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ISSUE : JUNE 2007

 
 
 
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Harvard licenses nanotech patents      

Harvard University has licensed patents relating to nanotechnology to a startup company called Nano-Terra.  


Xandros Linux Collaborates with Microsoft  

Xandros Linux and Microsoft have entered into a collaboration agreement  after Microsoft announced that various components of Linux violate 235 patents owned by it.


Patent infringement suit against Dabur

Sanofi Aventis and Debiopharm have filed a patent infringement suit against Dabur.


 
 
 

 PATENT GRANTS IN THE MONTH OF MAY

 AT BRAIN LEAGUE

HLL secured first place in the patent race 

 

 

Seminar on IP for IT Professionals

 

The Indian Patent Office granted 828 patents in the month of May 2007. The table below shows the top twelve companies that received patent grants. HLL tops the list with 42 patents, followed by Ericsson and Honda Giken with 15 and 14 patents respectively.

 

 

 

 

 

On 15th June, 2007, Brain League organized a seminar titled “Intellectual Property in Information Technology” at Le Meridian, Bangalore. Participants at the seminar included professionals from companies like Captronic Systems, Sandisk, Wipro Technologies, Jataayu and so on. Besides issues in patent protection for software, the other topics related to trade secrets and copyrights in relation to information technology.

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 OSS Series,  A Primer on Open Source Software

 

The GNU General Public License

 

The GNU General Public License ("GPL") is one of the most popular open source licenses. All software released by the Free Software Foundation and many other authors, are governed by this license. GPL provides the freedom to share and modify software under certain conditions.

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