[Fsf-friends] Update on Amendments to Patents Act

http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=85335

<quote> Cyber expert and Supreme Court advocate Pawan Duggal pointed out that in the US, software itself is patentable.

So are business process methods embedded in hardware. “Not allowing software and software embedded with hardware will cut significantly India’s share in the patent pie,” he said. </quote>

If software is patentable in the US, it merely means that the US is clearly violating TRIPS and India should complain to the WTO against the illegitimate and inane practice.

So far as the other argument goes, it is as bad as saying not enough people are suffering from cancer, depriving hospitals, pharmaceuticals and graveyards from revenue.