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)
Called 2017
IP Bar Association; Chancery Bar Association.
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