Easily Confused

In a development which may have far-reaching consequences for the sacred rights of capital over common assets, a high court judge has ruled that commonly used disyllables in the English language are not the exclusive property of specific commercial entities. EasyGroup, which runs EasyJet, EasyBus, EasyHotel, EasyLitigation and so forth, sued the charity shopping website Easyfundraising, its founder and its investors, on grounds of trademark violation. EasyGroup claimed that their brand could be conflated in the consumer consciousness with that of Easyfundraising and their reputation sullied by association. The judge took eighty-one pages to point out, presumably in words of as few syllables as possible, that Easyfundraising's poor reputation existed largely if not entirely in the allegations of EasyLitigation, some of whose own fellow EasyGroupies had themselves advertised on the website. Whether EasyLitigation now intend going after Linda Ronstadt, Guns N' Roses or the estates of Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda remains as yet difficult to discern.