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What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Illinois I am curious as to whether or not I can Trademark a prefix and use said prefix for more slogan based T-Shirt designs. For example, lets say I trademark "I am the greatest" and I have T-Shirt designs which use "I am the greatest Dad", "I...

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Illinois I have a Graphic T-Shirt business and recently I was hit with a Cease and Desist on my personal website and my Ebay selling account. The T-Shirt design in question is "This Guy Needs A Beer" which also has to thumbs gesturing towards the...

Is selling celebrity art considered Infringement if it Is hand painted? If you sell on Ebay and use the celebrities names In the listing title is that ok? Here are a couple sellers on Ebay that you can reference from. Seller 1 = eBay Seller: weirdchief: Art items on eBay.com Seller 2 = eBay...

I am looking Into having some cult movie spoof t-shirt designs created for re sale but I want to know If such Ideas would be ok or not when concerning Infringement. Example: I would like to have a design created of a Hockey Mask with the lettering "Thank God It's Friday" worked Into the Image...

Would these t-shirts be considered Infringement? eBay Seller: hagelsshirtshack: Clothing, Shoes Accessories items on eBay.com

If someone were to create a graphic design in reference to a cult type movie and print it on a t-shirt for resale would this be Infringement? For Instance I see these "I Am McLovin" (quote from the movie Super Bad) T-Shirts everywhere on the Internet and they almost all differ from one another...

Is It possible for someone to copy your graphic design and Copyright it If you have not yet done so? If yes, Is there any way to fight it? Thank you!

I am Interested In selling novelty t-shirts online which sometime refrence funny cult movies, sports, or current events. Catchy quotes, funny lines and such. I have found a few websites with similar t-shirts. www.bustedtees.com www.snorgtees.com www.vintagecotton.com Would there be any...

If you print t-shirts with funny qoutes from cult movies such as Anchorman, Super Bad or Talladega Nights and sell them on the Internet could you be slapped with a lawsuit? I have been thinking about doing this because I see these shirts everywhere on the web and most even admit on their sites...

I am Interested In starting a funny T-Shirt website and would like to know how you would go about trademarking or copyrighting funny Text T-Shirt designs. I have read that It Is very hard to copyright slogans and that you cannot copyright text only actual designs. So what would I do In my...