CII Case Law @ the EPO

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...

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...

This decision concerns a method for image data. The competent chamber considers the object and solution to be technical. Object of the Invention: automatic scanning and identification of unknown characters (of image data) in a first stage, different sets of logic tests are used for the identification of characters; were...