[Fsf-friends] Re: Yet another shameless day in India

[Ankit Malik]

BTW I feel we need some offline protests against it... Enuf of online
protests, strikes anyone?

[Sorry for top posting, but right now on Gmail on a nonstandard
browser which is not showing me the reply which i can quote]


On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 23:33:13 +0530, Sandip Bhattacharya
<sandip@lug-delhi.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 09:44 -0800, Anand Babu wrote:
> > ,----[ Ramanraj K <ramanraj.k@gmail.com> ]
> > | http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/000200503222001.htm
> > | 
> > | <quote>
> > | Lok Sabha passes Patents Bill
> > | ...The Bill provides for product patents in drugs, agri-products and
> > | embedded software...
> > | </quote>
> > `----
> > This is very disappointing. But obviously we are not going to give up.
> > What is our next step?
> > 
> 
> Apart from the disappointing event, I had a related query. How open is
> the patent process in India? Are granted and pending patents available
> for review publicly on the Net like the US PTO? OR do we have to do it
> the desi style (the freedom of information act style) .. where you go to
> the patent office in person, and pay for a copy of the documents.
> 
> - Sandip
> 
> 
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