Corp with registered TM has the name we want to use in the same category on USPTO. However, their business is 100% different.

The "USPTO category" - that is, the international classification of goods and services -- in which a product or service falls is irrelevant when...

Is there anyway to protect a mural painted and unknown number of years ago, by an unknown artist, in a public school?

A mural painted in 1926 on a high school wall by high school art students, and which has never had copies made and distributed, is “unpublished”...

As my colleagues note, the conduct by the restaurant owner implicates at least three bodies of intellectual property law. 1. Copyright: It’s...

Patent applicants and their attorneys and agents can access all the documents in their patent application files at any time, including before an...

I think you’re asking if it’s lawful to buy a hard copy book, cut out a page containing text and/or images, frame or mount the page, and then...

Who Owns Master recording and writers Splits?

There are always at least two sides to every story. Only your own Texas-licensed intellectual property or entertainment attorney can gather all the...

It's lawful for a musician to adopt and use a stage name to sell music even if that name brings to mind the already-existing name of a company or...

If the "recognizable cartoon characters" your customer wants you to print on shirts infringes the copyrights in those characters -- which it sounds...

You should not assume the letters are protected by copyright. The 1909 Copyright Act applies to letters written before January 1, 1978. The...

If the artwork is not protected by copyright – because its term has expired, it’s been dedicated to the public domain, or was created by a federal...