Appeal No. 2003-1051
Application No. 09/247,134
paper mail/bills. Even the abstract states that the system
“replaces the preparation and mailing of paper statements and
invoices from a biller with electronic delivery.”
Manduley does convert paper mail into electronic mail,
integrating paper handling machines with electronic networks, but
Manduley does not obtain any data from bills or mail in paper
format and store that data in an electronic format, as claimed.
Instead, Manduley scans the paper mail and sends a complete copy
of the document electronically. It does not extract data from
the document and store that data in electronic form, as claimed,
but only sends the paper mail electronically as a graphic file.
In a way, it can be said that the scanning of the paper mail in
Manduley and sending the electronic copy of the document is a
kind of obtaining of “data,” but this is not the kind of data
meant by the instant disclosed and claimed invention. Rather, in
the instant claimed invention, the paper bill is scanned but the
scanning is “to enter specific data contained in the paper bill
into the database” if there is an existing template for the paper
bill and, if there is no template, a template is created to allow
the specific data contained in the paper bill “in specific
locations” (i.e., not the entire paper bill, as scanned and
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