someone please explain to me laws on Trademark names. ex Harvard, can i sell a shirt that has the name harvard

Question

on it?

Answer 1

The name "Harvard" and the university logo, are trademarks, and are copyright. You can't put them on something and sell it without paying Harvard a license fee.

(Harvard, and most other big colleges, has an office in the admin department that deals with nothing else but selling licenses like this. So do organizations like the NYPD/FDNY, LAPD, FBI, CIA, etc etc

Richard

Answer 2

Yes, as long as you are not using the name Harvard as relating to the school in any manner. That would include using an image of any school, for example, or anything related to a school in general.

If you use Harvard alone it may be assumed that you are referring to the school itself -- not okay.

If you have a product, like Harvard Shoe Strings, then there is not a problem.

Answer 3

No you can't manufacture a product that already has a patent pending. it is registered.