Patent ID: 8534709

Claim:
A method for manufacturing a security element having a metalized microrelief pattern and a negative pattern in register therewith, in which P) a substrate is provided with an embossing pattern having elevations and depressions that form first and second regions having different first and second height levels, wherein the desired microrelief pattern is introduced into the first regions of the embossing pattern, and the second regions of the embossing pattern are developed in the form of the desired negative pattern, M) the embossing pattern with the first and second regions is contiguously metalized, and L) the metalized embossing pattern is impinged on with laser radiation to selectively remove the metalization in the second regions of the embossing pattern through the action of the laser radiationcharacterized in that, after the metalization step M), to the metalized embossing pattern is applied a laser-beam-absorbing cover layer that fills the depressions of the embossing pattern characterized in that the laser-beam-absorbing cover layer is decomposed by the action of the laser radiation and, in the process, the irradiated laser energy is consumed.