How to avoid design patent issues when importing home decoration items?

I write only to add one more risk avoidance chore to Attorney Ross' list: You should know from your own marketing research whether products that...

How do I file a law suit against a patent company? what will I need to do?

I take your question to mean that you hired an "invention promotion company" and the outcome was not as advertised. You need to speak with an...

Can an aspiring artist post practice sketches of other's photos (celebrity/magazine) on facebook for non-commercial use? Thanks.

Not lawfully. You're creating "derivative works" based on the photographs. That's an exclusive right reserved for the person who owns the...

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You should strategize with your own patent litigator. I assume your competitor is marking its products with the "patent pending" notice and...

Design around a Design Patent

Your own patent attorney needs to consider the fundamental problem, for you, that a design patent cannot claim priority from a provisional patent...

So. for example, you're thinking of entitling your book "Delilah's Scissors: Sharp as a Ferrari is Fast." Yeah, that's a bad idea. I can't think...

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Question about copyright permissions on YouTube videos, and when they are needed and NOT needed?

There are no "answers" -- but there is a reasonable approach to consider "fair use" as applied to audiovisual works, a history of what others have...

If a character is listed on the following link, am I allowed to build a public Disney world type attraction for them? see below

Very few, if any, attorneys will click on a link sent by someone we don't know -- especially through a public forum. Moreover, no attorney can or...

Does simply saving an online image for personal viewing violate copyright law?

We'll have to make some assumptions to answer your question. First, that the photograph is copyrightable. Second, that the copyright is still...

Merely initiating a stream of copyrighted material almost certainly does not infringe the copyright in that material -- especially when the...