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Trends and Developments Contributed by: Pravin Anand, Vaishali R Mittal and Gursimran Singh Narula Anand and Anand Advocates Anand and Anand Advocates is a full-service intellectual property law firm providing all- around IP solutions; its forte is the development of precise ways to navigate the grey areas of new laws. Its principal office is in New Delhi, with other offices in Noida, Mumbai, Chennai, and Bengaluru. The firm provides a compre - hensive IP service encompassing protection, enforcement, advisory, licensing and litigation for patents, designs, trade marks, copyrights, trade secrets, domain names, geographical in -
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dications and more. It is also committed to the development of a responsible AI domain and has a dedicated Digital group. Credited with 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%, while its trade mark team also has to its credit over 3000 successful trade mark oppositions in two years.
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Pravin Anand is Anand and Anand’s managing partner and head of litigation. Presented with the AIPPI Award of Merit and INTA’s President’s Award and recognised as the “Most
Vaishali R Mittal is a partner on the litigation team at Anand and Anand. She is also one of the key strategists on some of the most path-breaking cases in the Indian IP jurisprudence. A go-to
Innovative Lawyer” for Asia-Pacific by the Financial Times, Pravin has appeared in more than 3,000 cases in over 45 years of practice as an IP lawyer. He has been involved in lawsuits transforming the Indian IP enforcement regime and has engendered many original facets of IP. He is the author of “Halsbury’s Laws of India on Intellectual Property” and has contributed to the India chapter in “Trade Secrets Throughout the World.” He is also dedicated to promoting intellectual property awareness through the Raj Anand Moot.
litigator decorated with the epithet of ‘leading light’ in SEP cases, in her career of over 21 years, Vaishali has led from the front in cases such as India’s first judgement on product-by- process patent, the country’s first Pro-tem security order in favour of Nokia, first anti-anti- suit injunction in InterDigital Corp & Ors v Xiaomi Corp & Ors and also nation’s first final judgment on the issue of standard essential patents in Philips v. KK Bansal; Philips v. Rakesh Bansal.
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