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Trends and Developments Contributed by: Pravin Anand, Vaishali Mittal and Gursimran Singh Narula Anand and Anand Anand and Anand is a full-service intellectual prop ‑ erty (IP) law firm that provides all-round IP solutions, with a focus on developing new laws and the pre ‑ cision navigation of grey areas. The firm provides a comprehensive IP service encompassing protection, enforcement, advisory, licensing and dispute resolu ‑ tion, with a talent pool of 400 multi-disciplinary pro ‑ fessionals well versed in a range of sectors, includ ‑ ing IP; arbitration and ADR; copyright; customs law; digital practice (AI); data protection; healthcare and
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pharmaceuticals; licensing and franchising; litigation; patent and designs; technology, media and telecom ‑ munications; trade marks; white-collar crime; and brand advisory, to name a few. Credited with suc ‑ cessful lawsuits that have transformed the IP land ‑ scape in India, the firm’s litigation arm has decades of unmatched experience in dispute resolution. It has maintained a patent grant rate of about 98%, and its trade mark team has recorded over 2,000 successful trade mark oppositions on average per year.
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Pravin Anand is a managing partner and head of litigation at Anand and Anand, and has experience of appearing in more than 5,000 cases and successfully resolving many hundreds in over 46 years of his
Vaishali Mittal is a senior partner and litigation strategist at Anand and Anand, and has 22 years of experience in advising and representing clients. She has transformative patent lawsuits in the
practice as an IP lawyer. He has also been awarded the APAA Enduring Impact Award, the AIPPI Award of Merit and INTA’s President’s Award, among other recognitions. To his credit are transformative patent lawsuits such as Merck v Glenmark and Roche v Cipla, and India’s first judgment on product-by- process patents in Vifor International v MSN Labs, to name a few.
pharma sector to her credit, including landmark decisions equating species patents with selection patents (AstraZeneca v Natco) and India’s first judgment on product-by-process patents (Vifor v MSN Labs). Vaishali has been involved in a large number of complex and landmark Standard Essential Patent cases, recently including Koninklijke Philips v Maj (Retd) Sukesh Behl and Another; India’s first pro-tem security order (Nokia v Oppo); and India’s first anti-anti-suit injunction (Interdigital v Xiaomi).
Gursimran Singh Narula is a senior associate on the litigation team at Anand and Anand. He assists the firm in patent, copyright, trade secret and trade mark litigation. He has been involved in contentious patent
matters concerning pharmaceuticals, aviation, agriculture and Standard Essential Patents. Gursimran has played a significant role in key software patenting decisions at various courts in India. He is also an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur Law School.
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