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What Is A Trademark? In layman's terms, what
is a trademark and what it means to you.
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What Is A Copyright? What is a copyright and
what it means to you.
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Cease and Desist Letters and Emails Their
form and what they will try to make you believe.
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Common Allegations The various threats they will use
and why they are invalid.
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How You Should Respond Create a paper trail to
your advantage.
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Do You Need A Lawyer? Sometimes the law requires
to be represented by counsel. Sometimes you can
represent yourself.
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Sue The Bastards! What they are doing is not legal.
But, you may have to take them to court to get them
to stop.
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Legal Sources that you might find useful.
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Precious Moments court decision in the First Federal
District Court about the use of licensed fabrics! It's in
PDf format and requires and Adobe Acrobat Reader.
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Ebay's Verified Rights Owners ("VeRO") Program
is used and abused by it's members. Here are more details
about VeRO and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
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Major League Baseball Properties is the
latest in a line of fabric manufacturers who have
decided to attack Tabberone for using their fabrics.
We sued them on April 3, 2004.
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The Puddy Tat Beats Da Mouse!
On December 24, 2002, representing ourselves,
we filed a complaint against Disney Enterprises in
Federal Court seeking a Declaratory Judgment to
make them leave us alone.
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New Kids On The Block, is an interesting
decision from the 9th Circuit about what is and isn't
infringement.
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Forced labor, a.k.a. slavery, is an issue that
confronts many American manufacturers. Did you know it
violates federal law and could invalidate many existing
trademarks and copyrights?
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Does Baseball Condone Slave Labor?.
Read these articles and decide for yourself.
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McCalls Sued For Business Interference and
more by someone who visited this web page. After reading
about our fight,
MonsterPatterns.com has filed a law suit against
McCall Patterns, Simplicity Patterns, Butterick and
Digital River. Others are fighting back
and so can you!
- The Lanham
Act, the premier federal legislation covering
trademarks, also known as Title 15 Chapter 22.
- Copyright
Infringement and Remedies, the primary
federal legislation covering
copyrights, also known as Title 17 Chapter 5.
- Copyright
Protection and Management Systems, the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), 1998, covering
copyrights, also known as Title 17 Chapter 12.
- We're not lawyers but we have represented ourselves
in federal court against multi-billion dollar companies
and won. The content here is not presented as legal
advice but as opinion and a result of what we have learned
in these battles.
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