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