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Strategy Meeting on Global Copyright Policy and Advocacy
by Prasad Krishna published Dec 13, 2015 last modified Jan 31, 2016 10:00 AM — filed under:
Sunil Abraham and Pranesh Prakash participated in the meeting held on December 14, 2015 at National Law School in Delhi.
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IP Meetup #01: Prof. Biswajit Dhar on 'Intellectual Property issues: The Way Forward post Nairobi WTO Ministerial'
by Anubha Sinha published Feb 04, 2016 last modified Feb 04, 2016 01:25 PM — filed under: , , ,
Prof. Biswajit Dhar will deliver a short talk on what the WTO Nairobi Ministerial means for intellectual property issues, and the way forward, on Sunday, February 7, 2016 at the Centre for Internet & Society's Delhi office, at 4 p.m.
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Blog Entry Odia Wikipedia progress from July to December, 2015
by Rahmanuddin Shaikh published Jan 01, 2016 last modified Feb 05, 2016 02:45 AM — filed under: , , ,
Odia Wikipedia, one of the very active Wikipedias in Indian languages has been showing a negative rate of growth for the last 6 months. We will try to analyse, what has been happening and how can that be improved.
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Blog Entry Report of Konkani Wikipedia's progress (July-December 2015)
by Rahmanuddin Shaikh published Jan 01, 2016 last modified Feb 05, 2016 02:49 AM — filed under: , , ,
Konkani language is one of the 22 languages recognized by Indian union in 8th schedule. As per the 2007 census there are about 7.4 million Konkani speakers.[1] Konkani language has its own Wikipedia created on 15th June 2015. This blog post will try to put out Konkani Wikipedia's growth from a perspective based on Wikimedia stats.
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Guidelines for Examination of Computer Related Inventions (CRIs)
by Prasad Krishna published Feb 05, 2016 — filed under:
Anubha Sinha attended this meeting organized by the Office of The Controller General, Patents, Designs & Trade Marks in Mumbai on January 12, 2016
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Now trending: Regional Indian language social media networks
by Prasad Krishna published Feb 15, 2016 — filed under: ,
How many languages did you speak today? Chances are there was a lot of English at work and at home, but at least a sprinkling of Hindi (or Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Tamil or Kannada) when you were chatting, gossiping or joking with friends and family.
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Blog Entry MHRD IPR Chair Series: Information Received from University of Madras
by Karan Tripathi published Feb 19, 2016 — filed under:
This post provides a factual description about the operation of Ministry of Human Resource Development IPR Chair’s Intellectual Property Education, Research and Public Outreach (IPERPO) scheme in University of Madras. The author has analysed all the data received under various heads such as income, grants from MHRD, planned and non planned expenditure, nature and frequency of programmes organised and the allocation of funds for the same. Throughout the course of observation and presentation of the analysed data, the author seeks to trace the presence of unjustified underutilisation of funds by the aforementioned university as provided by the MHRD during the period of 2001-2014.
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Blog Entry MHRD IPR Chair Series: Information Received from Cochin University of Science and Technology
by Karan Tripathi published Feb 21, 2016 — filed under:
This post provides a factual description about the operation of Ministry of Human Resource Development IPR Chair’s Intellectual Property Education, Research and Public Outreach (IPERPO) scheme in Cochin University of Science and Technology.
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Blog Entry The new Guidelines for Computer Related Inventions are a big win for FOSS in India!
by Anubha Sinha published Feb 23, 2016 last modified Feb 24, 2016 06:30 AM — filed under: , , ,
India is one of the few countries which permits patenting of software – a monopolization that has only benefited established corporations and largely throttled innovation in the software industry, worldwide. CIS has consistently advocated against patentablity of software and in a major victory last week, software patenting in India died a little more. This happened via the newly issued Guidelines for the Examination of Computer Related Inventions, which introduces a new test to restrict software patenting – in essence the same legal test that CIS had been proposing since 2010. This post highlights the new test and other noteworthy changes in the Guidelines.
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Blog Entry Standard Essential Patents on Low-Cost Mobile Phones in India: A Case to Strengthen Competition Regulation?
by Nehaa Chaudhari published Feb 25, 2016 last modified Apr 24, 2016 04:42 AM — filed under: , , ,
The realization of the promise of the sub hundred dollar mobile device as a facilitator of access to knowledge is contingent inter alia on its availability in the market place. In turn, the market availability of the sub hundred dollar mobile device is influenced by the existence of an enabling environment for producers to produce, and consumers to consume. From a regulatory perspective, the enabling environment itself is a function of existing laws and policies, and the ‘developmental effects’ of certain laws and policies (Saraswati, 2012).
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