It would take a substantial amount of time to assess your options how to proceed. For example, regardless of your business name, what services or products do you offer? This is important because your goods or services should be compared to the goods or services for which VIRGIN is a registered... View More

The video montage most likely would be considered as an infringing derivative of the copyright audiovisual work (the game). This could result in a DMCA takedown notice. It's equally or more likely that the videogame producer would appreciate the publicity for their product (assuming the... View More

Attorneys will be reluctant to quote our fees in a public forum like this. Different attorneys may think that filing and prosecuting a trademark application is easy and should be cheap, or difficult and should be expensive. The USPTO will charge either $250 or $350 per "class" of goods or... View More

It's important that you have emails demonstrating what was to. In some States, a chain of emails can be a binding contract.

Contrary to what attorney Goodwin answered, you may accidentally have established "work for hire" - although this is unlikely. You could have a... View More

Copyright in GenAI work is a fascinating topic. I would love to discuss it with you. A short answer to your question is that the U.S. Copyright Office does not register copyrights for works produced by Gen AI. No court so far has told them that they have to. Without a registered copyright, there is... View More

If you give a competent patent attorney a set of patent claims and a specific product, the attorney can give you a pretty good guess as to whether a jury could be convinced that the product does or does not infringe the claims. A competent attorney will not answer an open ended question like the... View More

Hi! This is an interesting and innovative question that I have seen a few times. The question confuses copyright and associated legal doctrine of fair use with rights of publicity, which are a completely different area of law that does not embrace "fair use".

If you have a... View More

You could file a copyright registration for each individual card or for the whole set of cards. If you file for the whole set as one registration and someone copied just one card there is an argument that their copying would be de mínimus (not a big deal) compared to the whole set of cards.

Cost for a patent application varies and most practitioners do not discuss pricing publicly. You get different quality of work depending how much you're willing to pay, but other factors also affect the pricing - size of firm, overhead, what other clients are willing to pay, etc.

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Taking your question at face value, if your parents move in with your grandma but tell you that you can't move in with them, that is the kind of situation that would possibly cause the state to TPR, in which case you likely would be ordered to live with the closest adult relative who would... View More

Filing for a U.S. trademark that you already are using will cost $250-$350 in government fees plus about an hour of attorney time. I takes about one year to eighteen months to obtain registration. You can and should use the trademark during the application process. The only thing to watch out for... View More

Like many software copyright questions, this one is fun to answer because it implicates the "merger doctrine" of (c) law.

Expressions of ideas have copyright as soon as the expression is made. Ideas themselves cannot have copyright. For example, detailed instructions for making a... View More

It depends on what license they gave you for the design. Did they give you a license for personal use only or for commercial uses as well? If they did not give you any license at all, it definitely is not a good Idea to sell their work as your own.

As a resident of Norway who wants an international trademark, you can find good resources at https://www.patentstyret.no/en. They may even have a list of attorneys or agents who could help you to make an international filling. Because Norway is not part of the EU, you would need a Norwegian... View More

The Copyright Office has repeatedly said that you can't get a copyright in AI generated art. You should be fine to copy AI art from anywhere. The people who posted the art can't even file a valid suit without getting the art registered in the Copyright Office.

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It depends. Email service is not typically valid in Arizona. However, a federal district court can serve anyone in the United States based on the rules of the state where the court sits. So if for example you were sued in a Florida federal district court (as might happen for patent infringement... View More

I am skeptical that someone actually registered a trademark for such a descriptive or even generic combination of words. Because you have not engaged me I have done no work to investigate or confirm your facts. Taking what you say as true, there is a very limited scope of protection for a... View More

That sounds like an inter vivos gift! Even if it was a joint account with rights of survivorship, that money typically would avoid probate and his daughter would be free to distribute it however she wished (maybe even if she didn't comply with your father in law's directions).

The basic answer is "yes" - if a European visitor uses your customer's site and is tracked in violation of European law, your customer could theoretically be subject to EU penalties. The visitor's use of a VPN does not affect your customer's obligations.

Consider contacting Connecticut's Statewide Grievance Committee, which handles complaints against attorneys for professional misconduct.

https://www.jud.ct.gov/sgc/