Software Patents – A Tax on the Common Man?
India is the second biggest market for mobile-phones in the world and is forecast to surpass China to become the largest market by the end of 2013. The share of smart-phones in the Indian mobile...
View ArticleInternational Conference on Evolving Regime in Intellectual Property...
On 3rd November 2015, SFLC.in participated in a panel on Intellectual Property Enforcement at the International Conference on Evolving Regime on Intellectual Property, where we spoke about the recent...
View ArticleCRI Guidelines kept in abeyance – #NoSoftwarePatents
On 14th December 2015, the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks, Mr. Om Prakash Gupta, ordered that the recently released 2015 “Guidelines for Examination of Computer Related...
View ArticleSFLC.in At Global IP Congress 2015
SFLC.in was represented on two of the panels on Global IP Congress 2015 held at National Law School, New Delhi between 15th and 17th of December 2015. Panel on Collaborative Innovations – 16 December...
View ArticlePress Release: Indian Patent Office Says No to Software Patents
The Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks has issued an order dated February 19, 2016 publishing the revised Guidelines for Computer Related Inventions. The current guidelines are in...
View ArticleA quick history of CRI Guidelines in India
On February 19 2016 the Office of Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade marks (Indian Patent Office or IPO) issued a revised set of Guidelines for Examination of Computer-Related Inventions...
View ArticleComments on DIPP Discussion Paper on Standard Essential Patents and Their...
Following a sudden surge in IPR litigation surrounding Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) in the last year, (around eight suits were filed by Swedish multi-national Ericsson alone, another three by...
View ArticleDon’t listen to the IT giants: Eben Moglen
The Indian government has rightly rested its Digital India initiative on a series of measures to liberalise the economy. One of those measures of free-market wisdom, however, the usual...
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