Until a court orders you to stop, you don't HAVE TO change the name of your business. However until you get confidential advice from an attorney...

Have you considered using AI-generated images, such as from Gemini Nano Banana? You can get a family of related images, that aren't subject to...

Looks like you are concerned about a trademark law principle called "reverse confusion." See the following thread for my recent conversation with...

Gee, I don't see enough information in the question to give rise to a definitive answer. Let me hypothetically surmise that the logo is a...

If the Examining Attorney accepts the specimen, then the discussion is over. If the specimen is rejected, the applicant would be offered another...

Legally enforceable exclusive rights in certain words can arise in connection with names of a business and with trademarks for products or...

Yes it's typical to protect the image of a cartoon character by copyright. It's also desirable to protect the character's name by registering it...

What you describe sounds like permissible nominative use of the trademarks to which you refer. For actual legal advice, engage an attorney.

Yes, without further ado, you can apply the TM superscript to your logo whenever it's being used as a trademark for your goods/services.

Maybe a California attorney is aware of wrinkles in the law that I don't know about. But if it's a genuine inscription by a now-famous individual,...