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Naked Cowgirl Sandy Kane planning to file trademark after run-ins with Naked Cowboy Robert Burck

In a Times Square busker battle that’s become more contentious than the O.K. Corral, bikini-clad Naked Cowgirl Sandy Kane says she’s planning to trademark her act after repeated run-ins with her tighty-whitey-wearing rival, Naked Cowboy Robert Burck.

Kane, a 42nd Street regular for six years, says she’s had it with the cowgirl “imposters” better- known Burck has trotted out to join his act.

“Naked Cowboy is getting ridiculous,” Kane told us. “He has a million girls . . . He’s like a pimp out there. It’s confusing people. It’s a dilution of the Cowgirl.” She further dissed her female rivals, saying, “They’re an insult to the guitar.”

Burck already owns the Naked Cowboy trademark, and he offers those wanting to perform in the buff with him a franchise agreement, according to documents seen by Page Six. Franchises pay $5,000 per year or $500 per month, and go through “an intense screening process.”

Burck previously filed a trademark infringement suit against Kane (a former stripper famous for lighting her breasts on fire), but the case was dismissed with Burck authorizing Kane to use “Naked Cowgirl” alongside her own name and not in connection with his brand.

In 2007, another busker named Louisa Holmlund also tried to lasso the Naked Cowgirl trademark, but was denied. But now Kane, who has appeared as the character on TV and performed with singer Peaches, wants the trademark, telling us, “I really feel like I deserve it.”

She added of the busking battle, “It’s gotten mean on the streets. [Burck’s] cowgirls are all so nasty to me. They look at me like, who the [bleep] is she? I’m like, ‘I gave you a job, bitch. Be sweet.’ ”

Naked Cowboy Enterprises’ Todd Rubenstein tells us: “We love Sandy. She has an interesting method of communicating with her middle finger. It’s part of what we don’t approve of.”

Adding to the cowboy confusion, Burck’s also been contending with Naked Indian Adam David, and threatened to sue him when he showed up last year. But a source close to Burck said, “We’ve come to an agreement.”