Headline for the Offering Page Will Be Here
Philippa Eke
Philippa is a patent and trade mark attorney with extensive EPO Opposition and Appeal experience.
Her long career as a partner in private practice spanned a broad range of mechanical and chemical technologies, as well as design and trade mark expertise.
Philippa benefits from in-house experience working for a global personal care and nutrition company and for a pharmaceutical company.
She is a member of the Sustainability Committee of CIPA and enjoys walking in the Lake District.
Ilya Kazi
Ilya is a qualified litigator, EPO Opposition and Appeal specialist and has handled over 4000 European patent applications from medical tech through physics to IT. He has been noted as a world leading IP expert including Legal 500, Chambers, IAM Strategy 300, IAM 1000, MIP IP Stars.
After 24 years growing a more traditional firm from almost unknown to about 200 people, he took what he had learnt to bring a fresh approach to the world of IP to deliver most efficiently what clients really need.
Dale Campbell
Dale is a UK and European Trade Mark Attorney and Design Attorney and also an Irish Trade Mark Attorney.
In addition to her numerous IP qualifications, she has an MBA from Warwick Business School and a Psychology Degree from the University of South Africa.
Her academic qualifications aside, she applies a very practical and commercial approach to protection of Trade Marks and gives pragmatic advice on integrating protection with branding strategy.
Vikki Townsend
Vikki brings a wealth of IP experience from senior IP roles in major multinational corporates in aerospace and defence and private practices.
A UK and European patent attorney, she holds an MEng in Manufacturing Engineering and an MSc Bioengineering and is experienced in patents, trade marks and designs.
Having led IP risk management for a well-known multinational, Vikki is well placed to navigate complex IP competitor landscapes and guide clients through to lowest risk solutions.
Chris Hirsz
Chris started his distinguished IP career as a UK patent examiner before moving to a role as in-house patent counsel at GEC and then Motorola.
He then worked in a three private practice positions and is multiply qualified as a UK, European and Australian (now Trans-Tasman) Patent and Trademark Attorney. He first worked alongside the founder of IK-IP in February 2011 and we’re pleased to have him join us.
He specialises in electronics, engineering and medical devices
Debra Lewis
Debra studied engineering at Cambridge University and worked in the aerospace industry before training as a UK and European patent and trade mark attorney.
After spending fifteen years in-house in the aerospace and defence sectors she moved to a major practice in a Munich where she spent over twelve years before joining us.
As a result of her in-house experience, Debra brings to her practice a client’s perspective as well as her experience in commercial aspects of intellectual property.
Andrea Hadfield
Andrea has an honours degree in Physics and a DPhil in Structural Biology from Oxford University researching how enzymes and viruses work at a molecular level.
Before becoming a patent attorney she worked in drug discovery and led a research group. Her clients have ranged from spinouts to multinationals across life sciences including vaccines, fermentation, antibodies, immunology, sequencing and amplification, epigenetics, modified and thermostable enzymes and bone and cartilage regeneration.
Douglas Cole
Doug has unequalled experience obtaining patents primarily in information technology in all forms – from communications protocols through databases, media technology, applications and cloud systems to blockchain, AI and quantum computing. With a first degree in Computer Systems and Software Engineering and further degree in Natural Sciences he gels naturally with some of the brightest innovators on the planet!
Doug worked with the founder for many years at another firm before joining in 2024.
Emily Taylor
Emily is a commercially focused patent attorney with experience in a broad range of fields covering engineering, physics, software/ computing and industrial chemistry.
Her career includes a combination of private practice and also in house experience at BTG and Mastercard. Emily also worked for a big four consulting firm in the IP Advisory practice working strategically closely with teams in legal, tax and deals.
She is a keen tennis player, and ski touring/ ski mountaineering regular.
Debra Smith
Debra qualified as a mechanical engineer at Imperial College, London. After R&D at GEC she moved into IP at the Ministry of Defence then rose rapidly to head the IP department of a global packaging company before founding her own practice.
Her broad expertise spans design and manufacture of bottles, cans and medical devices to high-speed machinery. She is a member of the Designs & Copyright Committee of CIPA and enjoys music, science and literature events.
Simon Roberts
Simon was head of British Telecom PLC IP department he joined in 1981 running a patent filing program in cutting edge IT and telecoms technology and conducting EPO hearings.
He combines commercial experience with solid legal knowledge and has tutored hundreds for EPO qualification. His patents career began with a brief spell as an Examiner. He switched to private practice 6 years ago drafting and prosecuting applications across IT and mechanical/physics areas and giving strategic IP advice
Olivia Tsang
Dr Olivia Tsang has an MSCi in Physics from Imperial College London and a PhD in Astrophysics from Heidelberg University followed by over 13 years of experience in major London private practice firms.
She specialises in drafting and prosecuting inventions in the field of AI, Software, IoT, Computing, Apps, Physics, Medical Devices.
Her spare time is occupied by her young son and her hobby of climbing