How to avoid lawsuit of drop shopping business?

As others have indicated, you need to do your due diligence. Since you are the party in the US, you are the easiest target for a US intellectual...

Under the first sale doctrine, the rights of the trademark holder were extinguished with the first legitimate sale of the items you purchased. ...

Given that you signed the documents and then proceeded to work for the company for nine years, I do not think the company will have much difficulty...

Although it is sometimes possible to change the appearance, sound, meaning, and commercial impression sufficiently to avoid trademark infringement...

Use of a business name and trademark.

It is hard to say whether a conflict exists without more information. Trademark rights are acquired by using the mark in a specific geographic...

What is the type of lawsuit that you don't pay much up front, but split with the attorney after case is over?

I agree that the time an attorney would spend on such a case would be unlikely to make the opportunity to earh 1/3 of $23,000 worthwhile. Class...

Design Patent Statutory bar: 35 U.S.C. 102 CONDITIONS FOR PATENTABILITY; NOVELTY.?

Someone selling the product online has one year from the date the product was first placed online to get a patent application on file in the US. ...

If I w do a combine trademark (standard character with special form do I have to place TM on the word mark and TM on the design?

Where you put the TM is the least of your concerns. Normally it is placed immediately after the trademark. Trademark rights are acquired by...

Patentability and infringement are completely separate, unrelated issues. Infringement occurs when the accused device includes each and every...

If you have contributed to the conception of at least one element included in one claim, then you are an inventor. Failure to name all inventors...