Can you trademark protect a company name if another co. is using it in same industry but different specialization?

Whether a trade name or trademark is protectable at all, or whether one infringes another, are very, very fact specific questions. No one can...

Trademark Cancellation Proceeding

Maybe. Speak to an Indiana-licensed trial attorney and discuss whether, under Indiana state law, a TTAB proceeding qualifies as a "process" for an...

As a classroom teacher, can I place QR Code recordings of the full book on books in my classroom?

This is your second follow-up to your original question. And the answer is still, no -- it is unlawful for a person, and that includes teachers,...

Entertainment Lawyer Question

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If I were to recreate a water bottle that I saw in a movie by making it an actual product and reselling it would that be legal?

See my response to your identical question.

Is this copyright infringement?

The "first sale doctrine" -- codified at 17 USC 109(a) -- provides that the owner of a physical copy of a copyrighted work [in this case, you] may...

As a Librarian, can I place QR codes in Library Books? These codes would be the full recording .

This is obviously a follow-up to your previous question. Strictly as a copyright law matter [disregarding the issue of public library management]...

Can I put QR codes in Library Books. The QR code would bring the owner of a device to a child reading the entire book.

I assume that you don't own the library book. If that's true then, no, of course you cannot lawfully affix a quick response sticker into the book....

If I were to recreate a water bottle that I saw in a movie by making it an actual product and reselling it would that be legal?

If the water bottle as used or shown furthered the plot of the movie in some meaningful way then I can, kinda sorta, envision a claim by the movie...

I've never seen the question "use of mark in a prior form" on a federal trademark registration application. If your former trademark was a...

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