[Commons-Law] software patents-india

[Supreet Sethi]

On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 10:46:34 +0100, srinivas at southcentre.org
<srinivas at southcentre.org> wrote:
>  
>  
> I think this issue deserves a detailed scrutiny. Are the patent offices in
> India are equipped enough to ascertain the 
> prior art in software patents. The possibility of unddserving too broad
> patents blocking further innovations and making 
> inventing around difficult cannot be ruled out. The implications of the same
> for open source software in india have 
> to be examined.Will any one enlighten me about the position of the software
> industry in this.Are the big players like 
> TCS,infosys, WIPRO keen on software patents. 
> 

IT consists of whole range of work. Companies have made money out of
body shopping and Y2k transition, which hardly requires generation or
usage of Intellectual property.

Most of the companies mentioned happen to have lots of service
oriented intellectual property or domain knowledge, but its most
non-patentable.


If we start looking at companies apart from big three, we find them
more actively applying for patents in network technology,
authentication protocols etc etc.

Indian development centres of MNC's are also investing money in R&D to
be part of Intellectual property "land grab" in india.




regards

Supreet