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Musician Katy Perry - Source: Reuters
An Australian fashion designer, who has been in a legal dispute with US pop star Katy Perry over their shared name, says an attempt to extend an olive branch has failed.
Sydney designer Katie Perry, who owns a lounge wear clothing label, was asked by the singer's lawyers in May to withdraw her trademark application to use her name for her label.
But the singer dropped the case just hours before it was set for court.
The designer says she was keen to meet her namesake - whose real name is Kathryn Elizabeth Hudson - when she was in the country last week, but was refused.
The legal issue with the designer was off-limits during Perry's media interviews last week with the plug being temporarily pulled on one television interview amid concern the topic was being raised.
