The simple answer is that yes, you can come up with phrases to use on commercial T-shirt designs and avoid trademark infringement. The trick is...

Just copyright the trade secret for this trade dress.

The USPTO is experiencing a big backlog. This backlog has two potential impacts to your question. First, is whether or not information is...

The test the USPTO uses is likelihood of confusion. While the test can be complex, the basic steps are that the USPTO compares the similarity of...

You should not do this. Dressing up as a Disney character for the purpose of trying to portray that character infers a connection between you and...

This is very likely copyright infringement. Taking any original work and modifying it almost certainly will be found to be a derivative work of...

A web site domain name (or url) is not by itself infringing. From an IP perspective, a domain name is viewed much like a street address. That is,...

The USPTO should refuse your application to register a brand that is nearly identical brand to an already registered brand. You could then move to...

Pseudonym or nom de plum, anything other than your current legal name is a pseudonym.

Don't assume that everything you see on line is legal. We live in a Copyleft world, but the law still protects copyrights. In other words,...