Who owns my company’s logo?

This is not as silly a question as you may first think. The short answer is: not necessarily you. If you created it yourself, then yes indeed you own the copyright to it (unless your design infringes the copyright of someone else). If, however, someone else created it for you, you only own it if the designer has specifically transferred the copyright to you. If no such transfer has been made then the designer still owns it, regardless of how much you paid. In this situation it is possible for a ruthless ‘designer’ to prevent you from using your ‘own’ company logo.

The solution is to make sure that ‘transfer of license’, or a similar offer is made on the quote that you get from the studio before you commission any work.

Sometimes, usually for larger organisations, final artwork will be licensed to the client for a period of time, but this is not normally the case for small or medium sized organisations. If you are in doubt just ask the studio for clarification, it should be an easy question for them to answer.