Gnome wins the battle against the patent troll

The Gnome Foundation settled the dispute with Rothschild Patent Imaging (RPIL), RPIL agrees not to sue Gnome further for any intellectual property infringement. RPIL also signed to an undertaking to that effect. In the last week of September 2019, Rothschild Patent Imaging (RPIL) filed a lawsuit against the Gnome Foundation.…

D DAY, speaking for the first time at FOSSASIA 2016

I may divide the whole FOSSASIA 2016 [http://2016.fossasia.org/] into two parts day 0 and 2 [http://anweshadas.in/the-conference-with-a-toddler/] and day 1, the day when was my talk. This was the first time while I was giving a talk in FOSS conference. The title for my talk…

Software patents part 2

Read part one here [http://anweshadas.in/patents-in-simple-terms/]. Office which grants patent application and deals with related matters Before going to further discussion it is pertinent to mention here that generally the trademark and patent office grants the application for patent. United States of America In US the patent office…

Patents in simple terms

Definition of Intellectual Property Intellectual Property as it is very much evident from the term itself it deals with the property created through one's intellect. Intellectual Property Rights are the monopoly assigned by the Government to the designated owner of the respective intellectual property right.World Intellectual Property…