CURRICULAM VITAE

Name
PRAVIN ANAND

Date of Birth
May 5, 1955, New Delhi.

Admitted to Bar
1979, India.

Profession
Advocate, Patent and Trade Mark Attorney.

Area of Practice:
Patent, Trademark and Copyright litigation & prosecution; Transfer of technology.

Education:
Delhi University, 1973 - 1979 (B.Sc.Chemistry and LL.B.)

Author:
“India Chapters in :

Expert Appearance :
Before Joint Parliamentary Committees (JPC) with regard to Copyright
(Second Amendment) Bill 1992 and the Trade Mark Bill, 1993 and Patents
(Second Amendment) Bill 1999.

Position:

  1. Chairman, IPR Promotion Advisory Committee (IPAC) set up by the Ministry of Information Technology.
  2. Chairman – IT Committee set up by FICCI.
  3. Vice Chairman of Committee L2 on Patent Law of the International Bar
  4. Association.
  5. President Asia Euro Forum
  6. Member – Inter-Ministerial Committee on Protection of Rights of holders of indigenous knowledge.
  7. Member Expert Group on following committees constituted by the Government of India for:
    Amendment of Patent Rules;
    Layout Designs of Integrated Circuits;
    WIPO Copyright Treaties; and
    Folklore
    Relationship between the TRIPS Agreement and the CBD and Protection of Traditional Knowledge
  8. Member Governing Body of Institute for Intellectual Property Development(IIPD)
  9. Member Expert group appointed by WIPO for considering the applicability of arbitration to intellectual property;
  10. General Secretary, AIPPI-Indian Group
  11. President, APAA-Indian Group
  12. Visiting Faculty, National Law School of Bangalore
  13. Editorial Boards of IP Asia (1988- ) and IP Asia Law Reports; Entertainment Law Review (1990- ), Computer and Telecommunication Law Review
  14. Representative ICC India at the ICC Commission on Intellectual and Industrial Property.
  15. Trade-in-Committee of Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT)
  16. Advisory Board of NGB “IPR”, Japan.
  17. Report Editor – Trade Practices Law Journal, Australia

Member :

 

Speaker :
Speaker on various intellectual property subjects at international seminars organised by :

WIPO –
Canberra, Australia 1988;
Hanoi Vietnam 1989;
Amboise, France 1990
Beijing, China 1995
Colombo, Sri Lanka 1994, 1995, 1997 and 1998
Abuja, Nigeria 1996
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 1997
Ulaan Bataar, Mongolia 1997
Hong Kong 1998
Singapore 1998
Manila 1999 (June)
Sri Lanka 1999 (July)
Geneva 1999 (September)
Dhaka (November 1999)
Chiang Rai, Thailand (September 2000)
Nepal (December 2001)
Geneva (November 2002)
Jakarta (January 2003)

SOFTIC Symposium (Japan, 1-2 Dec. 1998)
IBA (Vienna, Austria 1984; New Delhi, India 1997)
INTA (Orlando 1995, Denver 2001, Washington D.C. 2002)
APAA (Chiang Mai, Thailand 1992 and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 1993, Phuket 2001, Wellington 2002)
LES (Sydney 1988)
AIPPI (Amsterdam 1989)
LAWASIA
SAARCLAW (Colombo 1991)
Euroforum (London 1994)
Asian Trademark Summit (Hong Kong 1996)
UN Confernece on “LDC’s on Music in the Digital World” (Brussels, May 2001)
The Society of Indian Law Firms (SILF) first national conference (Mumbai, July 2001)
WTO Hong Kong, 14-16, December 2001
IPBA Conference on “IP Protection of Software Supporting the Interface for an Internet Broadcast”, Hong Kong, 3-6 May 2002.

Overview of legal work in the computer software field :
I am the BSA counsel in India and have been involved in over 80 criminal and over 100 civil actions for companies such as :

 

 

 

 

 

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