Ilya Kazi

Founder & CEO
IK-IP Ltd (UK)

Ilya is a globally recognised EP and UK patent attorney who has extensive Opposition and Appeal experience, as well as being qualified as a litigator in IPEC, the English High Court and the UPC. With a Masters from Cambridge University in Natural Sciences his practice covers a wide range of technology. He has a particular focus on AI both developing bespoke systems for the firm he founded and in getting patents for structural AI developments. As a senior partner in a more traditional firm for almost 3 decades and overseeing its growth from almost unknown to a major firm he appreciated a need for structural change. He founded IK-IP in 2020 with a novel collaborative structure of like-minded results-focussed genuine experts with serious credentials, supported by a state of the art infrastructure. IK-IP has become Europe’s fastest growing firm attracting major clients from around the globe and has already achieving notable successes in UK and UPC litigation and EPO Oppositions while delivering substantial meaningful granted patent portfolios for clients in a fraction of the time and cost of traditional approaches.