Low-cost European airline EasyJet is suing Netflix

The European airline EasyJet filed a lawsuit against Netflix for the use of the word “easy”. This is because EasyGroup, the controlling company of EasyJet, has the trademark for the word in Europe, and now claims that Netflix is violating its trademark by distributing on the continent the original series “Easy”, an anthology starring among others by Orlando Bloom and Emily Ratajkowski.

According to the founder of EasyGroup, Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the streaming platform has used its trademark arrogantly: “They should have consulted their European lawyers before using the name. We own the European brand [for] the word “easy” and a thousand other trademarks with the prefix “easy”, and we can not allow people to use it now as a brand name, “he says.

According to Netflix, the series is an “eclectic, star-studded anthology following diverse Chicagoans fumbling through the modern maze of love, sex, technology and culture.”

EasyJet claims the new Netflix show is using their trademark ‘as a brand name’ and ‘are doing it mostly with our colours and font’
Netflix, for its part, does not seem to be very concerned about the issue. In a statement sent to the Sunday Times, the company said its viewers know “the difference between a program they watch and a plane in which they fly.”

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