They are two (at least) different things. A d/b/a or assumed name or trade name is what you use to identify the legal entity, usually for...

Start with the EULA. You shouldn't breach a contract. Copyright grants an exclusive right to reproduce (copy, maybe even into memory) or prepare...

If by "your materials" you are including materials written by someone else, it sure sounds like copyright infringement. Educational use is only...

You will be unlikely to get a "clearance" on a public board like Avvo. You admit characters copied from three, probably copyrighted, works are...

Anyone can call it a trademark, even of they are not technically using it as a trademark. Technically, you'd be offering services so "SM" might be...

"Copying" violates copyright. It's the exclusive "right" to "copy". But it also includes the exclusive right to distribute. I mention this...

You can't protect ideas or concepts. But if you have new technology (not obvious based on what you made public 25 years ago) a patent application...

Putting three different variations on the labels of the products you sell sounds like a poor way to identify yourself as the source of the...

Not copyright, trademark. The problem is while you can re-sell product legitimately purchased, the rule only says that's when the product is not...

There are some legal anomalies in your story. Fair use is only a defense and it's not a particularlt strong theory that you can "buy" a defense. ...