On Monday 08 November 2010 10:27 PM, Arun SAG wrote:
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Chandran<[email protected]> wrote:
This is regarding the 4-city Seminar on 'Monetising IP' that IPDome<
cid:part1.05040207.04050705@>lawgonindia.com<cid%[email protected]>>
is organising in partnership with Achromic Point who are the event
management partners. Please>contact [email protected] to receive
brochure for the event at Chennai.
"Monetising IP" - means -> How to get money from intellectual property? I am
sorry to say this, to me it sounds much like " A seminar on how to become a
patent troll?"
In Free software and GNU/Linux there is no room from Intellectual property.
I am sorry, you have posted it to a **wrong** list :-)
Dear all,
Every member in this list is an intellect. But members wanted to deliver
their intellects to the society without any consideration. In order to
protect your intellect[other than software], I am inclined to reply as
follows.
The post is not intended only for Software. It is an information for all
streams. 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. This is an information to pass it on to others who are
likely ot be benefitted. If you feel this information is leading to patent
troll. 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.*
If you feel I have hurt you, it is not intentional but it is only
clarification to be given to the members in the list. Don't take it
personally. Thanks for giving an oppurtunity to me to explain about
Intellectual Property in this list.
R.Chandrasekar,
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