European Patent Office

T 1216/08 (Authenticating a program image/ROVI) of 13.01.2012

European Case Law Identifier
ECLI:EP:BA:2012:T121608.20120113
Date of decision
13 January 2012
Case number
T 1216/08
Petition for review of
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Application number
00950637.9
IPC class
G06F 1/00
Language of proceedings
English
Distribution
No distribution (D)
OJ versions
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Other decisions for this case
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Abstracts for this decision
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Application title
System and method of verifying the authenticity of dynamically connectable executable images
Applicant name
Rovi Solutions Corporation
ROVI SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
2830 De La Cruz Boulevard
Santa Clara, CA 95050 (US)
Opponent name
Needle, Jacqueline
Beck Greener
Fulwood House
12 Fulwood Place
London WC1V 6HR (GB)
Decision under appeal:
Decision of the Examining Division of the European Patent Office posted 31 January 2008 refusing European patent application No. 00950637.9 pursuant to Article 97(2) EPC.
Composition of the Board:
Board
3.5.06
Headnote
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Keywords
Novelty - yes
Inventive step - yes
Case Number: T 1216/08 - 3.5.06
DECISION
of the Technical Board of Appeal 3.5.06
of 13 January 2012
Catchword
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Cited cases
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Citing cases
T 1639/18

ORDER

For these reasons it is decided that:

1. The decision under appeal is set aside.

2. The application is remitted to the department of first instance with the order to grant a patent based on the following application documents:

description, pages

1-4 as filed with letter of 8 December 2011

5-11 corresponding to pages 3-9 as published and renumbered as requested on 24 June 2005

claims, no.

1-30 as filed with letter of 8 December 2011

drawings, no.

1/6-6/6 as published