In response to Karen: Again, trademark law is irrelevant. Simply looking at the fabric designs identified by the questioner reveals they contain...

What is considered Intellectual Property online, and what are your rights?

How do you start a business? How do you file taxes? How do I satisfy my customers? What is happiness? What is the meaning of life? Why on...

Competitor Domain name confusingly similar to my Registered Trademark

Domain name law and trademark are separate -- though they do overlap. In all "likelihood of confusion" disputes over a domain name the threshold...

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How can you sue someone online, what if they freeze your account?

You got booted from a game site for violating its rules, you threatened to sue the site, its owners, and staff, and now you play the victim and...

Is there federal or IL income tax on settlement of, or recovery from a lawsuit for, a copyright infringement claim?

IRS Publication 525 notes, in relevant part, that: "To determine if settlement amounts you receive by compromise or judgment must be included in...

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I don't understand Attorney Crossan's analysis so will not comment on the information he provided. Forget trademark law -- it is wholly...

Intellectual property, is it ok to sell a handmade copy if a person does not want to buy from the original source?

Determining whether it's lawful to reproduce someone else's jewelry design is a tricky business. But just because it's tricky doesn't mean the...

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Is a DBA Trade Name Sole Proprietorship with no state certification or license requirement a "Business" in the legal sense?

You ARE the business so your personal assets ARE your business' assets. Which means that if someone has a claim against your business then that...

No. While you have the right to buy the crayons and resell them as stand alone crayons, you do not have the right to sell them as a component...

How should percentages be arrived at for a stage musical created from a screenplay?

Hmm. You took someone else's screenplay and adapted it for the stage. Your writing of that stage script is UNLAWFUL without permission from the...