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Infy, TCS lock horns with Red Hat over IT patent

Indronil Roy Chowdhury, Indranil Chakraborty
Posted: Friday, Jul 25, 2008 at 0136 hrs IST
Updated: Friday, Jul 25, 2008 at 0136 hrs IST

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Kolkata, Jul 24: software patentable…this approach was explicitly rejected by the Indian Parliament,” Hariharan said. Ficci official said there has been some underlying ambiguity regarding the patenting of software with technical effect. The draft manual says that the software will be patented only if it goes into a new hardware. This FICCI is opposing this condition.

According to FICCI, there should not be any linkage of patenting of software having technical affect with the novelty of hardware. The open source community will not have anything to do with software patents in their entirety. “Open source software is one of the most dynamic, innovative sectors of the global economy, but the patient system is a costly hindrance to open source,” said Hariharan of Red Hat....

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» Patents are illegal

Posted by Sudhir Gandotra> > > > Start the year off righ on 2008-07-26 16:50:01.983877+05:30
Patents are illegal as they infringe on social ownership of knowledge. India, with its rich cultural heritage of 'giving' to the world, must oppose all such moves for patenting knowledge. Unless ofcourse we want to have patents for Ramayan, Mahabharat, Gita, Basmati, Haldi etc.

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» Patent

Posted by Eric on 2008-07-28 09:19:48.494562+05:30
Obviously Sudhir does not understand the patent regime. Patents encourage technological development and contribute to the enhancement of knowledge. Patents are good for Society as a whole. Obviously, something that is already known in prior at cannot be patented. For example, in the Ramayana, Garuda is used a flying vehicle, but does that infringe on the airplance that was invented. Obviously NOT, for a whole lot of reasons. Also remember that 99% of the inventions are really improvements over what is already known and only about 1% are real breakthrough ivnentions.

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» What patents?

Posted by Ravindra on 2008-08-08 04:27:41.402494+05:30
Obviously, Eric does not understand the patent regime. Software patents and ideas are patently different from designing flying vehicles. And patenting flying vehicles would need another discussion forum of its own.

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» job

Posted by Muhammad Uzair on 2008-07-25 10:51:49.981069+05:30
i am a young boy and ia have 4years experience as computer operator and assistent manager in haroon enterprises maedan .

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