If you received registration certificates for you previous registrations you did it correctly. You can look it up in a Copyright Offer "Circular"...

Do You Have to Pay Different Filing Fees for Different Categories Your Products Qualify For?

You pay a government filing fee per "class". Use the ID Manual to put in key words for goods and see where they are classified. Many "scents" are...

Since the whole point of a trademark is to identify you as the source of the goods or services, choosing a name that has as its first word an...

Southern District of Florida and Northern District of Illinois are both "hot spots" for multi-defendant copyright and trademark infringement cases...

Good answers above. Can they sue you? Sure. Will they win? It depends. But it can't be fully analyzed here. You can publish true facts and...

Funding a website

That seems to me to mainly be a tax and business organization question. But make sure your tax lawyer or accountant knows that use of a trademark,...

Good answer above. And it's right in the statutory section: "In the case of any work other than a work made for hire". A company is only an...

I agree on the reverse passing off and material alteration comments. Also, because these are clothing products, some labels (materials, care...

The purpose of a trademark is to identify you as the source of goods. If you're going to be manufacturing motorcycles (or making and selling...

How do thift stores sell merchandise like Nike Jordan’s, Adidas, etc. without legally getting in trouble?

If they are genuine goods, the first sale defense protects them. If the are counterfeit, as pointed out above, if they get caught they lose.