Designing a wiring path/YAZAKI – T 1371/16 – 17 September 2021
In this decision the subject matter is a simulation for designing a wiring path. Claim 1 does not specify any further use of an output wiring path data of the simulation, further properties or specific data format that could limit the possible uses of the data. Therefore, the output data...
Masking a private key/CERTICOM – T 0556/ 14 – 28 July 2016
In this decision in a patent a method of masking a privat key is claimed. It is considered not to be a mathematical method as such, because storing on a smartcard (hardware) was claimed. The claimed method achieves some protection against power analysis attacks and thus have a technical effect...
Koprozessor zur modularen Inversion/GIESECKE & DEVRIENT – T 2318/08 – 23. Mai 2012
This decision provides a known cryptographic coprocessor and a known Euclidean method. However, it is not known how to use free bit sections in the coprocessor to speed up the method. Therefore, the clever use of a known coprocessor to speed up the implementation of an equally known method solves...
Classification method/COMPTEL – T 1784/06 – 21 September 2012
In this decision, the appellant criticises the COMVIK approach on several points. The Board disagrees. With regard to inventive step, according to the Board, there is a lack of “technical purpose” according to T1227/05. Information from the author: “technical purpose” is no longer sufficient according to decision G1/19 for non-technical...