India: Revised patent norms for software could impact tech start-ups

India: Revised patent norms for software could impact tech start-ups

Some warn the guidelines will promote a storm of patent litigation. Photo: Priyanka Parashar/Mint

Srikant Sreenivasan, co-founder at Mumbai-based cloud technology company CloudLeap Computing Pvt. Ltd, spent four months re-engineering something his company had already built after realizing that they had unknowingly infringed on a patent filed by a multinational company.

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