Designer Katie Perry wins Australian trademark battle against Katy Perry
completemusicupdate.comAn Australian fashion designer born with the name Katie Perry has won a trademark battle against a certain Katy Perry in her home country.The two Perrys first started sparring over who had the right to sell clothing products using the name Katy/Katie Perry within Australia back in 2009.
The singing Perry sent the designing Perry a stern legal letter, resulting in the latter hitting out at the former online.The singer insisted that the stern letter was not as threatening as the designer made out – and was not the start of any legal battle in the courts – but was just a routine correspondence sent as part of her own company’s bid to register some trademarks in Australia.However, the dispute did ultimately end up in court, albeit years later and at the instigation of the designer Perry.
Having found someone willing to fund some legal action, she sued pop star Perry in 2019 claiming that the musician’s sale of Katy Perry branded clothing products in Australia infringed her trademark.By that time, Katie Perry had married so was legally known as Katie Taylor.
That wasn’t relevant to the legal battle, though the fact that Perry/Taylor had used the name Katie Howell while growing up – Howell being her stepfather’s surname – was brought up.
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