6:30pm, Fri Sep 13, 2002 at NCST Juhu

There will be a discussion cum debate as part of the ACM meeting this Friday at NCST Juhu.

The discussion is titled: "Patents in Software: Good or Bad?" and is to be held on Fri Sep 13, 2002 (6:30 pm) at NCST, Gulmohar Cross Road 9, Juhu, Mumbai 49 (Landmark: Copper Chimney hotel).

(Road map: http://www.ncst.ernet.in/contactus/images/ncstj_roadmap.gif)

Recommended reading:

Basics of patents - http://inventors.about.com/cs/patents/ IPR intro - http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds8-1/ipcourse.html http://www.uspto.gov/

Sites which speak either 'for' or 'against' patents (or sometimes from both perspectives):- http://swpat.ffii.org/ http://swpat.ffii.org/analysis/index.en.html http://www.patent.gov.uk/about/consultations/conclusions.htm http://www.europeshareware.free.fr/pages/pr_swpat2_e.html http://www.ipcreators.org/Heckel/ACM_Paper/acaddeb.htm http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2107497,00.html http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/quotes.html http://www.eff.org/