If it's truly abandoned then there's no one to take action. If you're wrong, they can sue you. If it's not worth it for you to assert...

Fifteen years is a pretty long time for a breach of contract case. Not to specifically pick on Davidson, but the general rule for invention...

Good answer above. And, in addition to the name of the legal entity, you should investigate service mark use and whether someone else already has...

This is why you need a lawyer. It's not at all assumed you can't "take a laptop." To the contrary, many, if not most, Federal courts are equipped...

No. You probably don't have a franchise either. Trademarks don't exist in the abstract. They are always connected to goods and indicate the...

Good answer above. You can also register an unpublished "draft" -- you don't need the work "completed" -- just a version that is saved (legally...

Good answers above. Amazon typically doesn't want to hear a validity challenge (can't trademark single book title). Go to court or the Trademark...

Good answers above. Under copyright law you'd probably own the images and she'd own her right of publicity (with the other limitations above). ...

You get a patent to stop someone else. Getting a patent does not "clear" you to sell. But patents are only available for new and non-obvious...

It sounds like you will be reproducing part of a copyrighted work and you later work would be a derivative work. Chances are good they will be...