In addition to checking UCC filings at the California Secretary of State's office, you should also check the “Assignments” database at the Patent...

Can use help us out with how we can ask facebook to enable our page.. also if this can be a problem later on.

You're right that "Superman is a common word in the dictionary that can be used by anybody" -- but ONLY if by "use" you mean in conversation,...

If i take a product and then alter it and add things to it and resell it for a completely different purpose than it was original

Q: "if i take a product [let's say a 2x4] and then alter it [cut it in half] and add things to it [other pieces of wood] and resell it for...

Is this considered a new invention?

My colleauges have already ably answered your questions. I write only to note that under current law a patentee selling a U.S.-patented product...

My colleagues have already ably answered your question. My take: Words and phrases are free for all to use -- including for branding purposes. So...

Is having your trademark on the supplemental register worthless?

No, it's not worthless. The benefits of having a mark on the Supplemental Register: 1. The application is not published for opposition [so, once...

Your cousin has two fundamental problems. 1. Because her "fan fiction story" is an unauthorized derivative work "based on the show 'White...

I think you're asking whether it's lawful for you to offer to pay another adult to take [or receive] nude photographs of that person. If that's...

Will we have issues getting a trademark because storage exists in both names and more importantly are we now infringing on them?

Your last sentence is the most important: "However this self storage company has storage in the name as we do but ours is Moving & Storage where as...

How do I trademark some phrases?

You should re-read Attorney Koslyn's spot-on response. Selling a product that displays a particular phrase very often does NOT create any trademark...