I agree with John Espinosa, copyright infringement occurs only when there is actual access to the copyright protected work. Since you indicate you...

There are many ways to get tripped up in using "old" images. A simple example: the painting of the Mona Lisa is clearly so old that Leonardo could...

Copyright attaches to any original creative expression fixed in a tangible medium. A mural is definitely a tangible medium. The creator of a...

Patent infringement?

A man robs a bank. He flees and the police are in hot pursuit. He spots the entrance to a lawyer's office and runs inside. Bypassing the...

A U.S. patent gives its owner the right to exclude others from making, selling, using or importing the patented invention in the U.S. or its...

If I don't copyright a novel and someone else registers the copyright and writes the same story afterward, who has its rights?

Copyright inheres in the author at the moment of creation. If another party registers the work without right, they have committed fraud on the...

How do i optain a patent attorney?

One thing to bear in mind is that, while attorneys for other matters are limited to practice within the jurisdictions in which they are licensed,...

The owner of the rights to the Seinfeld show could proceed against you on a number of theories. Most likely approach they would take would be to...

Not without a license. Marvel has very valuable intellectual property and an army of lawyers policing it. Selling unlicensed Marvel property...

It's copyright infringement to take screen shot of conversation in social media ,mail I have with other without their permission

I agree with my colleague, Ms. Koslyn. I also want to underline that the question of whether the conversation in question is public or private has...