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April 2025
Late-filed objection - error in use of discretion at first instance (no)
Inventive step - (yes)
Sufficiency of disclosure - (yes)
Erfinderische Tätigkeit
Priorität
Amendment after notification of Art. 15(1) RPBA communication (yes) -Admitted (yes)
Divisional application - added subject-matter (no)
Divisional application - after amendment
Novelty - (yes)
Inventive step - (yes)
Amendments - added subject-matter (no)
Remittal - (yes)
Einspruchsgründe - mangelhafte Offenbarung (nein)
Zurückverweisung - (ja)
Grounds for opposition - insufficiency of disclosure (yes)
Sufficiency of disclosure - undue burden (yes)
Sufficiency of disclosure - main request (no)
Sufficiency of disclosure - auxiliary requests (no)
Remittal - special reasons for remittal (no)
Vice substantiel de procédure (non)
Activité inventive (oui)
The general idea of protecting a transaction, here a registration, with a password is non-technical and also well known. The idea of using a predefined set of one-time passwords for user authentication also lacks technicality. Even when considered technical, it could not support an inventive step, as it corresponds to the well-known transaction authentication number (TAN) authentication procedure commonly used in online transactions. Using a server to store and verify the TAN numbers and distributing these on cards is a straightforward implementation of this known procedure.
(See point 8 of the reasons)