Australian pop-star Kylie Minogue’s long running battle with reality tv-star Kylie Jenner, and Jenner’s attempt to trade mark the name ‘Kylie’ appears to have ended.
Kylie Jenner, the youngest of the Kardashian clan, submitted a U.S. trade mark application in 2015 to protect her first name in relation to advertising and endorsement services.
Minogue’s representative business, KBD, retaliated by filing a notice of opposition to the application on the basis that Minogue is an “internationally renowned performing artist, humanitarian, and breast cancer activist known worldwide simply as ‘Kylie’” while Jenner is “a secondary reality television personality”. The notice went on to argue that the Kylie trade mark would likely cause confusion with, and tarnish, Minogue’s long list of existing trade mark registrations including Kylie Minogue Darling, Kylie Minogue and her website kylie.com.
