I also want to thank techgoss.com for highlighting this petition on their blog in two punchy pieces, authored by Bala Shah. I enclose an extract below:
“The Indian Patent Office, like its counterparts in the world, has been set up to serve the public. Essentially, this involves in striving for an honest balance between the clever people/business who invent new ideas/machines to make our lives better and the general public (like you and me) which pays to use these goods and services.
That is the theory. In reality, every Indian Government is hampered by lack of funds and sometimes thuggish interference by its political masters.
One of India’s most credible and popular legal blogs SpicyIP is actively campaigning to ‘engage’ the Indian Patent Office to serve the best interests of the Indian public. One of the elements of their petition is promote open source. Any such public activism for the larger good of the masses should be encouraged and supported in every way.”
We couldn’t have put it better. Thank you very much for that wonderful encapsulation of what we are trying to achieve, Bala. Like you, we remain hopeful that in some years, the Indian patent office will earn the distinction of publishing the most amount of patent information anywhere in the world.
