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The Bilski Case - Impact on Software Patents
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Prasad Krishna
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Aug 24, 2010
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last modified
Aug 23, 2011 03:24 AM
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filed under:
Intellectual Property Rights,
Access to Knowledge
The Supreme Court of the United States gave its decision in Bilski v Kappos on 28 June, 2010. In this case the petitioners’ patent application sought protection for a claimed invention that explains how commodities buyers and sellers in the energy market can protect, or hedge, against the risk of price changes. The Court in affirming the rejection by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit also held that the machine- or-transformation test is not necessarily the sole test of patentability. The Court’s ruling of abstract ideas as unpatentable and its admission that patents do not necessarily promote innovation and may sometimes limit competition and stifle innovation have provided a ray of hope. In the light of the developments, the Bilski decision as far as patentability of software is concerned may not be totally insignificant, says Krithika Dutta Narayana.
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The Body in Cyberspace
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
May 13, 2014
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filed under:
Cyborgs,
Cyberspace
Perhaps one of the most interesting histories of the cyberspace has been its relationship with the body. Beginning with the meatspace-cyberspace divide that Gibson introduces, the question of our bodies’ relationship with the internet has been hugely contested. There have been some very polarized debates around this question.
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Knowledge Repository on Internet Access
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The Centre for Internet and Society - Bulletin - January 2011
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by
Prasad Krishna
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last modified
Mar 11, 2011 07:30 AM
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The Centre for Internet and Society - Bulletin - July '11
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jun 27, 2011
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last modified
Aug 19, 2011 06:43 AM
Greetings from the Centre for Internet and Society! In this issue we are pleased to present you the latest updates about our research, upcoming events, and news and media coverage. Subscribe to our newsletter and get monthly updates in your inbox and read it at your convenience. The newsletter issue of June 2011 can be accessed here! Click below to download previous issues.
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The Centre for Internet and Society’s Comments and Recommendations to the: Indian Privacy Code, 2018
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Shweta Mohandas, Elonnai Hickok, Amber Sinha and Shruti Trikanand
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published
Jul 20, 2018
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filed under:
Aadhaar,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
The debate surrounding privacy has in recent times gained momentum due to the Aadhaar judgement and the growing concerns around the use of personal data by corporations and governments.
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Blog
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The city of Bhubaneswar is going Open
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by
Sailesh Patnaik
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published
Mar 07, 2019
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filed under:
Open Access,
Access to Knowledge
Bhubaneswar supporting the concept of Openness movement has joined as one of the ambassadors of the movement in the world by giving citizens the right to access the content online produced by the government and make use of the work.
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The Coming Telecom Monopoly
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by
Shyam Ponappa
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published
May 24, 2012
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filed under:
Telecom
The 2G judgment and Trai spectrum pricing recommendations have led to a policy that makes sense for only one survivor.
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The Creation of a Network for the Global South - A Literature Review
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by
Tanvi Mani
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published
Jan 13, 2016
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last modified
Feb 04, 2016 01:13 PM
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filed under:
Internet Governance
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Blog
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The Curious Incident of the People at the Mall
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Nishant Shah
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Dec 14, 2008 12:13 PM
The first flash mob in India, in 2003, though short-lived and quickly declared illegal, brought to fore the idea that technology is constructing new sites of defining public participation and citizenship rights, forcing the State to recognise them as political collectives. As India emerges as an ICT enabled emerging economy, new questions of citizenship, participatory politics, social networking, citizenship, and governance are being posed. In the telling of the story of the flash-mob, doing a historical review of technology and access, and doing a symptomatic reading of the subsequent events that followed the ban, this paper evaluates the different ways in which the techno-narratives of an ‘India Shining’ campaign of prosperity and economic growth, are accompanied by various spaces of political contestation, mobilisation and engagement that determine the new public spheres of exclusion, marked by the aesthetics of cyberspatial matrices and technology enabled conditions of governance.
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Nishant Shah
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The Curious Incidents on Matrimonial Websites in India
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by
Abhimanyu Roy
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published
Aug 30, 2016
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last modified
Aug 30, 2016 10:52 AM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
Internet Studies,
RAW Blog
This essay by Abhimanyu Roy is part of the 'Studying Internet in India' series. The author explores how the curious interplays between the arranged marriage market in India the rise of matrimonial sites such as Jeevansathi.com and Shaadi.com. The gravity of the impact that such web-based services have on the lives of users is substantially greater than most other everyday web-enabled transactions, such as an Uber ride or a Foodpanda order. From outright fraud to online harassment, newspaper back pages are filled with nightmare stories that begin on a matrimonial website. So much so that the Indian government has set up a panel to regulate matrimonial sites. The essay analyses the role of matrimonial websites in modern day India, and the challenges this awkward amalgamation of the internet and love gives rise to.
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