{"id":326114,"date":"2026-03-12T15:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T15:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/326114\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T15:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T15:00:13","slug":"katy-perry-loses-trademark-fight-against-australian-katie-perry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/326114\/","title":{"rendered":"Katy Perry loses trademark fight against Australian Katie Perry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/entertainment\/Katy-Perry-loses-trademark-fight-against-Australian-Katie-Perry-2025381?gallery=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/85966334.295.jpg\" alt=\"Ketty Perry is an American singer\" title=\"Ketty Perry is an American singer\" width=\"295\" height=\"167\" \/> <\/a>Ketty Perry is an American singer<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-123\">Australian designer Katie Perry has won the right to sell clothes under her name, claiming victory on Wednesday in a years-long trademark spat with US pop megastar Katy Perry.<\/p>\n<p>Designer Katie Perry accused her far more famous namesake of trademark infringement, arguing she had claimed the \u201cKatie Perry\u201d brand before the singer became a global sensation.<\/p>\n<p>But songstress Katy Perry said her music had already gone \u201cviral\u201d as the designer started selling clothes around 2008, and sought to have the Australian trademark cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>An Australian court agreed with the singer, ruling in 2024 that the clothing trademark should be cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>However, Australia\u2019s High Court has now ruled in favour of the local designer on appeal, finding there was unlikely to be any risk of \u201cconfusion\u201d between the two.<\/p>\n<p>A representative for the singer told AFP that despite the legal action, she \u201chas never sought to close down\u201d the Australian business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ketty Perry is an American singer Australian designer Katie Perry has won the right to sell clothes under&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-326114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}