The Legal 500

Work Department

Intellectual property.

Position

Ilya has significant experience in electrical, electronic, communications and computing technologies, and previously worked at IBM, where he was involved in the development of network communications software. Although llya now leads teams cost-effectively managing substantial portfolios numbering tens, hundreds or even thousands of patents for a number of substantial multinational corporations he still enjoys giving hands-on strategic advise to startups and growing companies or investors on IP strategy and personally handling complex oppositions and appeals before the EPO. His technical specialism is information technology inventions, both hardware and software, and he has detailed knowledge of networking and communications technologies, video and audio processing and transmission and electronics, particularly power and control electronics used in micro-generation, grid-tie and charge control. He also handles subject matter of a more mechanical nature including robotic equipment and controls, heat pumps and turbines and energy recovery, and has extensive experience of medical devices, particularly electrosurgical devices and catheters. He is a private pilot with experience of aeronautical and defence equipment and advising on obtaining strategic protection relevant to certification. With his broad science background, he has recently been involved in composites and nanotechnology. llya obtained first-hand experience of US patent law and practice within a major Silicon Valley law firm, which now enables him to provide his clients with creative and comprehensive advice as to how to obtain the maximum level of worldwide protection for their technology, or to deal effectively and pragmatically with the portfolios of competitors. As well as extensive successful experience of European Patent Office opposition and appeal proceedings, llya has been involved in commercial dispute resolution within formal mediation proceedings and litigation and he has successfully creatively negotiated positive outcomes for clients charged with infringement on several occasions. He also advises on exploitation and licensing and on strategic and cost-effective commercial portfolio development and is the author of numerous published articles on law and strategy. llya has been noted on several occasions in The Legal 500 and in Chambers. He also serves on the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys committee devoted to raising public awareness of IP.

Career

Qualified as a patent attorney 1996; London University (Certificate in Intellectual Property).

Member

Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys.

Education

Cambridge University (MA Natural Sciences), specialising in physics and having conducted research within the field of medical imaging.