Vibhav Mithal is a Managing Associate at Anand and Anand and is practicing as an intellectual property litigator for over 8 years. Vibhav has been a part of many path breaking litigations such as the Aloys Wobben dispute (Supreme Court, 2014); Roche v. Cipla (Delhi High Court, 2015); Shree Nath v. ABD (Delhi High Court, 2015); Monsanto dispute (Supreme Court, 2019), Ferid Allani (Delhi High Court, 2019 & Intellectual Property Appellate Board, 2020) and Armasuisse (Delhi High Court, 2023). Vibhav regularly contributes to leading IPR publications such as Managing Intellectual Property magazine, Computer and Telecommunications Law Review, Asia Business Law Journal, the Intellectual Property Law Review and Patent Litigation Review and has also co-authored the India Chapter in Global Patent Litigation (3rd Edition, 2019) published by Bloomberg Law. Vibhav has also been recognized by Managing Intellectual Property as a Rising Star, 2022.
Vibhav is also a Fellow in AI and Law and co-lead of #teamIndia at ForHumanity (US), a non-profit organization engaged in developing AI Audit frameworks. He also serves on the Peer Review Board of the Springer Journal – AI & Ethics.
Vibhav speaks regularly on IPR and diverse AI issues and has spoken at the Warwick Business School; Inspiring Ideas Podcast, Melbourne, Australia; Mabalcat City College, Philippines; Jindal Global Law School; Symbiosis Law School, Noida. He has taught a course on Trademark Law and Practice at NLU, Jodhpur and is currently teaching an AI and IPR course at NUJS, Kolkata.
A graduate of NUJS, Kolkata, Vibhav has obtained an LLM in Intellectual Property Law from Boston University School of Law and has been recognized by BU Law as one of its notable alumni. Vibhav has also been recognized by the National Jurist in an article titled “Who’s Who of Foreign Attorneys”, amongst 15 prominent LLM graduates.
Education/Alumni:
- LLM in Intellectual Property Law from Boston University School of Law
- BA LLB (Hons), National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS) Kolkata
