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Project ProProtect

Product piracy is a reality especially in the fast growing new markets in Eastern Europe and Asia. Protection from product piracy is increasingly becoming a point of interest even in the producer’s goods industry: counterfeits range from spare parts to cloned larger facilities. The development of software is of great economic influence. The role that is played by software in innovations in machines and facilities is ever increasing. It is therefore major factor for the protection of product innovations. Product digitalization is on the increase. There thus exists a need to protect the digital production data.

Target

The project aims at transferring the already existing desktop software protection mechanisms into the production sector so as to protect the facility and the mechanical engineering specifications from counterfeiters. This involves making the possibility of cloning the machines and components that are equipped with complex software harder as well as creating protection methodologies that will make it hard to automatically copy and use the machine control programs for the production of the cloned products. The embedded software and the associated trends are now of great significance and consequently create a need for software and data protection mechanism that are not yet available.

The need for protection includes the safeguarding of the whole design and production chain. The need to protect intellectual property is especially of great importance to high income countries like Germany especially because of the current change in the information society and the current global competition. A reduction in product piracy improves the profitability of the business, creates more jobs and helps maintain the innovation prominence.

Associates


  • Contact person: Nora Lieberknecht
  • URL: http://www.pro-protect.de
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  • beteiligte Forschungsbereiche: ESS