Chances are you can get your retainer back if the work wasn't done. Chances a registered patent attorney would steal the invention are virtually...

How can my company request and receive permission to repurpose an author's blog posts succinctly via DM?

I'll assume DM is not Direct Marketing. Any time you use some App that does not regularly save the communications your problem will be documenting...

Trademarks aren't free standing pieces of property. They only exist when they're being used to identify the source of goods or services (for...

Can I sue an application developer?

Good answer above. You'd need jurisdiction and venue (pretty much the game operator would need to be found, somehow, in your home state) and a...

Based on your hypothetical the marks and goods/ services appear similar, but the details are critical. If "paid" were really the word "jazz" it...

Good answer above. Could you create your own derivative work from the public domain Lewis Carroll work? Yes. If your work has sufficient...

Do I have cause to pursue legal recourse?

Good answer above. You haven't identified -- and maybe should not, here on a public board -- a type of "intellectual property." Obviously not...

Good answer above. The way you describe it you would probably be going too far. One other comment -- it might be a different fact situation if...

No. It is possible the one of the most misunderstood or misused words when referring to intellectual property is "transform," While recreating a...

It sounds like what is called "trade dress" is what you should have studied, and it can't be done here, and shouldn't be done on a public board. ...