US PATENT & TRADEMARK OFFICE Special Independent inventor's pages  PTO Independent Inventors

U.S. Department of Energy Possible funding for your energy related invention  D.O.E.

Ginger A Revolutionary Invention a web site dedicated to Ginger?  GINGER

View the Ginger Patent   PATENT  

Learn how things work   How Stuff Works

Information about some IANE meetings you may have missed:

IANE meeting report (Jan. 14, 2002) about toys & games  toys & games

IANE meeting report (Nov. 14, 2005 and Jan. 8, 2001) "How to Turn Your Idea Into an Invention and Patent It!"   Idea into a Patent

Patent Information of Interest  PATENT PLACE

A very nice, highly informative patent based web site by entrepreneur, inventor, good guy Andy Gibbs  Patent Cafe

Good Information about patents    PATENTS ET AL   

 Inventor's Digest Magazine is a great publication for Inventors   Inventors' Digest

Wide range of drawing & design services for inventors and entrepreneurs available from  Holt Drawing & Design

Product and Business Development Services    ENBEDE    

Product and Business Development Services   Focusing on marketability and realistic expectations based on solid research, Principal, David Allen invented and successfully markets the "Helper's Handle Push Bar".   Cogent Products

Plastic Prototyping; Injection Molding; Tooling; Production; Provide Sketch or Drawing for FREE estimate; Providing Quality Plastics Manufacturing since 1946.  Ross Enterprises P.O. Box 67; 78 Bedford Street, Burlington, MA  01803.  To see your invention "come to life" Call Herb Brown President  for all your plastics needs. Phone(s): 781-272-0175 or 1-800-IDEAS-06  FAX: 781-272-0175; E Mail: hbrown40@webtv.net.

David Cormier and Karyl Lynch of Pelham West Associates, who as product scouts bring products to market under licensing arrangements and as consultants help determine the best commercialization opportunities for products.  See www.pelhamwest.com for an overview.  (September 13, 2004:  Speakers)

The "BIG IDEA GROUP (BIG) " conducts IDEA HUNTS for companies seeking new inventions to be put into the marketplace.  Michael Collins is the founder and CEO of Big Idea Group (BIG), an invention development agency. BIG conducts nationwide Roadshows, where inventors confidentially present ideas to a panel of industry experts, and Idea Hunts, where client companies solicit BIG’s inventor network for ideas relating to market opportunities. Since its inception in 2000, Big Idea stated that they have developed or licensed over 30 ideas, working with such companies as Target, Toys “R” Us, Avon, Hasbro, QVC, Basic Fun, Skil-Bosch, Binney & Smith, Dremel and Staples, among others.  BIG is headquarted in Manchester, New Hampshire.   BIG IDEA GROUP  (September 8, 2003: Speaker)

Gus Bigos of Evergreen IP  www.evergreenip.com  spoke on Commercializing Your Invention,  including trends in open innovation at consumer product companies, key attributes of successful new products, pros and cons of various routes to commercialization, including (but not only) a discussion of the approach at Evergreen IP.  Note that some inventions of IANE member Nancy Kerrigan are being developed by Evergreen IP.  (May 15, 2006: Speaker)