No and no. A patent is an invention. Here you are mixing the ingredients of existing brand liquors. New use patent? It’s not my field, but I’d say...

Trademark law stops that. Same for copyright law for the expressions within the book. You can read the book, hold the book, lend out the book, sell...

No. This is a common question. Celebrities have rights, in some cases more than the rest of us. They also have money and high powered legal counsel...

No. Barbie, while a cultural icon, is first and foremost, Mattel’s copyrighted and trademarked intellectual property as my colleague advised. No...

Consult with an attorney before publishing any images. Then you'll be able to have a clearer guideline as to what you can and cannot do. It's too...

It’s a pretty random incident. Are you the “GC”? It appears on its face to be a basic trespass tort. My colleague is correct, if there’s no damage,...

Handwriting experts are employed mostly for this purpose, or otherwise I guess for party tricks?

The group has advised you well. I’d add that technically, spoken quotes are not copyrightable (must be in a fixed tangible medium like an audio...

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This is, to say the least, confusing. Are you as my colleague astutely asked, practicing law without a license? Are you a lawyer seeking strategic...

The case, at least in that forum is done. You need to seek counsel to get the whole story here.