INDIA Trends and Developments
Trends and Developments Contributed by: Safir Anand Anand and Anand Advocates Anand and Anand Advocates has a team of 100 professionals, including 29 partners and four associate partners/directors, spread across its offices in New Delhi, Noida, Mumbai and Chennai. The firm’s key practice areas are IP, patent, trade marks, copyright, litigation, dig - ital, and data protection; healthcare and phar - maceuticals; licensing and franchising; technol - ogy, media and telecommunications; customs and white-collar crime. A full-service intellectual property law firm, Anand and Anand provides all-round IP solutions, its fortes being develop - ing new law and precision navigation of grey
areas. The firm provides a comprehensive IP service encompassing protection, enforcement, advisory, licensing and litigation for patents, de - signs, trade marks, copyrights, trade secrets, domain names, geographical indications and more. It also has a digital group. Having partici - pated in lawsuits that have transformed the IP landscape in India, the firm’s litigation arm has decades of unmatched experience in dispute resolution. It has maintained a patent grant rate of over 93%, and its trade mark team recent - ly recorded more than 1,800 successful trade mark oppositions. etc, and having been involved in protecting IP and raising awareness in close association with bodies like INTA, ECTA and FICCI, Safir has now launched the IPFeast, celebrating homegrown brands. He is a published author and works with various stakeholders – such as, the government of India, the Indian parliament, and members of erstwhile princely states and industry bodies – to trace lost legacies.
Author
Safir Anand is a senior partner and head of department (TM, contractual & commercial IP) at Anand and Anand Advocates. Widely known as a pre-eminent IP lawyer and investor, Safir is
recognised for his business model building, and for his marketing and commercial insights, blended with an astute understanding of IP law. With landmark registrations for the first colour mark, first sound mark, first shape mark,
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