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Read how our prior art submissions successfully challenged patents that had already sailed through examination in other global jurisdictions.

Bytedance / Image Editing

Imminent Grant Halted

All claims obvious
Application: EP21860511
Patents Granted: US, Japan
Prior Art Missed By: WIPO, USPTO, JPO

The examiner had concluded the claims were novel and inventive and was preparing to grant. Our prior art submission stopped the grant. The examiner stated: "The primary examiner cannot issue a R. 71(3) EPC communication in view of D4 introduced by the third party."

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Mitsubishi / Industrial Robotics

Novelty Destroyed

Anticipated by single doc
Application: EP21853723
Patents Granted: Japan
Prior Art Missed By: WIPO, USPTO, JPO

A single document we found destroys novelty of all claims across both the main and auxiliary request. The examiner confirmed: "D6 indeed discloses all the claimed features of the independent claims."

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China Telecom / 5G Networks

Inventive Step Rejected

All claims lack inventive step
Application: EP21939047
Patents Granted: US, Japan, China
Prior Art Missed By: WIPO, USPTO, JPO, CNIPA

Our two-document combination knocked out all independent and dependent claims on inventive step. The examiner concluded: "The combination of D10 with this teaching from D11 would therefore be obvious to the skilled person."

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US20210345... (Smith et al.)
1(a). A transmitting unit configured to send encrypted data packets...
Para [0045]: "The base station includes a transmitting unit that transmits the encrypted packets over the air interface..."

Fig. 3 (Item 104)
1(b). ...where the encryption key is dynamically rotated based on latency.
Para [0062]: "...the system rotates the key dynamically in response to measured network latency metrics."

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