Avvo is a place for general questions and answers. It is not for legal advice about specific questions. Maybe your club should be organized as a...

Most clothing is generally utilitarian - covering the body. Copyright covers art and literature. Some features and rare items of clothing might...

Copyright infringement can happen from things like recording or public performance. When one of those things occurs without a copyright license a...

The Platters fought about it for decades. Trademark rights are based on use, not who tried a seemingly clever means to register something or...

Part of the confusion might be in the use of the term "counterclaim." That is usually after someone files a Complaint in a US Court. Then the...

You identify a contract and facts you describe as a breach of contract. Oral contracts are hard to prove and have certain limitations. ...

Copyright protects art, literature and some aspects of some architectural works. For copyright to be enforceable (before they go to court) there...

If you look at the public records in the Trademark Office you would also see that someone else has applied for CHEESEHEAD GRAVY.

I have seen several of those. I suspect they are phishing and trying to get you to respond. While the immediate nature of the fraud is unclear,...

If you look at the Trademark Office database you can see that there is a pending application for THAT FLORIDA LIFE requiring "Florida" to be...