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.…

My talk about software licenses in PyCon India

The title for my talk was "The trends in choosing licenses in Python ecosystem". As a lawyer what interests me is the legal foundation of the open source world. It is the licenses, which defines the reach of the software. Most of the developers would frown their eyebrows…

See you PyLadies at PyCon India

PyCon India 2016 has started today. The Day 0 was the devsprint. Reached the venue late ( actually never thought would be able to attend due to my food pipe infection issue). Met friends which is one of the most attractive point of attending the conference apart from learning new things…

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…