For the convenience of readers looking to purchase books on various facets of Intellectual Property law and policy, we’ve put together a crowd-sourced list of commonly recommended or commonly referenced books – from Indian authors as well as foreign authors. We hope that this list will act as a tool of convenience for those who are looking to peruse and purchase IP books, given the lack of any existing indices for the same. We’ve included common IP text books, reference books, and even a few IP fiction books! The books are listed out in no particular order, and the list will continue to be updated periodically.
Readers may also be interested to know that we have also listed several Open Access IP textbooks here. Some of the books in the list below may also be available in an Open Access format – we request those interested to please cross-check that for yourselves rather than assuming it is available only in the manner we have linked to here.
As both these lists are being provided to help readers know about the various IP books out there, the presence of a book on either of these lists does not mean SpicyIP endorses the contents or quality of it. As such, we encourage readers to rely on their own judgment before making purchases, and to also let us know if we’ve made any mistakes with the details provided. We also encourage readers to let us know if there are any notable books which they think can be added to this list.
| Author/Editor |
Title |
Publisher |
Date |
Subject Matter |
Indian PoV |
Foreign PoV |
| Simon Klopschinski, Christopher Gibson & Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan |
(Amazon link)
|
OUP Oxford |
23 Dec 2020 |
Trademark, Patent, Others |
No |
Yes |
| Adarsh Ramanujan |
(Amazon link)
|
Wolters Kluwer India Pvt. Ltd |
1 Sep 2020 |
Patent |
Yes |
No |
| Dr. Betsy Vinolia Rajasingh |
Digital Copyright Law : A Comparative Study of the Limitations and Exceptions Relating to Education (Amazon link) |
Thomson Reuters |
1 Jan 2020 |
Copyright |
Yes |
No |
| Eashan Ghosh |
Imperfect Recollections : The Indian Supreme Court on Trade Mark Law (Amazon link) |
Thomson Reuters |
1 Jan 2020 |
Trademark |
Yes |
No |
| Anil Gupta |
Grassroots Innovation: Minds On the Margin Are Not Marginal (Amazon link) |
Penguin Random House India |
11 Jul 2016 |
Innovation |
Yes |
No |
| Evgeny Morozov |
To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism (Amazon link) |
PublicAffairs |
4 Mar 2014 |
Innovation, Technology |
No |
Yes |
| H.K. Saharay |
Iyengar’s Commentary on the Copyright Act (Amazon link) |
Universal Law Publishing |
1 Jul 2016 |
Copyright |
Yes |
No |
| Feroz Ali |
The Access Regime: Patent Law Reforms for Affordable Medicines Hardcover (Amazon link) |
OUP |
21 Dec 2015 |
Patents |
Yes |
No |
| Neil Wilkof & Shamnad Basheer (eds.) |
Overlapping Intellectual Property Rights (Amazon link) |
OUP |
12 Jul 2013 |
Patents, Copyright, Trademarks, GI/TK, Others |
Yes |
Yes |
| Prashant T. Reddy & Sumathi Chandrashekaran |
Create, Copy, Disrupt: India’s Intellectual Property Dilemmas (Amazon link) |
OUP India |
23 Dec 2016 |
Patents, Copyright, Trademarks, GI/TK, Others |
Yes |
No |
| Kung-Chung Liu & Uday Racherla (eds.) |
Innovation, Economic Development, and Intellectual Property in India and China: Comparing Six Economic Sectors (Amazon link) |
Springer |
6 Sep 2019 |
Patents, Copyright, Trademarks, GI/TK, Others |
Yes |
Yes |
| P. Narayanan |
Patent Law (Amazon link) |
Eastern Law House |
1 Jan 2017 |
Patents |
Yes |
No |
| P. Narayanan |
Intellectual Property Law (Amazon link) |
Eastern Law House |
1 Jan 2018 |
Patent, Trademark, Copyright |
Yes |
No |
| Dr. BL Wadhera |
Law Relating to Intellectual Property (Amazon link) |
Universal Law Publishing |
1 Jan 2016 |
Patent, Trademark, Copyright |
Yes |
No |
| Ramakrishna B & Anil Kumar HS |
Fundamentals of Intellectual Property Rights (Amazon link) |
Notion Press |
1 Jan 2017 |
Patent, Copyright, Trademark, GI/TK |
Yes |
No |
| Dr. MK Bhandari |
Law Relating to Intellectual Property Rights (Amazon link) |
Central Law Publications |
1 Jan 2017 |
Patent, Trademark, Copyright |
Yes |
No |
| Ashwin Madhavan & Rodney Ryder |
Intellectual Property – Law and Management (Amazon link) |
Bloomsbury India |
15 Oct 2018 |
Patent, Copyright, Trademark, GI/TK, Others |
Yes |
No |
| KD Raju |
The Intellectual Property Rights & Competition Law: A Comparative Analysis (Amazon link) |
Eastern Law House |
1 Jan 2015 |
Others |
Yes |
No |
| VK Ahuja |
Law Of Copyright And Neighbouring Rights – National And International Perspectives (Amazon link) |
Lexis Nexis |
1 Feb 2015 |
Copyright |
Yes |
No |
| P. Narayanan |
Law of Copyright and Industrial Designs (Amazon link) |
Eastern Law House |
1 Jan 2017 |
Copyright |
Yes |
No |
| Arul George Scaria |
Piracy in the Indian Film Industry: Copyright and Cultural Consonance (Amazon link) |
Cambridge University Press |
15 May 2014 |
Copyright |
Yes |
No |
| P. Narayanan |
Law of Trade Marks and Passing Off (Amazon link) |
Eastern Law House Pvt. Ltd. |
1 Jan 2017 |
Trademark |
Yes |
No |
| Venkateswaran & K.C. Kailasam |
Trade Marks And Passing-Off (Amazon link) |
Lexis Nexis |
28 Sep 2015 |
Trademark |
Yes |
No |
| K.C. Kailasam & Ramu Vedaraman |
Law Of Trademarks Including International Registration Under Madrid Protocol & Geographical Indications (Amazon link) |
Lexis Nexis |
1 Jul 2013 |
Trademark, GI/TK, Others |
Yes |
No |
| Iyengar |
Trade Marks Act: Including Schedules, Rules, Notifications, Treaties, Conventions and Much More (Amazon link) |
Universal Law Publishing |
1 Jan 2011 |
Trademark |
Yes |
No |
| Feroz Ali |
The Law Of Patents-With A Special Focus On Pharmaceuticals In India (Amazon link) |
Lexis Nexis |
1 Jan 2011 |
Patent |
Yes |
No |
| Feroz Ali |
The Touchstone Effect (The Impact Of Pre-Grant Opposition On Patents) (Amazon link) |
Lexis Nexis |
1 Jan 2008 |
Patent |
Yes |
No |
| Dr. KC Kankanala, Arun K Narasani & Vinita Radhakrishnan |
Indian Patent Law and Practice (Amazon link) |
OUP |
13 Aug 2012 |
Patent |
Yes |
No |
| Intellectual’s Society for Entrepreneurship and Research Development |
Patent Agent Examination (Amazon link) |
Orange Books Publication |
1 Jan 2020 |
Patent |
Yes |
No |
| Dr. Sheetal Chopra |
A Book on Indian Patenting System and Patent Agent (Amazon link) |
Notion Press |
1 Jan 2018 |
Patent |
Yes |
No |
| N.R. Subbaram |
Patent Law Practices & Procedures (Amazon link) |
Lexis Nexis |
1 Jan 2007 |
Patent |
Yes |
No |
| Manish Arora |
Universal’s Guide to Patents Law (Amazon link) |
Universal Law Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd. |
1 Jan 2007 |
Patent |
Yes |
No |
| Jayashree Watal |
Intellectual Property Rights: The Way Forward for Developing Countries (Amazon link) |
Oxford University Press |
23 Jul 2003 |
Others |
Yes |
Yes |
| Jayashree Watal |
Intellectual Property Rights in the WTO and Developing Countries (Amazon link) |
Kluwer Law International |
23 Feb 2001 |
Others |
Yes |
Yes |
| Retd J. Prabha Sridevan |
Of Vineyard Equality (Amazon link) |
LEXLAB |
1 Jan 2016 |
Others |
Yes |
|
| VK Unni |
Trade Mark and the Emerging Concepts of Cyber Property Rights (Amazon link) |
Eastern Law House |
1 Jan 2005 |
Trademark, Others |
Yes |
No |
| Ashish Bharadwaj, Vishwas Devaiah & Indranath Gupta |
Multi-dimensional Approaches Towards New Technology: Insights on Innovation, Patents and Competition (Amazon link) |
Springer |
23 Jul 2018 |
Patents, Others |
Yes |
Yes |
| Ashish Bharadwaj, Vishwas Devaiah & Indranath Gupta |
Complications and Quandaries in the ICT Sector: Standard Essential Patents and Competition Issues (Amazon link) |
Springer |
27 Oct 2017 |
Patents, Others |
Yes |
Yes |
| Rajshree Chandra |
The Cunning of Rights: Law, Life, Bio cultures (Amazon link) |
Oxford University Press |
21 Jan 2016 |
GI/TK, Others |
Yes |
Yes |
| Arul George Scaria |
Ambush Marketing: Game Within a Game (Amazon link) |
Oxford University Press |
1 Jan 2008 |
Trademark, Others |
Yes |
Yes |
| Anirban Mazumder |
Database Law: Perspectives from India (Amazon link) |
Springer |
26 Aug 2016 |
Copyright |
Yes |
Yes |
| Ananth Padmanabhan |
Intellectual Property Rights-Infringement And Remedies (Amazon link) |
Lexis Nexis |
1 Jan 2012 |
Patent, Copyright, Trademark, GI/TK, Others |
Yes |
Yes |
| Harbir Singh (Editor) & Ananth Padmanabhan (Editor), Ezekiel J. Emanuel |
India as a Pioneer of Innovation Hardcover (Amazon link) |
OUP India |
1 Jan 2016 |
Others |
Yes |
Yes |
| Elizabeth Verkey |
Law of Patents (Amazon link) |
Eastern Book Company |
17 Jan 2005 |
Patent |
Yes |
Yes |
| Prabhuda Ganguli |
Intellectual Property Rights: Unleashing the Knowledge Economy (Amazon link) |
McGraw Hill Education |
1 Jul 2017 |
Others |
Yes |
Yes |
| Prabhuda Ganguli & Siddharth Jabade |
Nanotechnology Intellectual Property Rights: Research, Design, and Commercialization (Perspectives in Nanotechnology) (Amazon link) |
CRC Press |
5 Jul 2012 |
Patents, Others |
Yes |
Yes |
| Prabhuda Ganguli, Ben Pickril & Rita Khanna |
Technology Transfer in Biotechnology: A Global Perspective Hardcover (Amazon link) |
Wiley VCH |
22 Apr 2009 |
Patents, Others |
Yes |
Yes |
| Lawrence Lessig |
Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity (Amazon link) |
Penguin USA |
22 Feb 2005 |
Copyright |
No |
Yes |
| Estelle Derclaye (ed.) |
The Copyright/Design Interface: Past, Present and Future (Amazon link) |
Cambridge University Press |
8 Mar 2018 |
Copyright, Others |
No |
Yes |
| Christoph Anton & Reto Hilty (eds.) |
Intellectual Property and Free Trade Agreements in the Asia-Pacific Region (Amazon link) |
Springer Nature |
17 Dec 2014 |
Others |
No |
Yes |
| Wei Zhuang |
Intellectual Property Rights and Climate Change: Interpreting the TRIPS Agreement for Environmentally Sound Technologies (Amazon link) |
Cambridge University Press |
8 Aug 2019 |
Others |
No |
Yes |
| Neil Weinstock Netanel |
Copyright’s Paradox (Amazon link) |
Oxford University Press |
7 May 2008 |
Copyright |
No |
Yes |
| Paul Goldstein & P. Bernt Hugenholtz |
International Copyright: Principles, Law, and Practice (Amazon link) |
OUP USA |
14 Oct 2019 |
Copyright |
No |
Yes |
| Graham Greenleaf & David Lindsay |
Public Rights: Copyright’s Public Domains (Amazon link) |
Cambridge University Press |
29 Aug 2019 |
Copyright |
No |
Yes |
| Peter Baldwin |
The Copyright Wars – Three Centuries of Trans–Atlantic Battle (Amazon link) |
Princeton University Press |
3 Oct 2014 |
Copyright |
No |
Yes |
| Lionel Bently, Brad Sherman, Dev Gangjee & Phillip Johnson |
Intellectual Property Law (Amazon link) |
OUP, Oxford |
4 Sep 2018 |
Patent, Copyright, Trademark, GI/TK, Others |
No |
Yes |
| UNCTAD-ICTSD |
Resource Book on TRIPS and Development (Amazon link) |
Cambridge University Press |
7 Apr 2005 |
Others |
No |
Yes |
| Paul Torremans |
Holyoak and Torremans Intellectual Property Law (Amazon link) |
OUP Oxford |
2 Jul 2019 |
Patent, Copyright, Trademark, Others |
No |
Yes |
| David Keeling, David Llewelyn & James Mellor |
Kerly’s Law of Trade Marks and Trade Names (Amazon link) |
Sweet & Maxwell |
31 Oct 2017 |
Trademark |
No |
Yes |
| Graeme Dinwoodie & Mark D. Janis |
Trademarks and Unfair Competition: Law and Policy (Amazon link) |
Wolters Kluwer Law & Business |
14 Sep 2018 |
Trademark |
No |
Yes |
| Jane Ginsburg, Jessica Litman & Mary Kevlin |
Trademark and Unfair Competition Law: Cases and Materials (Amazon link) |
Carolina Academic Pr |
3 Jun 2013 |
Trademark, Others |
No |
Yes |
| Annette Kur & Martin Senftleben |
European Trade Mark Law (Amazon link) |
OUP, Oxford |
2 Mar 2017 |
Trademark |
No |
Yes |
| Justine Pila & Paul Torremans |
European Intellectual Property Law (Amazon link) |
OUP, Oxford |
7 Jan 2016 |
Patent, Copyright, Trademark, Others |
No |
Yes |
| David Barnett |
Brand Protection in the Online World: A Comprehensive Guide (Amazon link) |
Kogan Page3 Dec 2016 |
3 Dec 2016 |
Copyright, Trademark, Others |
No |
Yes |
| Nuno Pires de Carvalho |
The TRIPS Regime of Trademarks and Designs (Amazon link) |
Kluwer Law International |
7 Dec 2018 |
Trademark, Others |
No |
Yes |
| Justine Pila |
The Subject Matter of Intellectual Property (Amazon link) |
OUP, Oxford |
14th Sep 2017 |
Patent, Copyright, Trademark, Others |
No |
Yes |
| Irene Calboli & Edward Lee (eds.) |
Research Handbook on Intellectual Property Exhaustion and Parallel Imports (Amazon link) |
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd |
24 Jun 2016 |
Others |
No |
Yes |
| Ruth Okediji & Marco Bagley (eds.) |
Patent Law in Global Perspective (Amazon link) |
Oxford University Press |
9 May 2014 |
Patent |
No |
Yes |
| Rami Olwan |
Intellectual Property and Development: Theory and Practice (Amazon link) |
Springer |
27 Mar 2013 |
Others |
No |
Yes |
| Rochelle Dreyfuss & Justine Pila (eds.) |
The Oxford Handbook of Intellectual Property Law (Amazon link) |
OUP Oxford |
19 Apr 2018 |
Patent, Copyright, Trademark, Others |
No |
Yes |
| Paul Goldstein |
Copyright’s Highway: From the Printing Press to the Cloud (Amazon link) |
Stanford University Press |
1 Jan 2016 |
Copyright |
No |
Yes |
| Antony Taubman, Hannu Wager & Jayashree Watal |
A Handbook on the WTO TRIPS Agreement (Amazon link) |
Cambridge University Press |
26 Apr 2012 |
Patent, Copyright, Trademark, GI/TK, Others |
No |
Yes |
| Srividhya Ragavan |
Patent and Trade Disparities in Developing Countries (Amazon link) |
Oxford University Press |
12 Oct 2012 |
Patent and Others |
No |
Yes |
| Mariana Mazzucato |
The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths (Amazon link) |
Penguin |
22 Mar 2018 |
Others |
No |
Yes |
| Irene Calboli & Srividhya Ragavan (eds.) |
Diversity in Intellectual Property: Identities, Interests, and Intersections (Amazon link) |
Cambridge University Press |
28 May 2015 |
Patent, Copyright, Trademark, GI/TK, Others |
Yes |
Yes |
| Andrew Waugh, Tom Mitcheson & Colin Birss |
Terrell on the Law of Patents Mainwork & 3rd Supplement (Amazon link) |
Sweet & Maxwell |
21 Mar 2017 |
Patent |
No |
Yes |
| Paul Goldstein |
Errors and Omissions (Amazon link) |
Anchor |
10 July 2007 |
Others |
No |
No |
| Paul Goldstein |
Secret Justice: A Novel (Amazon link) |
Ankerwycke |
7 Mar 2016 |
Others |
No |
No |
| James Daily & Ryan Davidson |
The Law of Superheroes (Amazon link) |
Penguin USA |
1 Oct 2013 |
Others |
No |
No |
| Christopher Heath, Anselm Kamperman Sanders & Anke Moerland |
Intellectual Property Law and the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Amazon link) |
Kluwer Law International |
22 May 2020 |
Others |
No |
Yes |
| Graham Dutfield & Uma Suthersanen |
Global Intellectual Property Law (Amazon link) |
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd |
25 Sep 2008 |
Patent, Copyright, Trademark, GI/TK, Other |
No |
Yes |
| Mevile Nimmer & David Nimmer |
Nimmer on Copyright (Amazon link) |
Nagpur Lexis Nexis Butterworths Wadhwa/ Matthew Bender Allied Products |
2010 |
Copyright |
No |
Yes |
| Latha Nair & Rajendra Kumar |
Geographical Indications: a search for identity (Amazon link) |
Lexis Nexis Butterworths Wadhwa |
2005 |
GI |
Yes |
Yes |
| Shyamkrishna Balganesh |
Intellectual property and the common law (Amazon link) |
Cambridge University Press |
2 Sep 2013 |
Others |
No |
Yes |
| William M. Landes & Richard A. Posner |
The Economic Structure of Intellectual Property Law (Amazon link) |
Harvard University Press |
2003 |
Others |
No |
Yes |
| Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss & Jane C. Ginsburg (eds.) |
Intellectual Property at the Edge The Contested Contours (Amazon link) |
Cambridge University Press |
2014 |
Patent, Copyright, Trademark, GI/TK, Other |
No |
Yes |
| Laurence R. Helfer & Graeme W. Austin |
Human Rights and Intellectual Property Mapping the Global Interface (Amazon link) |
Cambridge University Press |
7 Mar 2011 |
Others |
No |
Yes |
| Daniel Gervais (auth.), Josef Drexl, Henning Grosse Ruse – Khan & Souheir Nadde-Phlix (eds.) |
EU Bilateral Trade Agreements and Intellectual Property For Better or Worse by Daniel Gervais (auth.), Josef Drexl, Henning Grosse Ruse – Khan, Souheir Nadde-Phlix (eds.) (Amazon link) |
Springer |
19 Nov 2013 |
Others |
No |
Yes |
| Graeme B. Dinwoodie & Rochelle C. Dreyfuss |
A Neofederalist Vision of TRIPS: The Resilience of the International Intellectual Property Regime (Amazon link) |
OUP |
2012 |
Others |
No |
Yes |
| Daniel J. Gervais |
International Intellectual Property A Handbook of Contemporary Research (Amazon link) |
Edward Elgar Publishing |
2015 |
Patent, Copyright, Trademark, GI/TK, Other |
No |
Yes |
| Frederick M., Abbott Thomas & Cottier Francis Gurry |
International Intellectual Property in an Integrated World Economy (Aspen Casebook Series) (Amazon link) |
Wolter Kluwers |
2019 |
Patent, Copyright, Trademark, |
No |
Yes |
| Susan Sell |
Private Power, Public Law: The Globalization of Intellectual Property Rights (Amazon link) |
Cambridge University Press |
2003 |
TRIPS, Others |
No |
Yes |
| Suzanne Scotchmer |
Innovation and Incentives (Amazon link) |
MIT Press |
2006 |
Others |
No |
Yes |
[Last updated on May 26, 2021]
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