Rita Nissim

I am an associate in our London Intellectual Property Group. I have a background in Physical Chemistry (specifically electrochemistry) and focus primarily on large-scale telecoms patent litigation, with experience in both the High Court and the Court of Appeal.

During my legal career, I have been fortunate enough to work with clients from a variety of sectors, from chemical and mechanical engineering to computing and telecoms, and to gain experience in both contentious and non-contentious IP matters, from patent litigation to IP licensing and research collaboration agreements.

As a chemist by training, I very much enjoy having an innovation-focused practice and getting to learn about new technologies and the legal issues that relate to them every day.

Prior to completing my legal education and training, I completed an M.Chem. and DPhil in Chemistry at the University of Oxford, and then spent a few years working in technology transfer. I was a Technology Licensing Executive at Imperial Innovations, the (at the time) technology transfer team of Imperial College London, in which role I worked on the commercialisation of the inventions and patent portfolios of departments such as Mechanical Engineering and the Dyson Robotics Lab. This role exposed me to the commercial side of licensing, which I find particularly useful now when I work on FRAND matters.

At Innovations, I also held positions within the Patent & Licence Management and the Engineering IP teams, thereby gaining well-rounded experience on the development and exploitation of patent portfolios. I particularly enjoyed being a part of the Engineering IP team, in which role I got to work with inventors who specialised in different fields such as, for example, self-driving cars, structures designed to withstand earthquakes, and advanced aluminium hot forming.

• Yangtze v Micron
• Amazon v InterDigital
• MediaTek v Huawei
• Lenovo v ZTE
• Lenovo v InterDigital
• Nokia v OPPO
• IP Bridge v Huawei
• Optis v Apple (FRAND and confidentiality matters)
• Crypto Open Patent Alliance v Craig Steven Wright