Rodney D. Ryder
Of Counsel
Rodney D. Ryder is a lawyer with over twenty five years of experience in Technology, Data Privacy, Intellectual Property and New Media Laws, specialising in technology, new media and intellectual property laws.
He is the author of Guide to Cyber Laws: the Information Technology Act, 2000, E-Commerce, Data Protection and the Internet, the first section-wise analysis of the Indian Information Technology Act, 2000. He is presently Advisor to the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India on the implementation of the Information Technology Act, 2000.
Mr. Ryder excels in litigation regarding technology law, data security, compliance with law enforcement and intellectual property strategy. He is widely quoted by Indian and International media on technology, intellectual property and new media laws.
His second book, Intellectual Property and the Internet [published by LexisNexis] has been acknowledged to be an authoritative work on domain name disputes by the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India and has been quoted in the first and only judgement by the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India on domain names [Satyam Infoway Ltd. v. Sifynet Solutions Pvt. Ltd.; (2004) 6 SCC 145]. He is advisor to the National Internet Exchange of India [NIXI] and a member of the panel of independent and neutral arbitrators with NIXI.