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).

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