Printcare Group & Others vs Mudali Peruge Manel Rupa Ranjani Kulatunga & Another – SC CHC APPEAL 05/2013-2024

In the case between Mudali Peruge Manel Rupa Ranjani Kulatunga and Gamini Dharmabandu Sudasinghe (Plaintiffs) and Printcare Group, Printcare Packaging (Pvt) Ltd, and Niranjan Aluvihare (Defendants), the court addressed the issue of contractual royalty payments for textbook reprints under the agreement marked ‘Pe1’. The holding determined that the Defendants were obligated to pay royalties for the 2008 reprint of Health and Physical Science textbooks, based on the interpretation of the agreement and related bidding documents. The principle reaffirmed was that contractual obligations pertaining to the transfer of economic rights and royalty payments under the Intellectual Property Act and the Civil Procedure Code must be observed and can be judicially enforced. The decision emphasized that t