I agree with my colleague. If they are ultimately generic shapes then they would not be covered under copyright protection. If you have any...

Can I be held liable for someone using my desktop application to download copyrighted material?

I think Attorney Babcock offered an excellent answer here. The specter of liability under a theory of secondary liability for contributory...

I understand your question as not really speaking to the regulatory aspects (FDA, FTC) but rather to the IP aspects. The issue that may present...

Can I sell use jeans with patches of rairders fabric that I bought in the fabric store or will I get in trouble?....thank you

As noted, this is problematic because the mark holder has not given their endorsement of those jeans in this case. Just because you are able to by...

Information about me and a picture of me was put in a book and published without my permission. Is there anything I can do?

You may or may not have a case and it may or may not be in your interests to pursue one even if there are some claims to make. That is, the...

There is no difference legally speaking between the example you pose here and launching a full-blown site in commerce. You just cannot use the...

Do I need to go through special legal channels to charge a fee on items users are selling on my website?

As, noted, there are no issues regards to selling or reselling legitimate lawful products. Products that are grey market goods and "materially...

Can a name ie: "Trees Oil" be TM if someone else applied and abandoned it in 2007?

The fact that the mark has gone abandoned doesn't actually offer much helpful info. It could have gone abandoned because they never responded to an...

I just received a trademark and found out that there is a company using my trademark name with a similar domain name, can they?

Reading your posting here and the comments below it is clear that you are misunderstanding some fundamental issues about trademarks and trademark...

What are your rights if I have been selling a "Running for Two" shirt since 2010 & another company trademarked the phrase 2011?

As noted, you may have some options but the question is really what is it all going to be worth to you. It is also unclear whether you developed...