Software Patents in India



Attempts were being made to legalise software patents in India. We wrote about this in:

2008

 * How Microsoft Exploits, Then Insults Developing Countries
 * Snapshot of the Software Patents Situation in the US, India, EU
 * Patents Roundup: Linux, India, Microsoft, the Trolls, and the USPTO
 * Software Patents: India, OIN, the Trolls, and the Monopolists
 * Protest in India Against Software Patents
 * Say No To Software Patents in India
 * The Latest from Microsoft, Its Indian Partners, and Its Patent Trolls
 * FSF India Fights Patent Deform by Microsoft and Partners
 * FSF India’s Response to the Patent Manual Draft
 * Voice Your Support for the World Day Against Software Patents
 * State of the Intellectual Bully: Patent Raids, Trolls, and Microsoft
 * September 24 is ‘World Day Against Software Patents’
 * Patents Roundup: India Fights Software Patents, BSA Intervention, Trolls League
 * World Day Against Software Patents: Summary and More
 * Microsoft Storms India with Patents, by Proxy
 * Patents Roundup: Microsoft, India, Bilski and Some More Cronies

2009

 * India Moves to Free Software, So Microsoft Fights Back with Gentle Bribes and Partners
 * Patents Roundup: Attack on Science, Lobby for Software Patents in EU and India, More Rebellion
 * What Bill Gates Did in India: Business as Usual
 * World Day Against Software Patent Celebrated in India

2010

 * Microsoft Tries to Pollute Standards with Software Patents Where It is Illegal
 * Patents Roundup: IBM Helps Software Patents Spread to India and Gets Sued for Patent Violations; ELSE Joins LiMo Patent Pool
 * Patents Roundup: America, Europe and Asia Share a Problem with Software Patents
 * Indian ‘Trade’ Agreements Leaked
 * How India’s Legal Rule Regarding Patents Gets ‘Regulated’ by the West, Facebook is Hoarding Software Patents

2011

 * Microsoft’s Indian ‘Branches’ and TCS Harming India With Software Patents

2015

 * Microsoft is Trying to Patent Software in India While Microsoft’s Proxy Troll Intellectual Ventures Extorts Motorola (Android)
 * India Shoots Itself in the Foot With Software Patents, Time to Act and Prevent This Worldwide
 * Free Software Establishments in India Fight Back as Efforts to Spread Software Patents Are Reported
 * IBM is Again Attacking Free/Libre Open Source Software by Pushing for Patents on Software
 * Responses to Software Patents in India Though Guidelines for Examination of Computer Related Inventions
 * Narendra Modi Must Immediately Block Software Patents to Save India's Software Industry
 * Great News: Software Patents Stopped in India, For Now…
 * Software Patents Are Being Defeated to the Detriment of Large Multinationals, Their Patent Lawyers, and Patent Trolls Who Piggyback Them

2016

 * It's Official: Death of Software Patents Reaffirmed in India
 * IBM and Other Giant Multinationals Upset That Software Patents Are Increasingly Rejected in the US, Now India
 * The Latest Failed Push for Software Patents in India Shows That People's Resistance Still is Effective
 * In the Interests of the Public, India Bans Software Patents and the USPTO Should Follow Suit
 * India Got it Right on Software Patents, But Gives Up on Pharmaceutical Aspects
 * IBM is Still Pushing for Software Patents Not Only in India But Also in the United States
 * The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Threatens to Bring Software Patents to India
 * USTR is Trying to Shame and Bully India Into Introducing Software Patents in India
 * India is Having Another Taste of the Dangers of Western Patents, Must Learn to Reject Software Patents in the Face of Great Pressure
 * India's Patent Law Under Attack by Software Patents Ambitions; Tata, Wipro and Infosys Among the Culprits
 * Mishi Choudhary and Mike Masnick Explain Why India Should Reject Software Patents
 * Corporate Media in India Misrepresents Startups to Push for Software Patents
 * Tata/TCS is Still Pushing for Software Patents in India
 * The United States Pressures India to Broaden Patent Scope and Other Monopolies
 * Indian Press Continues to Print Utter Lies About Software Patents and India's Interests
 * The Demise of Software Patents in India Illustrated by Infosys' Policy and Abandonment of Applications

2017

 * IAM Helps Enemies of India’s Interests Lobby for Software Patents in the Country
 * US Chamber of Commerce Attacks India in an Effort to Alter Its Patent Policy for American Multinational Corporations
 * IAM ‘Magazine’ as Megaphone for Chamber of Corporates (CoC), Which Tries Shaming India Into Software Patenting
 * IAM Just Can't Stop Pushing for Software Patents in India
 * China Adopts Software Patents and IAM 'Magazine' (Lobbyists) Continues to Shame India Into It
 * IAM 'Magazine' in a Campaign to Destroy India's IT Industry and Help Patent Trolls There
 * In South Asia, Old Myths to Promote Patent Maximalism, Courtesy of the Patent Microcosm
 * IBM, Apple and Facebook Pursue Software Patents in India in Defiance of the Ban
 * India Continues to Reject Software Patents in Spite of Pressure From Foreign Companies Like IBM
 * India Has No Software Patents “Per Se” Just Like Europe Has No Software Patents “As Such”
 * In India, the Elephant in the Room is the Term “Per Se” -- a New Loophole for Software Patenting
 * Debate About Software Patentability in India Still Dominated by Patent Lawyers Rather Than Software Developers
 * Software Patents Lobbying at IAM Strives to Reinforce the Positions of Patent Maximalists
 * LexOrbis is Trying to Sneak Software Patents Into India in Defiance of the Ban
 * Microsoft is Promoting Software Patents in India in Another Effort to Undermine Free/Open Source Software, Microsoft-Connected Trolls Are Still Suing

2018

 * India and Europe Do Not Permit Software Patents, But Patent Law Firms Try to Work Around the Law
 * Patent Maximalists Are Still Trying to Create a Patent Bubble in India
 * New Zealand and India, Two Nations That Reject Software Patents, Are Still Besieged by Patent Law Firms