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Nokia patents scribbling on digital snaps
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| ONE OF the most irritating things about taking photos with a cameraphone is
| the stupid filenames they're given. Wouldn't it be much better to squiggle
| something on the back of the pic like you do with prints?
|
| Well, Nokia has decided this would be a jolly good idea and has filed a
| patent here in the USA for a technique that enables users of cameraphones or
| digital cameras to scribble 'back-of-photo'
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/09/14/scribble-snaps-nokia
Recent:
Move towards patenting software draws flak
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| Bangalore: While many people take the slogan “Saying no to software patents”
| to mean the right to usage of free Internet software, the issue of patenting
| is rooted in a larger milieu, affecting not only users of software, but also
| those who develop software and service it.
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http://www.thehindu.com/2008/08/24/stories/2008082459280300.htm
Let us say NO to software patents
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| There are indications that the government is again trying to bring software
| patents, possibly covertly. The first indication of this has been in the
| draft Manual of Patent Practice and Procedure published by the Patent Office,
| India, in which they talk about "software per se" and software in association
| with hardware. This was repeated in the meeting held in Mumbai which was a
| consultation organised by the government with the public. Whether this move
| has been engineered by the bureaucracy or by the government under pressure
| from big corporates, this is not good for the software industry, especially
| the small scale sector, in India.
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http://swatantryam.blogspot.com/2008/08/let-us-say-no-to-software-patents.html
Say No to Software Patents - Candle light vigil in Bangalore
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| Software patents are rejected by Indian Parliament in 2005 (Patent Amendment
| bill 2005). But Indian Government is now trying to push it through back door
| by bringing a Patent manual. Public consultations on this draft manual is
| going on in various metros in India. Bangalore Consultation is scheduled for
| the last week of August.
|
| The Candle light vigil to "Say No To Software Patents" is a occasion to raise
| civil society voice against this back door trojan to Indian patent system.
|
| On 23rd August 2008 in front of Town Hall near Corporation Circle, Bangalore.
| Publicity campaigns will be hosted in various places on 22nd.
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http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1022228
Say 'No' to software patents
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| Nothing could be further from the truth. As explained above, software patents
| are bad for everyone other than large companies. Each software patent is a
| potential mine in the path to progress for small software companies. Allowing
| software patents in the country will be like strewing the path with mines.
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http://infochangeindia.org/200808137267/Technology/Analysis/Say-No-to-software-patents.html
“Say No To Software Patents” Campaign in Bangalore
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| The Free Software User’s Group, Bangalore is co-ordinating a campaign to “Say
| No To Software Patents” in India.
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http://pramode.net/2008/08/14/say-no-to-software-patents-campaign-in-bangalore/
Latha Jishnu: The mouse that bit Microsoft
PATENTLY ABSURD
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| Here’s what Gates wrote in an office memorandum in 1991. “If people had
| understood how patents would be granted when most of today’s ideas were
| invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete
| standstill today. . . I feel certain that some large company will patent some
| obvious thing related to interface, object orientation, algorithm,
| application extension or other crucial technique.”
|
| This was the year after Microsoft launched Windows 3.0, the first of its new
| operating systems that would become hugely popular across the world. Yet,
| three years down the line, Microsoft had changed from a kitten that was
| content with copyright protection to an aggressive patents tiger. In 1991,
| Microsoft had filed fewer than 50 patent applications whereas last year it
| was awarded 1,637 patents, almost a 12 per cent increase in the number of
| patents it received in 2006. According to IFI Patent Intelligence, the rise
| in Microsoft’s patents portfolio bucked the general trend in 2007 when the
| number of patents issued by the US Patents and Trademark Office dipped by 10
| per cent. Apparently several thousand of the company’s filings are still
| pending.
|
| All this may prompt the reader to conclude that there is indeed a direct
| correlation between IPR and growth — and wealth — as the company claims. Not
| true, says Mark H Webbink, a US Supreme Court lawyer who is a recognised
| voice on IT issues. Charting the company’s revenues, R&D spending and patent
| filings from 1985 onwards, he shows that the spike in patent filings occurred
| long after the Microsoft “had become well established and was being
| investigated for its monopolistic practices”. Webbink contends that patents
| did not spur the launch and rapid growth of the mass market software
| industry. On the other hand, patents have become a threat to software
| innovation, he warns.
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http://www.business-standard.com/india/storypage.php?autono=330566
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