United Airlines has won a accusation adjoin a Canadian assistant who for the accomplished 20 years has cataloged complaints adjoin the airline on Untied.com.
A adjudicator in Canada’s Federal Cloister in Ottawa, Ontario, on Friday activate the website violates the Chicago-based airline’s trademarks and absorb and accepted United an admonition preventing Jeremy Cooperstock, who runs the website, from application the airline’s bookish property.
“We are admiring with the court’s decision. We accept consistently maintained that Mr. Cooperstock should be able to articulation his opinions, and our case was to assure United barter and abstain abashing by allurement him to not use our bookish acreage on his website and accompanying channels,” United said in an email.
Cooperstock, an engineering assistant at McGill University in Montreal, accused the airline of application the case to try to shut bottomward a antecedent of criticism and vowed to appeal.
It’s cryptic what the cardinal agency for the approaching of Untied.com, which Cooperstock launched in 1997, annoyed by the airline’s “form letter” acknowledgment to one of his own complaints.
Since then, he said he’s calm 31,000 complaints from United’s cartage and several hundred from its employees. The website additionally advises readers on how to accuse to, or sue, the airline.