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                                              Prasad Krishna
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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                                              Oct 13, 2014
                                            
                                            
                                        
                                        
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The Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team participated in a Barcamp at SAP Labs, Bangalore on October 12, 2014. Dr. U.B.Pavanaja and Rahmanuddin Shaik participated in the event.
                                      
                                          
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                                      Guidelines for Examination of Computer Related Inventions: Mapping the Stakeholders' Response
                                     
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                                              Nehaa Chaudhari
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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                                              Oct 29, 2014
                                            
                                            
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The procedure and tests surrounding software patenting in India have remained ambiguous since the Parliament introduced the term “per se” through the Patent (Amendment) Act, 2002.  In 2013, the Indian Patent Office released Draft Guidelines for the Examination of Computer Related Inventions, in an effort to clarify some of the ambiguity. Through this post, CIS intern, Shashank Singh, analyses the various responses by the stakeholders to these Guidelines and highlights the various issues put forth in the responses. 
                                      
                                          
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                                      Wiki Media Foundation keen on developing Urdu Wikipedia
                                    
 
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The Wikipedia India Community Consultation 2014 was organized by the Wiki Media Foundation (WMF) and Wikipedia India Chapter in collaboration with Centre for Internet Society (CIS A2K) Bangalore on The venue was Movenpick Hotel and scheduled for October 4th and 5th here.
                                      
                                          
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                                      Ubiquity, Mobility, Globality: Charting Directions in Mobile Phone Studies
                                    
 
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Nehaa Chaudhari made a presentation at the Ubiquity, Mobility, Globality : Charting Directions in Mobile Phone Studies Conference. This was organized by the Center for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia on November 6 and 7, 2014. Nehaa was on a panel titled Mobile and its Effects on Global Markets and made a presentation on Pervasive Technologies: Access to Knowledge in the Workplace.
                                      
                                          
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                                      Methodology: Patent Landscaping in the Indian Mobile Device Market
                                     
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                                               Rohini Lakshané 
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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Through the patent landscaping exercise, we have identified patents pertaining to Internet-enabled mobile devices sold in India for USD 100 or less. The findings from this exercise are being used to develop legal strategies to reduce patent-based impediments to the widespread and rapid proliferation of this beneficial technology throughout India. The research methodology adopted for the patent landscaping exercise has been delineated here. This document is a work in progress.
                                      
                                          
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                                      MHRD IPR Chairs — Underutilization of Funds and Lack of Information Regarding Expenditures
                                     
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                                              Nehaa Chaudhari
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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                                              Nov 19, 2014
                                            
                                            
                                        
                                        
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Funds granted to the IPR Chairs set up by the Ministry of Human Resources and Development are often left underutilized. Details regarding the expenditures that are incurred by the Chairs are also currently unavailable. CIS intern Amulya Purushothama examines this further. 
                                      
                                          
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                                      Countering US pressures on India’s IP regime
                                    
 
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Anubha Sinha attended a meeting organized by Lawyer's Collective on "Countering US pressures on India’s IP regime" on November 16, 2014. 
                                      
                                          
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                                      Odia Wikisource Sabha 2014
                                    
 
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                                              Prasad Krishna
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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The Odia Wikimedia community, a volunteer community that contributes to Odia Wikipedia and its sister projects, in collaboration with the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), a Bengaluru based non-profit that works in domains like IP reforms, Accessibility, Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K), etc. are celebrating the launch of Odia Wikisource on November 28, 2014 at Jayadev Bhawan, Bhubaneswar. 
                                      
                                          
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                                      29th Session of the WIPO SCCR: CIS Intervention on the Proposed Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations
                                     
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                                              Nehaa Chaudhari
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) made its intervention on the proposed treaty in the ongoing WIPO session on December 9, 2014. 
                                      
                                          
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                                      29th Session of the WIPO SCCR: CIS- 2nd (brief) Intervention on the Broadcast Treaty
                                     
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                                              Nehaa Chaudhari
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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                                              Dec 11, 2014
                                            
                                            
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On Day 3 (December 10, 2014), the SCCR briefly re-convened at the Plenary. The Chair, Martin Moscoso updated the Committee on the discussions and the developments that had taken place over the course of the past two days in the Informals. The Centre for Internet and Society made a brief pointed intervention on one of the documents being discussed in the Informals.
                                      
                                          
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