upend their business and strike a deal their response well see you in court now with victories in the lower courts the 43year old indian disrupter is ready to topple a legacy business which he sees as predatory and having feasted on the system since the 1970s none of this was remotely on the cards for the bhopal native who lived through the union carbide disaster in 1984 he was lucky to live upwind he said in one interview before getting an engineering degree from the national institute of technology and coming to the us where he graduated from northeastern university with a degree in mechanical engineering not exactly the iitstanford pedigree that is the hallmark of many indian successes in the us but academic lineage hardly seems to matter to a man who holds more than 14 patents in fields ranging from robotics to data whose very first company navic networks an industry leader in advanced television advertising was acquired by microsoft in 2008 for a reported 250 million but all that pales before the epic nature of the upcoming supreme court battle a faceoff that will have such profound consequences on the broadcast industry in the us that organizations from the consumer electronics association to the national football league have filed amicus briefs for kanojia who says success to him is not money or fame but creating something that is distinct and meaningful april when the case will come up before the supreme court could yet be the kindest month