Stumbled across the page on patents, while reading up on software patents. Found some links to Goa:
There are 35 Goa-linked patents mentioned, though some may be false positives http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u= %2Fnetahtml% 2Fsearch-bool.html&r=0&f=S&l=50&TERM1=Goa&FIELD1=&co1=AND&TERM2=India&FIELD2=&d=ptxt Sorry about the looooooooooooong URL! This was one about a 'tide staff system' from http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r=5&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ptxt&s1=Goa&s2=India&OS=Goa+AND+India&RS=Goa+AND+India It explains itself: "The present invention relates to a segmented cylindrical tide staff system [11] for erection at remote areas for dynamic calibration of electronic tide meters and computer models of tides..." The patent inventors are listed as Joseph; Antony (Goa, IN); Prabhudesai; Shivanand (Goa, IN); Tengali; Suryakant (Goa, IN); Desa; Ehrlich (Goa, IN); Mehra; Prakash (Goa, IN); Sukerkar; Amol (Goa, IN); Kumar; Vijay (Goa, IN); Monteiro; Robert (Goa, IN). This patent's assignee is the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (New Delhi, IN). Just thought of sharing this piece of info with anyone who might be interested. FN