Pravin Anand

The Bombay high court has served a show cause contempt notice on the Mumbai Mirror for reporting a litigant’s allegation made in court earlier this year that a judge hearing was corrupt.

Anand and Anand doubled its office space in Chennai last month by securing lease to the property adjacent to its previously existing office premises in AR Villa.

For anyone fascinated by intellectual property in India, there was an interview in last weekend's Mint Lounge supplement with IP expert Pravin Anand, managing partner of Anand and Anand.

Anand is portrayed as an unashamed IP geek who has not only put on an IP-themed educational play and created an IP-themed boardgame, but who has also been at the forefront of Indian IP development.

In one current high-profile case he is representing toy-maker and Scrabble-copyright owner Mattel against the creators of the Facebook/internet sensation Scrabulous, which has since been renamed Lexulous - for IP reasons, obviously.

In what is either amazing editorial foresight or an intriguing coincidence, the young Kolkota entrepreneurs who are facing Anand in court about Scrabulous, were profiled in the same paper just a few pages away.

Problem is, each interview makes its respective subjects sound so similarly charming, for the reader it becomes difficult to pick a side in the case.