============== (Educating Inventors Since 1993) ==============

Saturday, May 30th (The week after memorial day weekend) - Two Great Speakers And Networking

Manufacturing Expert - Ashton Udall

Learn how to manufacture your product overseas from a specialist in sourcing manufactures, product development, quality control and customs. Ashton Udall, from Global Sourcing Specialist will show you how!

Patent Attorney - Sharon Adams

Learn about different types of patents, if a product is patentable or not and how to decide if you should file a patent application. Sharon Adams, a registered patent attorney and specialist in intellectual property matters, will share her knowledge with you and answer your questions!

Saturday May 30th!
The On-line registration deadline for this meeting is 8pm Friday May 29th if you want to save $10!

Registering online saves you the $10 door fee and will guarantee you a seat. If you register at the door, we'll find space for you, however you may need to stand and we won't be able to guarantee you a seat.

Meet This Months Speakers Sharon Adams and Ashton Udall
This months featured speakers Sharon Adams and Ashton Udall will be available and networking with all the attendees during the morning networking session from 9:15 to 9:45 am. Feel free to take advantage of this opportunity and introduce yourself!

Check In
All you need at the door is the name you registered under. If you registered for more than one person, try to arrive and register with that person to simplify check in.

Once you check in, you'll receive your name tag, a networking tag and a piece of paper that you'll place on the seat you'd like to reserve while you head on over to the lounge for networking. After the networking is over you'll return to the seminar room and the sit in the seat you reserved.

9:15am to 9:45am - Check In

9:15am to 9:45am - Networking with Speakers, Attendees And Vendors In the Lounge

9:45am to 10:30am - Patent Attorney Sharon Adams

Sharon Adams is a registered patent attorney in private practice in Berkeley, CA. She specializes in advising small businesses in intellectual property matters, including patents, trademarks and licensing.

Sharon will cover the following topics at this meeting:

Different types of patents you can use to protect your ideas.
Overview of what is required for something to be patentable. Use this new knowledge to evaluate the patentability of each of your ideas.
How to decide if you should file a patent application or not and if you do file, which patent application you should file for.

10:30am to 12:00pm - Product Development and Sourcing Specialist Ashton Udall

Learn how to manufacture your product overseas from a specialist in sourcing manufactures, product development, quality control and customs. Ashton Udall, from Global Sourcing Specialist, will show you how!

In this meeting, Ashton will discuss the following topics:

- Sourcing Manufactures

Locating vendors

Your design specification package

Factory audits

- Manufacturer and Product Development

Stages and concepts

Getting to quality

- Manufacturing and Quality Control

Basics of manufacturing

The quality inspection

- Shipping and Customs:

Freight forwarding and customs clearance

Testing and agency approvals

- Elements of Success:

Risk vs. reward

Total cost of ownership

Tradeoffs

Incentivizing for success

Time investment

Intellectual property

Getting started

- Assessing Business Opportunities

Start-up costs

Channel marketing

The financial opportunity

Defining and creating progress

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Ashton Udall is a partner at "Global Sourcing Specialists",
a firm that provides trade and outsourcing management to
inventors, start-ups, and small businesses.

Ashton Udall is a product development and sourcing specialist.
He has assisted businesses, startups, and inventors in the
development and sourcing of their products in Asia, and has
worked closely with engineering and sourcing teams in China.

Mr. Udall brings experience from the international trade policy
level. At the East-West Center, a highly regarded policy think
tank in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he worked with international teams
of government officials and trade policy researchers on various
trade projects concerning the Asia-Pacific region. His work focused
on foreign direct investment in Asia and a United States Trade
Representative sponsored study regarding the development of a
US-ASIAN Free Trade Agreement.

Mr. Udall is an alumni of the East-West Center’s Asia-Pacific
Leadership Program as well as the US-Indo Society. Mr. Udall is
a published psychology author, has a BA in Psychology from the
University of California, Santa Barbara, an MA in Asian Studies
from the University of Hawaii, and is completing his MBA at the
University of Santa Clara. He also speaks Indonesian.

12:00pm - 12:15pm - Q&A with Inventors Alliance president Andrew Krauss - Ask any inventing question and get an answer from Inventors Alliance president Andrew Krauss and you're fellow inventor attendees

12:15pm - 12:45pm -Networking with Speakers, Attendees And Vendors In The Seminar Room

12:45pm - Adjourn

Register in advance and save $10!

Attend In Person, Menlo Park, CA May 30th $15 Members, $25 Non-Members
You can register at the door with cash or credit card, however there will be an additional $10 door fee. Register on-line by 8pm on Friday May 29th and save the $10 door fee.

Membership $60

Can't Attend? Buy the video and we'll email you the link to download it.
Buy The Video

Register in advance and save $10! You can register at the door, but the price is $10 more for all tickets bought at the door.

This event will not be streamed live over the internet like many of our other events. However the video is available for purchase.

LOCATION:
Menlo Park, California
Tech Shop, which is located at 120 Independence Dr, Menlo Park, CA 94025 Google Map

Don't live near us? No worries. Buy the video!

TIME:
See agenda above

Inventors Alliance Platinum Sponsors

IdeaTango.com is a website that connects inventors with information and resources to help them be more successful. Inventors can learn about every stage of inventing through multimedia education, find & rate service providers in the business directory, display inventions in the virtual trade show, and win prizes in invention contests. They currently offer a free and premium memberships depending on the your needs. Go to www.ideatango.com for more information.
IdeaTango.com

product design | CAD modeling | CAD rendering
product research | competitive analysis | market analysis
www.io-id.com

inventRight
inventRight is ten step system anyone can use to sell their ideas. The system is based on successful
inventor Stephen Key experience in licensing over 20 products in many different industries.

Everything inventRight teaches is based on what he does every day to sell his ideas over and over again.

inventRight also offers an informative radio show for inventors, a free forum and advice three times a week on it's AllBusiness.com blog.
inventRight.com

- - - - - - - - - - - -