Trade Marks and Passing Off - easyGroup Ltd v Easy Live (Services) Ltd
Author Anthony Majanlahti Licence CC BY 2.0 Deed Source Wikimedia Commons Jane Lambert Court of Appeal (Lords Justices Lewison and Arnold and Lady Justice Falk) easyGroup Ltd v Easy Live (Services) Ltd and others (Rev1) [2023] EWCA Civ 1508 (20 Dec 2023) This was an appeal by the claimant, easyGroup Ltd. ("easyGroup"), against the dismissal by Sir Anthony Mann of its claim for passing off against the defendants, Easy Live Services Ltd. and its shareholders and directors Achilleas Achilleous and Jonathan Burnside, for the reasons set out in Sir Anthony's judgment in Easygroup Ltd v Easy Live (Services) Ltd and others [2022] EWHC 3327 (Ch) (21 Dec 2022). easyGroup also appealed against a declaration that the defendants' use of certain signs did not infringe various trade marks owned by easyGroup. The appeal came on before Lords Justices Lewison and Arnold and Lady Justice Falk on 13 Dec 2023. By their judgment of 20 Dec 2023, they u...