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I held a major position in a small business for many years, and designed and/or made most of the company's product. I quit to start a competing business. In what respects can I advertise my previous position? Can I name the old company, link to it, I assume I can't use their images of my work...
I recently quit a sales position with a medium size ($40M yr) company. This week I found out that two vendors who I work with have received emails from my old company that came from my old email address which is my first name initial followed by my last name. It appears that my ex boss is......
quick web domain questionWhat is the name of your state? Colorado Hello, I own hubbleprints.com. It seems I can sell stuff that is public domain as a few other sites are, but, can I sell prints with the web address hubbleprints.com? thanks for your time Nigel Edit: heh, my question does not make sense to me either. I......
Quick question: re: "Patent Pending"I know we can search patents issued on the web, does anyone know if there is a way to find out if a company who is claiming a "patent pending" has indeed filed for a patent?...
Quick question....What is the name of your state? Washington State My brothers in the t-shirt design and custom cup / mug design. He sows (with a machine) and bakes slogans (like screen printing) and phases on t-shirts and mugs for a living. He'd like to make a few t-shirts and mugs with the phase "got......
Quick question.What is the name of your state? Pennsylvania. I'm a 16 year old film maker. A friend of mine and I plan on making a film for a film festival coming up. We want to film at the local mall, due to the many people that will be there. Basically its us going up to them, and being very Christian......
Quick question regarding torrents.US, Michigan hello, I really had no idea where to post this so anyway. I was wondering if it is legal to link from my website to another site that is linking to an illegal music/movie torrent?...
Questions regarding copyrighted photosWhat is the name of your state? Ohio Am just out of school and starting a site for profit offering local businesses more exposure for them. My question is right now I have photos in the site that I have manipulated, changed color tones, distorted and changed as much as possible in Photoshop.......
questions re a CIP prosecutionWhat is the name of your state? California I filed a utility patent. I rec'd a first office response rejecting it on the grounds that it failed to comport to proper patent procedure. I agree. I filed a response to which examiner stated that I should file as a CIP. My questions are this: 1. If......
Questions About Copyright & TrademarkWhat is the name of your state?What is the name of your state? Connecticut Hi there, I would like some advice on copyright and trademark laws. I am starting a website that sells signs, greeting cards, stationary etc. My questions are.. 1. Can I use images of The Simpsons, Disney Characters......
Question?I'm in California and recently entered a contract with a business owner to do contract recruiting for his search firm. Our contract was for 2 months only and at the end of the two months we would decide if we wanted to continue. I have decided not to continue and he refuses to pay me! In fact, he......
[Government & Administrative Law] Feel free to redirect this thread if its in the wrong place. How long do you have to live/what exactly does one need to do to change their residency to another state? I am going out of state (GA to FLA) to school next year, and am wondering how long I have to live in FLA before I can become a.........
do i have a lawsuit?[Accidents & Personal Injury Law] I was driving in my jeep saturday and the car hydroplanded on a bridge, smashed head on into the side of the bridge (which is on a highway so speed were around 50) so anyways the car is totalled and get this after the head on crash, the airbags didnt deploy, no one ws injureded thankfully, but.........
Mental Anguish[Accidents & Personal Injury Law] My daughter joined a team, and was told over and over that it was a 4 year committment. Coach told all girls this. Don't worry if you're struggling on something, you've been chosen for my team and you are mine for 4 years(said Coach). My daughter struggled with the bat this past summer, just got.........
Clarification on definition of conjugal partner needed. Please help.[Immigration Law] I recently became engaged to my boyfriend of four years. He is a Canadian, I'm American. I know that he can sponsor me once we are married, fiancee sponsorship no longer avialable, but I dislike the idea of getting married then spending the first 6-12 months living apart while waiting for the.........
Out-of-State Visitation of NCP?[Family Law] i live in virginia and about 6 1/2 yrs ago me and my ex went to court for visitation. we have joint custody with me have physical custody and him having every otehr weekend visitation. Well about 6 months after that he moved to ohio and has never filed for out of state visits. i was told he.........
How to Properly List an LLC in Claim[Additional Legal Subjects] In my Alaska small claims handbook, it explains with examples how to file against businesses, corporations, and partnerships, but not LLCs, unless that's part of them and I'm missing it. Obviously, I don't want to have my case be deemed invalid by messing this up and I'm unable to find an example.........
Warranty[Consumer Law & Fraud] What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? South Carolina I purchase a used 2008 Nissan Sentry with a factory warranty, I purchased an extra extended warranty, the car has water in the intake, they think I or someone in my family ran the car through water and caused water to soak in the.........
Unpaid Short Term Disability[Employment & Labor Law] What is the name of your state? Arizona Earlier this year I was out on short term disability due to having surgery. The surgery was not sucessful, and a 2nd surgery is necessary. I had used all of my sick days during the previous surgery, but at this time I have more than a weeks worth of.........
What is considered over stayed in the US?[Immigration Law] What if you left the US to your country (Canada) for a bit and came back legally for another visit shortly after. Can you start counting as day one if you were out and back shortly after your first visit to the US? The overstayed is confusing for me? Your clarification is very much appreciated..........
Road Improvements / County to File Lien[Real Estate & Property Law] What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Florida Hello, My wife and purchased a foreclosed home about 6 months ago. We received a letter from our county asking for about $9000 for road improvement/late fees. The road in question was improved about 2 years ago, long before we bought the.........
What is the name of your state? California After reading all about the RIAA suing individual people who downloaded music I've become interested in this issue. I was curious if the MPAA is taking similar action against downloading movies and burning copies of DVDs, either from friends or rentals.......
What is the name of your state? NY I am writing a book about gaming strategies. It will emcompass all types of games and I want to use specific examples like Halo maps and the weapons in it. Can I do this or do I need Microsoft's permission to mention their game and maps in it? I know that if......
What is the name of your state? Wisconsin When I was looking at a message on a gaming forum regarding links to sites for PDAs, I found two links that sound like they're related to East Asian culture (they have "chan" in their names). I went to them and found some strange sounding terms......
What is the name of your state? AZ I have a debate to do and I am having trouble coming up with a good arguement, I am on the no side. So far i am using Fair use, what do you guys think would be a good point for an arguement?...
What is the name of your state? CA I am an artist. I am hoping to get my children's story published. I have never tried to publish anything before, so I wasn't sure who to ask. I was wondering if it was alright for me to use the likeness of a house in my story. I took a photo of a victorian......
Hi, my name is Gary. I am a musician, i have three songs that i have wrote, and created all melody too. I basically done everything. I needed somebody to that has the equipment to do this. So, i hired this person with a studio to play the instuments and put music to them. I am paying him per hour......
What is the name of your state?- Tennessee I have a question that I wanted to run by people who know what they are talking about- Would it be legal to download episodes of TV shows (namely Seinfeld) onto my computer? I don't see how it is any different than recording to DVD off of the TV and......
What is the name of your state? New York Hi, my name is Nicholas and I am the owner for a company selling glass drinking boots. These boots were featured in the movie BeerFest. In Germany they are extremely popular and have been around for 100 years. There are two techniques used in order to......
Hi, I live in IL and sell an ebook on the internet. It is copyright. But some yahoo has copied it. some word for word but some in his own words. I am really angry and he has copied all the methods. He sells it as another book under his own name. He is not reproducing mine. He has a totally......
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? NY Hi, I have a few questions about protecting my copyrighted material in a joint venture project on a website. The owner of the site wants me to be an online instructor in the field we work in, whereby I produce downloadable and video tutorials......