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Pervasive Technologies
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18 Jan 2018
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Patent Working Requirements and Complex ProductsThe paper titled "Patent Working Requirements and Complex Products" has been published in the latest issue of the NYU Journal of Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law. It is one of the outputs of the Pervasive Technology project and …
22 Dec 2017
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[Updated] Exclusive: OnePlus 5T’s Face Unlock feature may have infringed upon SensibleVision’s face recognition patentsThe blog post by Nachiket Mhatre was published by mysmartprice on December 22, 2017.
13 Dec 2017
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CIS' Submission to DIPP and CGPDTM at meeting with IP StakeholdersThe Office of the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks held a meeting with IP stakeholders on December 7, 2017, chaired by the Secretary, DIPP, to take suggestions on improving procedures and functioning of the Office. …
9 Sep 2017
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RTI request to Indian Patents Office for Form 27 (Statement of Working of patents), March 2016The Centre for Internet and Society filed this request under the Right to Information Act in March 2016 as part of research for the paper: Patent Working Requirements and Complex Products: An Empirical Assessment of India's Form 27 Practice …
9 Sep 2017
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RTI request to Indian Patents Office for Form 27 (Statement of Working of patents), 2015The Centre for Internet and Society filed this request under the Right to Information Act in 2015 as part of research for the paper: Patent Working Requirements and Complex Products: An Empirical Assessment of India's Form 27 Practice and …
17 Aug 2017
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Dataset for "Patent Working Requirements and Complex Products: An Empirical Assessment of India's Form 27 Practice and Compliance"Dataset of the first comprehensive and systematic analysis of 4,916 valid Statements of Working (Form 27) corresponding to 3,126 patents pertaining to mobile technology in India. Licensed CC-BY-SA 4.0.
17 Jul 2017
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Patent Working Requirements and Complex Products: An Empirical Assessment of India's Form 27 Practice and ComplianceIndia requires every patentee to file an annual statement, also known as “Form 27”, describing the working of each of its issued Indian patents. If a patent is not locally worked within three years of its issuance, any person may request a …
29 Jun 2017
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Preliminary Findings: Working Requirements for Complex Products under the Indian Patent SystemProf. Jorge L. Contreras gave a talk on a forthcoming paper "Preliminary Findings: Working Requirements for Complex Products under the Indian Patent System" at the "2nd International Conference on Standardisation, Patents and Competition …
22 Mar 2017
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Review Meeting for the Pervasive Technologies ProjectThe Centre for Internet & Society in partnership with Beijing Normal University Institute for Internet Policy & Law organized a review meeting of the Pervasive Technologies project in Macau on February 20 - 21, 2017.
20 Mar 2017
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Pervasive Technologies Project in Hong KongDigital Asia Hub and the United Nations University Institute on Computing and Society (UNU-CS) held a new networking initiative. Digital Asia Hub and the United Nations University Institute on Computing and Society co-hosted a series of …
21 Oct 2016
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Workshop on Competition Law and PolicyNational School of Law India University and the Delegation of European Union to India jointly organized a workshop at Competition Commission of India in New Delhi from October 19 - 21, 2016. Anubha Sinha and Rohini Lakshané participated and …
14 Sep 2016
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Methodology: Statements of Working (Form 27) of Indian Mobile Device PatentsIn India, if a patent is not locally worked within three years of its issuance, any person may request a compulsory license, and if the patent is not adequately worked within two years of the grant of such a compulsory license, it may be …
9 Jul 2016
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Sub$-100 Phones: Browser Compatibility TestsThis post documents the results of browser compatibility tests conducted on six out of eight specimen mobile phones being studied under the Pervasive Technologies project. These phones are Internet-enabled and cost the equivalent of USD 100 …
1 May 2016
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Comments on Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion Discussion Paper on Standard Essential Patents and their Availability on Frand TermsThe Centre for Internet & Society gave its comments to the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion. The comments were prepared by Anubha Sinha, Nehaa Chaudhari and Rohini Lakshané.
30 Apr 2016
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CCI allowed to probe Ericsson: FAQs on Ericsson’s disputes with Micromax and IntexThe blog post is an analysis of the recent decision of the Delhi High Court, clarifying that the Competition Commission of India could investigate Ericsson for a violation of competition law. A shorter version of this blog post was …
2 Apr 2016
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Dataset: Patent Landscape of Mobile Device Technologies in IndiaPatent landscape of mobile technology patents and patent applications held by 50 companies operating in India. Licensed CC-BY-SA 4.0.
31 Mar 2016
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Patents and Mobile Devices in India: An Empirical SurveyThough India has the second-largest wireless subscriber base in the world, with more than 150 mobile device vendors, it has, until recently, remained relatively unaffected by the global smartphone wars. Over the past three years, however, a …
16 Mar 2016
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Fueling the Affordable Smartphone Revolution in IndiaSmartphones have emerged as the exemplar of mankind's quest for shrinking technologies. They embody the realization of a simple premise – that computing devices would do more and cost less. This realization has been responsible for modern …
20 Feb 2016
News
2016 Works-in-Progress Intellectual Property ("WIPIP") ColloquiumProf. Jorge Contreras presented a paper co-authored by Rohini Lakshané on the patent landscape conducted for the Pervasive Technologies project at WPIP. The event was held in Washington D.C. on February 19 and 20, 2016. It was organized by …
20 Jan 2016
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Pervasive Technologies Project Presentations at the 4th Global Congress, 2015These are the presentations made by the members of the PT Project team at the 4th Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest, 2015 at National Law University, New Delhi.
15 Jan 2016
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The two-faced FRAND: Licensing and injunctive relief in ICTsImportant takeaways from the Indo-Europe Conference on Building a Sustainable IPR-ICT Ecosystem for Promoting Innovation, held in Bangalore in November 2015. Ericsson and the Indian Cellular Association presented an interesting set of views …
19 Nov 2015
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A Study of J. Sai Deepak's Comments on Competition Law in IndiaIn his blog, 'The Demanding Mistress', J. Sai Deepak has commented on the competition law in India, using provisions of different acts, case judgments and amendments to these acts. He has also included a comment on India’s patent law. This …
17 Nov 2015
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MHRD IPR Chair Series: Information Received from IIT RoorkeeThis post provides a factual description about the operation of Ministry of Human Resource Development IPR Chair’s Intellectual Property Education, Research and Public Outreach (IPERPO) scheme in IIT Roorkee.
18 Oct 2015
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National IPR Policy Series: Quick Observations on the Leaked Draft of the National IPR PolicyEarlier this week, the “Don’t Trade Our Lives Away” blog leaked the supposed final draft of India’s National IPR Policy (“leaked draft”). This article presents quick comments on this leaked draft.
4 Oct 2015
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Pervasive Technologies: Working Document Series – Updated Research Methodology – Applying the Actor Network Theory to Competition Law and Standard Essential Patent Litigation in IndiaThis document lays out the updated research methodology for the paper on competition law issues around standard essential patent litigation in India.
25 Sep 2015
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FAQ: CIS' Proposal for Compulsory Licensing of Critical Mobile TechnologiesEarlier this year, the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) had proposed that the Government of India (GoI) initiate the formation of a patent pool of critical mobile technologies and mandate a five percent compulsory license. The proposal …
5 Sep 2015
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Pervasive Technologies: Working Document Series - Research Questions and a Literature Review on the Actor-Network TheoryThis document is divided into two parts - the first part lays out a series of research questions, potentially seeking to apply actor-network theory as a research methodology. The second part seeks to map literature around the Actor-Network …
3 Jul 2015
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Report: 5G Technologies Workshop by IEEEA report on the 5G Technologies Workshop organised by the Bangalore Chapter of the IEEE Communication Society at Bangalore on May 22 -23, 2015.
31 May 2015
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Joining the Dots in India's Big-Ticket Mobile Phone Patent Litigation (Updated)An analysis of the significant commonalities and differences in various big-ticket lawsuits in India over the alleged infringement of mobile device patents.
29 Apr 2015
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Pervasive Technologies Project Working Document Series: Literature Review on IPR in Mobile app developmentThis post is literature survey of material exploring and analysing the role of Application Platforms in the Mobile Applications Development ecosystem, albeit from an intellectual property perspective. The document is a work in progress.