[Fsf-friends] Norms for software patents to be finalised
Mahesh T. Pai
paivakil@sancharnet.in
Sat Feb 19 17:41:21 IST 2005
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> Norms for software patents to be finalised
>
> Business Standard
>
>
> The government will finalise detailed guidelines for patent examiners
> over the next one month specifying the conditions under which
> software, polymers and other chemicals can be patented.
>
> "There is a general notion that software can be patented. That is not
> true. You cannot patent software. However software embedded in
> hardware can be patented. All such issues are sought to be clarified
> through these working guidelines for the patent examiners which will
> be put up on the web once they have been finalised," an official told
> Business Standard.
>
> Officials said that the first draft had been prepared and was being
> discussed by the ministry officials with legal experts and industry
> representatives. The guidelines would be finalised in the next one
> month.
>
> The government has already hired 175 patent examiners to deal with the
> load of patent applications. The modernisation of patent offices is
> underway and the new patent office in the capital will be inaugrated
> next month.
>
> Along with patent, work on the other areas of intellectual property
> like Geographical indicators (GI) is also picking up pace. The
> government has granted GI on six products including chanderi sarees
> and Darjeeling tea and is considering proposal to grant GI on 30 other
> items, officials said.
>
> Earlier today Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath said that the
> new modernised product patent regime will help attract more foreign
> direct investment and make India a new destination for contract
> manufacturing and contract research.
>
> "The modernised patent law is expected to provide a secure and
> conducive environment to investments. India could be new destination
> for contract manufacturing and contract research since India has cost
> and capabilities advantages," Nath said in his address to the National
> Seminar on Promotion, Protection and Enforcement of Intellectual
> Property Rights organised by his ministry in association with the
> World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) and Ficci.
>
> The minister, whose speech was read out in his absence, said that the
> government had undertaken an ambitious programme to modernise the
> intellectual property rights administrative infrastructure with a view
> to making the system efficient, IT-enabled and more user-friendly
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