There's significant risk. Likely a trademark violation, although there are technicalities if there were absolutely zero "merch" by the movie,...

Save all your documentation. Uninstall. Any time you run it you're a copyright infringer. Investigate "whistleblower" sites, but make sure...

Look at the US Patent Office independent inventor information, find a patent application clinic of theirs or a local university or inventors'...

Yes. There is a risk. You even call it "co-branding" which sort of beliefs a "personal use" defense which isn't very strong under your facts,...

You're probably correct -- you need to contact the closest relatives. It's complicated by the fact that you have two completely different areas of...

Have your publisher read Rogers v. Grimaldi, 875 F.2d 994 (9th Cir. 1989) (a trademark case finding a First Amendment privilege) and Mattel Inc. v....

Chances are the Terms and Conditions and/or Contest Rules provide the answers. There are no laws that protect "ideas" and it sounds like you took...

Retain a lawyer. As at least implied in the answer above, Avvo is a place to provide general guidance and not to answer specific questions. Plus...

Pretty much everything is in the Compendium. That's where I'd look if a client needed it.

Maybe. Two issues: (1) you will be infringing if your mark and goods are too similar to the other one and (2) even if you avoid infringement,...