Is it stealing intellectual property if I use a photo I took of a gate that I built on my new company website?

I think your mom is right, but not for the reason you state. if you were an employee these pictures were most likely legally taken by the company...

I want to buy and bid for Apple products on eBay and then resell it on Amazon and Craigslist for profit. Is this legal?

A bigger problem than whether the goods are stolen is whether they are authentic. if you buy on eBay and find you have fakes, you could end up the...

YES, although your terminology is wrong. We call it "priority of use" or "first to use in commerce". Trademarks Rights are established by...

To what extent can a poorly written provisional patent be compensated for with a non-provisional patent referencing it?

There is no such thing as a "provisional patent". You keep using, in your questions "patent" when you mean "patent application". They are not the...

Is it copy right law that when you are returning a PC game to a store opened because suspicious software notice on your computer

It is mostly a store policy designed to prevent you from buying a game, making a backup copy, then returning the original while keeping the backup....

Potential liability if I use picture with "Copyright"

Yes, that is copyright infringement. You did not take the picture with a camera you took it with a mouse and keyboard. If I take your bank account...

The measurement for granting amazon's one click patent was that it was unobvious because nobody had done it before.

No, that is not why it was issued. Novelty is determined under 35 USC 102 Read it here http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/35/102 Obviousness...

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If someone infringes on a patent, for which, the independent claims list the invention as a process, method, and a system....

NO, that is wrong on many levels. You need to get a patent attorney to straighten out your misconceptions. Single patent vs. multiple patents,...

We don't write patents, we write patent applications. The Government writes patents. A patent is a letter from the Government to a patentee...

OMG you need a registered patent attorney. You haven't a clue how to file a patent application if you don't even know such a simple formatting...