There is a real estate website (trulia.com) that uses a Google copyrighted photo of my house looking over the backyard fence.

This is more of a privacy issue than and intellectual property issue. Have you asked the real estate website to take the photo down? That might...

I have an invention called "the sip-rite coffee cup cover." I want to know if I have a case. John brown

You need to present all of the facts to a Canadian attorney. However, if you had a patent that issued in 1980, then it would no longer be valid.

Website ownership, funding, and Intellectual property issues

You need a commercial transactional attorney.

If some one steals my songs let say my original file on the property's said 2009 and there's said 2011 who would win

One of the tests for copyright infringement is whether the accused author had access to the copyrighted work and whether the accused work is...

Parody and fair use law involving trademarked characters on tshirts

If you are using the trademarks and copyrighted characters of others in your own drawings, then you are infringing their intellectual property. ...

Advice on a similar logo by another company.

You need to present both logos to a trademark attorney. Important factors include: Whether you have senior rights in the mark; Whether the marks...

Is publicly displaying a photograph inside a local business copyright infringement?

If it has been less than three months since you published them, then you can still get the benefits of early registration (e.g., statutory damages...

What you describe is trademark infringement. However, if you make only one or two for use by a friend, the risk of it being discovered is low.

This sounds as though this might be fair use, but you need to present all of the facts to a copyright attorney to analyze all of the facts. ...

On my company's website, is it legal to include clickable logos that lead to another company's website without permission?

Using the logos without permission is probably trademark infringement. It is much safer to use text links. It is safest to get permission from...