by The long -term legal dispute between pop singer Katy Perry and the Australian fashion designer Katie Perry continues.
The Australian Supreme Court decided on Friday that the case “Taylor vs. Killer Queen”, in which the designer based in Sydney claims, claims 13 times the Grammy candidate for her brand. This reverses a decision by the High Court in November, which decided in favor of the American pop star.
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The designer, whose birth name Katie was Jane Perry and whose legal name Katie Jane Taylor is, is the registered owner of the Australian brand Katie Perry. She secured this in 2008 – a year after she founded her company. The pop star based in the USA, whose first name Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson is, took over the name Katy Perry for her professional musical career and commercial licensing goods in 2002.
Justice Brigitte Markovic, who monitors the case, previously referred to the matter as “This is a story of two women, two teenage dreams and a name”. “
The couple has been involved in legal proceedings since 2009. Her dispute over the Federal Supreme Court in 2019, when the designer claimed that the Crooner of the Croonian “Woman’s World” had sold at her concerts and online killer queen, Kitty Purry, Kitty Purry and Purrfect Ventures.
The designer rejected an interview request on Tuesday by e -mail and found that according to her lawyers, she did not speak journalists because the matter is ahead of the high court. In an explanation, she said: “I confirm that the High Court granted the special vacation for the decision of the full Federal Court from November. Since this matter is now before the court, I cannot comment on at that time.”
The Australian creative also refused to comment on Perry’s 11-minute Blue Origin Space Flight with the all-Women crew, which included the fiance Lauren Sanchez and Gayle King from Jeff Bezos. As an indicator of inequality between the megastar and the designer, the “Roar” musician has 230 million Instagram followers and the designer 670.
A lawyer of Katy Perry did not immediately answer a request for a comment on Tuesday morning.
The case brings more than similarly named people to the surface, including the question of whether the world’s recognized third -party consumers can confuse or deceive and that the defense of one’s own “own name” applies to their own legal name as well as to every pseudonym or an artist name. The claim that clothing includes shoes, headgear, hats, hats and forehead straps was also a question of the debate.
After the pop star sought registration for the “Katy Perry” brand in Australia and proposed a coexistence agreement in 2009, the fashion designer rejected.
The Katie Perry label is a sustainable line of women’s and men’s travel wear and lounge goods. The mother of two children describes her brand as “intentionally and the opposite of fast fashion” and encourages people to repeat outfits from natural fabrics.
Regardless of what happens before the High Court, Katy Perry’s upcoming “Lifetimes” tour in Australia will appear for 15 concerts, including three in the hometown of Sydney of the designer on June 4th, 9th and 10th. In 2023, a federal judge of the federal government decided that Perry violated Merchandise’s trademark of the designer, which was sold in connection with their 2014 Australian tour. However, this decision was reversed later because the American singer had determined international recognition for her stage name before the designer brand was set up.
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