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Jane Lambert Chancery Division (Nicholas Caddick KC)  easyGroup Ltd v Easy Live (Services) Ltd and others [2024] EWHC 2282 (Ch) (4 Sept 2024) This was an action and counterclaim.    The proceedings came on before Mr Nicholas Caddick KC sitting as a deputy judge of the High Court between 8 and 10 May 2024,  He delivered judgment in  easyGroup Ltd v Easy Live (Services) Ltd and others  [2024] EWHC 2282 (Ch) on 4 Sept 2024 dismissing the claim and most of the counterclaim. Claim easyGroup Ltd ("easyGroup") was the registered proprietor of  UK903367695  and  UK3532904 .  The deputy judge referred to those marks as "the Easylife Marks".  He called the first mark "the Easylife Stylised Mark" and the second mark" the Easylife Word Mark".   An image of the Easylife Stylised Mark appears in the illustration at the very top of this article.  easyGroup had acquired the Easylife Stylised Mark from Easylife Holding...

By EasyGroup, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=100183294   Jane Lambert Chancery Division (Chief Insolvency and Companies Judge Briggs) easyGroup Ltd v Easylife Ltd and another  (Rev2) [2021] EWHC 2 150  ( Ch) (29 July 2021) I mentioned this action in Practice - easyGroup Ltd v Easylife Ltd   on 2 Feb 2022 when I discussed its pre-trial review ( easyGroup Ltd v Easylife Ltd and another [2021] EWHC 1705 (Ch) (11 June 2021). Readers will recall that it was an action for trade mark infringement and passing off. There was also a counterclaim for revocation and declarations of invalidity. The action and counterclaim came on for trial before Chief Insolvency and Companies Judge Briggs on 7, 8, 9 and 13 July 2021. Judge Briggs delivered judgment on 29 July 2021 ( easyGroup Ltd v Easylife Ltd and another   (Rev2) [2021] EWHC 2150 (Ch) (29 July 2021). By para [295] of his judgment, he dismissed the claim, revoked the registrations of ...