Katy Perry won’t give evidence in legal fight with Australian fashion designer
Katy Perry will not give evidence in a new trademark infringement lawsuit against her by Australian fashion designer Katie Jane Taylor, who trades under her maiden name Katie Perry.Legal trouble between the pair began in 2009, when lawyers acting for the singer, real name Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson, opposed Taylor’s trademarking of the name Katie Perry to represent her own clothing name – despite it being her birth name.In July of that year, Hudson’s legal team dropped their opposition to the trademark at a hearing at Intellectual Property Australia.Last year, Taylor initiated legal proceedings against the singer for selling clothes in Australia that with a name that is “substantially identical with, or deceptively similar to” her