Yes, you should be able to seek legal action. Go see an intellectual property litigation attorney.

I don't think this is kind of help you can receive on a public forum. In order to do it right, more analysis is needed. You need an attorney to help you to prevent litigation with the right strategy.

I don't know which patents you are referring to, but my cursory search shows that there are about 5 patents that list Victor Staats as the inventor. 4 of these have expired due to their age, and 1 expired because a maintenance fee was not paid. There are no enforceable patents for Victor... View More

First of all, why is this intellectual property question? Secondly, your question is not clear. It seems that the language is part of the deed, which has nothing to do with HOA board. ... More information is needed to clarify the situation you are in.

You can trademark your copyrighted design by incorporating this design on goods and/ or services in interstate commerce. Whether you will be awarded a trademark depends on prior use of the same or similar mark. To determine the availability you need a full trademark search of all databases. If you... View More

Without more detail about your questions it's difficult to provide a more specific answer, but generally you would have two options from what you're described:

1) if the free weight you're asking about has some newly invented features, it may qualify for a patent.... View More

Yes, you can represent yourself if purchasing the property individually (vs. an LLC, for instance)

Copyright infringement cases are generally civil.

Your license plate on your car? Since license plate was issued to you, not created by you, the person might be responsible for your harm in some other way, but it doesn't seem to be for infringement of Intellectual property

You need to hire a lawyer.

The shares owned by the deceased, like any other property, go to the heirs as specified in the intestacy statutes.

A Section 8 Cancellation of a trademark registration occurs when a registrant fails to file a renewal of their trademark registration. However, whether a mark is available for use depends on many factors including whether the mark is currently being used. Cancellation of a trademark registration... View More

Yes, in fact there are as many "copyright laws" against your plan as there are college teams and NFL teams, all of which will hammer you if you do what you are thinking about doing--without written permission from each team.

More likely than not, yes. There's likely no trademark issue if your accessory doesn't use design elements or marks that are unique or distinguishing of the trademarked product. For the patent side, the product is not patented. Instead, the product incorporates one or more patented... View More

I would be pleased to discuss how you can defend the case: 202-713-5292 (cell).

Yes.

You may use your entity status as a defense. However, a plaintiff can choose to sue whomever they'd like.

In the US, you need to pay for it 3 times after it issues: at 3.5 years, at 7.5 years, and 11.5 years.

For most patents outside of the US, the maintenance fees need to be paid on annual basis.

That depends. Patent rights are country-specific, and therefore your question involves whether that company has a Chinese patent as well as a US patent. (Patent rights generally protect making using or selling the patented technology.) If the Chinese entity has any patent protection domestically or... View More

Well, you can't patent an idea, but you can patent your invention in the field of robotics.

This is not an intellectual property question (or insurance defense), but rather a personal property issue. It's unclear from your question what you're referring to. State Spectator? I've never heard of such a thing. Maybe ask the insurance company that sent you the letter what to do?