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Search: Legal Advice written by Ronald David Coleman (66 found)
Can a business trademark the use of an Uncle Sam costumed character to attract Income Tax customers?
Posted about 18 hours ago in Trademark Infringement Seattle, WA 
Daniel Nathan Ballard's answer
See the responses to a very similar question here: http://bit.ly/4NzPgm In... 
Ronald David Coleman's answer
Yes. Anything can function as a trademark if it is a specific depiction (...
Posted 3 days ago in Copyright Infringement Scottsdale, AZ 
Pamela Koslyn's answer
What does your contract with your website developer say, did they warrant that...
Daniel Nathan Ballard's answer
You can read a number of responses when this issue was addressed before. See...
Posted 4 days ago in Libel / Slander Fountain, CO
Ronald David Coleman's answer
You will need a lawyer's help here, unfortunately. You have a right to have...
Posted 4 days ago in Libel / Slander El Paso, TX
Ronald David Coleman's answer
Yes, you do need proof -- proof that your competitors made disparaging...
Posted 4 days ago in Libel / Slander Wilmer, TX
Ronald David Coleman's answer
If you are perceiving even some of these facts correctly, this sounds like a...
Posted 5 days ago in Libel / Slander Springfield, MA
Ronald David Coleman's answer
Your question has a lot of important factual issues balled up in it. Who and... 
Henry Lebensbaum's answer
It is really not up to your boss. You need to focus on those people that...
Posted 5 days ago in Copyright Infringement Ursa, IL
Daniel Nathan Ballard's answer
The analysis starts with the unassailable fact that copying the news broadcast...
Pamela Koslyn's answer
The news itself is public, but the copyright to that particular news broadcast...
Posted 6 days ago in Copyright Infringement San Francisco, CA
Daniel Nathan Ballard's answer
As my colleagues have noted, the person about whom the movie was made enjoys a... 
Kaiser Wahab's answer
While you might be able to make and actually obtain a copyright in a screenplay...
Posted 7 days ago in Copyright Infringement San Francisco, CA
Daniel Nathan Ballard's answer
You first need to determine if the painting is protected under copyright law....
Pamela Koslyn's answer
Have you done a copyright search? If the painting was not registered when it...
Posted 7 days ago in Trademark Infringement Elburn, IL 
Bernard Samuel Klosowski Jr.'s answer
You might be OK regarding copyright, but you may a problem with the trademark...
Pamela Koslyn's answer
As my colleague correctly stated, this is a trademark issue, not a copyright...
Posted 7 days ago in Internet Dallas, TX
Ronald David Coleman's answer
Unfortunately, while there may be, technically, a way to get him to stop -- you...
Kaiser Wahab's answer
To add to Mr. Coleman's post which is unfortunately a painful reality for many...
Posted 7 days ago in Copyright Infringement Portland, OR 
David Hamlin Madden's answer
There are no copyright problems with what you propose for many long-dead...
Daniel Nathan Ballard's answer
All paintings (and all books, photographs, sculptures, musical compositions,...
Posted 7 days ago in Copyright Infringement Raleigh, NC
Daniel Nathan Ballard's answer
Yes. In the situation you describe it's irrelevant that you do not intend...
Posted 8 days ago in Trademark Infringement Birmingham, AL
Daniel Nathan Ballard's answer
No one can answer your question w/o evaluating the phrase that's registered as...
Pamela Koslyn's answer
As noted, virtually all trademark infringement questions are answered on Avvo...
Posted 8 days ago in Trademark Infringement Suwanee, GA
Daniel Nathan Ballard's answer
There are two related issues that you must deal with: the right to register and...
Ronald David Coleman's answer
Your defense sounds strong. Your success will, unfortunately, depend on whether...
Posted 8 days ago in Wrongful Termination New York
Ronald David Coleman's answer
The claim you describe may not technically be a "termination," because you are...
Posted 9 days ago in Trademark Infringement Arvada, CO
Daniel Nathan Ballard's answer
My colleague Mr. Coleman is right on the money but too kind: YES it would be...
Ronald David Coleman's answer
It may very well be infringement, because you are describing a "use in commerce"...
Posted 10 days ago in Trademark Infringement Santa Clarita, CA
Daniel Nathan Ballard's answer
As noted by Mr. Wahab, trademark rights arise only through the use of the mark -...
Kaiser Wahab's answer
Federal trademark rights tend to override state trademarks, if they are senior...
Posted 10 days ago in Trademark Infringement Elmsford, NY
Ronald David Coleman's answer
You have really reached the point where, one way or another, in order to get an...
Pamela Koslyn's answer
To be sure that the rightsholders of these 2 schools who have rights ot these 2...
Posted 10 days ago in Trademark Infringement Honolulu, HI
Daniel Nathan Ballard's answer
What Ms. Kosyln said. I understand your question to mean, however, that you...
Pamela Koslyn's answer
Dolls don't usually have brand marking stamped on their bodies, so I'm not sure... |
