Katie Perry v Katy Perry - Project Update

The High Court of Australia has agreed to hear an appeal by Katie Perry (an Australian fashion designer backed by LCM) of last year’s Full Court decision in which the Court ruled that the designer knew of Katy Perry’s (the singer) reputation at the time the designer registered her trademark and therefore the designer’s trademark should be cancelled. In the successful special leave application to the High Court, the designer argued that allowing the Full Court’s ruling to stand would “wrongly privilege the powerful and famous over ordinary traders”.