Monique Wadsted

Monique Wadsted (born 19 September 1957) is a Swedish lawyer. She is a partner at Bird & Bird in Stockholm.

Monique Wadsted
Wadsted during The Pirate Bay trial, 2009.
Born (1957-09-19) 19 September 1957
NationalitySwedish
EducationStockholm University (LL.M, 1988)
OccupationLawyer
EmployerBird & Bird

Career

Wadsted received an LL.M. from Stockholm University in 1988 and clerked for the Stockholm District Court in 1989–90.[1] Before moving to Bird & Bird, she was a partner at Magnusson Wahlin Qvist Stanbrook (MAQS) Advokatbyrå.[1][2] In 2017, she was named one of the top 250 women in intellectual property law by Managing Intellectual Property.[3]

Cases

She represented Swedish Match in a case regarding the borders between freedom of speech and advertising. She has also represented Duracell against Philips, KF against Gillette, Canal+ against TV1000, and Duka against Bodum.

Later she represented firms including Warner Bros., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Columbia Pictures, 20th Century Fox in The Pirate Bay trial.[4][5] At the trial, she argued that The Pirate Bay was not "passive" in its distribution of content.[6] She was doxxed while the trial proceeded.[2]

In 2014 she represented the journalist Pia Gadd in Svensson v Retriever Sverige AB, a case before the Court of Justice of the European Union regarding linking and copyright.[7] The law in Svensson was later developed in cases such as GS Media v Sanoma.

In 2017 she represented Bringwell Sverige AB before the Supreme Court of Sweden in a case regarding damages caused by an interim injunction. The case regarded the legal basis for damages, calculation of damages and evidence of commercial loss.

In 2019 she represented the scientific publisher Elsevier by sending a cease and desist letter to the edtech company Citationsy for linking to Sci-Hub on their blog.[8] She also represented Fredrik Virtanen in legal proceedings related to his defamation suit against Cissi Wallin.[9]

gollark: Me?
gollark: Idea: procedural generation of near-identical ethical systems which produce the desired results in any ethical situation.
gollark: Probably not with comparatively *strong* criticism/beliefs compared to if I actually had read all of it, but yes.
gollark: Yes.
gollark: Well, yes, but now.

References
  1. Martindale-Hubbell International Law Directory. Martindale-Hubbell. 2003. p. EU1633B.
  2. Daly, Steven (March 2007). "Pirates of the Multiplex". Vanity Fair.
  3. Egbuonu, Kingsley (21 May 2017). "The Top 250 Women in IP (2017)". Managing Intellectual Property. ProQuest document ID 1962313530.
  4. Associated Press (26 November 2010). "Swedish Court Upholds Convictions in File-Sharing Case". The New York Times.
  5. "US embassy cables: Sweden's concerns about Anti-Counterfeit Trading Agreement negotiations". The Guardian. 22 December 2010.
  6. Larsson, Stefan (2 January 2017). Conceptions in the Code: How Metaphors Explain Legal Challenges in Digital Times. Oxford University Press. pp. 12–13. ISBN 978-0-19-065039-1.
  7. Svensson v Retriever Sverige AB, Case C‑466/12, 13 February 2014, Court of Justice of the European Union.
  8. Doctorow, Cory (2 August 2019). "Elsevier sends copyright threat to site for linking to Sci-Hub". BoingBoing.
  9. "#MeToo defamation trial kicks off in Sweden". The Local. 21 November 2019.
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