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Standard Essential Patents on Low-Cost Mobile Phones in India: A Case to Strengthen Competition Regulation?
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by
Nehaa Chaudhari
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published
Feb 25, 2016
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last modified
Apr 24, 2016 04:42 AM
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filed under:
Patents,
Competition Law,
Competition,
Access to Knowledge
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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The Game of IPR: Insights from the 6th Global Intellectual Property Convention in Hyderabad
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by
Samantha Cassar
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published
Jan 31, 2014
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last modified
Jan 31, 2014 09:56 AM
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filed under:
Patents,
Intellectual Property Rights,
Copyright,
Access to Knowledge
IP practitioners and IP creators were among the 1700 participants to gather at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre earlier this month. Here, CIS had the opportunity of listening in on perspectives around the “Optimization of economic value of innovation & IPR in the global market” while attending numerous talks and sessions that were held over the course of the convention’s three days.
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The new Guidelines for Computer Related Inventions are a big win for FOSS in India!
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by
Anubha Sinha
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published
Feb 23, 2016
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last modified
Feb 24, 2016 06:30 AM
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filed under:
Featured,
Patents,
Access to Knowledge,
Software Patents
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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Tweak the Make in India Recipe
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by
Rohini Lakshané
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published
Jun 04, 2016
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filed under:
Patents,
Access to Knowledge
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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Workshop on Innovation, Economic Development and IP in India and China
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by
Anubha Sinha and Rohini Lakshané
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published
Sep 28, 2016
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last modified
Oct 09, 2016 04:41 AM
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filed under:
Peer Production,
Access to Knowledge,
Intellectual Property Rights,
Open Hardware,
Open Innovation,
Mobile Apps,
Patents
Anubha Sinha and Rohini Lakshané presented at the SMU-JINDAL-RENMIN Workshop on “Innovation, Economic Development, and IP in India and China,” co-organised by the Singapore Management University, O.P. Jindal Global University, and Renmin University of China, in Delhi during September 27-28, 2016. Amitabh Kant, Chief Executive Officer, NITI Aayog, delivered the inaugural address at the workshop.
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