Pravin Anand

Pravin Anand is the managing partner at Anand and Anand. In a career spanning more than four decades, Pravin has emerged as an IP trailblazer.

From Christian Louboutin to Cartier, from pharma to tech majors to policymakers and from art to entertainment, today, Pravin represents the world’s most famous brand owners, leading industries and eminent personalities who rely on his matchless experience for protection of their intellectual property.

Pravin Anand’s most recent landmark cases are the Ferid Allani case, which paved the way for software patenting in India; the Merck and Hermes cases, which established social damages for IP violations; the Pioneer Overseas Corporation case, involving DNA testing for disputed IP rights in plant varieties; Philips v Amazestores, a landmark judgment on aggravated damages for IP infringer; Philips v Rajesh Bansal, India's first post-trial SEP judgment; and Merck v Glenmark, the first patent law suit to be decided in the plaintiff’s favour post-trial under the Patents Act. He has also acted in major pharmaceutical patents cases, including AstraZeneca, BMS and Esai, whose judgments answered complicated questions on genus and species patents; and he has contributed to a sizeable majority of the damages lawsuits in IP litigations in India, including the largest damages seen in a patent suit and in a trademark suit.

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