Copyright protects creative works and generally NOT inventions. Copyright cannot protect functional aspects. Additionally, copyright protects the...

U.S. copyright infringement requires "access" and "substantial similarity" between the copyrighted work and the alleged infringing work. For...

Your name and/or likeness may not be used without your consent for the purposes of marketing/selling some product and/or service. California has...

When picking a proposed trademark, ideally the proposed trademark is never entirely descriptive of its associated products/services – because...

If their attorney contacts you or if you get sued, get your own attorney to represent you and have your attorney handle such communications. As...

If litigation is being threatened, you should not be posting any of your facts to a public forum such as this one. Anything you say may be used...

Unless the owner of the copyright in the magazine cover of the magazine authorizes another to take a photo of that magazine cover, then such...

Note, in general the names/titles of movies (and books) are generally NOT trademarked. Sometimes certain aspects of movie names/titles may have an...

Do NOT provide any further description of your design/invention in any public forums, such as this one. You can inadvertently harm your potential...

If you were using that domain name as your trademark and if the new user of that domain name is causing confusing and/or harming your...