There is no requirement under federal law mandating that you use a DBA. Some states do require a DBA if you are in fact operating under an...

I agree that you want to speak with a trademark attorney before renaming yourselves. While teams do have the same or similar names in some...

The USPTO requires the owner's information. However, as noted by the prior responses, that owner can be company or corporation. There are states...

I agree that you will want to speak with a few attorneys to get fee quotes, though large city firms and larger firms tend to have higher fees. ...

You mention "applied for a Statement of Use"; I don't know if you meant an intent to use (ITU) application or a statement of use (which is a filing...

The best practice in adopting a known character for your business is to get a license for that character. Even if there is no technical trademark...

Trademark infringement uses the "likelihood of confusion" test, and looks at whether a consumer of your goods, given a reasonable level of...

The disclaimer means you cannot claim exclusive use to that part of the trademark- i.e. you can't stop someone else from using just that part. So...

Using characters (or in this case a group of individuals in an order) does pose legal risk. Disney now owns Lucas Films, and has gone after IP...

If the patent was filed in the 1990's, there is an excellent chance that the patent is expired at this time (there are extensions that might be...