Katy Perry: US pop star loses trademark battle against designer with same name
Taylor hailed the verdict as a"David and Goliath" win for small businesses."Not only have I fought myself, but I fought for small businesses in this country, many of them started by women, who can find themselves up against overseas entities who have much more financial power than we do," she wrote in aThe legal battle between the two women began in 2008, when Taylor registered the Katie Perry brand in Australia.
The singer initially tried to block the registration and later launched a legal bid to force the designer to cease and forever desist from using the trademark - but later abandoned the move, Taylor said. She wrote on her blog:"When this all started back in 2009, I had been designing and manufacturing clothes in Australia under the name I was born with, Katie Perry, which I applied to register as a trade mark for my business - a logical next step. I had no knowledge of the singer at the time.
"Imagine my surprise when one of the reactions I received was a letter from lawyers representing the US singer, Katy Perry. "They stated that I should immediately stop trading under this name, withdraw all my clothes and sign a document drafted by them to say that from then on I will never trade under this name ever again.But Taylor vowed not to give in and instead"decided to fight against this injustice," she wrote."We established infringement and the cross claim was dismissed.
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