Date:19/05/2006 URL: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2006/05/19/stories/2006051900900400.htm

Back Adobe India to file for four more patents

Moumita Bakshi Chatterjee

New Delhi , May 18

With 32 applications for patents tucked firmly under its belt, the Indian Research and Development team of Adobe Systems would file for four more patents in the technology domain, in areas pertaining to content retrieval and access in media; user interface and interaction; and interactive e-mail.

"Last week, we got an internal approval from `Office of Innovation' in Adobe to file for patents for four new ideas. So the number of patent applications that we are filing from India continues to grow. So far, we have filed for 32 patents based on work done from India in areas such as mobile devices, PDF content creation, image understanding and image processing, data compressing and rich internet application, and many more are in the pipeline," Mr Naresh Gupta, Senior Vice President, Print and Classic Publishing Business Unit and Managing Director, India Research and Development of Adobe Systems, said.

He said that the patents filed per engineer in Adobe's Noida campus (which currently houses 550 professionals) was at par with the Adobe's global campuses. "We work with our legal partners while filing for patents and the filing happens in the US; depending on the value of patent we may also decide to file it in other geographies," he said.

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"There is an internal review process that happens before we decide to file for a patent. We have a set of deep technologists globally and every innovative idea is sent to 3-4 relevant experts who understand a given domain and comment on the value of patent, innovation and complexity," he said adding that the Bangalore campus — which came under Adobe's fold following the acquisition of Macromedia — filed its first patent last month.