Sunday, March 25, 2007

PROTECTION OF SEMICONDUCTOR TOPOGRAPHY

(Speech delivered at the IPR conference held on 4th February 2006 at the National Judicial Academy Bhopal.
Summary: It talks about how designs on semiconductors are protected.)

Saturday, March 24, 2007

LEVERAGING OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE

(Text of talk delivered at the 9th e-Governance conference on 3rd February 2006 at Kochi, Kerala)

FUD is an abbreviation of fear, uncertainty and doubt; it is often a salesman's strategy: spreading false rumours regarding others' products. Open source software (OSS) is its victim. In our country FUD for OSS arises out of ignorance. I am glad that, we are discussing OSS as it has crucial role to play in the IT world.

Saturday, March 17, 2007

INDIA - GLOBAL TORCH-BEARERS


(Speech delivered at the valedictory function of Manfest 2006 on 22.1.2006 at IIM Lucknow)
IIM Lucknow -picture courtesy Wikipedia


AMU Case - Fifth Point

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