Pravin Anand is the Managing Partner, Anand and Anand, Advocates. The firm, conceived in 1923, is a specialized Intellectual Property (IP) law firm offering a broad range of services in the field of IP to a diverse portfolio of clients from all over the world.

He is involved in many of the countrys high profile cases in the field of trademarks, copyrights, patents, industrial designs and related matters before the domestic courts/tribunals, and a number of domain name cases before the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Centre.

Panelist of WIPO domain name disputes in a number of cases. Involved as lead counsel in more than 1,550 court cases and, to name a few

His Primary Practice areas are Trademark, copyright, design and patent litigation and prosecution, domain name disputes before the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Centre, IT and Tele-Communication laws.

Some his Honors, Awards, Publications and/or Professional and Civic Associations are as Chairman of the IPR Promotion Advisory Committee (IPAC) set up by the Ministry of Information Technology, Government of India; Chairman of the IT Committee set up by FICCI; the President of the Asia Euro Forum; Member of the Governing Body of Institute for Intellectual Property Development(IIPD); Member of the Congress of Fellows of Center for International Legal Studies; Member of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Protection of Rights of holders of indigenous knowledge; Member of the Expert Group committees constituted by the Government of India for Amendment of Patent Rules and Layout Designs of Integrated Circuits; Member of the Core Group for considering amendments to the Copyright Act due to the WIPO Copyright Treaties and Folklore; General Secretary of the AIPPI-Indian Group; Member of INTA, ITMA, IBA, AIPLA, CIB of ICC and the INTA Anti-Counterfeiting & Enforcement Committee for 2004 2005.

His past positions are President of APAA (Indian Group),Vice Chairman of Committee L2 on Patent Law of the International Bar Association, Member of the Expert group appointed by WIPO for considering the applicability of arbitration to intellectual property, Member of the INTA External Affairs Committee Visiting faculty, National Law School of Bangalore; Member editorial board of several international intellectual property journals.

He is a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Chemistry from University of Delhi and Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) from University of Delhi.