The other day I posted that ousted Sugababes member Keisha Buchanan was rumored to be launching legal action against the new line-up (Sugababes 4.0) to get them to change their name. Well now Holy Moly are reporting (with the legal documents to prove it) that three of the original members have teamed up together to apply to the European Trademarks Authority to seek ownerwhip of the bands name “Sugababes”.

If their bid is successful, which Holy Moly are saying is likely, the girls will be able to use the name to record, advertise and much more.

Shockingly the name “Sugababes” has never even been trademarked (Oops!), which led to member Mutya Buena initially launching the application in November 2009, two months after Keisha was booted from the band against her will. Yesterday the application was resubmitted to now include Keisha and the third founding member Siobhan Donaghy.

Unfortunately the current line-up only have until May 8th to launch an official opposition, which could end up causing ALL kinds of trouble for their new album Sweet 7 which is being released this week. {Source HolyMoly & ThatGrapeJuice]

The ‘Sugababes’ name first originated when Mutya and Keisha were about 14-years-old and with the help of their manager they christened themselves “The Sugarbabies” . The name was later tweaked by their former record label London Records to become ‘Sugababes’, and the girls kept the name when they introduced new member Heidi Range to the group and signed a new record deal with Island Records, who are now home to the current line-up.

I’ve got my fingers crossed that the original girls can take back what is rightly theirs, and who knows, maybe they’ll even reunite for some new music!  Check out the girls very first single “Overload” which was released back in 2000 and was nominated for a Brit Award.

During an interview this morning to promote her new single with Agent X “Falling”, original Sugababe Mutya Buena opened up about the recent split in the group which saw co-founder Keisha Buchanan forced from the band, which according to new reports from The Sun, was caused when both Heidi Range and Amelle Berrabah teamed up behind Keisha’s back to secretly replace her with Jade Ewen. Check out what Mutya had to say below.

“I’ve spoken to Keisha” says Mutya “And for me personally I just don’t think the Sugababes is the Sugababes anymore. I suppose now that there’s no original Sugababes we should just all re-form again. It’s a nice thing to know that I still have contact with both of them [Keisha & Siobhan].

“I heard there were rumours about Keisha being a bully but that’s all lies. The reasons why people left were not due to bullying to tell you the truth.

“You know I haven’t been with the Sugababes for so long and I’ve had my years of growing up and learning about what I want in life and looking after my daughter, and I just think that hooking up with the rest of the girls could be an amazing idea. Definitely.”

During a recent interview with original member Siobhan Donaghy, the now 25-year-old said that herself and Mutya are on great terms, but that she would never forgive Keisha who she refers to as her “first bully”.

Since leaving the Sugababes Siobhan has gone on to release two highly critically acclaimed solo albums, with her sophomore effort “Ghosts” recently being voted “the most underrated album in history”, by popular music website we7.

This news is a-ma-zing! I kinda doubt that it would happen, but just to know that Mutya is really open to it is great to hear. Only a few weeks back Keisha said in an interview that she hadn’t spoken to Mutya since Mutya left the group in 2005, and then they recently bumped into each other at a party. She said they just said hello and were polite and that was it, and she mentioned that she was sad about it. Well it looks like this split with the Sugababes was just the thing to get the friendship back on track and I’m so glad to know Mutya reached out to her.

I would also love to see Siobhan back with them because she’s enormously talented, but her music now is way too alternative for the other girls and Siobhan would never sing something she didn’t believe in. Maybe if Siobhan could work out her differences with Keisha then they could all get together and do something. I can imagine some edgy alternative pop or something, it’d be amazing. As I said before though I doubt this will happen, especially since Keisha is still under the control of Island Records, but you never know. Fingers crossed!