Am I going to have any legal ramifications from creating a complicated card game that uses celebrity and movie likenesses?

I think that selling a card game that incorporates parody images and altered names of celebrities is very likely lawful. Our courts have...

Can I get the these 3 different lease agreements written up that will work for the purchaser and keep me with some ownership?

You're simply licensing music. So learn how: Visit the following link and read a few books on this [far too] complicated process and then speak...

Can I use my made up word as intellectual property even though it is a name of a corporation?

You didn't "combine two words together." The company who's using that compound word as it corporate name did -- you simply want to adopt it [adding...

Can we get in trouble for copyright infringement or is this fair use since we're using our own images of used good?

Copyright law is not your concern. Since you've taken the photographs you own their copyright. Your concerns arise under trademark and false...

Can you register a business name as trademark if the name is unregistered but existant business using it for long time?

No one ever has to register its trademark rights. Doing so is voluntary, not mandatory. The use of a word, phrase or design to brand a company or...

We are a web design company. How can we protect ourselves against using customer images on websites that don't have licenses ?

As my colleagues note, adding warranty and indemnity provisions in your client engagement contract and buying insurance that covers copyright...

A person who owns a vested security interest in a patent -- conveyed either by the patent owner or by law -- may perfect that interest via a UCC...

The fact that the NFL sold to a fabric manufacturer a license to sell fabric displaying NFL trademarked names and designs -- the designs of which...

"Action figures" are toys and toys are copyright-protectable "sculptural works." Your own New York-licensed intellectual property attorney will...

Someone steals my idea

Once disclosed, an idea is free for all to use anywhere and anytime. There are only a few exceptions when the idea-recipient cannot lawfully...