The short answer is that it depends on whether they too are laying claim to any US market area either through a formal USPTO registration or under...

This is unanswerable in a vacuum. For example, my firm overcame an office action rejection for VIP Television even though VIP TV was already...

If i pick a company name thats a trademarked product name in a different occupation does it prevent me from using that name

I agree that this might be considered rather descriptive if related to ammo, but it depends. Many trademarks share the same or very similar names...

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Can you trademark/copyright or patent a program?

You need some actual advice here to parse out exactly what you are complaining of. You note that someone is copying one of your programs, but then...

Can I File a Uniform Domain Name Dispute Against a Closed Business?

Filing a UDRP complaint for this is not the appropriate way to go and could possibly come back to bite you. Assuming they would not be acting in...

Can I use the background image of a movie poster for my school fundraiser flyers?

I think technically this is infringement, but all the other facts considered no one will ever know nor care about that. A major Hollywood studio is...

Fan-fiction is really just another way of saying "moderately tolerated copyright infringement." In most cases, copyright owners are not cracking...

The design, assuming is has creative elements, has two areas to consider. One is the copyright aspect and the other is the trademark aspect....

Does this client have a case against me?

Maybe. The big question here is what did this guy pay for exactly and what was delivered? Do you have a written agreement in place? If not, maybe...

If nothing yet has been provided then it really does not matter even if they signed it what difference does that make. If however the NDA is not...