Patent decision
- BL number
- O/710/19
- Concerning rights in
- GB1416583.1
- Hearing Officer
- Mrs S E Chalmers
- Decision date
- 21 November 2019
- Person(s) or Company(s) involved
- Intuit Inc
- Provisions discussed
- Patents Act 1977 Section 1(2)
- Keywords
- Excluded fields (refused)
- Related Decisions
- None
Summary
The application provides a method for extracting data from an electronic document, such as an invoice, received with a message from an electronic address of the sender by iteratively selecting a map from a subset of maps, each of which is associated with the electronic address of the sender and includes data field definitions; determining whether the location data of document elements and data fields of the selected map identify the same location; if the locations are the same, the value of data fields of the selected map are extracted from document elements, and if the locations are not the same, a new map from the subset is selected; calculations are performed on the values of data fields and the results stored in an XML file on a data store.
The Hearing Officer applied the four-step approach set out in Aerotel/Macrossan in the light of the judgments in Symbian, AT&T and HTC amongst others and found that the invention was excluded as a method of doing business and program for a computer as such. The application was refused.
Full decision O/710/19 283Kb