You'll need personal justification. Maybe their selling in your location is enough. But you need to retain a lawyer to go over all the facts.

The rules and procedures for registering a "group" of works have evolved. Photos and music, published and unpublished, may all be different. If...

Last part first. If you are an author, and you want to enforce your copyright, you need to get a registration before you can go to court. The...

You should retain a lawyer to review all the materials and give you a confidential opinion. Avvo is for general questions and answers, not for...

Retain a lawyer to go over all your facts. Two issues jump out. You're asking about images of people. Chances are the photographer will own...

You have pulled out for your friend some general ideas but your connections miss too much. And Avvo is for general questions not specific cases. ...

Key to trademark rights is use of the mark and continuity of that use. If you abandoned the mark -- closed the shop for three years -- it might be...

Your waiting until the day before a deadline to post on a public board, repeatedly misspelling "patent" tends to indicate the communication problem...

Ideas and facts are not protectable. Authorship -- the actual writng - is the subject of copyright Your question also appears to admit that you...

Not to disagree with the other answers, but I was able to find cases that said purchasing all the assets (some including product and packaging with...