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Facebook COO Sheryl Sanderberg Meet To Narendra Modi, Promoting Facebook As Tool For Small Business

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Facebook COO Sheryl Sanderberg Meet To Narendra Modi, Promoting Facebook As Tool For Small Business. Facebook COO Sheryl Sanderberg Meet To Indian Prime Minister Narendra modi on Thursday. In June 2012, she was elected to the board of directors by the existing board members becoming the first woman to serve on Facebook's board. Before joining the Facebook, Sandberg was Vice President of Global Online Sales and Operations at Google. Sheryl Sandberg is ninth most powerful women in the world according to Forbes.

“When I used to come here in the early 1990s there was no internet. Today both in my experience at Google and now in my experience at Facebook, India is not just a place that is growing its own economy but we have one of our four global centres of operations here. We are using the talent of India to grow our business here but also to grow our business around the world.” She told in interview to CNBC-Tv18

"Indian Talent Help FB Grow" "We want to run global operations here, which will not only contribute to our local business but also globally," said Sandberg. "We look to India to contribute to our global business. We also look to India to develop our business. Every company I meet with here talks about the possibilities of growth because you can't be here and not feel possibilities for growth. We are really willing to invest here because the returns are so great to our global and local business."

Sandberg said that in many ways India was already contributing to Facebook's global operations. "There is certainly very strong engineering talent here," she said. The company on Wednesday announced a new feature called Click To Miss Call through which a Facebook user can give an advertiser a miss call and in return receive a call back. The feature was developed in India.

Narendra Modi posted on FB Page,
Had a very fruitful meeting with Sheryl Sandberg. She pointed out that India is a very important country for Facebook, considering the high number of active Facebook users in India.
Being an avid user of social media myself, I talked about ways through which a platform such as Facebook can be used for governance and better interaction between the people and governments. I also talked about how Facebook can be used to bring more tourists to India.

Sheryl also shared her words on FB Page,
"It was a privilege for me and my Facebook colleagues Marne Levine and Ankhi Das to meet with Prime Minister Narendra Modi today. The opportunity to be in India this past week has been special for me after beginning my career here on the World Bank’s India Health team 22 years ago.
Meeting Prime Minister Modi gave me the opportunity to express my personal appreciation to him for making the education of girls and women a priority as equal opportunity is essential for strengthening all economies and creating a just world. Exciting for our all-female delegation to #leanin with Prime Minister Modi.
India is important to the global economy, as well as to Facebook, and we look forward to working together on internet.org to bring the next billion people online. Access = opportunity – creating more economic, social and political opportunities for the people of India."

She also visited to Indian Facebook headquarters offices in Hyderabad and Gurgaon to meet FB employees.

Source: TimesOfIndia

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EPO prioritises newest (and oldest) files

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Not as high profile as the
newer applications

The IPKat has always been somewhat dismayed by the continued focus on reducing the delay between filing patent applications and the European Patent Office (EPO) issuing a first opinion on patentability, while ignoring the fact that there are thousands of files in the European system that have gone several years with no action, often despite pleas for attention from the applicant or attorney.

For example, it is easy to find EP cases pending for over fifteen years. These are not divisionals with "deemed" older filing dates, but rather regular cases that have been pending continuously as the years sped past. There are cases that were filed when Hong Kong was a British colony and Princess Diana was alive and well, which have had only one or two examination reports in the meantime. Cases routinely lie dormant for three to six years between an attorney filing a response and the Examiner picking up the case for the next action. Not all cases, by any stretch of the imagination, but enough to form a noticeable cohort. One can't help wondering if there are cases at the EPO that have gone the full twenty years without a decision on grant or refusal, and if so, is there a standard communication to cover this situation ...?

All of which explains why the IPKat has a mixed reaction to the latest initiative from the EPO, which aims to (once again) reduce the time to first action, while also promising to tackle the longest-pending cases. The press release reads:

New scheme to improve legal certainty on pending applications

Starting this month the EPO is introducing a new scheme to improve legal certainty on pending patent applications.

Under the "Early Certainty from Search" scheme, the EPO will aim to issue all search reports and written opinions on patentability within six months of filing; prioritise completing already started examination files over beginning new files; and expedite grants after a positive search opinion has been issued. [The IPKat wonders how prioritising old files over new ones is compatible with the aim of issuing all written opinions within six months of filing. Surely the latter goal must involve prioritising those new filings over older ones?]

The Office will seek to prioritise processing [this means PACE, the IPKat notes] on those cases where substantiated observations are filed by third parties who identify themselves. Handling of oppositions, limitations and revocations is also to be prioritised.

The new scheme will benefit companies and inventors seeking patent protection in Europe by ensuring the timely delivery of all search reports and opinions for patent applications, giving them a sound basis for their patenting strategies early on. It will also benefit the general public by enhancing the transparency of pending patent rights in Europe, providing an overview of prior art and patentability early on in the procedure.

The implementation of the scheme enjoys support from users of the patent system expressed in consultation throughout 2014.

Old Father Time, while waiting for an
exam report to issue, even manages
to finish his cricket match

Overall this initiative is welcome news, and the IPKat must praise the EPO for tackling these older files. It would even more welcome if matched by concrete time limits for issuing actions and ensuring that the same elderly applications don't subsequently go dormant (perhaps such time limits are part of this scheme behind the scenes? Maybe someone from the EPO will let us know?).

The IPKat does not believe the theory that it suits the EPO to keep old cases pending just to receive higher renewal fees. However, it is very unfortunate that the increasing cost of renewal fees year on year (rising to €1560 per annum at year 10) acts as a penalty against the applicant and as an institutional reward in favour of the EPO, intentional or not. It does not benefit the reputation of the European patent system when applicants abandon cases simply because they can't afford to keep paying renewal fees with no end date in sight.