Anand and Anand
First Channel Building
Plot No. 17A, Sector 16A, Film City
Noida 201301, India
Tel: +91 120 405 9300
Fax: +91 120 424 3056 058
pravin@anandandanand.com
www.anandandanand.com
Pravin Anand, managing partner of the firm, completed his law studies in
New Delhi in 1979 and since then has been practicing as an advocate and
a patent and trademark attorney.
He has been a counsel in several landmark IP cases involving the first Anton Piller Order (
HMV cases); the first Mareva Injunction Order (
Philips case); the first Norwich Pharmacal Order (
Hollywood Cigarettes case); right of privacy (
BanditQueen case); dilution in trademarks (
Glenfiddich case); recognition of market survey evidence by judiciary (
Time Warner case); domain names (
Yahoo! case); punitive and exemplary damages (
Time magazine) phishing (NASSCOM); the compulsory licensing cases filed against Pfizer and Roche under the Doha Declaration.
He is the chairman of the IPR promotion advisory committee (IPAC)
constituted by the Government of India, and IT committee set up by
FICCI. He is the past president of the Asian Patent Attorneys
Association(APAA India) and was director on the board of INTA from 2006
to 2008. He is currently President of both AIPPI and FICPI (Indian
group). He has appeared as an expert witness before parliamentary
committees to give evidence on amendments to trademark, patent and
copyright laws.
He is a co-author of the two volumes of
Halsbury’s Laws of India on Intellectual Property and serves on the editorial board of several international IP journals.
He has spoken extensively at various forums including WIPO, AIPPI, INTA,
LES, IBA, LAW ASIA and the UN Conference on LDCs in the Digital World.