Good answers above. In Summit County, Ohio, Ohio law generally applies to contracts. Some contracts can specify a different choice of law. So you...

Sounds like you've (1) copied an image created by someone else (2) copied artwork created by someone else and (3) you want to use someone's...

Can't say for sure. My former law partner worked on one case where insurance "forms" were held uncopyrightable and years later I worked on a...

In theory, maybe. (1) there are specific rules for noncompetes that vary from state to state and if you're thinking of foreign countries, their...

You need to ask. This is way too ambiguous a question to even get a general answer on a public board like Avvo and if it's a real situation that...

Sounds geographically descriptive, so you would need to prove "secondary meaning" -- that customers think of you, not the town where you're...

TM is OK, the "circle R" only after a registration issues. It means "registered" so only use after it's registered.

Big trouble. Probably both trademark and copyright. Your "accepting" documents you know are false could be worse than no documentation.

There are no absolute rules, other than if it is impossible for anyone to identify the person, then there is no right of privacy or publicity case....

Save your documentation, especially if you've been doing the same thing for 10 years, and retain your own lawyer. Don't ignore it. It won't go...