European Patent Office

T 1463/11 (Universal merchant platform / CardinalCommerce) of 29.11.2016

European Case Law Identifier
ECLI:EP:BA:2016:T146311.20161129
Date of decision
29 November 2016
Case number
T 1463/11
Petition for review of
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Application number
03760289.3
IPC class
G06F 17/60
Language of proceedings
English
Distribution
Distributed to board chairmen (C)
OJ versions
No OJ links found
Other decisions for this case
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Abstracts for this decision
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Application title
UNIVERSAL MERCHANT PLATFORM FOR PAYMENT AUTHENTICATION
Applicant name
CardinalCommerce Corporation
Opponent name
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Board
3.5.01
Headnote
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Keywords
Inventive step - mixture of technical and non-technical features
Inventive step - consideration of requirements given to skilled person
Inventive step - non-technical prejudice (no
Inventive step - cannot affect assessment of inventive step)
Inventive step - technical prejudice in the art (yes
Inventive step - prima facie)
Inventive step - non-obvious combination of known features
Catchword
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Cited cases
T 0641/00

Order

For these reasons it is decided that:

The decision under appeal is set aside.

The case is remitted to the department of first instance with the order to grant a patent on the basis of the following documents:

Claims 1 to 14 of the main request filed during the oral proceedings before the Board.

Description pages 4 and 5 filed with the grounds of appeal dated 30 May 2011.

Description pages 1 to 3 and 6 to 17 as published.

Figures 1 to 3 as published.