Report of Trade Mark Cases For the CIPA Journal January 2025

Published

Feb 06 2025

Written By

Nick Cowen

Associate
UK

I am an associate in our Intellectual Property department, specialising in brand management.

Katharine Stephens

Partner
UK

I am fascinated by IP and the challenge of helping my clients protect, exploit and defend their IP rights to further their business objectives.

Naji Tilley

Associate
UK

I am a newly-qualified Associate in our Intellectual Property department, based in London, with a focus on contentious matters.

Practices

Regions

Western Europe

Countries

We report on EasyGroup v Easyfundraising, in which the High Court’s judgment reaffirmed previous decisions that easyGroup does not hold a monopoly on the word “easy”. We also cover the High Court’s judgment in Shorts International v Google which considered whether the use of certain signs relating to the ‘YouTube Shorts’ service constituted trade mark infringement and passing off of marks involving the element ‘SHORTSTV’. Finally, we report on AGA Rangemaster v UK Innovations Group, where the High Court found that UK Innovations’ use of AGA’s marks in relation to retrofitted AGA cookers constituted trade mark infringement.

Read the report here