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A new
Indian restaurant recently took on an international business in the
High Court to keep its name.
Easygroup threatened Northampton
based restaurant Easycurry with action unless it dropped its name and signs.
Restaurant spokesman Naz Uddin
said they had made efforts to change the typeface and colours but
would not back down over the name of the restaurant.
Anthony Robb-John, managing
director of Easygroup, said: "We won't let the public be misled."
The group includes the low-cost
airline Easyjet, which is famous for its bright orange and white logo
and the quirky use of capital and lower-case letters.
The restaurant has similar
writing but with a black background with "easy" written in
white and "curry" in orange.
Mr Uddin said: "We agreed
to change the capital letter so it's all lower case and said we would
change the colour but they said that's not enough. They're not happy
because the word easy is still in the name.
"How can the word easy
belong to them? I don't think that can be right."
The restaurant opened a few weeks
ago and allows customers to pay £5 and then whatever else they
think their meal is worth - with no maximum or minimum amount.
"All we're trying to do
is to give people the opportunity to eat out in the current difficult
economical climate," Mr Uddin said.
Easygroup is into about 20 other
activities including car hire, cinema ticket sales, pizza delivery,
cruising, hotels, mobile phones and finance.
In 2003, Easygroup settled out of
court over the use of the name Easypizza.co.uk by a London takeaway
after discovering the business had been in operation since 1997 -
seven years before the Easygroup company Easypizza was launched.
And an action taken against the
use of internet art seller Easyart's domain name was later dropped.
After ongoing communication
contesting the case, the restaurant decided to be re-named and
concentrate on expanding its business rather than becoming engaged in
a protracted dispute over a name.
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