Kshitij MalhotraThe patent office published the latest Manual of Patent Office Practice and Procedure (accessible here and at the link below). For those who are unaware about patenting procedures, all major patent offices across the globe maintain a patent practice manual …
Archives for the month March 2011
Restriction on bloggers features in Rajya Sabha
Apar Gupta
Rajeev Chandrashekhar a MP with prior experience in the telephony and mobile industry made a statement yesterday in the Rajya Sabha during the zero hour on the restrictions being placed on bloggers. Mr. Chandrashekhar highlighted concern over the imposition of these unnecessary restrictions on …
Consultation on Draft Rules under IT Act
The latest Press Information Bureu release clarifies the status of the draft rules by saying essentially stating that they are drafts and nothing more than them. In a lot of ways it also recognizes the adverse media reports which have raised concerns …
The Bangalore Cyber Security Summit 2011
As a panelist at the Bangalore Cyber Security Summit, I recently shared my take on the 2008 amendments to the Information Technology act. The session which was titled as a SWOT Analysis of the IT Amendment Act, 2008 saw a …
Electronic Delivery of Services Bill, 2011
In the gathering storm about the draft rules on internet content another proposed government measure in the domain has been largely ignored. Late last month the Ministry of Information Technology released a draft of the Electronic Delivery of Services Bill, …
why book banning is better than website blocking
In the last week, there was a lot of attention focused on the ostensible blocking of three domains (one of which was a blogging platform –read here 1-kafila 2-medianama). I say ostensible because no one is sure what …
Tale of Unforgiving Procedural Formalities at Our PO
It is sometimes amazing to note how unforgiving the procedural formalities at the Indian patent office are? Some say that the Indian patent system, which was formally instituted to serve the purpose of encouraging R&D, inventions and innovation by monopolizing …
