Vidisha Garg

Vidisha Garg is a partner at Anand and Anand and has been actively involved in the field of Patents for over seventeen years now. She joined Anand and Anand in 2004 and became a patent agent the same year. She has contributed immensely to the growth of firm’s patent prosecution and contentious practice since.

Vidisha represents clients in several pre-grant and post-grant patent opposition matters. Vidisha also handles patent revocation matters before IPAB. She was involved in the Tykerb revocation matter, India’s first NCE revocation case. She was also involved in Tygacil patent opposition, where critical issue of section 3(d) was involved and patent was granted to a reformulated drug. She has been an active member on the team handling the landmark Eisai matter which was one of the few landmarks which answered complicated questions on species and genus patents – a phenomena enabling innovator companies to get a first patent for a break-through technology and thereafter species patents within the coverage of the first patent. She regularly represents her clients before the Intellectual Property Appellate Board. Her practice areas also see her engagement in providing opinions and strategies on patent laws in India, drafting of patent specifications, patent searches, validity, patentability, and infringement opinions. Clients rely on her advice on issues relating to protection of national biodiversity. She also gives advices to her clients in respect of IP asset management and IP licensing.

Her previous experience is of an academician and active researcher in the field of Synthetic Organic Chemistry. She has worked in prestigious institutes like Central Drug Research Institute (CRDI) and University of Lucknow.