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You are here: BAILII >> Databases >> United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office Decisions >> Cummins-Allison Corp (Patent) [2012] UKIntelP o36112 (26 September 2012) URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKIntelP/2012/o36112.html Cite as: [2012] UKIntelP o36112 |
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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.
