Kylie Minogue is all loco-motion defending her first name in
court after a young reality TV personality in the United States
called Kylie Jenner tried to trademark the name Kylie.
Kylie Jenner filed in a US court to trademark the name
"Kylie" for marketing, advertising and entertainment
services. If Ms Jenner won a trademark on her first name it would
prevent others using the name Kylie in the same branding of
products such as cosmetics, clothing, entertainment and pop
culture.
You should be so lucky, cried Australia's singing budgie,
who launched legal action in the US Patent and Trademark Office
pointing out she has had the domain name kylie.com since 1996 – a year
before Kylie Jenner was born. Our Kylie launched her first album
'Kylie' in 1988 that sold 500,000 copies in the US. Since
then she has released 13 albums, performed countless concerts and
her name is known around the world.
