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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Callum Parke

Google wins High Court trade mark battle over YouTube Shorts service

Google had defended the claim from Shorts International Limited (Jonathan Brady/PA) - (PA Archive)

Google has won a High Court battle with a television company over the use of the word “shorts” on YouTube.

Shorts International Limited (SIL), which runs a TV channel dedicated to short films, claimed that Google infringed its trade marks by launching the YouTube Shorts service in 2020.

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