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The new Guidelines for Computer Related Inventions are a big win for FOSS in India!
— by Anubha Sinha — last modified Feb 24, 2016 06:30 AMIndia is one of the few countries which permits patenting of software – a monopolization that has only benefited established corporations and largely throttled innovation in the software industry, worldwide. CIS has consistently advocated against patentablity of software and in a major victory last week, software patenting in India died a little more. This happened via the newly issued Guidelines for the Examination of Computer Related Inventions, which introduces a new test to restrict software patenting – in essence the same legal test that CIS had been proposing since 2010. This post highlights the new test and other noteworthy changes in the Guidelines.
MHRD IPR Chair Series: Information Received from IIT, Bombay
— by Karan Tripathi — last modified Feb 22, 2016 02:34 PMThis post provides a factual description about the operation of Ministry of Human Resource Development IPR Chair’s Intellectual Property Education, Research and Public Outreach (IPERPO) scheme in IIT Bombay.
MHRD IPR Chair Series: Information Received from IIT, Delhi
— by Karan Tripathi — last modified Feb 22, 2016 02:46 AMThis post provides a factual description about the operation of Ministry of Human Resource Development IPR Chair’s Intellectual Property Education, Research and Public Outreach (IPERPO) scheme in IIT Delhi.
MHRD IPR Chair Series: Information Received from Cochin University of Science and Technology
— by Karan Tripathi — last modified Feb 21, 2016 04:09 PMThis post provides a factual description about the operation of Ministry of Human Resource Development IPR Chair’s Intellectual Property Education, Research and Public Outreach (IPERPO) scheme in Cochin University of Science and Technology.
MHRD IPR Chair Series: Information Received from University of Madras
— by Karan Tripathi — last modified Feb 19, 2016 03:34 PMThis post provides a factual description about the operation of Ministry of Human Resource Development IPR Chair’s Intellectual Property Education, Research and Public Outreach (IPERPO) scheme in University of Madras. The author has analysed all the data received under various heads such as income, grants from MHRD, planned and non planned expenditure, nature and frequency of programmes organised and the allocation of funds for the same. Throughout the course of observation and presentation of the analysed data, the author seeks to trace the presence of unjustified underutilisation of funds by the aforementioned university as provided by the MHRD during the period of 2001-2014.
Report of Konkani Wikipedia's progress (July-December 2015)
— by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — last modified Feb 05, 2016 02:49 AMKonkani language is one of the 22 languages recognized by Indian union in 8th schedule. As per the 2007 census there are about 7.4 million Konkani speakers.[1] Konkani language has its own Wikipedia created on 15th June 2015. This blog post will try to put out Konkani Wikipedia's growth from a perspective based on Wikimedia stats.
Odia Wikipedia progress from July to December, 2015
— by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — last modified Feb 05, 2016 02:45 AMOdia Wikipedia, one of the very active Wikipedias in Indian languages has been showing a negative rate of growth for the last 6 months. We will try to analyse, what has been happening and how can that be improved.
Leading Up To The GCIP: A Chat With Jayashree Watal
— by Job Michael Mathew — last modified Jan 31, 2016 09:00 AMThe fifth discussion in our pre-GCIP discussion series is with Jayashree Watal.
Leading Up To The GCIP: A Chat With Shamnad Basheer
— by Job Michael Mathew — last modified Jan 31, 2016 08:57 AMThe next discussion in our pre-GCIP discussion series is with Prof. Shamnad Basheer.
Leading Up To The GCIP: A Chat With Susan K. Sell
— by Job Michael Mathew — last modified Jan 31, 2016 08:36 AMAfter Mr. Zakir Thomas and Dr. Michael Geist, our third discussion is with Prof. Susan K. Sell.
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