Monique Wadsted | |
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Nationality | Swedish |
Education | Stockholm University (LLM, 1988) |
Occupation | Lawyer |
Employer | Bird & Bird |
Monique Wadsted is a Swedish lawyer. She is a partner at Bird & Bird in Stockholm.
Wadsted received an LLM 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]
Monique Wadsted is since 2017 included in the Hall of Fame of The Legal 500 for her work in intellectual property law and media law.
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.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
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]