Re: [ilugd] Software Patent Busting at CIS

2010-08-13 Thread Krithika
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

Re: [ilugd] Software Patent Busting at CIS

2010-08-13 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
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

Re: [ilugd] Software Patent Busting at CIS

2010-08-13 Thread Ankit Chaturvedi
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

Re: [ilugd] Software Patent Busting at CIS

2010-08-11 Thread Venkatesh Hariharan
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

Re: [ilugd] Software Patent Busting at CIS

2010-08-11 Thread vikas veshishth
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

Re: [ilugd] Software Patent Busting at CIS

2010-08-11 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
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:-

Re: [ilugd] Software Patent Busting at CIS

2010-08-10 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
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.

Re: [ilugd] Software Patent Busting at CIS

2010-08-10 Thread Venkatesh Hariharan
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 = On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Sudhanwa

Re: [ilugd] Software Patent Busting at CIS

2010-08-10 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
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

Re: [ilugd] Software Patent Busting at CIS

2010-08-10 Thread Venkatesh Hariharan
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.

Re: [ilugd] Software Patent Busting at CIS

2010-08-10 Thread Ankit Chaturvedi
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

Re: [ilugd] Software Patent Busting at CIS

2010-08-10 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
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

Re: [ilugd] Software Patent Busting at CIS

2010-08-10 Thread Krithika
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