About the Authors
Dr. Ramakrishna is a Professor of Law at the National Law School of India University (NLSIU). He was a Lecturer
from 1979-1988, Reader in Law from 1988-1994, Professor of Law from 1995-2002, and Principal of
Vidyavardhaka Law College, Mysore during 1992-2002. He was Visiting Faculty at the Depar tment of Post-
graduate Studies & Research in Law, Mysore University, and Karnataka Police Academy between 1990 and
2002. He joined the NLSIU as an Additional Professor of Law in 2002 and was promoted as Professor of Law in
2006. Presently he holds the Intellectual Property Rights Chair [IPR Chair] of the Ministry of Human Resources
and Development at the NLSIU and he is the Coordinator of the Centre of Intellectual Proper ty Rights Research
and Advocacy [CIPRA] at the NLSIU. Currently he is the Chairman of Post-Graduate Council. His areas of
specialization include Intellectual Property Rights Law, International Law, Criminal Law and Law of Evidence. He
visited University of Sussex, UK, under the DFID Project, WTO and WIPO in Geneva, Switzerland to participate in
the Colloquium on IPR, USA at the invitation of the US Department of Justice for studying the IPR enforcement
models in US, Germany to participate in the Indo-German Colloquium on IP and the meeting of the Conference
of Parties (CoP) of CBD. He has participated in the IPR workshop organized by Ministry of Economy, Trade and
Industry (METI), Japan and delivered lecture on IPR issues at Japan, Kyoto and Osaka. He participated as part of
Indian delegation in the Meeting of the ‘STANDING COMMITTEE ON COPYRIGHT AND RELATED RIGHTS’ at
Geneva. He also participated in the “Global Meeting on Emerging Copyright Licensing Modalities—Facilitating
Access to Culture in the Digital Age” organized in Geneva and spoke on ‘Making orphan works: A Licensing
Solution’?. He participated in the International Workshop on ‘STANDARDS, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND
COMPETITION LAW” in Phoenix, Arizona State, USA, organized by Sandra D’Oconnor Law College, Arizona State
University, USA and made presentation on the Indian position.
Dr. S K Murthy (SK) is a patent attorney at Intel Technology India Pvt. Ltd in India and he has exposure to Indian
and US patent laws. His primary areas of focus are IP and antitrust interface in Standards, patent preparation
and prosecution; training to enhance IP awareness such other patent related issues. His interests also include
developing strategies for inculcating, developing, and sustaining IP culture and patent management. He is a
qualified Indian patent agent with an engineering and legal background. He has about 10 years of experience in
practicing patent law and has a total of 18 years of experience. He is an invited speaker on Intellectual Property
(IP). He is also a co-author on a title: “Bio-medical Engineering” used as a reference material in undergraduate
engineering program. He is a co-founder of In-house IP professionals (I-HIPP) Forum, which has provided a
platform for in-house IP professionals of more than 20 Indian and multi-national companies to share ideas,
best-known methods and to act as a think tank for IP policy advocacy in India. He has been instrumental is
preparing submissions on draft patent manual prepared by the Indian patent office and draft national
competition policy prepared by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Union Government of India. He has a
Bachelors degree in instrumentation engineering, masters degree in electronics and communication
engineering, a doctoral degree in computer science, a post graduate diploma in IPRs, a law degree and he is
presently pursuing PhD studies at the NLSIU.
Saurabh Malhotra is an Advocate registered with the Bar Council of India, Solicitor - England & Wales (not
practicing). He is currently working as Legal Counsel, SMG South Asia, Intel, Bangalore for more than 5yrs. He
has been practicing in the IT sector- Wipro, Infosys and Intel for more than 7yrs. Before entering IT sector, he
worked for several years as a commercial litigation lawyer and worked with Andersen Legal, Mumbai. He has
authored various articles on Indian legal issues relating to constitution and commercial laws. He loves cricket
and an active member of Intel Cricket team in India. He has secured LLM–Univ. of Warwick, UK and B.A. LL.B
(Hons.) - National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India.