On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 2:52 PM, vikas veshishth vikas.v.i...@gmail.comwrote:
I didnt understand.Why is it wrong to have software patents.Or are you
saying that the concept of Patent itself is wrong ??
--vikas
We don't go into the broader question of whether patent itself is wrong.
All we
2010/8/10 Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) r...@linux-delhi.org:
On Tuesday 10 Aug 2010, Ankit Chaturvedi wrote:
I'm not a lawyer, though i have been on the wrong side of software
patents many times.
It's not completely true that software patents are not allowed in
india. The simple answer is, it
There have been instances where a patent has been applied for a
specific algorithm by using hardware acceleration provided by x86
cpus. Common example is accelerating video encoding by using the
sse/mmx/3dnow extended instruction set, which differs slightly between
cpu models and brands. This ties
Dear Krithika,
This is a welcome initiative by CIS. The kind of sneaky language that
is being used to file software patents is against the will of the
Indian parliament and needs to be defeated.
Venky
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Krithika krithika...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, software is not
I didnt understand.Why is it wrong to have software patents.Or are you
saying that the concept of Patent itself is wrong ??
--vikas
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Venkatesh Hariharan ven...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Krithika,
This is a welcome initiative by CIS. The kind of sneaky language that
vikas veshishth said on Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 02:52:25PM +0530,:
I didnt understand.Why is it wrong to have software patents.Or are
you saying that the concept of Patent itself is wrong ??
Thanks for asking.
If you can, please attend this event:-
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
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, I am not a lawyer, but some software patents have been
granted by the patent office, while many others have been applied for.
Based on the status, one will have to file a pre-grant or post-grant
opposition against these patents.
Venky
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On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Sudhanwa
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Venkatesh Hariharan ven...@gmail.com wrote:
Sudhanwa, I am not a lawyer, but some software patents have been
granted by the patent office, while many others have been applied for.
Based on the status, one will have to file a pre-grant or post-grant
opposition
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar
sudhanwa@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Venkatesh Hariharan ven...@gmail.com wrote:
Sudhanwa, I am not a lawyer, but some software patents have been
granted by the patent office, while many others have been applied for.
Hi all,
I'm not a lawyer, though i have been on the wrong side of software
patents many times.
It's not completely true that software patents are not allowed in
india. The simple answer is, it depends on the technology. Mobile,
multimedia codecs, et al are frought with patent issues that can be
On Tuesday 10 Aug 2010, Ankit Chaturvedi wrote:
I'm not a lawyer, though i have been on the wrong side of software
patents many times.
It's not completely true that software patents are not allowed in
india. The simple answer is, it depends on the technology. Mobile,
multimedia codecs, et
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
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