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Legality of watching movies online
Just to round out the other answers: I think you have three separate issues to consider. Legally, as one attorney notes, a transient or ephemeral copy of a work is still a copy in this Circuit. Streaming is therefore not exempted or protected. Practically, there is little chance you will be caught and even less chance that anybody would want to catch you. The illegal site is the prime target. Morally, I think you should ask yourself what your streaming of illegal movie copies costs the artist....
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We have multinationals interested in licensing patent. The initial design was of great interest (and current interest) to them,
In addition to the excellent advice from your other answerer, I would also like you to get much clearer about what the "examiner's report" is. If this was an Office Action, it was not so much a report as a plain rejection of some or all of the claims (Examiner's are prohibited from merely reported and or advising inventors about claim allowability). Also Examiners do not review designs; they only review claims to designs. So what you may have here is a rejection of claims to design #1 and the...
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I want to use pictures on my website, but don't want to pay for them.
A client of mine was recently dinged by Getty Images for $600 for an image that his web designer casually used as a test piece and never released to the public. The client never knew about it; the web designer didn't think it mattered if it was not posted on the public web. The image came from a source that had snipped the 'Getty Images' proprietary watermark off the photo. None of that made any difference. Getty is not the only vigilant monitor out there (and they use wicked hi-tech image...
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I had an idea for an invention while working at WalMart in OH but don't work there now.
It is possible Walmart could assert such a claim. Especially if the invention relates to Walmart's business, and or you used Walmart time or equipment in deriving the invention. The fact that you no longer work there does not end the matter. The answer also depends on whether Ohio currently has a statute for the protection of employed inventors. I would seek counsel about that from an Ohio licensed registered patent attorney at your first opportunity. If there are no difficulties the...
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Can a company ask me sign over all intellectual rights after employment?
I can not tell from your question whether the intellectual property rights to which you refer are copyrights or patents. It seems the other answers address copyright concerns, including work-for-hire. As one of the attorneys notes, specific answers will have to come from a West Virginia licensed lawyer and some of the answer has to be guided by relevant WV law. If the rights you are required to sign over are patent rights, the analysis could be different from a copyright analysis, especially...