Kalyan Chakravarthy Kankanala
Indian lawyer
Kalyan Chakravarthy Kankanala (born 4 July 1978, in Gurazala, Andhra Pradesh) is an Indian author and intellectual property attorney. He writes both non-fictional and fictional books on intellectual property and patent law. Kalyan is an Advisory Board member of the Centre for Excellence in IP and Standards at National Law School of India University.
Biography
Early life
Kalyan attended Loyola Public School near Guntur, India, after which he went to a medical school. A genetic eye disorder characterized by progressive loss of vision, forced him to pull out of the medical course, following which he decided to pursue law. He holds a Bachelor in Law degree from Osmania University and a masters in intellectual property law degree at the Franklin Pierce Law Center. He obtained a doctorate in patent law, with specialization in genomics, from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore.
Career
Kalyan started his writing career with his first book, Genetic Patent Law and Strategy, and later wrote Indian Patent Law and Practice, and wrote Indian Patent Law and Practice, published by the Oxford University Press.
Subsequently he ventured into legal fiction. His first fiction novel, Road Humps and Sidewalks, was a legal thriller about pharmaceutical drugs, patents and healthcare, all highly debated topics in the Indian context.
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