Do most attorneys use Legalzoom and Thompson Reuters for trademark searches?

Trademark attorneys do not do their own full-blown trademark searches. They hire someone skilled in that art with access to all the right...

Things to know to start an online retail store for selling garments in USA and other countries too.

Entire books have been written on how create, manage and operate an ecommerce website. You should read a few of them [visit the link below]. You...

Is it copyright infringement if I aggregate and summarize polls/surveys from different online forums?

You've described a perfectly valid and very common, and perfectly lawful, way to conduct research. As noted by my colleagues, facts are not...

I paid fees to acquire a transparency of an artist's work that is in public domain and made a reproduction of the art for sale

Assuming that whatever you reproduced from the transparency is, in fact, a work in the public domain then anyone may copy any identical copy of...

Under California law the answer would be, no, you may not lawfully alter your fictitious business name when doing business. The whole point of a...

What are the author's rights to copyright under a work for hire agreement when the author has not been paid for the work?

A copyrightable work can ONLY be a "work for hire" if it fits one or more of the following statutory categories: (1) a contribution to a...

I am an independent contractor. The director of the facility where I work is committing copyright infringement.

A person who does not directly infringe a copyright may nonetheless be a "contributory infringer" if he has knowledge of a third party's infringing...

Hello. Can I publish my own General Chemistry and College Physics lab reports as study guide and solution manual? Thank you

Solution manuals to textbooks are "derivative works" of those textbooks and, therefore, cannot be lawfully sold without permission from the company...

Someone took a picture of my view from my tasting room and is using this picture on a T shirt and selling it in there store...

Q: "What are my rights?" R: As everyone else has already noted, if you or your company owns the copyright in the photograph then once you...

I wrote a book about Autism in relation to my son. In the book I list the medications he is taking.

The publisher is asking a perfectly valid question. Drugs used as medicine have (1) a chemical name, (2) a generic name and (3) a brand name. For...