Your question constitutes two parts: whether your prior employer owns the copyright of your work made during prior employment automatically, and...

Your question may involve two legal concepts: the descriptiveness of the mark and the likelihood confusion. If a mark describes the product or the...

Do I have to tell team members about a school project (app idea) that I’m going to develop it and plan to market it?

You may be sued by your other two teammates by misappropriation of their intellectual property.

The application was just filed in August of this year. It may take several months before any subsequent actions by the USPTO. You may check the...

Putting a band’s name on a shirt without authorization from the band may constitute a trademark infringement. Although putting it on a shirt only...

If the products you want to improve are patented, you may want to check their patent documents before you make improvements. It is often that an...

What are the chances my trademark application will be accepted if there is another TM with a similar name with 1 less word?

It depends. One of the legal standards to accept or reject a trademark application is likelihood of confusion. It consists of several factors to...

Depending on which historical figures you plan to use, you may have trademark and right of publicity issues when you use historical figures’ name...

Is it legal to use someone else's photos of their work?

From your description of the situations, the other party may have infringed your copyright of the photos and the crafts, and also infringed...

In regards to copywrite infringement, if fair use is a defense, would it then be illegal to advertise on facebook?

Copyright office has information regarding copyright: https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/more-info.html Fair use is determined by the specific...