Computer performance is measured in terms of the number of floating point operations per second, or FLOPS – today’s supercomputers typically clock in at several petaflops, or quadrillions of FLOPS. The Indian Patent Office’s performance with reference to Computer Related Inventions (CRIs) can be described by a similar term – flipflops. Not to be left far behind by developments in computing, the IPO also reached the quadrillion mark with its latest flipflop – amending the CRI Guidelines published in February … Continue reading Patent Office Reboots CRI Guidelines Yet Again: Removes “novel hardware” Requirement