European Patent Office

T 0737/14 (Authorisation system / SECOREN) of 09.07.2019

European Case Law Identifier
ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T073714.20190709
Date of decision
9 July 2019
Case number
T 0737/14
Petition for review of
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Application number
08709562.6
IPC class
G06Q 20/00
Language of proceedings
English
Distribution
No distribution (D)
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Abstracts for this decision
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Application title
AUTHORISATION SYSTEM
Applicant name
Secoren Limited
Opponent name
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Board
3.5.01
Headnote
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Relevant legal provisions
European Patent Convention Art 56
Keywords
Inventive step - authorisation of the access terminal rather than the user
Inventive step - (no
Inventive step - part of the business scenario)
Catchword
The proper application of the COMVIK approach requires a thorough analysis of the business constraints when formulating the problem to be solved before investigating what the skilled person would have done to solve it. The failure to reflect all aspects of the business method in the problem to be solved led the examining division to argue unconvincingly that the inconvenient distinguishing feature of authorising the access terminal was an alternative whose choice was governed by unspecified business constraints (see reasons 4.2).
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Order

For these reasons it is decided that:

The appeal is dismissed.