The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for
publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex Parte SHINAKO MATSUYAMA, YOSHIHITO ISHIBASHI,
ICHIRO FUTAMURA, MASASHI KON, and HIDEAKI WATANABE
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Appeal No. 2006-2189
Application No. 09/843,403
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ON BRIEF
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Before KRASS, RUGGIERO, and BLANKENSHIP, Administrative Patent Judges.
KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of claims 1, 2, 4-6, 8-15, 17, 18,
and 20-25.
The invention is directed to an access control system for use in a data transfer system
which transfers data by means of public-key cryptosystem based on a public key certificate
issued to an authentication object by a public key issuer authority.
Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. An access control system for use in a data transfer system which transfers data by
means of public-key cryptosystem based on a public key certificate issued to an
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