Intellectual Property and Competition Law Webinars

Our Intellectual Property barristers, Michael Edenborough QC and Stephanie Wickenden, together with EU and Competition Law expert, Professor Suzanne Rab, are delivering a series of bespoke webinars titled ‘The impact of Brexit on registered TMs & Designs‘ and ‘Competition Law and Settlement’. The programme consists of 2 sessions which can be arranged on different dates and times.

The topics include:

What has changed with TM oppositions
Proof of use in the UK and EU
Challenging the validity of EU TMs and UK clone marks following Brexit
Considerations for the protection designs
Ongoing pan-EU litigation
Trade marks and competition law challenges
Settlement and co-existence agreements

We offer a broad range of Intellectual Property topics, including:

‘Look-a-likes’ (both sides of the debate)
Securing Jurisdiction over Foreign Defendants
Unusual Trade Marks (e.g. a bottle in the shape of a human skull)
The Perils of Goodwill
Erasure levels for confidential information destruction
The Dangers of Settlement Agreements
Estoppel issues in invalidity proceedings
Honest Concurrent Use
Targeting and revocation: proving use in the jurisdiction
Breach of Confidence (including employee inventions and post-termination delivery-up clauses)
Open Source Software: Infringement Proceedings
Ownership Issues
Remedies: recent case-law update
Deletion of Documents
Co-existence agreements
IP and Competition Law

Please get in touch with our Business Development Manager, Charlotte Davidson, if you would like to arrange a bespoke remote session with your team.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Related Barristers

Michael Edenborough KC

Call: 1992
Silk: 2010

Stephanie Wickenden specialises in intellectual property, art and media law.

She has experience in commercial chancery cases in the creative and technology sectors, including contractual and tortious IT disputes, contentious trusts and estates matters involving creative assets, and shareholder and directors’ disputes involving IP breaches. A significant proportion of her practice has an international element, including cases involving disputed jurisdiction, foreign law, and service and enforcement out of the jurisdiction.

With a background in art and theatre, combined with expertise in IP, commercial and private international law, Stephanie is uniquely placed to advise on contentious and non-contentious matters relating to art and cultural property. Having spent three years at a top international law firm, she also advises on IP transactions and licensing.

Stephanie enjoys working as part of a team and is confident acting as sole counsel. She is regularly instructed in significant Intellectual Property cases before the UK courts, often unled and against KCs, including Thatchers v Aldi [2025] EWCA Civ 5 and EasyGroup v Nuclei and others [2023] EWCA Civ 1247. She has appeared before the CJEU (General Court), Court of Appeal, High Court and IPEC, and in registry proceedings before the UK IPO and EUIPO.