In 2001 I made a poor man's copyright of my band's name, now there's a company using the same name. Do I have a case?

There is no such beast as a "poor man's copyright." If I write a sonnet that is so beautifully touching and inspirational that it moves a...

The Copyright Office has weighed in on the copyrightability of the format of websites and concluded that, as a general rule, they are not...

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If someone puts intellectual property on the internet under the Creative Commons Public Domain license, can it be rescinded...

The CC0 license states that once it's attributed to a work the license "shall not be subject to revocation, rescission, cancellation, termination,...

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Am I infringing on a patent design law?

A few additional points: Because you received what is likely a "cease and desist" letter, you now have the right to sue the company that claims the...

Will similar domain name will create problem for business?

You wrote: I was thinking to name my domain as same as my company name 'ross.com' but there was already same kind of domain as roiss.com but one...

How do I protect my ideas with the least cost.

I'll be less polite than Ms.Koslyn: If you already own a "name" [and I don't know what that means] and a domain name registration that includes the...

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A "song" could be any one -- or all three -- of the following: (1) the lyrics alone [in which case the song is a "literary" work], (2) the lyrics...

Can i have a same kind of business with same name with one word difference?

Depends on which company used the trade name first and where in the country the two do business. A trade name is not the same thing as a...

Invention Assistance Firms

Read the following information: Patent Office website on invention promotion...

Idea for product

Everybody and their brother has the next great idea. Books have been written on how to protect and exploit them. The two books that I think...