Curriculum Vitae Mr. Pravin Anand
Mr. Pravin Anand, born in New Delhi, completed his law studies at the Campus Law Centre in Delhi and has been practising both as an advocate, and as a patent and trademark attorney. He is also a partner of Anand and Anand.
He has been a counsel in some interesting intellectual property cases such as:-The first Anton Piller Order in the HMV cases; The first Mareva Injunction Order in the Philips case; The first Norwich Pharmacal Order in the Hollywood cigarettes case; The Bandit Queen case which established the Right of Privacy in India; The Glenfiddich case which dealt with the concept of dilution in trade mark law; The Time Warner case where an Indian court recognised market survey evidence; and The Yahoo case (the first domain name case).
He serves on the editorial board of several international intellectual property journals such as IP Asia, Entertainment Law Review and Computer & Telecommunications Law Review. Mr. Anand is the author of several papers on intellectual property and has spoken extensively at various forums such as WIPO, AIPPI, INTA, LES, IBA and LAW ASIA.
He has served on several international and national expert groups and committees, including the Patent Law drafting committee for revising and recommending changes to the law. He is the Chairman of IPR Promotion Advisory Committee(IPAC) constituted by the Government of India.
He has also appeared as an expert witness before Parliamentary committees to give evidence on amendments to trademark, patent and copyright law.