Questions tagged [name]
Legal names. For companies and products consider also the "trademark" tag.
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Can I legally change my name to "Darth Misogynus", or would I get sued by Disney?
Obviously, Darth comes from Star Wars, which is currently owned by Disney. Misogynus is an expression of my ideological beliefs. If I legally change my name to "Darth Misogynus", will I get ...
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What consequences could there be for Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;-- when he grows up?
I think it's obvious that Little Bobby Tables's mom has broken the law. Let's assume this is his legal name and does not break any naming laws; it's still probably illegal, because she obviously gave ...
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Can my music player app have the same name as a musician band? It's common words
Can my music player app have the same name as a musician band? It's common words.
For example, let's say there is a group called "Black Stones" (this is not the name, just an example). And I ...
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Can I use words like "Laboratory" or "Pharmacy" in my website or company name?
Is it illegal to use "pharmacy" or "laboratory" words in the name of an LLC or website that is not related to a real pharmacy or laboratory? i.e. using "healthlaboratory.com&...
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usage of the same applicationname
we are currently developing a mobile-App for Android and IOS and we would like to use a name for this application, that already exists: "YouTrack".
BUT of course our application has nothing ...
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Sign a name with ASCII characters or in my native language?
I submitted some patches for GNU software, and its maintainers accepted them.
They want me to assign the copyright to the FSF, so they sent me a legal document.
Here is the text at the end of that ...
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Can one elect one's style/title of address in judicial proceedings?
If one wishes to be referred to as "Dr. Franklin," "Lord Jones" or "Lady Smith" (or Sir, or Dame) but does not actually possess the title, will judges use these titles in ...
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Is your child's name subject to copyright/trademark law?
If I name my son "Nintendo", and my son goes on to make headlines doing bad things, I can imagine the company named "Nintendo" wouldn't be too happy. Similarly if I named my kid &...
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What does it mean that one may go by whatever name they like by English law?
It seems to be a long-standing and fairly fundamental perception in English law that people may assume or use any name they so like. I’ve seen this discussed in House of Lords decisions, possibly also ...
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Can I use the last name of a book author for my project
Suppose that a person has written a computer program that s/he wants to publish on GitHub using as its name the last name of a professor who wrote a book on a topic related to the computer program.
My ...
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Can someone's legal name be all lowercase?
Can a person's legal name be all lowercase or all capital letters or some strange mix, or are there restrictions about it? Or maybe capitalization is not even part of the name, it is just a part of ...
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Change name and gender in Switzerland as a non-Swiss citizen
So I live in Switzerland, but have British and Italian dual citizenship. I want to change my name and gender legally everywhere or at the very least on official documents here in Switzerland. I may be ...
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Am I allowed to use the word "meta" in the name of my product or startup?
I am programming an app and want to call it "metaApp". Am I getting sued soon by Meta a.k.a. Facebook? Or is the word "meta" a commonly used word and ok? (In the case of Apple, it ...
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Can a real life person be named after a fictional character?
Can a person from real life have its legal name identical of that of a fictional character? E.g if a newly born person is named "Sorla Khan" or "Mogul Khan" (names from the Dota ...
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Can I legally include a line break in my child's name?
Ethics aside, is it legal (or even possible) to include a line break (newline) in my child's name? Preferably at the end of the child's first name, directly after the last letter. So instead of (for ...
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