Mutya Buena fights to retrieve Sugababes name Music

Sweet and green ... Mutya Buena relates for the Sugababes name. Photograph: Eamonn McCabe

Mutya Buena, a initial – and former – piece of of Sugababes, has practical for tenure of the band"s name. The move comes as the stream Sugababes book authorised holiday gigs and hope for for the recover of the revamped lineup"s initial album, Sweet Seven.

A authorised organisation representing Buena has practical to the European Trademarks Authority for accede to make make use of of the Sugababes name, according to BBC News. The ask has been registered, but not nonetheless approved. If granted, Buena would be means to make make use of of the Sugababes code for all from T-shirts to CDs.

Buena helped form Sugababes in 1998 with Siobhán Donaghy and Keisha Buchanan. While Donaghy left in 2001 and Buena give up in 2005, Buchanan remained piece of the organisation until her warn sacking last year. She was transposed by being TV competitor Jade Ewen. At the time, Buena referred to that "Sugababes have finished since there are no strange people remaining".

While all 3 of the trio"s strange members are enclosed in the heading submission, law organisation Kilburn and Strode pronounced that Buena is the "sole applicant". The Sunday Mirror has duration reported that Buchanan has launched her own fit to retrieve the Sugababes name. According to the paper, Buchanan has demanded possibly a one-off remuneration or rights to the brand.

The stream phenomenon of Sugababes, featuring Ewen, Heidi Range and Amelle Berrabah, will recover Sweet Seven on Friday.