AGENDA

9:45 am - 10:30 am - Andrew Krauss - Getting into companies to license your products (sell your ideas for royalties).
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From Start-up to Billion Dollar Online Marketplace: Insights from Alibaba.com

Founded in 1999 in Hangzhou, China, Alibaba.com makes it easy for millions of buyers and suppliers around the world to do business online through three marketplaces: a global trade platform (www.alibaba.com) for importers and exporters; a Chinese platform (www.1688.com) for domestic trade in China; and, through an associated company, a Japanese platform (www.alibaba.co.jp) facilitating trade to and from Japan.

In addition, Alibaba.com offers a transaction-based wholesale platform on the global site (www.aliexpress.com) geared for smaller buyers seeking fast shipment of small quantities of goods. Together, these marketplaces form a community of more than 61 million registered users in more than 240 countries and regions.

As an Inventor, you should know about Alibaba and understand the opportunites it presents for manufacturing overseas. Paul will talk about how you can use Alibaba.com to find manufacturers and get your new product ideas made.

Paul's Bio:
Fu has worked for more than 13 years on user experience, including tenures with Augmentum,e-bay Fatbrain.com, SDRC and Motorola China. At Augmentum, Fu served as user experience director of a team with 70 designers and researchers who served clients like Microsoft, Walmart.com, MGM Grand Macau, NYSE, DHgate and Paipai. Before Augmentum, Fu worked at e-Bay for 7 years as manager and user experience lead. His work at e-Bay touched many areas on the site, including search, checkout, PayPal integration, selling tools, e-Bay Motors, ProStores, Trust & Safety, and disruptive innovation. He has a Ph.D from Purdue in human factors & ergonomics, and a Masters degree in artificial intelligence & robotics from Tianjin University. He is also a co-author of an early user experience book in Chinese, “Human Computer Interaction – User Centered Design and Evaluation”.

"How To Get In"

Getting into companies to license your products (sell your ideas for royalties) is really not that hard, however many people seem to think it is.

Andrew will show you how to "GET IN" and help you avoid making the common mistakes many Inventors make when doing so.

Learn......

• How to make your list of the right companies for your idea
• Who to call
• How to call and what to say
• How to present your idea
• How to get around gatekeepers
• How to deal with black hole submission pages on some companies sites
• and much more....

About Andrew Krauss

Andrew Krauss has been educating inventors for over 13 years as the President of Inventors Alliance in the San Francisco/Silicon Valley Bay Area. He has had countless successful inventors and other experts lecture month after month at Inventors Alliance events.

Andrew also co-founded inventRight nine years ago to teach people how to license their new product ideas. His unique teaching style and patience with Inventors is remarkable. He coaches his students step-by-step through the entire licensing process. Andrew now works with Inventor students in thirty countries around the world.

Andrew Krauss has been featured on NPR (National Public Radio) Science Friday, along with many other media outlets. In addition, he was asked by the Obama transition team in 2008 to advise them on potential changes that should be made at the US Patent & Trademark Office to better serve independent Inventors.

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Featured Speaker

Damon Kali, Patent Attorney

Open Question & Answer Session With Patent Attorney Damon Kali

Ask about...

• PPA's (Provisional Patent Applications)
• "How To" Patent Questions
• Patent Costs
• Patent Drawings
• Claims
• Working With A Patent Attorney
• Or Any Other Patent Questions You Have

This is your chance to get up to speed on patents. The more you know, the more money you will save when filing PPA's yourself or working with a Patent Attorney.

About Damon Kali

Mr. Kali specializes in patent prosecution and associated client counseling. His practice emphasizes the preparation and prosecution of patent applications in a wide range of technologies including semiconductor device fabrication, bioinformatics, gene chip technology, computer software, and digital imaging equipment.

Prior to attending law school Mr. Kali worked for Gruntec America where he gained valuable experience in biohazardous waste remediation, which included thermal analysis of incineration devices used in the destruction of heterogeneous waste streams, process control modeling and software implementation for automated incineration devices, and emission control systems to meet EPA and NAFTA requirements for incineration devices both in the United States and Mexico. Mr. Kali also developed a hybrid full stream video system to deliver educational content for SERA Learning Technologies in cooperation with Stanford University, Sun Systems, Chico State University, and California Polytechnic University.

While attending Santa Clara University he was the President of the Intellectual Property Association, a member of Phi Delta Phi Legal Honors Fraternity and a La Raza Mentor. He also completed the High Tech Certificate Program while attending Santa Clara.

Mr. Kali is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and is a member of the California Bar Association.