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Patent Office Meeting in Mumbai on 7th August: Please attend if you can
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| Interestingly, Infosys and TCS are in favor of software patents. Those who
| followed the OOXML fight on this blog would know that both these
| organizations had voted in favor of Microsoft's OOXML proposal. If there are
| articulate FOSS developers in the Mumbai LUG, I would request them to be
| present at the 7th August 2008 meeting and explain to the group why software
| patents are against the interest of the developer community.
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http://osindia.blogspot.com/2008/07/patent-office-meeting-in-mumbai-on-7th.html
SpicyIP Tidbits: A Soft War for Software Patents
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| Business aptly seems to drive law; finally, the Murthys and Ramadorais of
| Bengalooru have spoken up. According to an article in the Financial Express,
| IT majors Infosys and TCS have reacted strongly to a call made by the open
| source community, particularly Red Hat India and All India Peoples Sciences
| Network, for dropping a clause in the draft patent examination manual which
| according to the latter gives a backdoor entry for software patents.
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http://spicyipindia.blogspot.com/2008/07/spicyip-tidbits-soft-war-for-software.html
Recent:
Stakeholders Meeting on the Draft Patent Manual
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| Yesterday, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry hosted a "Stakeholders
| Meeting on the Draft Patent Manual." Around 70 people attended this meeting.
| The audience was a mix of lawyers, industry associations like CII, FICCI etc,
| civil society organizations and industry.
|
| [...]
|
| At this point, the discussion became pretty heated and the chair of the
| meeting decided to call for a separate meeting on software patents. I'll keep
| you updated.
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http://osindia.blogspot.com/2008/07/stakeholders-meeting-on-draft-patent.html
Infy, TCS lock horns with Red Hat over IT patent
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| IT majors like Infosys Technologies Ltd and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
| are opposing the open-source community’s demand that the government drop a
| clause in the draft patent examination manual as it gives scope for software
| patenting under the Indian Patent Act of 2003.
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| The IT majors made their opposition clear at a meeting in Delhi, called by
| the government’s department of industrial policy & promotion on Thursday. The
| dispute has been sparked by the draft manual that will guide patent examiners
| in their interpretation of the Indian Patent (Amendment) Act for software.
| Section 3(K) of the Act clearly says: “A mathematical or business method or a
| computer programme per se or algorithms are not patentable.”
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http://www.financialexpress.com/news/Infy-TCS-lock-horns-with-Red-Hat-over-IT-patent/340200/
The ghost of software patents is back!
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| Life is never easy for an open source evangelist. The OOXML drama came to a
| close on 2nd April 2008 and we were on to our next issue -- software patents.
| The Draft Patent Manual might end up bringing software patents through the
| back door. this would be surprising because the Indian parliament explicitly
| rejected software patents in the Patent Amendment Act 2005. In this blog, I
| am including extracts from a letter that I sent to the Patent Office on 11th
| April 2008. The deadline for comments was 15th April 2008.
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http://osindia.blogspot.com/2008/05/ghost-of-software-patents-is-back.html
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