National Public Meeting on Software Patents
This meeting will feature the following speakers: Nagarjuna G. (Free Software Foundation of India), Prabir Purkayastha (Delhi Science Forum), Prashant Iyengar (Alternative Law Forum), Venkatesh Hariharan (Red Hat) and Sudhir Krishnaswamy (National Law School)
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Oct 04, 2008 from 10:00 AM to 05:00 PM |
| Where | United Theological College, Bangalore |
| Contact Name | Pranesh Prakash |
| Contact Phone | +91 80 4092 6283 |
| Attendees |
1 Renuka Prasad B 2 Chandra Shekar B. H. 3 Venky Hariharan 4 Vinay K. S. 5 Dinesh T. B. 6 Narendra Sisodiya 7 Praveen Raj N. L. 8 Abin Abraham 9 Anja Kovacs 10 Sudhir K. 11 Hans 12 Joseph S. 13 Shishir Jha 14 Anandha Velu 15 Veena S. 16 Mayur Bhandari 17 Vid Ayer 18 Prashant Iyengar 19 Anivar Aravind 20 Edwin 21 Dr. Rahul De 22 Abbas Abhinav 23 Snehashish Ghosh 24 Prateek Kumar Singh 25 Priti Malik 26 Tanya George 27 Ravi S. 28 Anshuman K. 29 Narendra Bhatta H. L. 30 Varun Raj Limaye 31 Swaraj Barooah 32 Arun M. 33 Naveen M. 34 Mani S. 35 Pooja H. 36 Lakshmi K. 37 R. Lakshminarayanan 38 Joseph C. Mathew 39 Abhishek Mohanty 40 Rohit R. Kukreja 41 Vivek Paul 42 Kiran Chandra 43 Justin 44 Sujith 45 Kingsly John 46 Arjun Rajgopal 47 Viswanath Durbha 48 Vikram Vincent 49 Shivasankar Chander 50 Abhishek Krishnan |
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Agenda
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1000–1100 |
Presentation on the principles of patent law and software patents |
Sudhir Krishnaswamy (National Law School) |
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Prabir Purkayastha (Delhi Science Forum) |
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Nagarjuna G. (Free Software Foundation of India) |
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1100–1130 |
Discussion on software patents in the Indian context: Indian Patent Act, and the draft patent manual |
Prashant Iyengar (Alternative Law Forum) |
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Venkatesh Hariharan (Red Hat) |
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1130–1150 |
Tea break |
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1150–1240 |
Discussion on patents and the development sector (freedom of speech, open standards, healthcare, biotech, agro-sector, etc.) |
Sunil Abraham (Centre for Internet and Society) |
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Anivar Aravind (Movingrepublic) |
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Others |
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1240–1300 |
Presentation on the software patents that have been granted so far in India |
Pranesh Prakash (Centre for Internet and Society) |
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1300–1400 |
Lunch break |
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1400–1700 |
Open House |
Joseph Mathew (IT Adviser to the Chief Minister of Kerala) |
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T. Ramakrishna (National Law School) |
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Abhas Abhinav (DeepRoot Linux) |
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Sreekanth S. Rameshaiah (Mahiti Infotech) |
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Vinay Sreenivasa (IT for Change) |
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Any others who wish to speak |
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Documents
- Representation by Free Software Foundation of India
- Representation by Knowledge Commons
- Response by Knowledge Commons
- Response by Alternative Law Forum
- Backgrounder by Alternative Law Forum
- Response by JT D'Souza
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