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MYSTERIOUS: Easygroup - What They Never Told You

EasyJet brand owner loses trademark battle with Easyfeetstore and Easyfeet

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The Independent UK

EasyGroup loses High Court trademark dispute over ‘easy’ branding

The group ‘seems to be doing all it can to prevent the use of ‘easy’ signs without its licence’, says judge

The Independent UK

‘The lawsuit was my life. Of course I’m writing about it’: Hard Life – formerly Easy Life – on being sued by easyGroup and starting afresh

When the Leicester band were forced to drop their old name after a legal threats from a certain budget airline, it could have been curtains. But frontman Murray Matravers’s trip to Japan has prompted a bold new outlook – and an upbeat new album

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Founder of easyJet takes punt on gambling with launch of EasyBet

Exclusive: website is joint-venture with offshore firm that had its gambling licence temporarily suspended in 2020

The Guardian - UK

EasyJet brand owner loses trademark dispute with fundraising website

EasyGroup took legal action against Easyfundraising after claiming it had infringed trademarks

The Guardian - UK

EasyJet loses High Court ‘easy’ trademark battle

The group had taken legal action against easyfundraising, claiming it had infringed various trademarks

The Independent UK

Battle over Easy trademark puts fundraising site under scrutiny by Charity Commission

Easyfundraising has been accused by easyJet’s founder of misleading the public by adopting a ‘charity guise’ to market a profitable company

The Guardian - UK

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EasyJetwash owner agrees to pay out in trademark row

Patio cleaner in Staffordshire will pay 'significant damages and legal costs’ to group behind easyJet brand

The Guardian - UK

Easy Life band sued by easyGroup reveal inspired new name

A Hard Life for Leicester band who were sued by the creators of the ‘easy’ brand, easyGroup

The Independent UK

It’s a Hard Life for band changing their name after objection from easyGroup

British indie band no longer known as Easy Life after saying they did not have money to defend lawsuit

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s for the judge to decide’: Stelios Haji-Ioannou’s battle to defend his Easy brand

The tycoon behind the low-cost franchise is ever vigilant for companies he suspects of infringing his intellectual property

The Guardian - UK

Boss of easyfundraising vows to fight easyJet owner’s trademark claim

James Moir says his company’s branding is not remotely similar to easyGroup’s and calls its lawsuit ‘a bit mean’

The Guardian - UK

Pop band Easy Life forced to change their name following EasyJet owner’s lawsuit

“We simply don’t have the funds to access a fair trial in the high court.”

Evening Standard

British band Easy Life forced to change group name after easyJet brand owner files lawsuit

The group have decided not to defend a lawsuit launched by EasyGroup, the parent company of the budget airline

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The Guardian - UK

Pop group Easy Life forced to change name after objection from easyGroup

Leicester-formed band decide not to defend lawsuit due to financial burden, after easyJet brand owner calls them ‘brand thieves’

The Independent UK

Indie band Easy Life backed by Tom Watson and Harriet Harman over ‘cruel’ easyJet lawsuit

Budget airline’s brand company has been criticised for launching legal action against the band, who formed under the name Easy Life in 2017

The Independent UK

Indie band Easy Life backed by Tom Watson and Harriet Harman over ‘cruel’ easyJet lawsuit

Budget airline’s parent company has been criticised for launching legal action against the band, who formed under the name Easy Life in 2017

Fortune

easyJet owner orders band Easy Life to change name, calls members brand thieves

The airline has a long history of going after what it calls "brand thieves," who it claims use the easy name for financial game.

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The Independent UK

EasyJet owner sues Leicester indie pop band for using name Easy Life

The owner of the budget airline has launched legal action to force the band to change their name

Evening Standard

Band Easy Life say they are being sued by owner of airline easyJet over name

Leicester-based band Easy Life say they are being forced to change their name by the owners of easyJet, who have started legal action against them.

The Guardian - UK

EasyJet owner sues band for using name Easy Life

Leicester band say they are ‘virtually powerless’ after easyGroup accuses them of being ‘brand thieves’

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