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                                      'We Need to Proactively Ensure that People Can't File Patents Representative of the Creativity of a FOSS Community'
                                     
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                                               Rohini Lakshané 
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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Rohini Lakshané attended “Open Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Our Digital Culture” in Bangalore on August 13, 2015. Major takeaways from the event are documented in this post.
                                      
                                          
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                                      Comments and Suggestions to the Draft Patent Manual March 2019
                                     
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                                              Achal Prabhala, Feroz Ali, Ramya Sheshadri, Roshan John and Anubha Sinha
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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A coordinated civil society response to the consultation on the Patent Manual. CIS provided comments on patenting of computer related inventions. 
                                      
                                          
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                                      Hacking, Modding & Making
                                    
 
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                                              Prasad Krishna
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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Seeber's electronics laboratory is a room in a unit he shares with his mother. Every available space is taken up with teetering towers of electronic parts, writes Brendan Shanahan for GQ.
                                      
                                          
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                                      Arguments Against the PUPFIP Bill
                                    
 
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                                              Pranesh Prakash
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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The Protection and Utilisation of Public Funded Intellectual Property Bill (PUPFIP Bill) is a new legislation being considered by Parliament, which was introduced in the 2008 winter session of the Rajya Sabha. It is modelled on the American Bayh-Dole Act (University and Small Business Patent Procedures Act) of 1980.  On this page, we explore some of the reasons that the bill is unnecessary, and how it will be harmful if passed.
                                      
                                          
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                                      Tweak the Make in India Recipe
                                     
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                                               Rohini Lakshané 
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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As an erstwhile journalist covering electronics technologies and IT a few years ago, I was privy to a litany of manufacturers' woes and their causes: Tangled tax laws and regulations, red tape, corruption, licence raj, unreliable infrastructure such as power and roads, and lack of skilled labour.
                                      
                                          
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