Not sure how many of you are in the FOSS.IN mailing list. Hence forwarding for the interested as I see some discussions on the meeting happening here.

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Venkatesh Hariharan venkyh@gmail.com Date: Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 4:04 PM Subject: [foss.in] Software Patents Meeting in Bangalore To: foss-in@yahoogroups.com

The Indian Patent Office is organizing a Stakeholders Meeting on Draft Patent Manual in Bangalore. The exact date has not been specified. However, 27th August 2008 has been mentioned as the most likely date. The FOSS community believes that copyrights are good enough to protect software and that software patents prevent independent innovation. For a short article on this, read,

PATENTS ARE NOT NECESSARY FOR INNOVATION http://www.financialexpress.com/news/Patents-are-not-necessary-for-innovation/347034/0http://www.financialexpress.com/news/Patents-are-not-necessary-for-innovation/347034/0

When we were battling the Patent Amendment Act 2005, I had requested Lawrence Liang of the Alternative Law Forumhttp://www.osindia.blogspot.com/www.altlawforum.orgto put together a note on why software patents are harmfulhttp://www.sarai.net/research/knowledge-culture/critical-public-legal-resources/whysoftwarepatentsareharmful.pdf. Virtually overnight, Liang and his team at Alternative Law Forum put together a position paper on software patents and their impact on the Indian industry. This is a highly recommended read for those interested in this issue.

http://www.sarai.net/research/knowledge-culture/critical-public-legal-resour...

Those interested in reading the Full text of Section 3(k) relating to software patents can check: http://osindia.blogspot.com/2008/08/full-text-of-section-3k-relating-to.html

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

Red Hat's comments on the Manual is at: http://ipindia.nic.in/ipr/patent/Patent_Manual_Feedback/REDHAT_INDIA_PVT._LT...

Let us work together and defeat this menace.

Venky

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