About Him
Education
He is an alumnus of National Law School of India, where he completed his LL.M. in the year 2000.
Practice Areas
He has successfully practiced as an advocate for about 20 years and was arguing counsel in many significant cases concerning entertainment, IP, service and cyber law issues and has several reported cases to his name. He specialises in Intellectual Property, Civil and Commercial Litigation, Writs, Public Interest Litigations and Constitutional matters
Achievements
A former Technical Member (Copyrights) of the Intellectual Property Appellate Board of India (IPAB) and was part of the bench that pronounced the landmark Common Order involving issues relating to fixation of royalty rates to be paid to the respective owners of the sound recordings, under the Copyright Act, 1957. As part of the IPAB bench, he also adjudicated on various other copyright legal issues, including expanding the jurisprudence relating to the copyright infringement, the cancellation of an infringing copyright on the PETER ENGLAND logo, among others.
Resource Person & Mentor
He authored the book ‘MANUAL OF CYBER LAWS’, 2010, was Associate Editor of the Chennai Law Times (2007 to 2019) and is a sought-after speaker at various conferences on technology & IP laws. He has delivered dozens of lectures at prestigious forums like the National Judicial Academy Bhopal, Tamil Nadu Judicial Academy, National Institute of Intellectual Property Management (NIIPM) Nagpur, Entrepreneurship Development Institute Ahmedabad, Academy of Customs Excise and Narcotics (NACEN) Chennai, IIT Madras, IIT Mumbai, various National Law Schools, among others.