A Washington attorney might be able to advise best, but your question remains open for a week. If you used the prescription version, prescriptions could serve as records. If you took an OTC version, it's possible it could appear in your medical records. You could reach out to law firms that... View More

A Washington attorney could advise best, in terms of state-specific issues, but your question remains open for a week. I'm sorry for your ordeal. At this point, your best option could be to research what the current lawsuit situation is with McGhan implants. There have been lawsuits in the... View More

A Washington attorney could advise best, but your question remains open for a week. If you're asking about your rights here, the question that will arise is. "What harm/injury did you suffer?" Any case would be based on the extent of harm/injury suffered, which fortunately does not... View More

A Washington attorney could answer best, but your question remains open for four weeks. Rights and obligations involving stolen property is something that criminal defense attorneys would have insight into. Product liability is more about injuries from dangerous products. Good luck

A Washington attorney could advise best, but your question remains open for two weeks. The responses on this Q & A board are limited to brief general formats. This could be something for which you'd want to consider a more thorough consult with an attorney to address various issues, such... View More

No.

The idea behind a patent is that the inventor discloses the invention, and in turn, the government gives the inventor something of value: the ability to keep others from using the patenting invention for a limited time. After the time runs out, anyone can use that invention.

A Washington attorney could advise best in accordance with state-specific laws, but your question remains open for two weeks. You describe not being sure of what to do. As a starting point, you could reach out to product liability attorneys to discuss. If they felt you could have the basis for a... View More

I'm sorry that happened to you. The process here will be dictated by the contract with the rental car company. Assuming you have insurance, the worst case scenario is you've got to pay the deductible for your own insurance company.

I'm terribly sorry this happened to you. You're going to need to know the make and model of the knee replacement before calling an attorney. There are many lawsuits filed for medical devices such as this. They are contested until the very end, but you may very well have a claim.... View More

You should not sell any products that infringe on valid US patents. Figuring out whether or not the product you want to sell infringes on a given patent is sometimes a tricky thing to figure out.

Though I haven't read the patent you're referring to, I think it unlikely that it... View More

A Washington attorney could best advise here, if there were any state consumer laws that might be applicable. But your post remains open for three weeks. There wasn't a question here, but if you are wondering if this gives rise to a legal claim, there doesn't seem to be a significant one.... View More

Your question could involve state consumer law issues that a Washington State attorney would know best, but it remains open for four weeks. As a general approach for any jurisdiction, review the warranty information and other contract documentation. Bring your concerns about the number of attempts... View More

I suggest you see if a law librarian at one of DC's law libraries can help you. There isn't enough information there to figure out if it is a case that is being reported or what.

you may have in mind the following which isn't a suit by Sanders but by a group of supporters:... View More

Local law libraries provide ample self-help resources re: Intellectual Property and Business law. Typically a Non Disclosure Agreement is a great tool to help prevent disclosure of confidential information re: your ideas. You might need to ultimately file for a copyright, trademark, and/or patent,... View More

A consultation with an injury lawyer who has experience with toxic tort cases could be a good place to start. These are cases involving exposure to hazardous substances.

Tim Akpinar

Good for you for looking.

Short answer: extremely expensive to prove in court, and the Supreme Court made it very difficult especially if the problem (leukemia) is something that can be caused by just .....being.

Second problem is the statute of limitations issue in your state.... View More

This is not so much a legal question as one of manufacturing. You usually have to have a prototype to be able to say how it will function. As getting a patent is long and complex, and expensive, suggest you may want to consult a patent attorney--they may answer that first question. The second is... View More

Unless you bought the car recently, with that vintage it may well be a replacement ball joint one or two front end jobs ago.

I don't see that you can really make a claim, but if it resulted in a crash contact a member of the State of Washington Assn for Justice--they give free consultations.

The neighbor can't shoot them because of hunting laws which prohibit firearms use near houses (don't tell the neighbour --they will use something else). You say he got "out of his fece quite a bit" --that is called a nuissance in the law. You need to fix your fence, get a new... View More

It is difficult to show that allergies are caused by the mesh and not to a change in your immune/autoimmune system. Assuming it can be shown, there are other issues. I suggest you contact a member of the State of Washington Assn for Justice who handles "medical products."