Legal advice on how to check if a design patent/copyright has expired.

BernardMarx:
It makes sense, manners cost nothing.

You misunderstand. Ensuring that what you are about to build does not infringe another person's property does make sense. The specific question you asked does not make sense. It indicates that you do not understand what is and what is not a trademark. Which is why I posted the second set of links. So you could educate yourself.