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Ignore Katy Perry's reputation as a singer, Australian court told in trademark case

By James Panichi ( January 22, 2025, 04:10 GMT | Insight) -- Judges shouldn’t have considered the global reputation of Katy Perry as a singer over the course of a 17-year intellectual-property dispute and should have instead limited themselves to assessing the standing of “Katy Perry” as a trademark, according to filings lodged with Australia’s highest court. In a request for leave to appeal the high-profile trademark case, Australian clothes retailer Katie Jane Taylor (nèe Perry) argued that the High Court of Australia should step in to overturn a federal court decision that raised “important questions of principle” when ruling that she could no longer use her “Katie Perry” trademark.Judges shouldn’t have considered the global reputation of Katy Perry as a singer over the course of a 17-year intellectual-property dispute and should have instead limited themselves to assessing the standing of “Katy Perry” as a trademark, according to filings lodged with Australia’s highest court....

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