Fastway Couriers wants the High Court to order the taking down of an alleged "abusive" parody Twitter account most recently named "Fartway Deliveries Ireland". Some of the tweets suggested Fastway staff were Covid-infected and that they licked customers doors, he said. Fastway's solicitors Byrne Wallace had, in correspondence with Twitter, alleged the parody account breached Fastway's trademark and logo right and that some of the material posted is defamatory and in breach of Fastway's intellectual property rights. The correspondence with Twitter had resulted in the parody account being suspended between April 4 and April 9, counsel said. It was lifted on April 11 without notice to his side after Twitter said the account was consistent with its policies.

Source: Irish Independent May 01, 2020 01:30 UTC