> On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 1:10 pm, Aditya Godbole wrote: > > Hetal Rach wrote: > > > The following news item may be of interest to PLUG. > > > http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=86454 > > > > Wow, I didn't know that our beaurocrats had some brains as well :) > Why do you say that ?? The article is only about *the likelyhood * of the > Patents Ordinance being reversed and that too only for what they call > "software-related inventions". This just includes software in embedded > devices and such. The legality of software patents for any other kind of > software is still very much in place. No its not.... Indian patent system bars patenting algorithms or the instructions or mathematical formulae explicitly. The ordiance however added an ambiguity, to this otherwise clear law, that the software combined with a hardware and/or a industrial function can be patented. This brings in lot of algorithms and software to the gray area, major parts being mobile phone software which is otherwise just software (eg. JPEG decoder library in a mobile).This ordiance is likely to be reversed and India will be software patents free again.
Ofcourse this was my interpretation, am i wrong??? -- BAIN http://abhijit.adotout.net -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/mailing-list/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
