Generally, one can have common law trademark rights without a trademark registration. If a very large company is selling goods widely with a...

Generally, if someone uses a confusingly similar trademark for related goods/services you may be able to sue for trademark infringement. You...

How likely are auto manufacturers to sign a Licensing Agreement with only a Patent Pending Status involved?

Generally, it may be unlikely that someone will sign a licensing agreement before a patent issues. If you want to speed up the process you may...

According to the terms of service for urbandictionary.com it appears that those that publish content on the website may retain intellectual...

Can I trademark a phrase.? The phrase is “Take a chair with me..Chair Yoga”

Generally, it is possible that a phrase can be a registered trademark. You should have a US full trademark search done, which would search at...

Can I incorporate a one word trademark into a T-shirt design/advertising?

There appear to be, at least, a number of US registered trademarks which use the term "Let's" for shirts, and there may be an argument that the...

Now that I've written my script and have it copywritten. what is the next step to legal documentation?

Hopefully you have properly filed an application for copyright registration for your script with the US Copyright Office. If you film...

Intellectual property licensing agreements what are the risks and what are the different varieties of Licensing agreements how d

If you are licensing your trademark, it is important for you to adequately police the quality of goods/services that your trademark is used to...

You should have an attorney send a cease and desist notice, and assuming you have registered the copyrights with the US Copyright Office, if you do...

Can I affix purchased officially licensed team logos to my own creations ?

If you affix a logo of a team without permission to an item, and sell the item, you may be sued, at least, for trademark infringement and/or...