Patent decision
- BL number
- O/308/16
- Concerning rights in
- GB1317575.7
- Hearing Officer
- Mr S Brown
- Decision date
- 29 June 2016
- Person(s) or Company(s) involved
- Technology Business Management Limited
- Provisions discussed
- PA 1977 Section 1(1)(b)
- Keywords
- Inventive step
- Related Decisions
- None
Summary
The application addresses the problem of achieving secure identity authentication over a cellular radio network. The application seeks to solve this problem by using a SMS message to send a request to a user module then using a USSD channel to return an encrypted response to the request. The closest state of the art was identified as a previous application by the same applicants that disclosed using a SMS message to send a request to a user module then using a UDDI network to return the encrypted response. Applying the Windsurfing/Pozzoli test the claims were found to lack an inventive step. The application was refused under section 18(3).
Full decision O/308/16 72Kb