If you don't feel you have the money to hire a lawyer when you are swiping people's lyrics, you do not have the money or sense to be in this...

Looks to me like Sanrio is just one of many problems you have. If you did not get permission from Sanrio for your Hello Kitty items, I wonder if...

We registered our trademark as a Logo that contains the name of the brand we are marketing.

As Attorneys Ross & Ballard have advised, the only way you can hope to stop him is to hire a trademark litigation attorney. As attorney Ross notes,...

You should do two things right now. First, file a fictitious name registration (dba) with your County Clerk, and second file an application to...

Intellectual property laws in Illinois: Does a graphic designer own his artwork? Or is it the client's?

Yes, you should have that right unless you were an employee at the time or you signed an agreement. It is hard for i'mme to believe there was no...

Is this a trademark infringement?

Honestly, my thought is simply you need to see an attorney experienced in trademark law for a paid confidential consultation. The rest of the great...

Regarding copyright infringement.

You are not alone. There are thousands of alleged infringers in these so called "copyright troll" mass infringement suits resulting from online...

Is it okay to use team colors with a city name?

The only purpose of using those colors is to associate your product with the Dallas team and to divert their customers to get them to buy your...

Would it be infringing on copyrights to take a famous song and make an interpretive illustration of it to sell?

That would be very transformative. Inspiration is not derivation. This sounds like it would be appealing to many people and should be legal...

How do you protect an entertainers "likeness" being used without authorization?

I think some would argue that California has the stronger right of publicity law, and certainly it is more defined by cases, but for sure Elivs had...