Vaishali Mittal

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.