Intellectual Property Rights: Infringement and Remedies - a book by Ananth Padmanabhan

I’m proud to inform our readers that Ananth Padmanabhan, my friend and lawyer, has FINALLY, after four years, published his book Intellectual Property Rights: Infringement and Remedies (LexisNexis Butterworths Wadhwa 2012). Actually, in hindsight, four years is not a very long time to write a book, especially since I’m tried and failed to write a book in a much longer time span. 

Interested readers can buy the book from here at and there is a standard 10% discount for those purchasing it from the Lexis site. 

I’m yet to go through the entire book exhaustively but let me tell you what sets this book apart. Traditionally in India we have had very few books written by IP practitioners and even the existing books in the market approach the subject of IP laws in quite a dry manner, focussing more on the doctrinal than the practical. Ananth however is a veteran trial IP lawyer, at least by Indian standards and is somebody who has witnessed the practice of IP law at close quarters. His experience with the law in the courtroom reflects in his choice of topics – infringement and remedies – both of which I think are two of the most important, and most ignored aspects of IP law. 

The Author

The book is split into six chapters, each focussing on the aspect of remedies and injunctions in different fields of IP. Some of the interesting chapters, which are bound to stir the pot, are Ananth’s views or rather his criticism of the recent copyright amendments. He argues that Parliament has misfired in its attempts and that no positive right to receive royalty has been vested in favour of music composers and lyricists by the 2012 Amendment. An interesting view and I think it has the likelihood of being successful in Court. 

For those of you interested in sinking your teeth into the meaty portion of Indian IP, you should really buy the book.