REPORT ON IP LITIGATION INTERNSHIP

AT ANAND & ANAND

DECEMBER 9, 2021
ANAND & ANAND
 ACKNOWLEDGMENT

I would like to thank and express my deepest gratitude to the associates and partners at
Anand & Anand. My sincere appreciation goes to the management and staff at Anand &
Anand for giving me the opportunity to do my internship at their reputed law firm. I am
grateful to Mr. Pravin Anand, sir for introducing me to Mr. Dhruv Anand, sir, and his
litigation team. I am grateful to Sampurna Ma’am, Kavya Ma’am, Sangeeta Ma’am, and
Udita Ma’am for their hospitality, guidance, and facilitating in line with the legal profession
that they gave me.
 ABOUT THE INSTITUTION

Anand and Anand is a full-service IP law firm, providing end-to-end legal solutions covering
all cross-sections of Intellectual Property and allied areas. The firm is professionally managed
by a Partnership board comprising 28 Partners and 2 Directors supported by a management
team comprising the CEO, CFO and CIO.

The firm currently employs over 400 people, including over 100 qualified attorneys/
engineers. The firm's expertise is widely acknowledged in addressing complex IP challenges
of all types. It regularly deals with protection of IP and contentious matters in different
forums including the Courts at all levels, the Patent Offices, the Trademark Offices, the
Copyright Office, the Design Office, Intellectual Property Appellate Board, WIPO and
National Internet Exchange of India.

The firm balances commercial realities with legal pragmatism and draws on its well-honed
expertise and instinct in the field, coupled with a profound understanding of intellectual
property management in India. The firm has a keen interest in innovation and offers creative
solutions that tackle the root and not merely the symptoms of a problem. Culturally the firm
thrives on challenges, creative thinking and constant improvement of its legal knowledge and
skills. The spirited character of the firm is the keystone of its growth and expansion into new
areas of IP which have been embraced with ease and zest.
 INTERNSHIP REPORT

Notwithstanding the internship being in online mode, yet I was given various opportunities to
hone my research skills. A brief description of them is as follows:

On 27th August, I was asked to do urgent research on the legal proposition that when the
product itself is being offered for sale, there is a clear cause of action, i.e., difference between
the product and its advertisement with respect to cause of action. In another two hours, I had
sent the judgment of the Delhi High court on HT Media Limited & Anr v. Brainlink
International Inc. & Anr, 2020, and in this case, the plaintiff contended that defendants are
amenable to the personal jurisdiction of this court as the Website of the defendants can be
accessed by viewers in Delhi. The court while accepting this view stated that cause of action
arose within the jurisdiction of Delhi High court.

On the evening of 31st Aug, I was invited to a Zoom call meeting of the team. Dhruv Sir,
himself gave me the assignment to provide answers for a questionnaire to write an Article for
the Luxury Law Handbook of which Anand & Anand is the sole contributor from India. After
researching various arenas of Luxury law including the parallel importation of luxury fashion
goods, I submitted my research on 20th September.

Furthermore, I did some research on the protection and registration of single colour
trademarks. For this, I sent a few cases such as Colgate v. Anchor, Anglo-Dutch, Seven
Towns Tavener Rutledge v. Specters Ltd, etc.

I was asked to search for the financial annual report, marketing, promotional expenditure
advertisements for Boeing India Pvt. Ltd.I also researched on the proposition given to me by
Sampurna Ma’am that ‘what would happen if the suit is filed by the Plaintiff and in the
meanwhile, defendant approaches IPAB for rectification proceedings.’ I provided some
research on two propositions pertaining to rectification proceedings given to me and a fellow
intern by Kavya Ma’am.
On 15th September 2021, I provided some case laws on the legal proposition that
acquiescence cannot apply when it concerns the actions/inactions of another party (in the
present case, it was the inaction of the predecessor to enforce its IP). I found the case law of
Thukral Mechanical Works along the same line. From 16th September to 30th September, I
was given research work along similar lines by Udita Ma’am, Sampurna Ma’am, and Kavya
Ma’am.

In the month of October & November, I was given research work mostly pertaining to
commercial courts such as discovery regime in light of commercial courts act, the overlap
between CPC and the commercial court’s process and procedure of discovery under Order XI
Rules 1,3 and 5 of CPC. I, and a few other interns prepared answers for the questionnaire on
the luxury law handbook, specifically for the trademark and design part. Furthermore, I was
given research work to find judgments on the meaning of the term ‘ration decidendi’ as
contemplated by the Supreme court and the difference between remedies sought in a suit for
specific performance and a suit for breach of contract. Furthermore, I researched the sanctity
of foreign judgments and their conclusiveness with respect to Section 13, CPC.

In conclusion, I am grateful to all the associates of Dhruv Sir’s team for giving me such a
career- defining opportunity.