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Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha [2004] UKIntelP o36504 (7 December 2004)
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Patent decision
- BL number
- O/365/04
- Concerning rights in
- GB0114842.8
- Hearing Officer
- Mr A Bartlett
- Decision date
- 7 December 2004
- Person(s) or Company(s) involved
- Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Provisions discussed
- PA.1977 section 1(2)(c)
- Keywords
- Excluded fields (refused)
- Related Decisions
- None
Summary
The invention relates to the automatic classification of documents. In the embodiment described this is the assessment of cost estimates / tender documents for compliance with the requirements of a customer, saving time and effort over a manual assessment. Although embodied as a system of computer hardware, it was held that this hardware configuration was dictated by the requirements of the business process which it operated, following the earlier Office decision in eBay's Application, BL O/314/04.
Held that the implementation did not involve any technical contribution and that therefore the application was excluded from patentability as a method of doing business and as a program for a computer as such.