[pp.int.general] trademarks

[Andrew Norton]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Richard Stallman <rms at gnu.org> wrote:
>    Closer to most of you, mosot of you have heard of Stelios Haji-Ioannou's
>    empire of 'easy...' (EasyJet, EasyRentacar etc). He's been well known
>    for attempting to have anything else with the name 'easy...' shut down
>    as trademark infrignement, such as easybroker and easycar
>
> Easycar and EasyRentacar seem to me like a case where real
> confusion is possible.

It would be, yes except Easycar was first. Then Stelios' group decided
to get into the market and tried to bully them out. Easycar folded
around 01-02 (as in fact, did easyrentacar), and was then taken over
by easygroup (so the current easycar is part of easygroup now)


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