Welcome

        We've designed this site to be a source of information for Inventors, Artists, Entrepreneurs, and Managers who need to know something about the legal issues around Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, and Trade Secrets. There are plenty of places on the Web where you can read the statutes and regulations (we point out several of them), but here our aim is to explain and illustrate in practical terms how you can -- and perhaps should -- assert, maintain, and protect your intellectual property rights.