Congratulations to Michael Edenborough QC, Thomas Elias and Stephanie Wickenden who have all been ranked by The Legal 500 2022 Directory for Intellectual Property law

Congratulations to Michael Edenborough QC, Thomas Elias and Stephanie Wickenden who have all been ranked by The Legal 500 (Legalease) 2022 Directory for Intellectual Property law. We would like to thank our clients and referees for the following testimonials:

“Michael is supremely knowledgeable and very incisive. He is exceptionally good with clients and at explaining difficult issues in a clear, concise and thoughtful way.”
“Thomas is very experienced in soft IP cases, and brings a commercial approach to matters.”
“Stephanie is technically astute and strategically brilliant, with clear intellectual rigour. She has in-depth knowledge of UK and EU trademark law.”

Members of Serle Court’s IP team provide advice and advocacy services in intellectual property matters, involving, for example, trademarks and passing-off, copyright and designs, and patents and confidential information.

Our barristers have also acted in cases concerning performance rights, moral rights, data protection issues, database rights, geographical indications, Freedom of Information requests, information technology disputes, and entertainment and media issues. The team have extensive experience in copyright matters, in particular, those relating to the music and entertainment industries.

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Michael Edenborough KC

Call: 1992
Silk: 2010

Thomas Elias

Call: 2008

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.