Openness · Event
National Public Meeting on Software Patents
- When
- Sat 4 Oct 2008, 10:00 AM – Sat 4 Oct 2008, 5:00 PM IST
- Where
- United Theological College, Bangalore
- Contact
- Pranesh Prakash · +91 80 4092 6283
This meeting will feature the following speakers: Nagarjuna G. (Free Software Foundation of India), Prabir Purkayastha (Delhi Science Forum), Prashant Iyengar (Alternative Law Forum), Venkatesh Hariharan (Red Hat) and Sudhir Krishnaswamy (National Law School)
Agenda
1000–1100 | Presentation on the principles of patent law and software patents | Sudhir Krishnaswamy (National Law School) |
Prabir Purkayastha (Delhi Science Forum) | ||
Nagarjuna G. (Free Software Foundation of India) | ||
1100–1130 | Discussion on software patents in the Indian context: Indian Patent Act, and the draft patent manual | Prashant Iyengar (Alternative Law Forum) |
Venkatesh Hariharan (Red Hat) | ||
1130–1150 | Tea break | |
1150–1240 | Discussion on patents and the development sector (freedom of speech, open standards, healthcare, biotech, agro-sector, etc.) | Sunil Abraham (Centre for Internet and Society) |
Anivar Aravind (Movingrepublic) | ||
Others | ||
1240–1300 | Presentation on the software patents that have been granted so far in India | Pranesh Prakash (Centre for Internet and Society) |
1300–1400 | Lunch break | |
1400–1700 | Open House | Joseph Mathew (IT Adviser to the Chief Minister of Kerala) |
T. Ramakrishna (National Law School) | ||
Abhas Abhinav (DeepRoot Linux) | ||
Sreekanth S. Rameshaiah (Mahiti Infotech) | ||
Vinay Sreenivasa (IT for Change) | ||
Any others who wish to speak | ||
Documents
- Representation by Free Software Foundation of India
- Representation by Knowledge Commons
- Response by Knowledge Commons
- Response by Alternative Law Forum
- Backgrounder by Alternative Law Forum
- Response by JT D'Souza
Other information
Attendees (50)
- Renuka Prasad B
- Chandra Shekar B. H.
- Venky Hariharan
- Vinay K. S.
- Dinesh T. B.
- Narendra Sisodiya
- Praveen Raj N. L.
- Abin Abraham
- Anja Kovacs
- Sudhir K.
- Hans
- Joseph S.
- Shishir Jha
- Anandha Velu
- Veena S.
- Mayur Bhandari
- Vid Ayer
- Prashant Iyengar
- Anivar Aravind
- Edwin
- Dr. Rahul De
- Abbas Abhinav
- Snehashish Ghosh
- Prateek Kumar Singh
- Priti Malik
- Tanya George
- Ravi S.
- Anshuman K.
- Narendra Bhatta H. L.
- Varun Raj Limaye
- Swaraj Barooah
- Arun M.
- Naveen M.
- Mani S.
- Pooja H.
- Lakshmi K.
- R. Lakshminarayanan
- Joseph C. Mathew
- Abhishek Mohanty
- Rohit R. Kukreja
- Vivek Paul
- Kiran Chandra
- Justin
- Sujith
- Kingsly John
- Arjun Rajgopal
- Viswanath Durbha
- Vikram Vincent
- Shivasankar Chander
- Abhishek Krishnan