Yes, software is not patentable in India. That is precisely why the trend of software claims being applied for and granted patents in India is a disturbing trend. Although the applicant may not explicitly claim that it is software, many patent claims which are essentially software are couched in confusing language, or merely attached to hardware (which, by itself is not innovative). Alternately, software is patented by embedding it in hardware (which has no utility other than executing the software) and by claiming patent for the combination of the two. We are therefore, working to bust this trend by filing oppositions - pre-grant or post-grant - to these patents.
Krithika On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar <sudhanwa....@gmail.com>wrote: > Software patents are not allowed in India. No point in wasting energy > related to software patents. > > There could be some interesting case about the patents in the products > Micosoft is selling in India. What will be the validity of such > patents within the products. > > Legal experts, please comment. > > -Sudhanwa > > > > > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Krithika <krithika...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is filing a pre-grant > opposition > > to a software patent application by Microsoft. We need people to help us > > analyse the technical claims of the application and possibly those of > > previously granted patents/previously filed applications where the > invention > > is similar to the one in the application we wish to oppose. > > > > Interested persons may write to me at the earliest at > krithika...@gmail.com. > > > > Regards > > Krithika > > > > The Centre for Internet and Society > > Bangalore > > _______________________________________________ > > Ilugd mailing list > > Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org > > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > > > > > > -- > > ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! > www.projects4students.com > _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
