Tinder has filed an intellectual property infringement notice alleging its brand was copied without permission - by a man who built an app to celebrate his wife.

Rhys Kentish, 29 - who met Eliffar, 27, after they both studied at the University of Manchester - developed a dating-style app called Tender: Couple Photos & Game where the only option is to swipe right on his wife Eliffar.

The dating giant , which is owned by Match Group, has now claimed that Rhys has breached its intellectual property (IP).

In an email received on Friday, September 5, Tinder said that using the term 'swipe' on the app infringed its trademark over the word.

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The email also complained that the name Tend

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