On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 11:13 PM, Chandran <chand...@lawgonindia.com> wrote:
> >Infact in my office Majority of the computer is running on Ubuntu for the > past one year. I have been promoting >Opensource software among my > professional community. > Nice. >I am sorry you are misconcieved this information. Intellectual Property > rights includes Patents, Trademark, >Copyright, Design, Geographical > Indications and Integrated Circuits layout protection. Even your blog is > >copyrighted,*Copyright © 2007-2010 Arun's blog. Sorry to mention > personally. Our Patent Act is not granting >patents to software perse. So > Source codes are protected under Copyright. Even when you want to promote > your >opensource software, you need a trademark[brand name]. You have to > keep that brand name proctected in order to >promote your software. Members > in the list will also develop integrated circuits which can be protected. > Designs >which you are creating using opensource software is protected under > copyright and if it is a industrial design it can >be protected under > Designs Act.Intellectual property is not only Patents. Please look at the > world with broad >perspective. I have seen many people nowadays using open > source software for their business/profession. That >doesn't mean that they > are not entitled to protect their products/designs/logo.* > > So this workshop/seminar is not about software patents? Will you be discussing about various Free software licenses ? By the way the as you have mentioned "intellectual property" is a broad term, please refrain from using it. Request you read the following article on "Intellectual property" by stallman http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html .The term "IP" made me to think about your firm is actually lobbying for "Software patents". Thank you. -- Arun S.A.G http://zer0c00l.in/ _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
