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Banika Smee, Witjuti

Banika Smee, Witjuti

Witjuti has a range of bamboo clothing designed for yoga, travel, maternity or just lounging around. Read more

Anish K. Baheti, Concepts Coach

Anish K. Baheti, Concepts Coach

Concept Coach aims to build conceptual clarity for business owners by providing them with simple yet effective coaching on accounting and finance r... Read more

Paul Coelho, Slidemaster – Professional PowerPoint Design

Paul Coelho, Slidemaster – Professional PowerPoint Design

Slidemaster is a PowerPoint specialist company offering comprehensive PowerPoint Presentation designs and solutions, which leave lasting impression... Read more

Michael Vincent, Sports Partners

Michael Vincent, Sports Partners

Sports Partners is a free, fun site where people can find other people, clubs, or businesses for sports and hobbies. Read more

Karen Churchill, The Churchill Consultancy

Karen Churchill, The Churchill Consultancy

Karen Churchill helps her clients achieve their goals by communicating as well as possible with the people who matter to them. This can be done by ... Read more

Bree Cleal, Imageffect

Bree Cleal, Imageffect

Imageffect creates great branding solutions for small to medium sized businesses who care enough about themselves to realise that the way they pres... Read more

Tony Cosentino, The WordPress Guy

Tony Cosentino, The WordPress Guy

Tony Cosentino builds WordPress websites, trains businesses how to manage a WordPress site and provides long term fanatical support for WordPress s... Read more

Peter Crocker, Sam Leader, Robert Gerrish - Flying Solo

Peter Crocker, Sam Leader, Robert Gerrish - Flying Solo

Peter Crocker, marketing head honcho, Sam Leader, editorial big cheese and Robert Gerrish, founder and general nuisance spill the beans. Read more

Tania Shirgwin, BizEez Virtual Solutions

Tania Shirgwin, BizEez Virtual Solutions

BizEez Virtual Solutions specialises in assisting businesses with their online marketing needs through social media, email marketing and WordPress ... Read more

Monika Mundell, Copywriter

Monika Mundell, Copywriter

Monika Mundell, along with her husband John, provides a comprehensive suite of sizzling copywriting services to entrepreneurs, Internet marketers, ... Read more

Mark Rubiolo, Bubbling With Energy Entertainment

Mark Rubiolo, Bubbling With Energy Entertainment

Bubbling With Energy provides entertainment and amusements for corporate events and private parties including jumping castles, mechanical bulls, su... Read more

Dane Pymble, Small Business Wizardry

Dane Pymble, Small Business Wizardry

Small Business Wizardry gives small business owners the tools and resources they need to start and grow their business. Read more

Sean Sherlock, SAmedia Website Solutions

Sean Sherlock, SAmedia Website Solutions

From small start-ups to seasoned soloists, SAmedia Website Solutions designs websites that enhance online position and improve new leads and recurr... Read more

Sarah Jenkins, SignaturePhoto Photography Courses

Sarah Jenkins, SignaturePhoto Photography Courses

Sarah Jenkins teaches half-day and 1-day photography courses in Sydney to beginners who have just bought their first DSLR camera as well as more in... Read more

Maria Pantalone, Infinite Growth

Maria Pantalone, Infinite Growth

Infinite Growth works with individuals and businesses to improve their communication skills so that they can professionally present their products ... Read more

Tom Mewing, Aussie

Tom Mewing, Aussie

Tom Mewing assists people in purchasing their dream home by finding them the best home loan. Read more

Emma Wilson, Upclose & Virtual

Emma Wilson, Upclose & Virtual

Upclose & Virtual provides professional, cost effective, secretarial services for businesses and individuals throughout Australia to reduce the bur... Read more

Jan Freitag, Proxim Group

Jan Freitag, Proxim Group

Combining both business coaching and business consulting services, the Proxim Group offers a fully comprehensive approach to helping small business... Read more

Rachel Abdy, Pace Administration

Rachel Abdy, Pace Administration

Pace Administration offers administrative services to micro and self-employed businesses in Adelaide specialising in services for self-employed psy... Read more

Jan Bell, Bell’s Outsourcing Administration

Jan Bell, Bell’s Outsourcing Administration

Jan Bell is a virtual secretary who does administration and back office work from secretarial to bookkeeping. Read more

Banika Smee, Witjuti
Anish K. Baheti, Concepts Coach
Paul Coelho, Slidemaster – Professional PowerPoint Design
Michael Vincent, Sports Partners
Karen Churchill, The Churchill Consultancy
Bree Cleal, Imageffect
Tony Cosentino, The WordPress Guy
Peter Crocker, Sam Leader, Robert Gerrish - Flying Solo
Tania Shirgwin, BizEez Virtual Solutions
Monika Mundell, Copywriter
Mark Rubiolo, Bubbling With Energy Entertainment
Dane Pymble, Small Business Wizardry
Sean Sherlock, SAmedia Website Solutions
Sarah Jenkins, SignaturePhoto Photography Courses
Maria Pantalone, Infinite Growth
Tom Mewing, Aussie
Emma Wilson, Upclose & Virtual
Jan Freitag, Proxim Group
Rachel Abdy, Pace Administration
Jan Bell, Bell’s Outsourcing Administration
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.Gov | Intellectual property


Patents

A patent is a right granted for any device, substance, method or process, which is new, inventive and useful. Read more

Trade marks

A registered trade mark gives you the exclusive legal right to use, license or sell your goods or services in Australia. Read more

Copyright

Copyright provides legal protection for people who express ideas and information in certain forms. Read more

Confidentiality/Trade secrets

Common law protects you from people stealing your trade secrets, breaching confidentiality agreements and passing off trade marks. Read more

Registered designs

If you are the owner of a product then you can register its design to protect the visual appearance. Read more

Circuit layout rights

Circuit layout rights automatically protect original layout designs for integrated circuits and computer chips. Read more

Plant Breeder's Rights

Plant Breeder's Rights (PBR) are exclusive commercial rights to a registered variety of plant. Read more

International protection

If you export goods or sell goods and services over the internet, you may need to consider international intellectual property (IP) protection. Read more

Intellectual property & taxation

As your intellectual property (IP) represents a collection of assets, there can be tax implications for your business if you intend to sell or licence your IP. Read more

Intellectual property in your state or territory

Useful guides, information and resources on intellectual property in your state or territory. Read more

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