Do I need a design patent or can a trademark design protect me?

It's very difficult for "trade dress" protection [which is a sibling -- or at least a first cousin -- of trademark protection] to attach to the...

Copyright 1923 and before

I agree with my colleague who notes that your publication of the public domain posters may -- just may -- invade the right of publicity of the...

I was wondering if you can help me understand something?

In addition to the trademark infringement / false association concern mentioned by my colleague, you most certainly risk triggering a copyright...

I’m not sure of the validity of a McDonald’s internet coupon. What are my options except not using it?

Anyone can create a fake store or product coupon and post it on the internet to draw visitors to their website. The issue is whether the...

If I post video of someone with their permission, can they then make me take it down at a latter date.

As Attorney Myers notes, the answer depends on what the folks in the video are doing. IF a person in the video is doing anything that could be...

The person who photographs a thing -- anything, including a cell via electron microscopy -- owns the copyright in the image that's created. Your...

Q: " ... i want to reproduce famous paintings for artist that died and others that are still alive" R: The copyright that attaches to each one...

I have a literary work that was published in the U. K. in 1894, and its last surviving author, (there were two,) died in 1944...

Do not assume the work is in the public domain in the US. Some foreign works [including from England] that were published before 1923 had their...

I saw website that was selling my small business's credit, cutomer, and trade history to any willing buyer, what should i do?

Q: " ... i dont want my info out for any stranger to buy." R: It does not matter, at all, want you want or don't want -- what matters is...

In response to your additional information: Q: "...because she defaults on the contract, does that give her the right to then infringe on the...

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