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You really have to consult with legal counsel in private and figure out a best course of action. There are a number of measures you can take here....

Re: publishing & copyright. You can't publish in a book someone's email message, it is copyright. How about phone text messages?

You can publish an email message of course if you are doing so specifically to comment on that message. What you cannot do is use someone's...

Trademark: if I have a composite mark consisting of my product name on a pill can I put a circle around it?

The short answer is that you are free to start putting a circle around your text mark, but if you want to protect the mark in its entirety as you...

You received good responses. To chime in, it is just not possible to offer any kind of meaningful advice without an analysis. As noted, the test...

I have an idea for a website, is there some way to protect my idea before I bring in people to work with me on it?

Really all you can do here at this point is reach out to several lawyers and get some insights about how best to move forward. You may have...

Trademark applicaton

We just don't know because it boils down to market confusion. So for example, the market is not confused as between Delta Airlines and Delta...

I'd like to trademark a phrase I created. Is Legal Zoom legitimate? Or should I hire a real attorney?

Here is my two cents on LZ and the like. Any business that calls themselves "legal anything" and uses taglines like "we put the law on your side"...

Know that merely registering your business name with a state or county agency does not convey any right to use that name in commerce as a source...

What are the steps to take for starting a business? (Book and Game Publishing - Home Office for now.)

You have all the same legal concerns any business has out of the gate (e.g., entity formation, contracts, trademark, copyright, among others) and...

Look for a cost effective way to trade mark a name.

This really depends, but know upfront that to clear a mark properly is not a quick nor easy kind of task so a lot of these online non-lawyer...