Savva is a Commercial/IP Consultant Legal Counsel and Patent Attorney with 18+ years experience advising in relation to IP, commercial law and crypto.
He graduated with a LLM (1:1, Hons) and BSc (2:1, Hons) from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He is admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand and lawyer in the Supreme Court of Queensland, Australia. He also is a New Zealand and Australian Patent and Trade Mark Attorney.
Savva conducted his LLM thesis in 2014 on alternatives to the patent system for developing medicines. He founded Crowd Funded Cures as a NZ charity in 2013 to implement the idea of using pay-for-success contracts as an incentive to find new uses for off-patent drugs and other unmonopolisable therapies.