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Inventors Alliance (Bay Area Chapter)

Inventors Alliance (Bay Area Chapter) Saturday, August 13th 2005 Meeting)
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Two HUGE Speakers Will Speak at
Inventors Alliance
 On Saturday, August 13th
In Santa Clara,CA!



Date:Saturday, August 13th, 2005
Location: The Plaza Suites
Cost: $15 meeting fee must be paid in advance on-line here
No membership fees
Absolutely no door registration.

Dave Small
Over $1 Billion in sales. Over 100 licensed products. David Small knows how to bring ideas to market!

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Read Write-Up
Days Agenda

David Pressman
Best Selling author and champion for the independent Inventor
"How To Patent It Yourself Without An Attorney"
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Read Write-Up
Days Agenda

Stephen Key
Has Successfully Licensed Over 20 Products
Lecture: Get your ideas into some of the BIGGEST  corporations in the world.
Learn How!
 www.inventRight.com










SOLD OUT!! SOLD OUT!! SOLD OUT!!
Absolutely no door registration.

Please register early for Inventors Alliance main events, they tend to fill up fast.

Inventors Alliance Full Day Event

Don’t miss this unique triple header!

Three dynamic speakers you won’t want to miss.

Speaker: David Small
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Over $1 Billion in sales. Over 100 licensed products. David Small knows how to bring ideas to market!

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Learn how he licensed ideas to mega giants such as Fisher-Price, Mattel, Hasbro, Kinex, Wham-o and others.

STM was founded in 1991 by Paul Rago as a product development and inventing company.  David Small joined STM in late 1991, which put back together the product development team that developed the consumer mega-hits Teddy Ruxpin and Lazer Tag.  As principals of STM, David and Paul have developed and licensed over 100 product lines into the marketplace accounting for roughly $1 billion in sales volume.

David’s 26 year career has taken him from numerous engineering positions in product engineering and manufacturing engineering through Executive level engineering management.

David’s last corporate position was that of Sr. VP R&D at Lewis Galoob Toys where he managed the Worldwide R&D operations.  In 1985 he was a founding member of Worlds of Wonder where he held the position of Executive VP Engineering. Mid level management positions were held as Director of Engineering at Molecular Computer and various management positions at Atari Corporation.  His direct engineering experience in operations and R&D were at Atari, Cordis-Dow Medical and Measurex.

David obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering Technology from DeVry Institute of Technology. 

Here are just a few of the products STM has licensed.

  • Power Touch Books™ - Fisher-Price (Nominated for Toy of the Year 2003)
  • Power Touch Baby™ - Fisher-Price (Nominated for Toy of the Year 2004)
  • Peek-A-Blocks™ - Fisher-Price (Incredibock Won Toy of the Year 2004)
  • Interac TV - Fisher-Price (Nominated for Toy of the Year 2004)
  • Lazer Tag™ - Hasbro (Nominated for Toy of the Year 2004)
  • Eye Link Communicator™ - Wild Planet (Nominated for Toy of the Year 2003)
  • Big Air Ball Tower™ - K’nex (Nominated for Toy of the Year 2004)
  • ICEE Maker™ - SpinMaster
  • Baskin Robbins Ice Cream Maker™ - Wham-o
  • Splash Pass™ - Wham-o
  • 2 in 1 Jump Stick™ - Kid-Riffic
  • 2 in 1 Jump Rope™ - Kid-Riffic
  • SkimmBall™ - Big Time Toys
  • Top Shots™ - Kid Galaxy
  • Power Echo™ - SRM Entertainment
  • Echo Machine™ - SRM Entertainment
  • Fashion Flix™ - IrwinToy
  • Kool-Aid Freeze factory - Wham-o
  • Lazer Tag IRT-2X - Hasbro
  • Lazer Tag Master Blaster – Hasbro
  • Roll Arounds – Fisher-Price
  • Power Touch (New Titles) - Fisher-Price
  • Power Touch Baby (New Titles) - Fisher-Price
  • Interac TV (New Titles) - Fisher-Price
  • Peek A Blocks – Fisher-Price
  • Slupree Maker - SpinMaster
  • Bouncing Babies - New Adventures
  • Kerri-Oke - New Adventures
  • Surf Controller - Summit Toys
  • Hide n Sneek - Summit Toys
  • Hot Sync - Summit Toys
  • Digi Keeper - Binney & Smith

STM has signed license agreements for 14 New Product lines to be introduced in 2006.  These new product lines do not include product extensions to the ’05 line.

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Speaker: David Pressman
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Best Selling author an champion for the independent Inventor

Will show you. . .
"How To Patent It Yourself Without An Attorney"

David Pressman is a practicing intellectual property (patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, etc.) attorney. He is additionally the author of the best-selling guidebook, Patent It Yourself, published by Nolo Press (Berkeley, CA), and co-author of the accompanying books, Patent Pending In 24 Hours, Nolo’s Patents For Beginners, How To Make Patent Drawings Yourself, and The Inventor’s Notebook..


Patent It Yourself has sold over 250,000 copies in 11 editions and is recommended by Money Magazine. The Denver Post called it “an inventor’s bible”, Library JournalThe Second Whole Earth Catalog said, “other patent books seem like mere abstracts compared to this detailed gem of a book”. Formerly an electronic engineer, David Pressman has over 40 years experience in the patent profession, as a patent examiner, a corporate and independent intellectual property attorney, a columnist for EDN Magazine and Entrepreneur.com, and a patent law instructor at San Francisco State University. He is author of the Patent and Trademark entries in The World Book Encyclopedia. He has a B.S. in Electronic Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University and a J.D. from The George Washington University where he was on the Law Review. 

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Speaker: Stephen Key

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Lecture: Get your ideas into some of the BIGGEST corporations in the world. Learn How!

Learn how to make those calls to sell your ideas.

Successful Product Developer Stephen Key with talk about the thing Inventors dread the most (Cold Calling). It’s actually easier than you think.

Stephen is a master at cold calling. Even better, he is a master at cold calling to sell invention ideas. That's kind of experience is really hard to come by and it's even harder to find someone as successful as Stephen that wants to give back through teaching others.

Learn Important tips for calling potential licensees. Find out what to say and who to call and why we all hate cold calling at this months meeting.

 

Here are a few examples of Stephen's Successful Ideas:

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My Michael Jordan Wall Ball sold for over 10 years, with over 1 Million pieces the first year. All this with No Patent Protection.









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My Rotating Label was on every bottle of Rexall Sundown Herbals in Wal-Mart Nationwide. The spokesman was Alex Trebek. I have over 10 patents on this product and the manufacturer paid for every one. I have sold over 300 million labels, worldwide.



Image of Disney Canteen ProductMy Carousel Cups & Canteens sold in every Disney Theme Park and Store Worldwide. I didn’t have Patent protection on this idea.



 
For more information about Stephen visit his "about us" page at
http://www.inventright.com/Stephen/stephen.mgi

Listen to some audio of Stephen on his web site
 http://www.inventright.com/Free/free.mgi

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Date:Saturday, August 13th, 2005
Cost: $15 meeting fee must be paid in advance on-line here There are no membership fees.
  • Agenda & Time
  • Check In & Networking:9:15-9:45am (30 Min.)
    PLEASE SHOW UP EARLY WITH YOUR PAYPAL RECIEPT
  • Andrew Krauss Welcome:9:45-9:55am (10 min.)
  • David Pressman Speaker: 9:55-10:40am(45 min.)
    Best Selling Author and champion for the independent Inventor.
    Will show you how to. . .
    "How To Patent It Yourself Without An Attorney"
  • Dave Small  Speaker: 10:40-11:40am(1 hour)
    Over $1 Billion in sales. Over 100 licensed products. David Small knows how to bring ideas to market!
  • Networking Break: 11:40am - 12:00 noon(20 Min.)
  • Dave Small  Speaker: 12:00 - 12:15pm(15 Min.)
    Q&A
  • Lunch Break: 12:15pm - 1:15pm (1 hour)
    Attendees can get lunch at the hotel bar located right outside the meeting room.
    You can view the Saturday Menu here
  • Stephen Key Speaker:  1:15-2:15pm(1 hour)
    Get  to get your ideas into some of the BIGGEST  corporations in the world. Learn How!
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  • IA (Bay Area Chapter) Meeting Directions
  • Our new location as of July, 2005 will be at "The Plaza Suites" hotel in Santa Clara. The facility is really nice and located right off the freeway. It's an easy drive from San Francisco, The Peninsula, South Bay and East Bay. Plus, there is no traffic on Saturday mornings!
    • WiFi for your laptop
    • Comfortable chairs
    • Nice Atmosphere
    • Resturant, Bar, Poolside Patio Tables
    • Easy to get to location just off freeway
    This new location costs more than a few dollars to rent, however your meetings fee will not be going up due to our sponsor http://www.inventright.com/  paying for the new location.

    We will continue to hold our meeting on the second Saturday of the month.

    Complete Directions To "The Plaza Suites" can be found on their web site.
    http://www.theplazasuites.com/location.htm

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