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IPEX 2015: by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 26, 2015 — last modified Oct 25, 2015 03:06 PM — filed under: Intellectual Property Rights, Access to Knowledge
Rohini Lakshané attended IPEX 2015 organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry, APTDC and TDPC on September 25 - 26, 2015 at Hotel Westin in Chennai.
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Open letter from CIS to PM Modi on Intellectual Property Rights issues on his Visit to US: by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 24, 2015 — filed under: Intellectual Property Rights, Access to Knowledge
Centre for Internet and Society, through its Policy Director Mr. Pranesh Prakash and Programme Officer Nehaa Chaudhari has addressed an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the intellectual property right issues concerning his visit to the United State of America in September, 2015.
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Open Letter to PM Modi on Intellectual Property Rights issues on His Visit to the United States of America in September, 2015: by Pranesh Prakash and Nehaa Chaudhari — published Sep 23, 2015 — last modified Sep 25, 2015 06:43 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Intellectual Property Rights, Accessibility, Featured, Homepage
This is an open letter by CIS to the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi in light of his impending visit to the USA. This letter asks the Prime Minister to urge the USA to ratify the Marrakesh Treaty; and asks that India not be a party to TPP negotiations, in light of recent reports on a study encouraging India to join the TPP.
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Comments on the Guidelines for Examination of Computer Related Inventions (CRIs): by Anubha Sinha — published Sep 21, 2015 — last modified Oct 27, 2015 02:46 PM — filed under: Software Patents, Access to Knowledge, Intellectual Property Rights, Indian Patents Act Section 3(k), Patents
Recently, the Indian Patents Office released the Guidelines for Examination of Computer Related Inventions (“2015 Guidelines/ Guidelines”) in an attempt to clarify examination of software related patents in India. This post is a pure analysis of the 2015 Guidelines. The new Guidelines, essentially, narrow the exclusions of secttion 3(k), thereby enlarging the scope of software related applications eligible for a patent grant. More alarmingly, there is low emphasis on the application of the subject matter test, increased ambiguity on the nature of subject matter and an exclusionary list of examples appended to the document. In the following post, CIS highlights these concerns and presents solutions, and also proposes a definition of "computer programme per se". Read on to understand how the new guidelines will potentially lead to an increase in software patenting activity by expanding the scope of patentable subject matter – in negation of the legislative intent of section 3(k) of the Indian Patents Act, 1970.
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National IPR Policy Series: What Have the Sectoral Innovation Councils Been Doing on IPR: by Nehaa Chaudhari — published Aug 13, 2015 — filed under: Intellectual Property Rights, Access to Knowledge
In this post, Nehaa Chaudhari and Varun Baliga delve into the question of what the mandate of the Sectoral Innovation Councils is, what its activities are, and what vision for IPR development in India has it put forth. An RTI Application has been filed by CIS to attain information on these issues.
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MHRD IPR Chair Series: Introduction: by Amulya Purushothama — published Aug 10, 2015 — last modified Sep 03, 2015 03:17 PM — filed under: Intellectual Property Rights, Access to Knowledge
In this blog post, Amulya Purushothama announces our new MHRD IPR Chair Series and charts the sequence of events, starting from the establishment of the MHRD IPR Chairs, to discussions surrounding their purpose and functioning, to concerns surrounding the lack of information about the IPR Chairs, the first round of RTIs CIS had filed in regard to this and the responses received. This series will document and analyze further RTIs filed and responses received in this regard.
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Competition Commission of India chairman's participation in Assocham conference raises conflict of interests: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 06, 2015 — last modified Sep 19, 2015 03:33 PM — filed under: Intellectual Property Rights, Access to Knowledge
The chairperson of the Competition Commission of India (CCI) and three of the six commission members are participating in a conference organised by Assocham and sponsored by private companies like Ericsson, trade associations and two legal firms specialising in intellectual property cases.
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Assocham event sparks row over conflict of interest by CCI: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 06, 2015 — last modified Sep 19, 2015 04:34 PM — filed under: Intellectual Property Rights, Access to Knowledge
CCI Chairman Ashok Chawla is the key speaker of the conference, organised by industry chamber Assocham with Ericsson being the event partner.
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Comments on the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations: Technical Background Paper Prepared by the WIPO Secretariat: by Nehaa Chaudhari and Amulya Purushothama — published Jun 28, 2015 — last modified Sep 03, 2015 01:47 AM — filed under: Intellectual Property Rights, Access to Knowledge, WIPO
Technical Background Paper prepared by the WIPO Secretariat in relation to the Broadcast Treaty (“Technical Background Paper) provides information on new and emerging technologies and on legal developments in the broadcasting sector. This Technical Background Paper will be discussed at the upcoming 30th session of the SCCR in Geneva on 29th June- 3rd July 2015. The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India had called for comments on the same. This is a submission made by Nehaa Chaudhari and Amulya Purushothama on behalf of the Centre for Internet and Society in this regard.
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National IPR Policy Series : Follow-up RTI to DIPP on the IPR Think Tank: by Nehaa Chaudhari — published Jun 25, 2015 — filed under: Intellectual Property Rights, Access to Knowledge
This RTI was prepared by Varun Baliga and Nehaa Chaudhari as a follow-up, based on the responses of the DIPP to our earlier RTI requests (available at http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/national-ipr-policy-series-rti-requests-by-cis-to-dipp-dipp-responses)
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