers, scanners, cameras, pattern matchers, imagers, optical recognition, image processers, embossers and engravers; apparatuses and instruments in the nature of printers, thermographers, photocopiers, facsimile machines, readers, scanners, cameras, pattern matchers, imagers, optical recognition, image processers, embossers and engravers for identifying forgery protection marks, and software for the control and use of such printers, thermographers, photocopiers, facsimile machines, readers, scanners, cameras, pattern matchers, imagers, optical recognition, image processers, embossers and engravers; apparatuses and instruments in the nature of printers, thermographers, photocopiers, facsimile machines, readers, scanners, cameras, pattern matchers, imagers, optical recognition, image processers, embossers and engravers for the provision of product safeguards, identifying marks, security tags, security features including digitally generated printable track and trace-capable security features, and software for the control and use of such printers, thermographers, photocopiers, facsimile machines, readers, scanners, cameras, pattern matchers, imagers, image processers, embossers and engravers; encoders for data processing; computers; computer operating systems; computer hardware; computer peripheral devices; computer programs for the control and use of printers, thermographers, photocopiers, facsimile machines, readers, scanners, pattern matchers, embossers and engravers; downloadable computer programs for the control and use of printers, thermographers, photocopiers, facsimile machines, readers, scanners, pattern matchers, embossers and engravers; remote computer programs; recorded computer software for the control and use of printers, thermographers, photocopiers, facsimile machines, readers, scanners, pattern matchers, embossers, and engravers; computer programs for the digital storage, database management, supply chain management, inventory control, word processing, tabular data organization, storage and analysis, and finance, of authenticity data, coded markings, hidden markings, embedded markings, protective markings; downloadable computer programs for the digital storage, database management, supply chain management, inventory control, word processing, tabular data organization, storage and analysis, and finance, of authenticity data, coded markings, hidden markings, embedded markings, protective markings; recorded computer software for the digital storage, database management, supply chain management, inventory control, word processing, tabular data organization, storage and analysis, and finance, of authenticity data, coded markings, hidden markings, embedded markings, protective markings; remote computer programs for the digital storage, database management, supply chain management, inventory control, word processing, tabular data organization, storage and analysis, and finance, of authenticity data, coded markings, hidden markings, embedded markings, protective markings; computer hardware and software for encoding, decoding and authenticating information, messages and data, for authenticating transactions, fraud detection and control; computer software and hardware for the identification and authentication of devices for near-field communication (NFC) and radio frequency identification (RFID); data processing devices; detectors in the nature of scanners, cameras, pattern matchers, imagers, and image processers; diagnostic apparatuses, not for medical purposes for authentication, verification, credential matching, and checking of images and scans and software for such authentication, verification, credential matching, and checking; printers for computers; digitally generated security features for authentication, verification, credential matching, and checking of images and scans of printed, embossed, engraved, thermographed, photocopied and software for such authentication, verification, credential matching, and checking; electronic security tags; photometers; GPS devices; interfaces for computers; apparatus and instruments for the production and application of holographs and software for the control and use of machines used to apply holographic overlay and to set up and control holograms and verification thereof; holograms apparatus; electronic holographic/hologrammatic security tags; reading devices in the nature of data processing devices; reading devices in the nature of scanners, cameras, imagers, and image processers; measuring instruments for measuring printed, embossed, engraved, thermograph, photocopied and facsimiled images or scans; microprocessors; mobile telephones; notebooks computers; scanners for data processing devices; integrated circuits; smartphones; downloadable software applications for computers for printing, embossing, engraving, thermographing, photocopying, facsimileing, camera controlling, scanning, image matching, database management, use in electronic storage of data; electronic security tags featuring identifying features and security features including digitally generated printable track and trace capable security features; software for generating and identifying codes including machine-readable codes; bar code readers; tablet computers; magnetic identifying cards and blank smart cards with integrated circuit; magnetic security-coded cards for use as electronic tickets, verified products, verified documents, authenticated products, financial instruments, product safeguards, and security features; cards encoded with security features for authentication purposes in the nature of encoded identity cards; cards encoded with security features for identification purposes in the nature of encoded identity cards; encoded identity cards coated with holograms; encoded electronic chip cards for identification of users, computing devices, and communication devices and software for the use of such encoded electronic chip cards, magnetically encoded stored-value cards, electronic data carrier cards for identification of users, computing devices, and communication devices and software for the use of such encoded electronic chip cards and magnetically encoded blank bank payment cards for issuance by financial institutions, all electronically readable and encoded; card-reading devices; and magnetic card reading devices