By Miriah Davis For Daily Mail Australia

Published: 09:38 EDT, 10 December 2021 | Updated: 09:53 EDT, 10 December 2021

The owner of Australia's last ugg boot manufacturer is planning to launch a 'crazy' sale in order to pay $3million in court costs after losing a trademark battle. 

Ugg boots may be an Australian icon for many but the name 'UGG Australia' is actually trademarked to an American-owned company that has legally stopped local companies from using the term. 

Eddie Oygur, who owns and operates Australian Leather in Western Sydney, lost a huge court case in 2019 against US company Deckers when he tried to get the ban overturned.

A jury in Chicago found Mr Oygur's business wilfully infringed trademark law by selling his iconic ugg-branded shoes in the US. 

Eddie Oygur, (pictured) who owns and operates Australian Leather has promised a 'crazy' online sale  on Saturday December 11 to help pay back $3million in court fees after a trademark name loss to US company Deckers

This week, there was even more pain when his appeal in the US Supreme Court was dismissed.

Mr Oygur says he's at a loss after being ordered to pay more than $3million in penalties and fees to the Deckers' legal team.

'There's absolutely no way I can pay that amount, I can't,' he told A Current Affair. 

'If they bankrupt me, it'll all be over, I won't be able to do anything.'

Mr Oygur was sued by Deckers in 2016 for using the UGG Australia trademark - but he argues 'ugg' was a generic term well known by Australians

Mr Oygur was sued by Deckers in 2016 for using the 'UGG Australia' trademark - which Deckers acquired in 1995. 

He argued 'ugg' was a generic term and emphasised his products were made locally in Australia while Deckers uses manufacturers in China. 

'If you show this to a 90-year-old grandma who lives in Wagga somewhere – you show her a pair of these and she'll go, "Yeah they're bloody ugg boots, mate",' he said. 

Mr Oygur has also previously argued the name originated in Australia's surfing community in the 1960s. 

Mr Oygur has been left with no choice but to let go a number of staff and cancel work for contractors since losing the court battle 

Since losing the case, Mr Oygur has been left with no choice but to let go a number of staff and cancel work for contractors.

Despite the devastating blow, Mr Oygur hasn't given up yet and says he is planning a fire-sale to help repay the crippling court costs. 

He plans to do 'something stupid or maybe crazy' online via Australian Leather on Saturday December 11, which involves clearing stock at less than cost price.  

'I want that money to pay them [Deckers] to make them happy,' he said. 

Mr Oygur is still permitted to continue selling the boots in Australia, or could rebrand to sell in overseas markets, but he claims his business is already being outrun by Deckers imports. 

'Ugg boots are a quintessentially Australian product - the product and name were invented here,' Australian Leather wrote in an open letter

The founder of the family business has been making and selling ugg boots since the early 1990s and had been involved in the sheepskin industry for 35 years. 

'Ugg boots are a quintessentially Australian product - the product and name were invented here,' Australian Leather wrote in an open letter when the lawsuit began.

'This form of legal bullying has already forced other companies to stop exporting Ugg boots and in another case from even using the words Ugg boots.'

Former senator Nick Xenophon, who originally flew to the US to help Mr Oygur fight the case pro-bono, encouraged Australians to back the business .

'He's already spent everything he owns, sold every asset he owns or mortgaged it in order to fund this case for his American lawyers,' he said.

'We need to get behind him because he's a good man that was standing up for Australia.'

Australian Leather, which manufactures footwear such as ugg boots, was founded by Eddie Oygur in 1982. 

The small manufacturer is based in Lidcombe in Sydney's west and is one of Australia's first producers of sheepskin footwear. 

Mr Oygur first began making ugg boots in the 1990s and makes about 50,000 pairs using Australian sheepskins a year. 

He has been involved in the sheepskin industry for more than 35 years. 

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