Managing partner and head of litigation
Anand and Anand
Mr. Anand has earned the AIPPI Award of Merit and INTA’s President’s Award, and has been recognised by the Financial Times as one of the 20 most innovative practitioners of the past two decades. He has appeared in over 5,000 cases during 46 years of practice as an intellectual property (IP) lawyer.
To his credit are patent lawsuits that transformed India’s pharmaceutical and biotechnology enforcement regime, including Merck v Glenmark, Roche v Cipla, and the Monsanto case.
Mr. Anand has also broken new ground in Indian IP jurisprudence with the country’s first anti-anti-suit injunction (InterDigital v Xiaomi); a landmark judgment on a product-by-process patent (Vifor v MSN Laboratories); India’s first pro tem security order, in favour of Nokia; the Nokia–Lenovo multi-year, multi-technology agreement; a software patent lawsuit conferring protection (the Ferid Allani case); the development of a damages culture in cases recognising punitive as well as compensatory, exemplary, and aggravated damages (Philips v AmazeStore); and India’s first post-trial standard-essential patent judgment (Philips v Bhagirathi).
Senior partner
Anand and Anand
Vaishali is a senior partner at Anand and Anand with over 22 years’ experience advising and representing clients as an intellectual property (IP) litigator and strategist.
A trusted and well-recognised name in IP in general, and standard-essential patents in particular, she has to her credit several landmark matters, such as India’s first judgment on a product-by-process patent (Vifor v MSN Laboratories), India’s first pro tem security order (Nokia v Oppo), and India’s first anti-anti-suit injunction (InterDigital v Xiaomi), as well as key decisions equating a species patent with a selection patent (AstraZeneca v Natco) and addressing claim construction (ITW v Dabico).
Vaishali was also the strategic mind behind the Nokia–Lenovo multi-year, multi-technology patent cross-licence agreement.
