A website developer claims I bought a website. When does title pass. There is no written contract. Thank you

Q: "Can I claim restitution as a defense?" R: Restitition is the process whereby illgotten gains are ordered to be paid over to the person from...

May a writer summarize the contents of personal letters written by another person without violating copyright law?

Attorney Marshal has ably responded to your specific query about the application of copyright law to the facts ["summarizing" is ok but copying or...

Can Google scan a copyrighted book in order to provide different search snippets without permission from the copyright holder?

Google's copying of the books and its publication of portions of them in response to search word queries is very, very likely a "fair use" of the...

I have a supplier who obtains brand name goods at close out deals. Can I resell these?

Used products are NOT sold via "close out" sales. If you're buying used products for re-sale then you're a "used goods dealer" [or "secondhand...

Copyright. Does 'substantial similarity' only apply to the whole of a copyrighted work or can it be broken down.

Q: "Can individual scenes be regarded as 'substantially similar' or does it only apply to whole work ie whole novel." R: To prove copyright...

Need patent

If you cannot afford an attorney then you're left to your own devices -- and the information that you can gleam from books. I suggest that you buy...

As my colleague notes, there are too many variables for any attorney to accurately quote you a price for what you need. While you're tracking down...

Someone wants me to make some instrumentals to some church songs and i want to make them for free, is that illegal?

I assume by "making instrumentals" you mean that you're playing a musical instrument and producing recorded songs. Which you then intend to...

Question on reselling brand name clothes.

Distributors and retailers of genuine [non-counterfeit] products for some reason or other sometimes need to quickly, and often at a loss, sell...

I place a item I wish to trademark on ebay . On my TM application which of the following dates is its first use in commerce:

The date you ship it [assuming "it" is the branded product] across state lines.