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Access to Knowledge

Access to Knowledge is a campaign to promote the fundamental principles of justice, freedom, and economic development. It deals with issues like copyrights, patents and trademarks, which are an important part of the digital landscape.

We prepared the India report for the Consumers International IP Watchlist, made submission to the HRD Ministry on WIPO Broadcast Treaty, questioned the demonisation of pirates, and advocated against laws (such as PUPFIP Bill) that privatize public funded knowledge.

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Arguments Against the PUPFIP Bill

Summary How is the legislation unnecessary? The Indian government does not have vast reserves of underutilized patents, as the U.S....

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Expert Meeting on Freedom of Expression and Intellectual Property Rights

At the meeting, nineteen international scholars, experts and human rights activists met to explore the antagonistic relationship between Intellectual Property...

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Pervasive Technologies: Patent Pools

Click to download the full research paper here (PDF, 475 Kb) Introduction The network landscape over the past few years...

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Patent Valuation and License Fee Determination in Context of Patent Pools

I. Introduction A patent pool is essentially “An agreement between two or more patent owners to aggregate (pool) their patents...

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Patent Working Requirements and Complex Products

Download PDF here. The paper was published by JIPEL NYU Journal of Intellectual Property & Entertainment Law, Vol. 7 –...

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The Digital Protection of Traditional Knowledge: Questions Raised by the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library in India

The original report published by GISWatch can be read here. Aditya Singh Chawla, Parvathy Nair, Raji Gururaj and Balaji Subramaniam...

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National IPR Policy Series : Comments on the Proposed Intellectual Property Rights Policy to the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion

Submitted by CIS with inputs from Pranesh Prakash, Director, Nehaa Chaudhari, Programme Officer, Anubha Sinha, Programme Officer and Amulya P.,...

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Comparison of National IPR Strategy September 2012, National IPR Strategy July 2014 and Draft National IP Policy, December 2014

Nehaa Chaudhari provided inputs, analysed, reviewed and edited this blog post. As part of our IPR Policy Series, we have...

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A Guide to the Proposed India-European Union FTA

CIS_India-EU_FTA_Guide.pdf — PDF document, 186 kB (191046 bytes)

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Openness

ଓଡିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆର କର୍ମଶାଳା ଅନୁଷ୍ଠିତ ହୋଇଯାଇଛି ବୀର ସୁରେନ୍ଦ୍ର ସାଏ ବୈଷୟିକ ବିଶ୍ୱବିଦ୍ୟାଳୟ, ବୁର୍ଲାରେ

Participants seen at the Wikipedia workshop held in Click to read the original published in Odishan.com. ସମ୍ବଲପୁରର ବୁର୍ଲାଠାରେ ଥିବା ‘ବୀର...

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వికీపీడియా:సమావేశం/హైదరాబాద్/ఆగష్టు

Wikpedians are seen listening to Vishnu on Skype Click to read the original published by Telugu Wikipedia here తెలుగు వికీపీడియా...

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Will the Copyright Law Help the Starving Artist?

This article by Margherita Stancati was published in the Wall Street Journal on May 28, 2012. Pranesh Prakash is quoted...

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