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Current Activities of the Society for Knowledge Commons
This is an ongoing campaign in select schools in Delhi, and involves conduct of interactive workshops with teachers and providing schools with technical backup to encourage use of such software
 * 1) Organisation of Seminars
 * 2) Titled “Science Commons” at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in January, 2008
 * 3) Titled “Collaborative Innovation for Development: Enlarging the Global Commons” at India Habitat Centre in December, 2008.
 * 4) Technical Submissions
 * 5) Comments to the Standing Committee of Parliament on Science, Technology, Environment and Forests on the bill titled “The Protection and Utilization of Publicly Funded Intellectual Property Bill, 2008”.
 * 6) Comments to Department of Information Technology on Draft Policy on Open Standards for e-Governance
 * 7) Research
 * 8) Research on Intellectual Property Rights and the Indian Patents Law
 * 9) Pre Grant Oppositions to Software Patents
 * 10) A database of software patents that have been filed is being created, and the same are being analysed to assess public impact if granted and their technical specifications so as to gauge if they fulfill the patentability criteria as laid down by the Indian Patent Act. The process also involves close interaction with the Patent office so as to receive certified copies of Patents filed. The first pre-grant opposition to a software patent application in India has been filed, and others are in the pipeline.
 * 11) Campaign to promote use of Free and Open source Software in schools