[ILUG-BOM] report on the stake holders meeting

[jtd]

On Friday 08 Aug 2008 16:53, Nagarjuna G. wrote:
> I attended the stake holders meeting in Mumbai at the Patent's
> office. The room was full of people, more than 80 people attended
> the meet.  Of which about 30 were interested in the software issue.
>  the rest of them are interested mostly in bioinformatics, chemical
> processes etc.
>
> What gave me solace is that this is not an attempt to modify the
> law.  So, status quo exists.  software patents per se are not
> possible in India. 

Inspite of this fact, there seem to be a large number of patents for 
software in conjunction with general purpose hardware.

ref my earlier mails to the list.

How should we tackle this?

IMO, besides the objections via email, comapies should pick on a 
suitable patent and get it reversed.

> However.  what the office is doing is it 
> prepared a draft of a Manual helping the inventors in how to apply
> for a patent.  In that manual, there is an attempt to suggest how
> to exploit the 'per se' and apply for software patents in
> combination with hardware.
>
> Due to several questions on this issue raised by several of us, and
> also due to written feedback submitted by quite a few others in
> Delhi meet, they are organizing a stake holders meeting in
> Bangalore later (in the coming three to four months period) where
> they are going to settle all the doubts and listen all the points
> of view.
>
> The date of bangalore meeting is not yet announced.  Meanwhile,
> chennai and kolkatta meetings are still going to be held before the
> bangalore meeting. It is a good idea to send our supporters to both
> these places, so that the officers must see that there is
> sufficient opposition to this manipulation.
>
> Nagarjuna

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Rgds
JTD