Generally, if you use the name or image of a person for commercial purpose, without their permission, you may be liable for violating their right...

When taking notes from a textbook do you have to cite the publisher to avoid infringement?

Generally, copyright does not protect ideas. However, if your notes are substantially similar to the textbook there may be a copyright...

Generally if you put someone’s trademark on your product, without the original trademark owner’s permission, and sell your product, you may be...

Can I patent a smaller version of a padlock?

Generally, merely reducing the size of a known apparatus, would typically not be patentable. However, you should discuss with an intellectual...

Can I use my last name as a brand even though the brand name already exists?

Generally, when a first party owns a trademark as applied to particular goods/services, restrictions may be placed on how a second party may use...

Generally, there may be issues here of whether whatever you plan on doing would be substantially similar to someone else's copyrighted work. ...

Would this violate a trademark?

Generally, if a trademark is confusingly similar to another trademark as applied to the particular goods/services there may be a trademark...

Generally, if you take someone's product out of the original bottle, and then put into smaller bottles, and add the original trademark, without...

Generally, one may have common law trademark rights in a particular geographic area without a trademark registration however, it is important to...

Can I buy a good quality plain undersigned Jordan shoe from China and put my own design on it and resale it without permission ?

Generally, if you take someone's trademarked product, modify it, but leave the original trademark on it, and sell the modified product without...