[Fsf-friends] Update on Amendments to Patents Act

[Ramanraj K]

  http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=85335

<quote>
Cyber expert and Supreme Court advocate Pawan Duggal pointed out that in 
the US, software itself is patentable.

So are business process methods embedded in hardware. “Not allowing 
software and software embedded with hardware will cut significantly 
India’s share in the patent pie,” he said.
</quote>

If software is patentable in the US, it merely means that the US is 
clearly violating TRIPS and India should complain to the WTO against the 
illegitimate and inane practice.

So far as the other argument goes, it is as bad as saying not enough 
people are suffering from cancer, depriving hospitals, pharmaceuticals 
and graveyards from revenue.