Judy Blair

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This is one of those inventions that once you see it in use you just know it is the perfect answer to the problem it solves. What you don’t know is how brilliant the inventor is but you are going to learn about that right now.

Judy Blair knew absolutely nothing about inventing when her daughter asked her to sit behind her when she was on the toilet. Her daughter, as are many children, was deathly afraid of falling in. That’s when Judy came up with her invention. She built a prototype that Worked! And she was on her way.

Unlike most inventors, she realized that this is a complicated industry and that she needed to learn a lot more about it before she started making mistakes.

Stephen Key’s videos became her university and she is one of the most knowledgeable inventors that I have ever met. Right from the prototype through the patents to production and sales, she did it all.

Many of you might have seen her on Shark Tank but she was in full production well before that.

To learn more about her product, The Super Potty Trainer, go to her website https://superpottytrainer.com/ .

Not only will she be telling us her story, but she will be instructing us on how to go from idea to manufacturing and sales.

  

Randy Landreneau and Paul Morinville

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2 Inventor Heros

On September 16, 2011 President Obama signed into law the America Invents Act (AIA) which literally destroyed the patent system that made our country a world economic leader by taking away an inventors right to exclude others from making or using their claimed invention. It also took away our right to sue an infringer and turned the PTAB from an inexpensive way to sue an infringer to a way to invalidate patents.

Most people don’t even know that this happened let alone realize the extended implications. Take away the incentive to invent and no new products appear in the marketplace. Factories begin to shut down, truckers are no longer needed, stores start to close.

Paul Morinville, in 2013, founded US Inventor https://usinventor.org/ , an organization dedicated to restoring our rights as inventors. He wrote articles and walked the halls of congress telling anyone who would listen about this disastrous situation.

Randy Landreneau joined Paul in 2014 and later took over running the organization in 2018. They are back together and working even harder to restore our rights.

No one knows more about pending legislation both good and bad, the positive and negative members of congress, then these gentlemen. They are going to bring us up to speed regarding all of these important issues and most importantly, what WE can do about them.

If you don’t believe how horrendous this situation is, go on their website https://usinventor.org/ , click on About and select inventors from the drop-down menu. There are dozens of horrific videos of truly successful inventors whose careers were destroyed by the AIA. This could happen to YOU!

Don’t let the AIA destroy your dreams. Register right now and then attend this life changing FREE webinar on 3/9/24 at 1:00 PM Eastern to learn what you can do from these 2 Heros.

No recording will be made, and you MUST register to attend, then follow the instructions in the email from Zoom.

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For more information go to our website www.inventors-society.net or call 561-676-5677

   

      

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Rita Crompton

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Trade Show Know How

Rita Crompton (AKA The Inventor Lady) https://www.inventorlady.com/ was almost synonymous with the National Hardware Show. Every year she had a large booth right at the entrance to the show where she promoted independent inventor’s projects. Industry leaders always stopped in to see what she had this time. A number of contacts were made and, from what I understand, some deals were actually made right at the show. Why, you ask?

Unlike a number of inventors that I’ve seen at the show, working on their cell phones or laptops, she makes her participants Work The Show and nobody knows how to work a show like Rita.

Unfortunately, due to certain circumstances which she may or may not share, Rita will not have her usual booth at the National Hardware Show this year.

However, she will be featuring independent inventors at a Bigger and Better show.

The ASD Market Week https://asdonline.com/ is considered the premier B2B show for consumer products. So you get all the big buyers as well as some smaller ones but NO service providers trying to pressure you into using their companies. I checked it out and this looks Great!

Tradeshows are invaluable to an inventor but you need to know how to work one. Rita will be sharing the knowledge she has gained over all the years she has been doing them which I am really looking forward to hearing. This is something that you really need to know or you will be wasting your time and money at your next show.

   

  

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Dan Gudema

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Creating a compelling pitch is probably the single most important element towards the success of any venture. In the pitch, you entice the listener to join you on your journey. It doesn’t matter if you are pitching to a potential investor, a potential licensee, a retailer, or future consumer, if you don’t hold their interest, you’re dead in the water.

Dan Gudema is an expert on the subject. Not only has he created and secured funding for several successful high-tech startups, including a famous dating site, he founded StartupPOP www.startuppop.com  which is an incredible resource for inventors and entrepreneurs. They hold events where up to 10 people get to give a 3-minute pitch to a panel of experts and investors in order to get funding or valuable advice to make their offering more enticing the next time.

I have seen investors that I know in the audience and personally overheard a deal being made.

He is also a prolific author covering a number of business matters. His latest effort is a complete aside called “The Art Of Speed Dating.” You can check out his Amazon site here https://bit.ly/3SmFKdG .

Of course, Covid shut down his pitch events which I am happy to tell you are now back up and running with a new twist. They have added a preshow dating event, What A Concept!

Learning how to give a compelling pitch is a crucial element in the road to success and everybody I know wants to be a success.

   

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Edith Tolchin

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Secrets of Successful Women Inventors

Edith G. Tolchin knows inventors! Edie has interviewed over 100 inventors for her longtime column in Inventors Digest (www.edietolchin.com/portfolio). In addition, she has owned EGT Global Trading since 1997, which links inventors with China factories, providing an exclusive importing service for product sourcing, quality control, production testing, government safety issues, manufacturing, assistance with shipping and customs clearance, and dock-to-door delivery for inventions of textiles and sewn items. She has held a prestigious U.S. customs broker license since 2002.

Ms. Tolchin has written several non-fiction books about inventing, including “Secrets of Successful Inventing: From Concept to Commerce” (Square One Publishers, 2015), and fiction, including “Fanny on Fire” (www.fannyonfire.com), a recent finalist in the Foreword Reviews INDIES Book Awards. She won publication in the Kelsey Review for fiction in 2020. She’s also written book reviews for the New York Journal of Books

since 2018.

Edith G. Tolchin is currently the owner of The Opinionated

Editor www.opinionatededitor.com/testimonials.

She has really out done herself with her new book “Secrets Of Successful Women Inventors”. It is broken down into two parts. The first part is titled, “Personal Stories from Successful Women Inventors”. You’ll recognize some names like Judy Edwards from Squatty Potty and Meghan Wolfgram the inventor of SwiftPaws because we had them as speakers. However, here each writes their own story giving you a more personal behind-the-scenes glimpse of their struggles.

Part two is, “What You Need To Know-Advice and Resources”. Once again I’m sure some of you will recognize familiar names like Kedma Ough and Joan Lefkowitz. The amount of knowledge they impart is priceless.

All in all, I found this book unbelievably interesting and I believe we will all find the presentation based on it fascinating. I did have one concern when Edith told me about the presentation, “how in the world are you going to fit it all in a single webinar?” but then I realized that if anyone could do it, it would be my old friend Edie.

Be sure to register and attend this incredible webinar on 11/11/23 at 1:00 pm Eastern to lean the Secrets of Successful Women Inventors. Men will learn a lot Too!

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Adam W. Bell

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Trademarks have always been a valuable part of an Intelectual Property Portfolio but even more so now in light of the America Invents Act (AIA) which removed the property rights of inventors. We have seen infringers brought to justice using Trademarks and Copyrights.

Adam W. Bell is a Patent Attorney with over 20 years of law-firm and in-house experiance. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Oxford, a J.D. from the University of California College of the Law (formerly UC Hastings). On top of all of that, He is a direct decendent of Alexander Graham and Maybel Bell. So I guess you can say, he is in the family business.

His website https://www.bell-iplaw.com/ is a treasure trove for Independent Inventors with all sorts of information and programs that help save you money. His latest venture is Trademark-Quick https://trademark-quick.com/ which is a very affordable system to get a strong Trademark.

As you can see, Adam believes in educating his potential clients so they understand the quality of the work his professionals do for them. To that end, his presentation, “11 Big Mistakes To Avoid During The Trademark Process” will teach us how to Own Your Mark.

We all want to move ahead with the confidence of knowing the pitfalls to avoid. Learn from an expert by attending this FREE webinar on 10/14/23 at 1:00 PM Eastern presented by Adam w. Bell BSc, PhD, JD.

No recording will be made, and you Must register to attend, then follow the directions in the email from zoom.   

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Amy Jo Brogan

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The Accidental Inventor

Amy Jo Brogan is an extraordinarily driven personality. She began a career in the entertainment industry taking on acting and modeling jobs at 13 years old. By age 15, she earned her Screen Actors Guild card (SAG) and by 16, graduated early so she could work as an adult on the set. All in all, she learned how business is conducted and probably knew more about contract law then most attorneys.

As with many inventors, her venture into this field began with her own personal frustration. Her primary career kept her very active, running here and there, always with her messy coffee cup by her side. She finally got fed up with coffee all over her outfits and truck that she came up with a spill- resistant travel lid for hot and cold beverages.

Unlike most inventors, she did not go naively into this world of thieves. She began to research the field and the fruit of that research is the bases for her presentation as well as her New career as an inventor mentor.

She jokes that she began her journey into inventing by accident but it is by no means an accident that she became the success that she is today.

   

           

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Werner Blumenthal

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How To Make It REAL

Once you have validated that your product has a market, in almost all cases, the next step is to make it REAL or in other words, build a prototype. Now you have a physical representation to show potential customers, retailers, and licensees.

Werner Blumenthal is the perfect person to walk us through this process. He is an actual engineer as opposed to a product designer, who works mostly on how things look. He gets more into the nuts and bolts of how things work. Werner also focuses on design for manufacturing which can save you thousands of dollars during the manufacturing process.

Learn what you should focus on and how seemingly small details can really affect not only product performance … but more importantly, your bottom line. Launching a product from scratch requires the coordination of a lot of moving parts. Before embarking on this journey, learn to think, create and eventually succeed by stacking the odds in your favor. This seminar will summarize the process from design to product fabrication covering such topics as:

  • Idea Workshop
  • Traditional Product Development
  • Conceptual Design vs. Engineering Design
  • Test and Validation of Design, Digitally
  • Design optimization
  • Right down to printing the actual prototype

Mr. Blumenthal is the Founder and CEO of WB Engineering http://wb-3d.com and has been heavily involved in the 3D Printing industry since 2007when he became Florida’s first 3D Systems’ authorized reseller. Werner has experience in design and prototyping of medical devices, consumer products  and aerospace, with clients including Magic Leap, Stryker, Vivex and Boston Science.

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Marcy McKenna Product Validation

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Product Validation

This IS the most important step to bringing a successful product to market that almost every independent inventor never does. Fortunately, I am not part of that group. I have a whole shelf in my garage filled with so, so prototypes and file draws full of research. That doesn’t mean that  I’ve given up on these projects. I get excited when I think of an improvement. There is nobody more qualified to speak about this subject then this month’s speaker.

Marcy McKenna is an award winning inventor and entrepreneur having successfully design, developed, marketed, and launched over 40 of her own products via home shopping (QVC & HSN), ecommerce and in just about every big box store that you can name. 

The combination of Marcy’s depth of product development experiance and breadth of knowledge in the consumer product marketing space has uniquely positioned her as a highly sought after consultant and brand strategist for consumer product that span multiple categories in home shopping, ecommerce, and traditional retail. 

Like many successful inventors, Marcy finds passion in helping her fellow inventors find success in bringing their product ideas to life. To that end, she founded and runs the Woman Inventors Club of America and does speaking engagements all over the country. Over the years, she’s also become known for her helpful inventor and entrepreneur related video content that can be found on her You Tune channel https://bit.ly/3I8KaiH and on her other social media platform https://bit.ly/3piJ2lE .

In 2023, Marcy embarked on an exciting new venture with the Live Shopping platform Market.live, where she is now hosting a weekly Live Series called “InventHer Live!” that helps build awareness for the independent inventor community, while also helping inventors gain meaningful exposure for their product via Live Shopping.

Her website www.marcymckenna.com is a treasure trove of interesting information. Click on the Inventor tab to get access to 3 Great articles but don’t do what I did. I planned to check it out and return later for an in depth read. It wouldn’t let me back on. So when you go, have the time to read them, print them out or download them. 

           

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The Dynamic Duo Nicholas Blanton and Christopher Lackert

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This month we have, not one, but two speakers giving a presentation on Intellectual Property (IP) from the prestigious firm Wasserbauer Intellectual Property Law. The list of their accomplishments are way too long to provide here but can be seen on the company website: https://wasserbauerlaw.com .

Their firm provides practical, business-oriented advice to assist clients and emerging companies in developing and implementing strategies to acquire, develop, protect, enforce and commercialize intellectual property and technology on a worldwide basis.

They have a repeatable and structured way to support and foster the commercialization of early-stage technologies in multiple market sectors. Their team has the expertise required to drive your IP strategy in the preparation of patent and trademark filings, funding, transactions and advice in the U.S. and internationally.

First, Nicholas Blanton, who is based in the Miami area, began his career as a mechanical engineer working on prestigious installations such as the U.S. Embassy in London and an expansion of the Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. He is now a licensed patent attorney who has experiance in handling a broad range of technical fields.

His presentation will include the right time to prepare and file a patent application, evaluating a patent search, types of patent applications, application drafting for inventors – what you need to know, and pro se versus working with an attorney.

Next, Christopher Lackert, is an Intellectual Property (IP) Attorney with extensive experience in every aspect of IP both internationally and in the U.S. His focus will be on Trademarks and Copyrights, which have become extremely relevant due to the loss of inventor rights regarding the America Invents Act (AIA).

His topics will include the value of trademarks/copyrights for your business, best practices for protecting your trademarks/copyrights, an overview of the trademark/copyright application/registration process, an overview of trademark/copyright maintenance issues, and an overview of trademark/copyright enforcement issues.

The title of their presentation is, “Intellectual Property Tips & Hacks For Individuals And Small Business With Nick & Chris” and I think that says it all. In these challenging times for Independent Inventors, we need all the tools we can get, just to get by.

 

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