Patent ID: 7560156

Claim:
A value-bearing document comprising: a substrate; and a security element in the form of a security strip applied to a surface area of the substrate wherein the security strip safeguards authenticity or quality of the substrate, wherein the security strip is formed by a transfer layer arrangement of a transfer film, and wherein the security strip is disposed on the substrate spaced away from a first edge and an opposed second edge of the substrate and extending from a third edge to an opposed fourth edge of the substrate, wherein the security comprises at least two plastic or lacquer layers between which is arranged at least one optically effective layer and/or structure producing an optical effect which is variable in dependence on an illumination or viewing angle, wherein the optically effective layer and/or structure is arranged in at least two definably delimited, mutually spaced, regions of the security strip forming at least two visually variable security strip regions and wherein all further regions of the security strip outside the at least two visually variable security strip regions do not produce an optical effect which is variable in dependence of the illumination and viewing angle, the security strip in all further regions of the security strip outside the visually variable security strip regions is transparent and/or is adapted to an appearance of the surface of the substrate, and the presence of the security strip in all further regions of the security strip outside the visually variable security strip regions cannot be distinguished from the surface of the substrate by an observer.