[Fsf-friends] [Fwd: [ilugd] Revoking/Objecting to Software Patents in Indian Patent Office]

[Anivar Aravind]

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Subject: [ilugd] Revoking/Objecting to Software Patents in Indian 
Patent	Office
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:02:56 +0530
From: Saurabh Nanda <saurabhnanda at gmail.com>
Reply-To: The Linux-Delhi mailing list <ilugd at lists.linux-delhi.org>
To: The Linux-Delhi mailing list <ilugd at lists.linux-delhi.org>, 
GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India <linuxers at mm.glug-bom.org>

http://spicyipindia.blogspot.com/2007/09/spicyip-tidbits_23.html

India, prima facie, does not allow pure software patents or business method
patents. But that doesn't stop companies from trying. The Indian Patent
Office is already being flooded with the patents described as "A web based
system to do XYZ" or "A computer system in conjunction with XY to do Z"

With no one opposing them (and not enough noise about this, like in the case
of pharma patents), there's a high probability that this would get granted.
Does anyone know of a concerted effort to keep this kind of cruft out from
our country? Any pointers?

Nandz.
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