The September 8th Meeting
Agreements

One thing we can all agree on is as inventors our lives are chock full of agreements. Confidentiality Agreements, Non-Disclosure Agreements, Work for Hire Agreements, Licensing Agreements, Manufacturing Agreements, Prenuptial Agreements, the list can go on forever but how much do we know about agreements?

Do you know the parts and pieces of agreements? Do you understand or even read the agreements that you sign? Do you just leave that up to your lawyer or do you just trust the person handing you the agreement? Boy, have I got a deal for you…just kidding.

Robert Drolet  www.rldpatents.com has a unique perspective as an Attorney in that he is also an Professional Engineer as well as a Retired US Navy Nuclear Engineer . All of those fields focus on details and the literal meaning of things but an engineer gets down to the nuts and bolts that make things work. As a Patent Attorney this means he can better understand how your invention works so he can better describe it in the specifications which leads to stronger claims.

Strong Product, Strong Demand

How a Properly Designed Product Can Boost Your Profit Margins.

See The Presentation Here

Most of us have an idea of what our invention should look like and how it will work but truthfully, have no idea of how it is going to be manufactured. I have seen it time and time again, where inventors become adamant about a certain material choice or features that more than quadruples the cost of production placing them outside of a reasonable price point.
In this presentation Werner Blumenthal will walk you through what it takes to get from an initial concept to a viable, scalable and optimized product ready for market.
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
• Business strategies for manufacturing
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.
Armed with the knowledge you will get from this extremely vital presentation, you will be able to see your products in a totally different light. The more you can streamline and develop a product ready for manufacturing the less you will need to pay for redesign.

Speaker For The April 14th Meeting

Meet Mr. Business

Joel Martin Hartstone IS Mr. Business. Just a few years out of Cornell Law School, he became the Chief Investment Counsel for Aetna Life & Casualty, at the time the Nation’s largest diversified financial institution. There, Mr. Hartstone had legal responsibility for the Company’s corporate investments and loan portfolios, including closing all new loans and investments (over $1 billion annually) and managing all troubled assets. He managed a team of 8 corporate finance and investment lawyers and oversaw the work of all outside deal counsel.
From there his career skyrocketed. After six years building a major corporate law firm (now, part of Morgan Lewis), he redirected his career from the practice of law to private investment and merchant banking in 1982. That’s when he co-founded Hartstone & Dickstein Incorporated, which became StoneGate Capital Group in 1996. During that time, Mr. Hartstone has been responsible for engineering billions of dollars of M&A and financing transactions involving hundreds of businesses in numerous industries.
He also held ownership interests in, and directly managed, numerous enterprises. In the media area, as CEO of various private corporations, limited partnerships, and limited liability companies, he managed over 50 radio stations in 20 markets and held ownership interests in over a dozen television stations. He also served as the first President and CEO of Commander Premier Aircraft Corporation.
As the Entrepreneur in Residence at The IP Factory, Inc. (IPF), a non-profit corporation promoted by the State of Connecticut, he engaged and guided student-faculty-technologist teams to originate and explore opportunities to commercialize provided technologies. For promising opportunities, Mr. Hartstone guided the formation of new companies until CEOs or teams were recruited for each venture.
Mr. Hartstone also created a program called the One Day MBA which promises to give students an overview of the basics they need to succeed in business. From that program, Joel will be sharing his module on Marketing. This is not your run of the mill marketing course but an in depth How To presentation, explaining how to pull together all the information needed, analyze it to determine viability and implement the right strategy for success. If anyone knows how to do all this consistently It Is Mr. Business.
So if you don’t come to LIGI Tool & Engineering, Inc. (3220 SW 15th Street Deerfield Beach, FL  33442) on 4/14/18 at 1:00pm and learn all this experienced professional is willing to share, then I don’t want to hear that you don’t know what to do next.
Doors Open at 12:30.
This event is hosted by the Inventors Society of South Florida a 501(C) 3 non-profit organization. For more information go to www.inventors-society.net or call 561-676-5677.