Life Sciences
Asia-Pacific Guide 2024 : India
Band 2
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Provided by Anand and Anand Advocates
Anand and Anand
Principal office: New Delhi
Other offices: Chennai, Mumbai and Noida
No. of professionals: 400 (28 partners + 2 Directors)
Key practice areas: Patents and Designs, Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Trademarks, Copyrights, Plant Variety and Bio-Diversity, Media and Entertainment, Advertising and Product Liability, Packaging and Labelling, Art and Fashion, Essentiality evaluation, Franchising, Sports Law, Brand Strategy, Geographical Indications, Competition Law, Contractual and Commercial IP, Trade Secret, Licencing and Customs.
About: Anand and Anand is a leading Tier 1 IP law firm with worldwide reputation for its innovative solutions resulting in ground-breaking development in IP jurisprudence.
It caters to widest array of domestic and international big-ticket clients from leading luxury to consumer goods brands, bio-tech, pharma to tech majors to name a few. The firm’s litigation arm has decades of unmatched experience in dispute resolution. It records a patent grant rate of over 97% and 1800-plus successful trademark oppositions in a year. Key partners hold leadership positions in key industry bodies like INTA.
With vision of ‘360 degrees IP & Beyond’, the firm has many firsts to its credit including paving way for software patenting, India’s first post-trial SEP judgement or complex species-genus patent issues and is consistently regarded as the best by MIP, Vantage Asia, IAM, Asia IP, Chambers and FT.
Chambers Review
Anand and Anand Advocates fields a strong IP team operating in the life sciences arena. The team handles licensing, contractual agreements and regulatory issues for domestic and international pharmaceutical corporates. The firm regularly advises pharmaceutical and agricultural technology companies, as well as educational institutions, on patent-related matters.
Work Highlights
- Anand and Anand Advocates advised Novartis on the granting of a patent for Vymada by the Indian Patent Office after ten pre-grant oppositions were dismissed.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"They were very knowledgeable about the law, the proceedings, the format and content that was necessary for the filing we had to prepare. They gave us good advice."
"They were very knowledgeable about the law, the proceedings, the format and content that was necessary for the filing we had to prepare. They gave us good advice."
Notable Practitioners
Archana Shanker has been recognised for her strength in the field of life sciences. She regularly provides advice to domestic and international clients on matters pertaining to patents. She is based in Delhi.
Pravin Anand in Delhi is a highly regarded intellectual property lawyer with significant expertise in the life science sector. He is regularly mandated by pharmaceutical companies to handle patent litigation.
"He's one of the best lawyers in IP and does a lot of pharma patent litigation in India."