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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


  • 2019

  • The Indian Ministry of Commerce Tries to Bend Patent Law in Favour of Foreign Monopolies