Kyra Nezami

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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.”

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Recent & Notable Cases

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

This was the trial of a claim for infringement of a patent relating to the secure processing of payments by telephone calls to a call centre.  The patent was addressed to a method for reducing fraud by blocking data sign...

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

Court of Appeal decision on the publication of the Defendant’s confidential information and trade secrets in a judgment.  The Court held that: the information in question (recorded in the first instance judgment and...

O/1141/22 AXATE Trade Mark Application

Appointed Person decision in an appeal concerning AXA’s opposition to the registration of AXATE based on relative grounds. O/1141/22 AXATE Trade Mark Application...

InterDigital v Lenovo [2023] EWCA Civ 105

This was an appeal by InterDigital against the decision of Mr Justice Mellor in technical trial B in these proceedings which found InterDigital’s patent invalid because it was anticipated over the prior art.  Kyra Nezam...

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

This was the second technical trial in the telecommunications patent case between InterDigital and Lenovo concerning InterDigital’s patent portfolio. The trial concerned essentiality and validity of a patent directed...

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

Kyra Nezami represented Lenovo in the first technical trial in the telecommunications patent case between InterDigital and Lenovo concerning InterDigital’s patent portfolio. The trial concerned essentiality and validi...

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

Trial of an action for infringement of three patents relating to the control systems for telehandlers (machines widely used in the building industry and agriculture for moving and lifting loads) which were designed to co...

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

The parties operated competing mobile apps offering online photo printing.  The claimant’s app was called ‘FreePrints’.  The defendant’s app was called ‘Photobox Free Prints’.  Both provided a monthly allowance of free p...

"Kyra Nezami is a promising junior barrister with a technical background in computer science. She is praised for her capabilities in handling technical patent litigation, and demonstrates such capabilities with her high-profile caseload acting for various tech giants."
Chambers and Partners
"Kyra Nezami is fabulous, as she has this aura of calm knowledge you'd expect from a more senior practitioner. She is very knowledgeable and sharp." "Kyra Nezami is a star of the future for sure. She is extremely good at getting across the technical details of the cases, and she works really well with KCs and solicitors alike."
Chambers and Partners
"Kyra Nezami is really good on her feet; she dealt with a tricky matter incredibly well."
Chambers and Partners
"Kyra is an excellent team member for cases involving software. She is very good on such matters."
Chambers and Partners
"Kyra is a rising star with a meticulous and thorough approach to preparation and presentation. I expect to hear great things of her in the future."
Chambers and Partners
"Kyra has good attention to detail, and is always willing to have calls to discuss matters with both legal advisers and the clients. She is able to give articulate and clear advice in a commercially-focused manner."
Legal 500
"Rising Star"
Legal 500