There are too many conflicting reports. We should wait for an authoritative source to publish the contents of the Bill.
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Yet another shameless day in India Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 05:48:22 +0530 From: Nagarjuna G. nagarjun@gnowledge.org To: Ramanraj K ramanraj.k@gmail.com CC: in-parl@ffii.org References: 424034D3.3070503@gmail.com
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 08:38:03PM +0530, Ramanraj K wrote:
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/000200503222001.htm
Lok Sabha passes Patents Bill ...The Bill provides for product patents in drugs, agri-products and embedded software...
The above report is wrong:
The reports say that "patenting of software embedded with hardware" is dropped from the ordinance. That is what we demanded.
"According an Indian pharma company The new look patent law takes steps to ensure that available drugs t leave the market and keeps embedded software out of the patent ambit. Key provisions that enable recognition of product patents for pharmaceuticals and food, in line with committments to the WTO, have the official added. been accepted,donofficial," http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=66980
"It has also decided to exclude embedded software from the ambit of the product patent regime." http://inhome.rediff.com/money/2005/mar/22patent.htm
"In addition, patenting of software embedded with hardware, introduced in the Ordinance, has been dropped. Left parties had objected to software patenting on the ground that it might give rise to foreign multinational monopolies." http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=85839
Nagarjuna