T 1402/20 (Shared key exchange using proxy/NTT) of 21.09.2022
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2022:T140220.20220921
- Date of decision
- 21 September 2022
- Case number
- T 1402/20
- Online on
- 2 December 2022
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 16737330.7
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- No distribution (D)
- Download
- Decision in English
- 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
- KEY-EXCHANGE METHOD, KEY-EXCHANGE SYSTEM, KEY DEVICE, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND PROGRAM
- Applicant name
- Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
- Opponent name
- -
- Board
- 3.5.05
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 56
- Keywords
- Inventive step - (yes)
- Catchword
- -
- Cited cases
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- Citing cases
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Order
For these reasons it is decided that:
1. The decision under appeal is set aside.
2. The case is remitted to the examining division with the order to grant a patent in the following version.
Claims:
No. 1-8 as submitted with the statement of grounds of appeal
Description:
Pages 1, 2, 5 to 24, 26 to 33, 35 to 48, 51 to 59, 61 to 68 and 70 to 80 as originally filed
Pages 3, 4, 4a, 4b, 25, 34, 60 and 69 filed with the letter of 11 September 2018
Pages 49 and 50 filed with the letter of 1 March 2019
Drawings:
Sheets 1/13 to 13/13 as originally filed