If two people created a company with a LLC and one person wants to quit, will the other person have to buy the other one out?

The question is entirely fact intensive. You may have any number of options depending on the circumstances. Typically, the other member would be...

We have our own business in catering so how do we divide the business

At this point, any of us will have way more questions than asnwers. Has a legal liability shield been created (LLC, INC)? If so, is there any...

Do I own the software?

My collegaues offer some good points. I would add that there does not have to be a written definition regards to what your scope of work is under...

I need some information of copyright laws as pertains to needlework patterns,

Hi, One can have a copyright interest in these patterns and while registration is not required for that interest to attach a registration will...

Will registration of my Corp.'s name as a federal Trademark override a foreign State's ruling that my name is taken there?

Hi, My colleague offered some good comments. I think you are confusing trademark with business registration. You need to do two...

There is absolutely nothing illegal about a business person stoping by your home and demanding payment for money he has a legal right to in NY or...

My Husband co-signed on a student loan for a friends son before we were married.

I concur with my colleague. You would certainly not be held liable by virtue of marrying him but the assets he has and has a interest in may be...

The federal law has no statute of limitation on TM infringement. If applying state law regards to laches, the court may look at other state SOL...

If I write a poem that could be sung to existing music having its own copyrighted lyrics is it a copyright infringement?

As noted, what you described would not be any copyright infringement. Lots of lyrics and poems share the same phrasing. Of course, if you used...

Can I use first or last names only in a professional basketball board game without needing permission from the NBA?

My colleagues addressed this in full below. I would add only and to your point, the use of their personal names will be taken in context. There are...