Vaishali Mittal is a senior partner at Anand and Anand and a leading thought leader in Indian intellectual property law, with over 22 years of distinguished practice since 2003. As one of the four senior partners of the firm, she has built a formidable reputation as a top-tier litigator whose work has consistently shaped and advanced IP jurisprudence in India. She is widely regarded as the pre-eminent authority on standard essential patent (SEP) litigation, handling matters that are complex, high-value, and jurisprudentially decisive.

Mittal has led an exceptional number of first-in-India and precedent-setting cases, including the country’s first judgment on a product-by-process patent, the first pro tem security order, the first anti-anti-suit injunction, and the nation’s first final judgments on SEPs. Her achievements extend across patent, trademark, design, trade secret and trans-border reputation disputes, where she has secured record-breaking damages, recognition of colour combinations as well-known trademarks, and critical reliefs strengthening patent-holder rights.

She also played a central leadership role in the Nokia-Lenovo multi-year, multi-technology patent cross-licence, culminating in the global settlement of patent litigation. Mittal regularly appears before the Supreme Court of India and the Delhi High Court, representing leading multinational innovators across technology, life sciences and consumer sectors, and continues to be at the forefront of shaping the future of IP enforcement in India.