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Country and commercialisation guides, plain English - not legalese.

Checklists, guides for creatives and innovators, and deep dives written by experts - available online and offline.

Properly categorised

Practical guides and toolkits.

Laws, checklists, toolkits and guides for start-ups and creatives - each filed under what it actually is, so a statute never sits in the same list as a beginner's guide.

  • Laws

    The statutes and treaties themselves - the instrument, not an article about it.

  • Checklists

    What to do, in order, before a filing or a launch. Short enough to actually finish.

  • How-to guides

    One task, start to end, in plain English - written by people who have done it.

  • Creative guides

    For artists, writers, designers, musicians and performers, in the terms their work is made in.

  • Start-up guides

    For founders: what to protect first, what can wait, and what a term sheet does to it.

  • Country guides

    How IP actually works in a jurisdiction - who files, what it costs, how long it takes.

Why these

Written to be used.

  • Plain English, not legalese

    Written to be understood by the person who has to act on it, not by the person who wrote it.

  • Written by practitioners

    Deep dives by experts working in the jurisdictions and fields they write about.

  • Available offline

    Save what you need and read it without a connection - the guide is still there on the road.

  • Bookmarked and yours

    Keep the ones that matter to you in one place, across web and mobile.

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