Is it copyright infringement if I purchase plans for a chair on the web, then build the chair to sell in my own small business?

It's NOT copyright infringement to build a useful article based on a drawing of a plan for that article. The Copyright Office explains:...

What to do if a business in another state changes their name/rebrands using your trademarked business name?

Not long ago I would've agreed with my colleague who notes that the trademark rights you've developed on the east coast may not extend to...

I think by “ROM file” you mean a complete copy of the Pokemon game. So I think you’re asking if it’s lawful to download a copy of the game and put...

If you intend to disclose an "enabling" explanation of your invention then what you're describing is a "defensive publication" of that invention...

You should read the responses to similar questions via the links...

I used someone elses work, but I took it down they are treatining to sue?

You sent someone an image so she could create a fancy, similar image. You then sent someone else her image so he could create a different version...

If an embodiment conflicts with one independent claim but is covered by the other two will this cause a claim restriction?

Q: "Do all independent claims have to mutually cover all of the illustrated embodiments in a patent?" R: I think you're trying to ask whether...

The recording of the voices reading the public domain book is copyrightable so long as it's sufficiently creative -- that is, so long as the...

As my colleagues note, copyright automatically attached to your TV reality show treatment once it was complete and your copyright registration will...

I have a mixtape dropping and I would like to use the nike logo but rather than it saying nike I would make it say collect.

It can be lawful, though rarely, to include another's trademark in an expressive work such as a music mixtape. The "Rogers test" is the method...