How do I retain the business name I came up with and keep serving the clients I brought into an LLC company?

You need to sit down with a NJ-licensed business attorney for a strategy session. Bring your LLC Operating Agreement. Make clear that he or she...

Can I sell a t-shirt with the name of a former baseball stadium (no longer in existence) on the front and a number on the back?

This may be lawful. Your own trademark attorney will have to look into whether anyone else is using the stadium name as a mark to brand its product...

Q: "Am I allowed to sell items I purchase at a retail store under the First Sale Doctrine?" R: As long as the product is genuine. A "genuine"...

Hi : I need a patent attorney for an idea that I have involving web applications and mobile applications.

As noted, you need to track down a patent attorney close to your home. While some attorneys will tell you that any patent attorney in any part of...

No. The particular colors adopted by a school, when "recognizable to people who live in the college town or state" and which imply the identity of...

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Can I patent an item that I have been selling on eBay? I have applied for a provisional patent.

By selling the product before applying for patent protection you have not ruined your chances of acquiring patent protection in the U.S. but...

I have several songs to copyright. Do I need an attorney to file the copyright or do it myself?

Registering the copyright in your songs is fairly self-explanatory. Visit http://www.copyright.gov and read up on "musical composition" copyright...

I want to name my company big sexy shirts. i see there is already a copyright for big sexy. how can i put my brand on my shirt

If someone else in the U.S. is already branding products that are clothes or related to clothes with the phrase "Big Sexy Shirts" then, no, you may...

How do we go about obtaining a Master's License from a record label has been defunct for over 20 years?

If your plan is to record your own version of the song then you need a "mechanical" license from the owner of the musical composition copyright...

Design patent application

Because the patent examiner reviewed your ornamental design during the prosecution of an application to patent another design, you have a good...