About
Chamindi Ekanayake is Head of Department: Intellectual Property at Nithya Partners, specialising in intellectual property law and a key figure in building the firm's IP practice since joining in 2008. She advises local and foreign clients on IP and cross-border transactions, portfolio management and monetization, represents clients in opposition hearings, and is a trained patent drafter (Japanese Patent Office); she was admitted as an Attorney-at-Law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka in 2008.
Practice areas
Intellectual PropertyPatentsIP TransactionsIntellectual Property Litigation
Office
Expertise
Patent Drafting (trained at the Japanese Patent Office)IP Portfolio Management & MonetizationOpposition ProceedingsCross-border IP TransactionsIP Research, Publications & Presentations
Education
- LL.B (Hons), University of Colombo
- LL.M, University of Colombo
- MBA (Finance), University of Colombo
Admissions
- Attorney-at-Law, Supreme Court of Sri Lanka (admitted 2008)
- Member, Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL)
Languages
EnglishSinhala