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Kyra Nezami

020 7405 1222 [email protected]

Position

Kyra joined 11 South Square as a tenant in October 2019 following the successful completion of pupillage.

Kyra has developed a broad intellectual property practice, with particular experience acting in high value patent disputes involving telecommunications technology and computing/electronic engineering. She has experience appearing in the Court of Appeal, High Court, IPEC and UKIPO.  Kyra has acted as junior counsel and sole counsel in a range of intellectual property disputes, including patent, trade marks, passing off, design right and breach of confidence disputes.

Kyra’s academic background is in law and computing science.  She studied law as an undergraduate and specialised in Intellectual Property Law during her LLM (Distinction) before following her interest in computing to obtain an MSc in Computing Science (Distinction) which included topics such as machine learning and networks and distributed systems.

Sycurio Limited v PCI-PAL Plc and another [2024] EWCA Civ 606

Sycurio v PCI-Pal [2023] EWHC 2361 (Pat)

JC Bamford Excavators Limited v Manitou UK Limited & Anor [2023] EWCA Civ 840

O/1141/22 AXATE Trade Mark Application

InterDigital v Lenovo [2023] EWCA Civ 105

InterDigital v Lenovo Trial B [2022] EWHC 10 (Pat)

Interdigital Technology v Lenovo [2021] EWHC 2152 (Pat)

J C Bamford v Manitou BF [2022] EWHC 1724 (Pat)

Planetart v Photobox Free Prints [2020] EWHC 713 (Ch)

Career

Called 2017

Memberships

IP Bar Association; Chancery Bar Association.

Education

2017- 2018 MSc in Computing Science (with Distinction), Imperial College London
2016- 2017 Bar Professional Training Course, University of Law
2016 LLM in Intellectual Property Law (with Distinction), UCL (GlaxoSmithKline Prize for Excellence in Patents and Trade Secrets)
2015 LLB in Laws, London School of Economics