Good answer above. A little different perspective. Trademarks can only be registered if they are used in commerce and common law trademark rights...

You don't identify who is the author of the survey. If a county employed engineer went out, did all the measurements and complied a graphic...

Retain a lawyer. Sure sounds like you were importing counterfeits in commercial quantities. You'd have to lose a pair of sunglasses a week for...

Any time you start a trademark law question "let's say" an answer is pretty much worthless. All cases depend on the real facts. There's a foreign...

Copyright infringement would apply when you (or the producer) copies text, essentially, original and written by someone else. A short phrase is...

Good answers above. You need a lawyer. You're throwing around words like "franchise" which has critically important meaning under the law. Some...

It's a balance, and more likely trademark than copyright (unless there's art on the shirts). As you correctly point out, you don't want buyers to...

That sounds like the 50 year old myth about mailing it to yourself. Since 1978 if your work is "fixed in a tangible medium of expression" you have...

That's not really a question. If you're wondering what remedies you might have, the first place to look is your contract with Instagram. Might be...

Good answer above. When someone says they "change[d] the design slightly" or "followed the 10% rule" they are probably indicating they don't know...