Indian Simmer

I was lucky enough to make a couple of extended visits to India some years back, and I still follow developments there as closely as I can. One area of particular interest is that of intellectual monopolies, where the country has a rather ambivalent attitude. Support for software patents seems to ebb and flow, and it's never quite clear to me what the final situation will be.

This finely-written piece from Intellectual Property Watch is fascinating in itself, and also seems to hold out the hope that software patents are not about to be meekly accepted - certainly not by the splendid Yatindra Singh of India's Allahabad high court, the central character of the story. But it's not just about him: there's all kinds of fascinating historical background as well as up-to-the-minute information about moves on the copyright front. There's a lot simmering away in India, it seems.