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Area of Law: Stephanie Wickenden
Michael Edenborough KC and Stephanie Wickenden have successfully represented Crafts Group in their appeal to the Court of Appeal in Crafts Group LLC v MS Indeutsch International [2024] EWCA Civ 87.
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Stephanie Wickenden and Niamh Herrett successfully represented Aldi in Thatchers Cider Company Limited v Aldi Stores Limited.
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Michael Edenborough KC and Stephanie Wickenden successfully represented easyGroup on appeal in easyGroup Ltd v Easy Live (Services) Ltd. Having established infringement under s.10(3) for some of the Defendants’ signs, the Court of Appeal confirmed that passing off should also have been found. The judgment, given by Lord Justice Arnold, gives interesting guidance on lost licensing revenue as a head of damage under passing off. The Court of Appeal also overturned a declaration of infringement granted by the trial judge in respect of the signs not found to infringe. The Court imposed its own much narrower declaration.
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Stephanie Wickenden acted for Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber and Sir Trevor Nunn, securing summary judgment against a claim brought against them by a former dancer claiming copyright in “Memory” from the musical “Cats”.
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Stephanie Wickenden (led by outside leading counsel) represented easyGroup in the Court of Appeal (having also appeared at trial). The appeal gave significant guidance on non-use, confusion and the defence of honest concurrent use.
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Stephanie Wickenden and Stefano Braschi acted for easyGroup against the band Easy Life that was using imagery redolent of the airline. The band undertook to change its name. The case was widely reported in the popular press.
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Stephanie Wickenden acted for the successful Claimant on the Defendant’s application to strike out the claim so far as it sought pan-EU27 relief, arguing that the UK court had no jurisdiction to grant EU-wide remedies after 1 January 2021. While permission to appeal was granted by the Chancellor, Sir Julian Flaux, the Defendants eventually abandoned its appeal before it was heard and paid the Claimant’s costs.
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Stephanie Wickenden acted as sole counsel for the successful appellants in the Court of Appeal that created new precedent in respect of solicitors’ conflicts. The Appellants/Defendants’ solicitors previously acted for another defendant in a case brought by the same claimant where the facts had some overlap, and which was resolved by a confidential mediation. The Court found that the principles to be applied were not the same as those in former clients, but that there was a potential for a conflict of duties owing to the confidential information received through the previous mediation. On the facts, the solicitors had not breached any duty as they had implemented an appropriate information barrier.
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Stephanie Wickenden represented easyGroup successful High Court appeal from the Trade Marks Registry that gives new guidance on how Nice Classification numbers may be used to interpret a trade mark specification.
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