What to do when someone filed a trademark for my real name ?

No one has the right to use their personal name as a trademark if someone else has already begun to use it -- or one confusingly similar -- to...

I agree with Attorney Tencza. Renting or leasing a product is a service, not a good. Example #1: If Company A makes and brands a particular...

Can l do it? (IP, copyright, entertainment)

I don't understand my colleagues' responses -- especially in light of the responses to your previous question. YES, as an Iranian citizen you...

Is a common law trademark enforceable when the two companies operate in different states?

Your own Texas-licensed intellectual property attorney must perform a "likelihood of confusion" analysis. That analysis will NOT take into...

Can Iranians register something with US copyright office? Or sanctions against Iran doesn't allow this?

Under copyright law, an Iranian citizen who authors a work may register the copyright in that work if it’s unpublished. 17 U.S.C. 104(a)....

I want to recommend for a teacher to scan some of her own classroom textbook pages to illustrate for the class on Powerwoint.

You want to know whether it's lawful for a teacher to copy a portion of a textbook into a digital file and then display that information in a...

I want to design my own t shirt with a band's name and a picture too because the stores around me don't sell that particular ban

I think it likely that making ONE shirt, as you describe, solely for your own personal use is lawful. There can be no trademark violation of...

What if the no responding children's book writer /editor uses my intellectual property?

You sent the editor 100 words of "short stories, limericks etc" to edit? Hmm. Your question has 102 words. While brevity is the soul of wit, I find...

Can I post a photo of a phone book on Facebook?

I agree with my colleagues that copying and publicly displaying your photograph of the cover of the phone book is very likely lawful "fair use"...

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