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It may not be wise to use photos of schoolchildren in promotional material without informing the parents, even with legal rights to do so. It's not always a legal concern and sometimes one which touches upon parental feelings of safety and privacy and control over them. This goes double at a...

Thanks but just a discussion, not to be confused with legal advice - which it isn't. Some shared thoughts and observations. I appreciate your difficult situation and hope the conversation has provided some legal and business perspectives for you. Good luck and hope to try out your donuts some...

The advice to you is to try to calm down and make a good rational decision, even though I can understand how emotional this is and how upset you must be. You just enjoy making donuts and don't want to deal with this hassle. But they probably will not allow you to just make donuts using this name...

It's a good argument but it's not a recognized English word, just an application of the word. I don't see it in the Oxford or Webster's English Dictionary. However, I've seen it used in searches in the manner you believe it to be used. The answer as to how the law should be applied may not be...

I should make clear that the term 'trademark' is an English word as defined by Websters and in our own Law Dictionary defining trademark. It is a business and legal term. Filing for federal or state protection or having legal common law rights extends the meaning of that term to a series of...

Logically speaking (not legally) it is probably difficult to prosecute a case as a result of what is likely limited damages for posting final numbers such as you've mentioned for intellectual property cases since, e.g. 6 numbers are easily shared and what are the damages to the lottery? If...

Sorry to hear about your legal problem. Your business name is your "trade mark" - it is the "mark" of your trade - your business. Filing for a "federal trademark" is a different story. It grants the right holder protection over the name across the country. Some of your points made are good ones...

I think you should prioritize finding a new tenant to replace you. I'm unaware of a standard lease clause which allows a tenant to vacate because an exterminator was called to handle some cockroaches - but not an infestation. With regard to fumes, unless the apartment becomes uninhabitable your...

Thanks for sharing information about ICOs but, being honest I think it leaves out a substantial amount of critically important information that people need to know to understand what an ICO is and what it is not. One good example - is an ICO like an IPO where a person invests in shares of...

I am not sure I understand so I will try to summarize. It seems like you signed a 1 year lease. You found that there are problems like there are problems with lots of ants. I don't understand the other issues - maybe you have other tenants living in the same house and there is a lot of turnover...

This is being reposted with the proper link - Civil Recovery information.

Thank you for your kind words. You ask some very complex questions. Others have a greater level of expertise but I have had some exposure in this area. The countries who are members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) number about three dozen, with several...

The GDPR - General Data Protection Regulation - has a number of really innovative policies and I enjoyed educating myself on how the EU hopes to stimulate all sorts of new thinking for what is claimed to be for the sake of progress. I see that you are addressing the reasons and rationale for the...

Actually, there isn't anything wrong with discussing it. Other than myself, there may not be many people familiar with it. I've actually had to deal with the GDPR heavily recently with regard to Fintech, Regtech, DLT and blockchain technologies. If I have time today, I'll take a quick look at...

Allow me to jump on the bandwagon. I have no idea whether the contractor appreciates the implications of what is written in the contract. But if I had to guess, I'd say he or she does and my reaction would be the same.

It took me a while to figure out what was going on. It seems that there was a parolee who was a registered sex offender. He was rearrested and his computer seized. Are you saying that someone in the police station or where the computer was stored used the computer by connecting it to the...

True - but no one wants to deal with collection agencies if they can be avoided.

No one can tell you what may or may not happen. The general principle behind trademark law (and it's generally similar because it's the same problem to solve) is to ensure that the marketplace isn't confused by one business masquerading as another. If you are happy with the quality and...

On the surface it seems that there might not be a dispute. But if they have an email address or fax, you may want to send a confirmation, e.g. per discussion with the director and my submitted written notice, my child is no longer enrolled at XYZ as of a certain date. Good

No need for us to make anyone uncomfortable. I'm sure it was an emotional situation and that some of the facts will be raised by the prosecution and a police officer should it ever get that far. Hopefully these will be small lessons learned and people will be able to move on with minimal damages.