Research Interests

  • Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation
  • Competition, Anti-trust Law, and Consumer Protection
  • Protection of Biotechnological Inventions
  • E-Commerce and Information Technology Law
  • Interface of Human Rights Law and Intellectual Property
  • European and WTO Law
  • Entertainment Law

Research Experience

  • Utility Model Protection-A Feasible Option for Incentivising Incremental Innovation

    Researcher

    Researcher in an international study on ‘Utility Model Protection-A Feasible

    Option for Incentivising Incremental Innovation?’ for the World Intellectual

    Property Organisation in 2012 (This study was conducted with Dr Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan, Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute).

  • Designing a Second-Tier Protection System to Promote Innovation of SMEs: South Asian and Sri Lankan Perspectives

    Research paper

    Presented a research paper on “Designing a Second-Tier Protection System to Promote Innovation of SMEs: South Asian and Sri Lankan Perspectives” in the Doctoral Conference of the European Intellectual Property Institutes Network (EIPIN), February 2012, Munich, Germany.

  • Utility Models Instead of Patents

    Research paper

    Presented a research paper on “Utility Models Instead of Patents” in an international conference on Innovation, Creativity and IP Policy at the National University of Juridical Science, Kolkata, India. This conference was organized by the NUJS IP Chair in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich, Germany

  • Discovery Proceedings in Enforcement in the US and in Europe

    Team Report

    Research contribution to the EIPIN Team Report on Discovery Proceedings in Enforcement in the US and in Europe, 2009

  • Review of the Official Language policy and Practice in Sri Lanka

    Assistant Researcher

    Assistant Researcher in the Research project on the Review of the Official Language policy and Practice in Sri Lanka, 2006. (This research was conducted under the guidance of Mr. N. Selvakkumaran, Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Colombo.)

  • Maintenance Act No. 37 of 1999

    Researcher

    Researcher in the project conducted by the Ministry of Justice on the Maintenance Act No. 37 of 1999. (This research was conducted under the guidance of Professor Sharya Scharenguivel, Faculty of Law,University of Colombo.)

Graduate Supervision

  • Thesis Supervisor, MPhil/PhD in Management and Business Studies Program, Faculty of Management and Finance, University of Colombo
  • Thesis Supervisor, MPhil/PhD in Law Program, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Colombo
  • Supervisor of Master of Law candidates, Faculty of Law, University of Colombo
  • Supervisor of Post Graduate Diploma in Peace and Conflict Studies and Postgraduate Diploma in Human Rights Programme, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Colombo
  • Available for supervision of MPhil and PhD candidates