Awarded the APAA Enduring Impact Award, the AIPPI Award of Merit, INTA’s President’s Award, recognised as the “Most Innovative Lawyer” by Financial Times and the first Indian to be inducted in the IAM IP Hall of Fame, Pravin Anand has an experience of appearing in over 5000 cases and successfully resolving many hundreds in over 46 years of his practice as an IP lawyer. He has also been recognised as one of the ‘Top 20 Most Innovative Practitioners’ of the past two decades by the Financial Times, as part of the ‘FT Innovative Lawyers 20-Year Report’ (June 2025).

His landmark cases include transformative patent lawsuits in the pharmaceutical sector, such as Merck v. Glenmark and Roche v. Cipla.

In the application before the trademark registry seeking registration of a rose-like fragrance, Pravin was appointed an amicus by the Controller General. He came up with scientific evidence enabling acceptance of the mark for advertisement, a first in India.

He has also made great strides in personality rights, exemplified by cases such as Aishwarya Rai Bachchan v. Aishwaryaworld.com & Ors., Anil Kapoor v. Simply Life India and Amitabh Bachchan v. Rajat Negi, to name a few. Notably, he secured India’s first judgment on Product-by-Process patents in Vifor International v. MSN Labs, established the country’s first Anti-Anti suit injunction in InterDigital v. Xiaomi, and first pro-tem security order in Nokia v Oppo.

Beyond litigation, Mr. Anand is passionate about promoting IP awareness and has initiated the NK Anand Indian Science Competition and the Raj Anand Moot Court Competition, besides creating innovative educational tools like the IP board game “Anaryst” and the first IP-themed play, “Brainchild.”

A leading advocate for Responsible AI, he has organised several conferences on AI with the latest in Bhutan on “Mindful AI, Just Laws, Better Lives”.