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Wikipedia’s 15th birthday inspires Bangla translators; Odia-language Women’s History Month edit-a-thons
— by Nahid Sultan and Sailesh Patnaik — last modified Jun 09, 2016 12:10 PMBangla-language Wikipedians translated about 600 articles for their language’s Wikipedia; Odia-language Wikimedians hosted their second annual Women’s History Month edit-a-thon.
Indian Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion Discussion Paper on Standard Essential Patents
— by Nehaa Chaudhari — last modified May 10, 2016 03:23 PMIndia’s Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (“DIPP”) released in March, earlier this year, a discussion paper on standard essential patents and their availability on fair, reasonable and non discriminatory terms.
Indian English Wikipedian Nvvchar completes 1500 Did You Know articles
— by Tito Dutta — last modified Jun 28, 2017 10:03 AMIndian English Wikipedian Nvvchar has completed 1500 Did you know articles. This is the second highest on English Wikipedia.
Images and links matter quality
— by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — last modified Jun 08, 2016 09:54 AMWikipedia articles are considered of a higher quality when they have illustrations. An article without images is considered dull. Wikipedia is all about references. Any information on Wikipedia is encouraged to have verifiable citations. Hence images and external links form a criterion for quality of articles on Wikipedias. This blog post tries to analyse the current scenario of CIS-A2K's Focus language areas with respect to images and links.
Shape of IPRs and Agriculture post the WTO Nairobi Ministerial
— by Anubha Sinha — last modified May 05, 2016 07:11 AMCIS is running a series of meetups focused on intellectual property to bring folks interested in IP law to discuss developments in access to knowledge, climate change, health, trade, etc. At the first meet-up in February, Prof. Biswajit Dhar delivered a short talk on intellectual property rights and agriculture in a post-Nairobi Ministerial world. This post is a summary of his talk.
CCI allowed to probe Ericsson: FAQs on Ericsson’s disputes with Micromax and Intex
— by Nehaa Chaudhari — last modified May 01, 2016 01:46 PMThe blog post is an analysis of the recent decision of the Delhi High Court, clarifying that the Competition Commission of India could investigate Ericsson for a violation of competition law. A shorter version of this blog post was published in the Quint on April 30, 2016.
National IPR Policy Series : Sectoral Innovation Councils on Intellectual Property Rights – RTI Requests + DIPP Responses
— by Nehaa Chaudhari and Saahil Dama — last modified May 03, 2016 05:32 AMCIS filed an RTI application on August 11, 2015, seeking information regarding the functioning of the Sectoral Innovation Council (SInC) on Intellectual Property Rights. This posts documents the responses received.
Eight Challenges Indian-Language Wikipedias Need to Overcome
— by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Jun 18, 2016 05:09 PMEven after a decade of existence, Indian language Wikipedias are not yet known to many Indian language speakers. Wikipedia, the largest available encyclopedia made in the human history, is what it is today because of the hundreds and thousands of volunteer editors.
Comments on Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion Discussion Paper on Standard Essential Patents and their Availability on Frand Terms
— by Anubha Sinha, Nehaa Chaudhari and Rohini Lakshane — last modified May 03, 2016 02:30 AMThe Centre for Internet & Society gave its comments to the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion. The comments were prepared by Anubha Sinha, Nehaa Chaudhari and Rohini Lakshané.
Summary of CIS Comments to DIPP’s Discussion Paper on SEPs and their availability on FRAND terms
— by Anubha Sinha — last modified Apr 26, 2016 12:07 PMThis blog post summarises CIS’ responses to DIPP’s Discussion Paper on SEPs and their availability on FRAND terms. The response made specific recommendations regarding adequacy of Indian law to determine SEP litigation, remedies for FRAND assured SEPs, FRAND royalty rates, SSO’s policies, parties’ non-disclosure agreements and transparency, and essentiality of SEPs and their declassification.
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