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Responses to the DIPP's Discussion Paper on SEPs and their Availability on FRAND Terms
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Anubha Sinha, Nehaa Chaudhari, and Rohini Lakshané
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Apr 23, 2016
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last modified
Jul 07, 2016 04:24 PM
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DIPP,
Featured,
Access to Knowledge
The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), Government of India, requested comments through its "Discussion Paper on Standard Essential Patents and Their Availability on FRAND Terms" on March 1, 2016. This post is a compilation of various comments submitted in response to it.
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Review Meeting for the Pervasive Technologies Project
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Mar 22, 2017
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Pervasive Technologies
The Centre for Internet & Society in partnership with Beijing Normal University Institute for Internet Policy & Law organized a review meeting of the Pervasive Technologies project in Macau on February 20 - 21, 2017.
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RightsCon 2018
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by
Admin
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Feb 28, 2018
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge
Rohini Lakshané, Anubha Sinha, Vidushi Marda, and Amba Kak will be participating in the seventh event in the RightsCon Summit Series to be held in Toronto from May 16 - 18, 2018 as speakers.
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RightsCon Toronto 2018
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by
Admin
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published
May 12, 2018
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last modified
Jun 07, 2018 02:31 PM
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Access to Knowledge
RightsCon is organizing the 2018 edition of the event at Beanfield Centre at Exhibition Place, Toronto in Canada. A session on Pervasive Technologies project titled "Cheap and chipper: IP in India’s affordable smartphones" is scheduled on May 17, 5.15 p.m. to 6.15 p.m. in the International Trade and the Commons track. (Room #203B, Beanfield Centre).
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Ring Side View : Update on WIPO Negotiations on the Treaty for the Visually Impaired
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by
Rahul Cherian
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Aug 13, 2012
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last modified
Aug 13, 2012 04:34 AM
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filed under:
Copyright,
Accessibility,
Access to Knowledge,
WIPO
As a legal advisor of the World Blind Union and part of the World Blind Union delegation to the 24th meeting of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) that concluded on July 25, 2012 I had a ring side seat to the negotiations that happened between Member States in relation to the Treaty.
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Rise of the bot: all you need to know about the latest threat online
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by
Prasad Krishna
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Jan 05, 2014
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last modified
Jan 31, 2014 07:16 AM
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Social Media,
Wikipedia,
Internet Governance,
Access to Knowledge
In the last week of December, 2013, former union railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal lodged a police complaint in Chandigarh after witnessing “an unusual rise in his online fan following”. The former minister told the police that his Facebook page had received more than 10,000 likes, within a span of 24 hours. While his allegation that the ‘likes’ were “fabricated” may be true, information technology experts believe a bot was at work.
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RTI request to Indian Patents Office for Form 27 (Statement of Working of patents), 2015
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by
Rohini Lakshané
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published
Sep 09, 2017
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last modified
Oct 13, 2017 04:37 AM
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filed under:
Intellectual Property Rights,
Access to Knowledge,
Pervasive Technologies
The Centre for Internet and Society filed this request under the Right to Information Act in 2015 as part of research for the paper: Patent Working Requirements and Complex Products: An Empirical Assessment of India's Form 27 Practice and Compliance (July 2017). We sought Form 27 (also known as Statements of Working) pertaining to randomly selected patents found in our patent landscaping study. These forms were not available on the online public databases, InPASS and IPAIRS, at the time of the filing the RTI request. Research assistance was provided by intern Nayana Dasgupta.
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RTI request to Indian Patents Office for Form 27 (Statement of Working of patents), March 2016
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by
Rohini Lakshané
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published
Sep 09, 2017
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last modified
Oct 13, 2017 04:35 AM
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filed under:
Intellectual Property Rights,
Access to Knowledge,
Pervasive Technologies
The Centre for Internet and Society filed this request under the Right to Information Act in March 2016 as part of research for the paper: Patent Working Requirements and Complex Products: An Empirical Assessment of India's Form 27 Practice and Compliance (July 2017). We sought forms pertaining to 61 of the patents found in our patent landscaping study. These forms were not available on the online public databases, InPASS and IPAIRS, at the time of the filing the RTI request. Research assistance was provided by intern Shreshth Wadhwa.
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RTI Responses - MHRD IP Chairs: Details of Funding & Expenditure
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by
Nehaa Chaudhari
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Jan 31, 2015
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last modified
Feb 02, 2015 01:28 PM
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filed under:
Intellectual Property Rights,
Access to Knowledge
In an earlier blog post titled "MHRD IPR Chairs — Underutilization of Funds and Lack of Information Regarding Expenditures", we discussed the lack of information regarding the expenditure by various MHRD Chairs in the country. We sent out RTI requests to find out more. This blog post discusses the responses that we have received so far.
(Many thanks to CIS intern Varnika Chawla for her assistance)
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Sambad 100 Women Edit-a-thon
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by
Ting Yi Chang and Sailesh Patnaik
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Mar 20, 2017
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last modified
Apr 18, 2017 10:05 AM
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Odia Wikipedia,
Openness
A two-day 100 Women Edit-a-thon was held on March 18 and 19, 2017 in collaboration with Odisha’s biggest newspaper publisher Sambad. The event was inspired by BBC’s 100 Women series and edit-a-thons with the same name in December 2016. More than 20 female journalists participated and registered as new Odia Wikipedians. The event served as a highlight of the Women’s History Month in Indian language Wikipedias as well as in the global movement.
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