Katy Perry fans should not worry about the singer losing her trademark lawsuit, because she is not changing her name any time soon.
According to BBC, the "Teenage Dream" singer lost to an Australian fashion designer who sells clothes, Katie Perry-which also happens to be her birth name.
Although her brand is named as such, the fashion designer goes by her married name nowadays, Katie Taylor.
However, despite the ruling only coming in today, the dispute between the two has been going on for several years already.
Katie Perry
According to Taylor's website, she has been using the name "Katie Perry" since 2007, and had it trademarked in Australia on Sept. 29, 2008.
Around the same time, the singer was working on her breakthrough album, "One of the Boys," which was released in July 2008.
"You may remember that in 2009 there was an attempt to shut me down by the US singer," the fashion designer wrote. "It failed and the opposition to my trademark was withdrawn."
This came to a head when the "California Gurls" singer infringed the trademark following the release of her fourth studio album, "Prism."
During her "Prism" era, Perry released merchandise and apparel that sold during her tour in Australia in 2014, reports say.
Ruling
The irony of Perry's music and career was not lost on Judge Brigitte Markovic, who ruled in favor of the fashion designer.
"This is a tale of two women, two teenage dreams, and one name," the judge reportedly said in her judgment.
This was considered a massive win for Taylor, who was championing small businesses that lacked the "financial power" that bigger companies or entities obviously had at their disposal.
Taylor described the verdict as a "David and Goliath" win for small business owners like herself.
"Not only have I fought myself, but I fought for small businesses in this country, many of them started by women, who can find themselves up against overseas entities who have much more financial power than we do," she said.
Apparently, the cut left behind by Perry and her team ran deeper than just trademark infringement.
According to Taylor, the singer's lawyers reached out to her and told her to "immediately stop trading under this name, withdraw all my clothes and sign a document drafted by them to say that from then on I will never trade under this name ever again."
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