You have more of a contract issue on your hands here. Much of the answers that you are looking for will depend on what the contract says. If...

Can a builder copyright a floor plan that was created with the direction of potential builder?

In short, your wife and the builder would be considered "joint authors" of the copyrighted floor plan. The copyright in the floor plan was created...

This falls into a version of the "first sale doctrine." In short, since you purchased the device from the patent owner, or someone licensed to...

Can I sell my Mickey Mouse FIMO clay charm I made?

In short, absolutely not! Disney is very well known for enforcing their trademark rights, so you would likely wind up in their cross hairs.

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I need help to market and patent and item I have.

Attorneys are very weary about investing their own money in someone else's invention. Time is money to most attorneys. That is their only...

How can you trademark a name of a business?

With respect to the business entity, if you start an LLC, you will want to have and operating agreement in place. This is the best way to set forth...

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What are the chances of prevailing in a patent infringement issue if the maintenance fee to your patent has not been paid but,

If your maintenance fee is not paid, then the patent is abandoned and not enforceable. Therefore if the patent is infringed during the time when...

It seems to me that every attorney here agrees that your proposed use would infringe the DC Comics trademarks. I can almost guarantee that they...

In short, the answer is no is there is no such thing as a "poor man's trademark." If you want to reserve the trademark that you are not currently...

What is the needed depth/specificity of a provisional patent application?

The biggest issue that you face in filing a provisional patent application is that there needs to be enough information disclosed so that claims...