Should I Trademark my Calif. LLC business name that I am closing it out due to lack of activities?

You cannot register or otherwise protect your LLC's name as a trademark if you do not have any goods or services being sold under that mark. If...

Notice of Seizure and Information to Claimants Form AF, counterfeit UL & Design trademark

Your question seems to be whether you should file a petition, but assuming that the Underwriter's Laboratory trademark was on the product without a...

A California based investor will invest in a website developed and operated by a tech person in Europe.

This needs to be considered closely. If a client were to own 70% of a company, I would want my client to have some active say in the business,...

Starting a web marketing business at www.dancingpandamarketing.com I have named the business as Dancing Panda Marketing.

Congratulations on your new business -- it will be challenging, but you'll learn a lot, and have fun. Trademarks do not have to be registered to...

For oral contracts, what verbiage needs to be on invoice for payment terms (California)?

You don't want to charge "interest" because that is limited by the California Constitution. However, if bills are not paid at the time that they...

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I have a tradename issue. Name was registered with state/county in 2008. New company registers US patent in '11. Who wins?

I don't think the other side got a patent from the USPTO, it registered a service mark with the USPTO. With trademarks and service marks, the first...

"Work for hire" does that mean that you get to maintain intellectual property and copyright to your work?

A "work for hire" means that the employer, not the employee, owns the intellectual property rights. I don't think there will be many employers...

I was served papers that have my husbands name on it, it that legal?

If your husband is the defendant, then this is substituted service, and assuming the plaintiff follows up with a mailed copy of the documents...

Is my drawing a copyright infringement?

Your question really cannot be answered without looking at the original and comparing it to your work. It is possible that what you "took" is so...

An issue here is whether the employee is considered exempt from the overtime rules. Exempt personnel include managers, professionals, scientists,...