INDIA Law and Practice Contributed by: Pravin Anand, Achuthan Sreekumar and Rohil Bansal, Anand and Anand
Anand and Anand is a full-service intellectual property law firm, providing all-round IP solu - tions; its forte is developing new law and pre - cision-navigation of grey areas. Its principal of - fice is in New Delhi, with other offices in Noida, Mumbai and Chennai. The firm provides a com - prehensive IP service encompassing protection, enforcement, advisory, licensing and litigation for patents, designs, trade marks, copyrights,
trade secrets, domain names, geographical in - dications and more. 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 main - tained a patent grant rate of over 93%, while its trade mark team recently recorded over 1,800 successful trade mark oppositions.
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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
Achuthan Sreekumar is a partner in Anand and Anand’s litigation department. He started his career at Anand and Anand in 2008, handling matters involving traditional IP such as trade marks, copyrights and patents, as well as borderline IP issues such as trade secrets, tortious issues, hyperlinking, spamming, defamation and IT. Over the past few years, he has focused on expanding his practice areas to a range of subjects, including white-collar and IP crime. He represents several business conglomerates and individuals who have faced issues in these areas and has obtained favourable results on their behalf. He also specialises in formulating strategies, interfacing and following up with relevant governmental and other authorities.
Innovative Lawyer” for Asia-Pacific by the Financial Times, Pravin has appeared in more than 3,000 cases in over 43 years’ 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, including trade secrets. He is the author of “Halsbury’s Laws of India on Intellectual Property” and the India chapter in “Trade Secrets Throughout the World” , and engages extensively in spreading the message of IP through the Raj Anand Moot Court Competition.
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