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Singer Katy Perry has lost a trademark battle with an Australian fashion designer called Katie Perry. Katie Taylor, who sells clothes under her birth name Katie Perry, sued the pop star, saying her merchandise infringed a trademark she owned. On Friday, a judge agreed that clothing sold for Katy’s 2014 Australian tour did breach Katie’s trademark. “This is a tale of two women, two teenage dreams and one name,” Justice Brigitte Markovic wrote in her ruling. The judge said the Teenage Dream singer, born Katheryn Hudson, used the Katy Perry name in “good faith” and does not owe any personal…