[ILUG-BOM] Software Patents in India

[Venkatesh Hariharan]

Dear Arun,

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Arun Khan <knura at yahoo.com> wrote:

> On Monday 04 Aug 2008, Saurabh Nanda wrote:
> > Anyone planning to go for this event? I'm planning to go, but need to
> > team up with someone knowledgeable to prepare some sort of
> > speech/document.
>
> Agree with above.  I am planning to go as well BUT it would be helpful
> if someone more familiar (e.g. senior members of FSF) with such
> meetings would list out:
>
> 1. what is going to be discussed e.g. draft of the software patent
> manual.  If so a link to it.


The Draft Patent Manual is at
http://ipindia.nic.in/ipr/patent/DraftPatent_Manual_2008.pdf


>
> 2. who are likely to attend the meet.
>

Nagarjuna, Saurabh, myself, Prof. Phatak from IIT Bombay. The delhi event
had around 70 people attending. for more details, see my blog at
www.osindia.blogspot.com



> 3. how can members of the LUG participate/help at this meeting.


This document may be helpful. We had commissioned Lawrence Liang and his
team at Alternative Law Forum to write this and they did a brilliant job of
putting this together virtually overnight.

http://www.sarai.net/research/knowledge-culture/critical-public-legal-resources/whysoftwarepatentsareharmful.pdf

Also, the End Software Patents website (www.endsoftpatents.org) website may
be useful.

Hope this helps?

Venky