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Open Standards
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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Jan 11, 2010
The Centre for Internet and Society promotes Open Standards, i.e., standards that are technically and legally free to study, free to use, developed and managed in an open manner, with a complete implementation available to all. Open standards help all -- government and citizens, industry and consumers -- by allowing greater interoperability and choice (since they are necessary for free and open source software), greater competition, reduction in costs, and greater long-term reliability.
As part of our work on Open Standards, we have been providing the comments to the Indian government's Draft National Policy on Open Standards for e-Governance, and have been working as a member of the Dynamic Coalition on Open Standards at the UN-sponsored Internet Governance Forum.
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Publications
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Software Patents
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Pranesh Prakash
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published
Jan 11, 2010
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last modified
Jan 11, 2010 09:53 AM
Software patents are a potent threat to both open standards as well as FOSS. While in India, pure software patents (i.e., a patent over a "computer programme per se") are not allowed, still software patents are to be reckoned with. The draft patent manual prepared by the Patent Office in 2008 seemingly goes against section 3(k) of the Patents Act, and allows partially for software patents. Further, the Patent Office often incorrectly grants software patents, even though the same is prohibited by the law. We have started a wiki-based project to collect all such examples of incorrectly granted software patents.
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Publications
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IJLT-CIS Law Essay Competition
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Pranesh Prakash
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published
Dec 01, 2009
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last modified
Aug 04, 2011 04:35 AM
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filed under:
Intellectual Property Rights,
Competition
The Indian Journal of Law and Technology and CIS are conducting a legal essay competition to encourage law students across India to think critically about the techno-legal issues facing us today. Students can write on any of the four themes, with the top prize being Rs. 7500 and an internship at CIS.
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Blogs
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Open Standards Workshop at IGF '09
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Nov 30, 2009
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last modified
Aug 23, 2011 02:54 AM
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filed under:
Open Standards,
Consumer Rights,
Digital Governance,
Fair Dealings,
FLOSS,
Workshop,
Openness
The Centre for Internet and Society co-organized a workshop on 'Open Standards: A Rights-Based Framework' at the fourth Internet Governance Forum, at Sharm el-Sheikh. The panel was chaired by Aslam Raffee of Sun Microsystems and the panellists were Sir Tim Berners-Lee of W3C, Renu Budhiraja of India's DIT, Sunil Abraham of CIS, Steve Mutkoski of Microsoft, and Rishab Ghosh of UNU-MERIT.
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Blog
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Open Debate
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Pranesh Prakash
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Nov 04, 2009
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last modified
Apr 02, 2011 02:34 PM
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filed under:
Openness
Deepa Kurup's article in Frontline on the battle over open standards in e-governance.
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News & Media
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IPv6 in India: The promises and challenges
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Pranesh Prakash
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Nov 04, 2009
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last modified
Aug 02, 2011 07:16 AM
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filed under:
IETF,
Introduction,
IPv6
Newspapers have been reporting that IPv4 addresses will get over soon, and that we will have to shift to IPv6. In this short piece, Pranesh Prakash gives a layperson's introduction to the IPv6 Internet we will be entering into soon, and what that means for you.
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Blog
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Free and Open Source Software
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Pranesh Prakash
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Oct 08, 2009
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last modified
Jan 11, 2010 10:59 AM
Free and open source software (FOSS) is a good thing from both the perspective of programmer and user freedoms as well as from the perspective of better and more efficient software production. Also, FOSS forms the backbone of the Internet (BIND/NSD for DNS servers, Apache for web servers, sendmail/postfix/qmail for mail servers, Asterisk for VoIP servers, etc.), and the Internet as we know it would not exist without FOSS.
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Publications
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Software Patents Granted and Applied for in India
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Pranesh Prakash
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Oct 08, 2009
This is a collection of pure software patents (i.e., a "computer programme per se") that have been granted and applied for in India.
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Software Patents
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Arguments Against the PUPFIP Bill
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Oct 20, 2009
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last modified
Sep 12, 2011 11:03 AM
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filed under:
Bayh-Dole,
Access to Knowledge,
Access to Medicine,
Intellectual Property Rights,
PUPFIP,
Patents,
Publications
The Protection and Utilisation of Public Funded Intellectual Property Bill (PUPFIP Bill) is a new legislation being considered by Parliament, which was introduced in the 2008 winter session of the Rajya Sabha. It is modelled on the American Bayh-Dole Act (University and Small Business Patent Procedures Act) of 1980. On this page, we explore some of the reasons that the bill is unnecessary, and how it will be harmful if passed.
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Resources
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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Oct 20, 2009
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last modified
Oct 20, 2009 03:29 AM
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filed under:
Bayh-Dole,
Access to Knowledge,
Access to Medicine,
Open Access,
Public Accountability,
Open Innovation
A collection of resources that will help one navigate through the arguments and evidence for and against the Indian "Bayh-Dole" bill.
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PUPFIP Bill
