Managing partner and head of litigation
Anand and Anand
Mr. Anand has appeared in over 3,000 cases in over 43 years of practice as an intellectual property (IP) lawyer, covering all facets of IP. He has been involved in several patent lawsuits that have transformed the pharmaceutical and biotechnology enforcement regime in India.
Mr. Anand has also broken new ground in Indian IP jurisprudence by appearing in the country’s first anti-anti-suit injunction, first pro tem security order, first post-trial standard-essential patent judgment, first Anton Piller order, first Mareva injunction, and first Norwich Pharmacal order.
He is the chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industry’s Sub-Committee on Intellectual Property Rights and the National Council on Intellectual Property Rights at the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India, and has served on the board of directors of the International Trademark Association (INTA). Mr. Anand was the first Indian legal practitioner to receive the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property’s Award of Merit, in 2012, and won the INTA President’s Award in 2021.
Vaishali is a litigation partner and strategist at Anand and Anand.
She has been engaged as a lead in some of the most ground-breaking intellectual property matters, including a case protecting the personality rights of Bollywood actor Anil Kapoor against any misuse, such as through generative AI and dark patterns; India’s first judgment on a product-by-process patent; India’s first pro tem security order; a fake news matter involving Aaradhya Bachchan, the daughter of two Bollywood stars; India’s first anti-anti-suit injunction; India’s first final judgment on standard-essential patents; an order directing an implementer to deposit pro tem security in favour of an owner of standard-essential patent(s), before determination of infringement, validity, etc.; and landmark judgments on trans-border reputation and aggravated damages of the highest quantum in a copyright, trademark, and design infringement case. Vaishali has also earned well-known status for many marks.
She has been consistently recognised as a leader in intellectual property by some of the most prestigious benchmarking organisations.
