All trademark and service mark applications require a "specimen" to show the mark is actually placed on goods (for trademarks) or advertised (for...

Purported record labels that ask you to pay them are pretty universally considered scams. Why? Because they want your money.

Use the Avvo "find a lawyer" feature, or maybe see if a local bar association has a referral service. Of course the Internet works, too, to find...

Don't disclaim anything. Let the Trademark Examining Attorney decide. Disclaim after an Office Action. Use the ID Manual to decide the best...

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You can't sue them unless you have a copyright registration. If the work(s) have been published more than three months, you don't get statutory...

Don't confuse registration with owning a mark. Trademark rights exist from when a mark is used in commerce as common law trademarks. Trademarks...

The advantage in a prior art search is the information may help to define the scope of the claims that you will write in the nonprovisional patent...

If you mean register the copyright (it is "copyrighted" as soon as it is fixed in a tangible medium of expression) and the only difference is the...

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