Anan Sivanathan Joins Bird & Bird As IP Partner
07 April 2017
Anan Sivanathan has joined Bird & Bird as a partner in the firm’s IP group. Sivanathan joins from Creative Technology, where he was associate vice president and head of the global legal team. He had worked at Creative since 2000, having initially joined as director of legal services and was promoted to associate vice president in 2007. Sivanathan’s experience lies in patent litigation, anti-counterfeiting, and IP management and monetization work, as well as trademark litigation and other high-value IP dispute resolution matters. He has also handled many commercial disputes. Prior to working at Creative, he was an IP a partner at Drew & Napier.