As Attorney Ross notes, the DMCA takedown procedure applies only to those who operate U.S.-based servers or who, if they operate overseas, choose...

Provisional Patents and what is protected and not protected

What are your BUSINESS goals? At the end of the day you don't really want a patent -- you want to make money. Sometimes spending the resources to...

What are the options for trademark or proceeding without a trademark if a business was denied trademark?

If the Trademark Office has concluded your trademark cannot be registered because it's confusingly similar to one already registered then so will a...

I want to create a letter covering the following: No one has the right to publish without my permission and safe guard my book.

Your editor copying and selling your book is not your most important concern. The vast percentage of self-published books have very little, if any,...

We'd like to file a federal lawsuit. How does a small business go about defending its rights with a small budget?

Just to clarify your hypothetical: The name of your company is "Acme" and you sell furniture. You've federally registered "Acme" as a trademark...

Do I have a legal case against the publication and or the book publisher?

So ... you had a "relationship" with a notorious criminal and, in an interview publicly available for at least the last nine years, he described...

Can I use links in my app which direct to the college website and can I also use the brand logo images and or names?

The general rule is that it's lawful to display the name of a company when necessary to identify it [even commercially -- for example, in a...

ENTERTAINMENT LAW: Can one rescind a good-faith donation of rare show business archived material where I DID NOT take a writeoff

It's my understanding that, under New York law, once made a gift is irrevocable. I know that's true under California law. So ... you're very...

A big time player (think AmEx) has written to my lawyer requesting that I amend my trademark application. Can I get money?

The response by the "big time player" to your request for money in return for amending your registration application will undoubtedly be, no, and...

I think my colleagues are missing the forest for the trees. The phrase "intellectual property" is but a mere label with NO legal meaning and...