Ex parte Catan

Substituting a known bioauthentication device for a password authentication device in an otherwise known consumer electronics device for authorizing credit-account sub-users is an obvious simple substitution of one known element for another yielding predictable results.

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medium — self-reported, not calibrated against a measured error rate

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