As reported last December, EasyGroup, the entity behind well-known brands such as the budget airline easyJet, has been waging something of an intellectual property war in this jurisdiction. A company, EasyGroup IP Ireland Ltd, was set up specifically to pursue infringement claims in the post-Brexit European Union. Since then, a number of suits have been lodged against entities allegedly infringing the EasyGroup brand by using the “Easy” moniker to describe their services. That march, however, may now be stymied by a new High Court judgment delivered by Justice Seamus Twomey, dismissing on jurisdictional grounds a trademark infringement and passing off…
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