Those are English words and can be used descriptively or generically, but descriptive words can acquire distinctiveness. And trademark rights also...

It's hard to get a "clearance" for that and an opinion published on Avvo for the world to see is a bad idea. Thumbnails of the covers of the...

"Copyright" includes an exclusive "right" to make a "copy." By making a copy without permission you are violating the exclusive right. On the...

If the schools complained, they would win. Your only hope is that if it is merely "fan art" like handwritten signs people carry into games, you...

The chemistry or method will need to be new, useful and nonobvious. To sell food products you'll need to comply with labelling and ingredient laws.

Distribution of an unauthorized work violates the exclusive rights of the copyright owner.

If the only difference is two different media, it should be a single registration and the print version is probably the "best edition" that needs...

Ask the company what their policy is for submitting ideas / inventions. Chances are either they don't want them, mostly because people (not you)...

You ask kind of unrelated questions: (1) can you use it? and (2) can you copyright it?. The last one is easy -- No. You haven't described enough...

You can't infringe a "patent pending" or "potential patent." You only infringe if (1) a patent issues (2) you make, use, sell, import or offer for...