Hemalatha Parasa Ramulu

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Hemalatha is a litigator specialising in IP, life sciences and healthcare including product liability.

Her practice includes a variety of areas of advisory and litigation, focusing on intellectual property law and product liability. She has represented a variety of clients ranging from small to medium scaled industries as well as large multinational companies on a number of complex and high value intellectual property matters including patent, copyright, industrial design and trade mark infringement, passing off, trade libel, malicious falsehood, domain name disputes and so forth. She has also represented pharmaceutical companies involving a variety of high profile and complex product liability litigation and provided advisory work on complex product liability issues involving car parts and car manufacturers.

She has been noted in the Legal 500 of Asia-Pacific for many years for her intellectual property work done for Dart Industries Inc and their subsidiary, Tupperware Brands Malaysia Sdn Bhd.

She is a certified member of the Malaysian Mediators Centre, a Mediator empanelled with the World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO) based in Geneva, Switzerland and also serves as a Domain Name Dispute Resolution Panellist at the AIAC.

Practice Areas

- IP Litigation and Enforcement

- Life Sciences and Healthcare

- Product Liability

- General and Alternative Dispute Resolution

Professional Memberships

- Panel of Accredited Mediators, Malaysian Mediation Centre

- Domain Name Dispute Resolution Panellist, Asian International Arbitration Centre

- Mediator empanelled with the World Intellectual Property Office(WIPO)

- Member, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb)

- Member, Malaysian Bar Intellectual Property Committee

- Member, Malaysian Bar Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee

Publications

- Author, "The changing landscape of product liability law", Asian Alternative Dispute Resolution Week 2018 Conference booklet.

- Author, "Functionality and Visibility in Design Patent (Registration) in Malaysia", part of the Data Bank for Intellectual Property Information from Emerging Nations on the invitation of NGB and JPO/INPIT, 2017.

- Co-author, Practice Guidance Module on “Dispute Resolution: Mediation”, LexisNexis, 2016.

- Author, “Are Spare Parts Protected as Registered Designs?”, Skrine’s Legal Insights Issue 4/2015.

- Author, “What Maketh a Bottle? – F & N Dairies v Tropicana Inc and other appeals”, World Intellectual Property Reports 2014, Bloomberg BNA.