Before you invest in any trademark of your own make sure you get some legal guidance upfront. It is of course best practice to clear it before you...

As noted, it would depend on whether your use of the mark would likely lead to market confusion as to the source of the goods or services. If ISPY...

Presumably, using this in your own song is not going to be an infringement issue so long as it is not creating any market confusion or presents...

As Attorney Brezina notes, the concern is a) whether you are presenting a false association and causing market confusion and b) whether the design...

You will be taking a risk to do so especially if you are listing it online. If you are selling it to someone in real life that you know and they...

The fact that someone merely registered an entity with the same name that you have employed as a trademark does not mean that they are infringing....

In this space, trademark is the centerpiece. You can protect the standard character text name (the word "Chanel"), you can protect the image or...

The actual language of the agreement you entered into needs to be reviewed. But even if the language of the IP provision was that austere, which is...

Certainly, you are free to be "inspired" by anything. And stating that a piece was inspired by a particular song is not in itself a problem unless...

You received some very good responses. We cannot extrapolate from here a best course of action. As noted, there are a number of considerations such...