What’s the difference between a girl-kissing pop sensation and an Australian luxury loungewear designer? Well, two letters: “i” and “e” — and apparently that’s too close for comfort.
On Tuesday (June 16), an Australian newspaper reported that a local fashion designer, Katie Perry, had been served a cease-and-desist order from 包茎lawyers representing singer Katy Perry, aimed at stopping her from trademarking her birth name for a clothing label.
According to The Australian, Katie Perry started a “luxury loungewear” fashion line more than two years ago and had been selling her designs online and through local markets. Last week, she opened her first retail outlet in a suburb of Sydney and filed paperwork to trademark her name for both the store and her line.
That’s when she received a letter from a Queensland-based legal firm, Fisher Adams Kelly, who were acting on behalf of Katy Perry, asking her to stop selling her line.
“I got such a huge shock. It really felt like I was being intimidated and bullied into signing everything away,” Katie Perry told the newspaper. “It asked me to give up the trademark, withdraw sales of my clothes, withdraw any advertising and any Web sites and sign that I will not in the future use a similar trademark to Katy Perry. I pretty much burst into tears.”
Perry told The Australian that she was born Katie Jane Perry and, as such, she has no plans to cease and desist just because her name happens to be similar to an internationally famous pop star.
“I love my business. I’m not going to give it away without a fight, either,” she said. “I’m not trying to become a singer. I’m not pretending to be her包茎. This is my income. And it’s the livelihood of my contractors as well.”
Katy Perry is scheduled to play three shows in Australia in August, which should be, uh, interesting. MTV News’ attempts to contact her label, Capitol Records, for comment on the situation were unsuccessful.
There are real fears the top of the table clash between the Broncos and the Bulldogs may not go ahead at Lang Park on Friday night as the NRL awaits results from a swine flu test by Karmichael Hunt.
The entire Brisbane Broncos organisation has 包茎been affected by the swine flu crisis with all players and coaches placed into quarantine, as they await test results on whether Hunt is carrying the virus.
According to Queensland Health, there is a likelihood Queensland utility and Broncos fullback may be the second NRL player after the Bulldogs Ben Hannant to have the virus after already testing positive for influenza A.
Meanwhile the North Queensland Cowboys are breathing a sigh of relief after head coach Neil Henry and strength and conditioning coach Billy Johnstone returned negative results for swine flu.
The pair along with Origin players Luke O’Donnell, Matt Scott and Jonathan Thurston are set to return to training tomorrow morning after spending 包茎three days in isolation, with O’Donnell telling Grandstand he is happy to be back with his team mates.
You can listen to Luke O’Donnell’s interview with Zane Bojack below:
With companies in no mood to hire, the unemployment rate is still rising. But the furious pace of layoffs is easing as the recession loosens its hold on the
包茎 country.The Labor Department on Friday is slated to release a report expected to show that a net total of 520,000 jobs were lost in May. If economists are right, the figure would mark the second straight month that job losses slowed. It also would be the fewest job reductions since October.”A loss of that many jobs is bad, but would be taken as a sign that the heavy weights on the economy
包茎and the labor market seem to be diminishing a bit,” said Steven Cochrane, managing director of Moody’s Economy.com.The deepest job cuts of the recession came in January when 741,000 jobs disappeared, the most since 1949.
A federal judge abused her discretion when she made alleged positive steroid tests and other key evidence off-limits in
包茎Barry Bonds’ perjury trial, prosecutors said Monday.
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Bonds’ prosecutors asked the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reinstate the evidence, which Judge Susan Illston banned from the case Feb. 19, on the grounds that there was no proof the tests had anything to do with the former Giants star.
Bonds, 44, holder of baseball’s career home run record, had been scheduled to go to trial in March, accused of lying under oath about his use of steroids to the grand jury that investigated the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative steroids scandal. The judge’s ruling gutted the government’s case, and prosecutors took the unusual step of delaying the trial indefinitely while pursing an appeal.
At issue are the results of three private steroid tests allegedly arranged by Bonds’ trainer, Greg Anderson, in 2000 and 2001. The tests prove Bonds was using steroids, the government says.
Prosecutors also planned to show Bonds’ jury sets of doping calendars and drug ledgers seized from Anderson’s home包茎フェチ during a 2003 raid. The documents show how Anderson tracked Bonds’ steroid use, prosecutors contend.
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