On Friday 13 August 2010 12:22 PM, jtd wrote: > Besides the challenge to patents on grounds of obviousness, prior art > etc., we should start pressurising the patent office on their > interpretation of software patentability.
While we have quite obviously seen many pure software patents being granted wrongly, some patent lawyers I have spoken with believe that the Indian Patent Office tends to err on the side of caution (in case of software, and generally as well). This is borne out to an extent in India having a very low ratio between granted patents to applications.[1] [1] http://www.wipo.int/ipstats/en/statistics/patents/ -- Pranesh Prakash Programme Manager Centre for Internet and Society W: http://cis-india.org | T: +91 80 40926283
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