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The new Guidelines for Computer Related Inventions are a big win for FOSS in India!
- February 23, 2016
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.
Read more →MHRD IPR Chair Series: Information Received from IIT, Bombay
- February 22, 2016
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 IIT Bombay.
Read more →MHRD IPR Chair Series: Information Received from IIT, Delhi
- February 21, 2016
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 IIT Delhi.
Read more →MHRD IPR Chair Series: Information Received from Cochin University of Science and Technology
- February 21, 2016
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.
Read more →MHRD IPR Chair Series: Information Received from University of Madras
- February 19, 2016
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.
Read more →Report of Konkani Wikipedia's progress (July-December 2015)
- February 05, 2016
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.
Read more →Odia Wikipedia progress from July to December, 2015
- February 05, 2016
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.
Read more →Leading Up To The GCIP: A Chat With Jayashree Watal
- January 31, 2016
The fifth discussion in our pre-GCIP discussion series is with Jayashree Watal.
Read more →Leading Up To The GCIP: A Chat With Shamnad Basheer
- January 31, 2016
The next discussion in our pre-GCIP discussion series is with Prof. Shamnad Basheer.
Read more →Leading Up To The GCIP: A Chat With Susan K. Sell
- January 31, 2016
After Mr. Zakir Thomas and Dr. Michael Geist, our third discussion is with Prof. Susan K. Sell.
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