Patent decision

BL number

O/361/12

Concerning rights in

GB 1202963.3

Hearing Officer

Mrs S E Chalmers

Decision date

26 September 2012

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Cummins-Allison Corp

Provisions discussed

PA 1977, Section 1(2)(c)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application is concerned with a system and method for processing documents such as currency notes for deposit in a bank. The documents are scanned, the images stored in a memory and the deposit amount sent via a communications link to a display device at the bank. The system includes a document processing device to count the notes and calculate the deposit amount which is compared with the deposit amount received via the communication link using a blind balancing operation. The received deposit amount will only be displayed if the amounts match.

The Hearing Officer applied the four part test set out in the Aerotel/Macrossan judgment, found the invention to be excluded as a computer program and as a method of doing business as such, and refused the application. She did not consider the invention provided a technical contribution of the type found in Symbian or Halliburton.

Full decision O/361/12 81Kb