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Can someone who sells products online legally brand them self under a name of their choosing yet be paid under formal name
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Answered on March 15, 2014
I don't understand: You want to publish a website under Name A but have your customers send their payments to Name B? That makes no sense. ...
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Reuse of business name but international use is occurring. Can I use it?
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Answered on March 15, 2014
Your explanation about your use of your "business name" makes no sense to me. In any event, before a person begins to do business under a...
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How can we investigate if a patent is being infringed upon?
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Answered on March 10, 2014
When a person with assets dies intestate [that is, without a will] then the probate court of the state where that person lived must divvy up those...
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Legal grounds for Patent Infringement?
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Answered on March 10, 2014
Assuming Company A's patent was issued by the U.S. Patent Office, Company B's manufacturing plant is in the U.S., and a patent attorney concludes...
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What legally makes something a parody.
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Answered on March 03, 2014
Q: "What legally makes a game a parody."
R: Read the Campbell v. Acuff Rose ruling linked-to below.
Q: "... can I use the real-life names,...
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Can I patent a new diagnostic medical test using a commercially available petri dish and agar without infringement?
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Answered on March 03, 2014
A new use for a combination of already-existing products is "patentable subject matter." Whether that use is "patentable," however, depends on...
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Can I do a personal art project that uses a band's album covers if I DON'T sell it or make money on it?
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Answered on February 24, 2014
The event that triggers copyright infringement liability is not the exchange of money for someone else's copyrighted work but the (1) reproduction...
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I am making a film and many of the sets are girls bedrooms. Can I use photos from magazines as long as they are collages?
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Answered on February 21, 2014
For any one of the copyright owners to have even a colorable infringement claim a photograph within a collage must be independantly recognizable...
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Does selling your photographs (in canvas print or frame) consider you're selling your photos for commercial use?
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Answered on February 21, 2014
I agree with Attorney Natoli and disagree with Attorney Burdick. The issue is not whether YOUR sale of the photograph is "for commercial purposes"...
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Trademark/intellectual property question about using a licensed item.
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Answered on February 20, 2014
Hmm. I disagree quite fundamentally with Attorney Vaccaro. I think you've bought buckets adorned with a sports team logo and now you want to load...
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