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After a protracted legal struggle with an Australian designer, Katy Perry has prevailed.
The Sydney fashion designer of the same name told The Post that the verdict was handed out in an Australian court on Thursday, November 21.
Since 2009, the 40-year-old Grammy-nominated singer and the style guru of the same name have been embroiled in a trademark dispute. But the Australian designer was actually named Katie Perry. Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson is the legal name of the “I Kissed a Girl” songbird.
According to Australian Katie, “I have lost everything, including my trademark,” she told The Post. You can see how upset I am.
“My label has been a dream of mine since I was eleven years old, and now that I have worked so hard for that dream since 2006, it has been taken away,” she added. Now what should I do? I’ll pick myself up and decide what to do next. Maybe relocate to a place where the name Katie Perry is meaningless.
Katy’s representative was contacted by The Post for comment.
Katie claimed that the pop artist and her agents tried to close her Australian clothing line, which she had been running under her given name since 2007, by sending her a cease-and-desist letter.
In a blog post from 2022, the Australian Katie stated, “Last week was the end of one of the biggest battles of my business career, The “David and Goliath case” – legal action against the singer, Katy Perry, for infringing my Katie Perry trade mark in Australia – which I’ve held since 29th September 2008.”
After it was found that the “Roar” singer had violated the dud maker’s copyright, she lost the lawsuit last year, but the diva refused to give up.
They went back to court after pop sensation Katy filed an appeal.
Prior to the legal battle, the designer claimed to have suffered from “nightmares” and “insomnia” as a result of being harassed by the pop star’s followers.
The singer and her manager exchanged emails during the trial, and Perry labeled the designer a “dumb b–ch.” She also recounted this agonizing incident.
Steven Jensen, Katy’s manager, dismissed the remarks.
“Artists are sensitive individuals. “Their talent is driven by emotions,” Jensen observed at the time. “That was an emotional reaction, not a personal jab at Ms. Taylor.”
The entrepreneur added, “I have not only fought for myself, but I have fought for small businesses in this country.” “A lot of them were founded by women, and they may have to contend with foreign organizations that are far more powerful financially than we are.”
Carl Westcott, an 84-year-old veteran, and Katy are infamously embroiled in a legal dispute over the sale of Westcott’s $15 million California estate.
In 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Westcott signed an agreement with Bernie Gudvi, the “Fireworks” singer’s business manager, to sell his house to the superstar.
They rejected Westcott’s attempt to back out of the agreement a few days later, claiming he consented to the sale while recuperating from surgery and citing his mental health issues.
Both sides then filed their own cases against one another, focusing on Westcott’s mental state.
In November 2023, Judge Joseph Lipner of the Los Angeles County Superior Court ruled in favor of Katy, finding that Westcott lacked sufficient proof to prove he was mentally incapable of signing a contract for the eight-bedroom, eleven-bathroom home.
Nonetheless, the legal dispute persisted as Katy asserted that Westcott owed her millions in property damages, and the amount keeps rising.
In February 2025, the pop artist and Westcott’s team are scheduled to return to court for the trial’s second phase.
