Next Los Angeles Inventors Main Event

Saturday, October 29th,
Special Saturday Meeting This Month! - Two Speakers

Inventors Alliance Main Event In Los Angeles, CA

THE USPTO
(United States Patent And Trademark Office)
Is Coming To Speak To You
At The Inventors Alliance This Month!

Inventors, entrepreneurs, patent attorneys, licensing attorneys, prototype, manufacturing experts and others involved in the business of ideas are invited to join us for a morning of speakers, networking and education.

About Inventors Alliance
Inventors Alliance is an Inventors Association founded in 1993 solely for educational and networking purposes. The mission of Inventors Alliance is to educate inventors and enable them to sell their ideas. We teach our members about all aspects of the invention process, including marketing, manufacturing, starting your own company, licensing, prototyping, sales and patenting.
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Featured Speaker
John Calvert

Company & Title
United States Patent and Trademark Office
Administrator, Inventor Assistance Program

Topic
What does the recent change in patent law mean to you as an Independent Inventor?

Learn about the America Invents Act from a Patent Office Official!

The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) is a United States federal statute that was passed by Congress and was signed into law by President Barack Obama on September 16, 2011. The law represents the most significant change to the U.S. patent system since 1952.

Hear directly from the patent office as to how the new patent rules will be rolled out and how they will affect you. Learn what you need to know in order to operate under the new system!

John will be speaking directly to you at this special Saturday meeting. And of course he'll do question and answer. So come with your questions. The patent office will be at this meeting to help.

About The Speaker
Since October 1998, John Calvert has been responsible for supervising as many as 21 examiners in the area of textile technology in Art Unit 3765.

Mr. Calvert graduated from North Carolina State University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Textile Technology in May 1971. He worked for Milliken and Co. and J. P. Stevens in various management positions including Division Director of Human Resources Development before returning to N.C. State University to pursue a Master of Science Degree in Textile Management. In February of 1990, John joined the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as an examiner in Group 240 specializing in textile technology.

In February 1995, John became a Primary Examiner. Since then he has worked on detail as a Petitions Examiner. John also was selected for work assignment in the Search and Information Resources Administration where he worked in PALM as liaison between the Office of Patent Legal Administration and SIRA instituting changes reflective of changes in patent rules and formulating changes in the manner in which OIPE communicates with the customer.

He also served as Sr. Project Manager for the Office of Electronic Patent Application Processing dealing with changes in the patent application format bringing a standard application format into compliance with US practice, the Patent Law Treaty and PCT.

As the former Acting Director for the Office of Independent Inventor Programs, John Calvert remains actively involved with the ongoing campaign to educate inventors about invention promotion firms and will continue to expand the outreach initiative to the inventor community.

Mr. Calvert has received numerous achievement awards, including the Department of Commerce Bronze Medal for superior Federal service and the United States Patent and Trademark Office Exceptional Career Award. Mr. Calvert completed studies in the Syracuse University, Maxwell School certificates program of Advanced Public Management and completed the Executive Development Seminar sponsored by the Office of Personnel Management.

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Featured Speaker
Andrew Krauss

Companies & Titles
Inventors Alliance President
inventRight Co-Founder
Open Gate Licensing, LLC Director Of Licensing

Topic
Licensing Your Ideas For Royalties - A Step-By-Step "How To" Guide

Andrew Krauss is a licensing expert. He has been coaching inventors and small companies full time for the last ten years and has been in the business of inventions for the past thirteen years.

Licensing Your Ideas For Royalties - A Step-By-Step "How To" Guide

Evaluating Your Ideas
How To Make Your List Of Companies To Call
Who To Call Inside Companies
How To Protect Yourself
How To Present Your Ideas
How To Move A Deal Forward
Closing The Deal & Getting Companies To Pay For Your Patents

About The Speaker
Andrew has been commited to Inventors Alliance for the past 13 years to keep the organization running and find the best speakers possible to help educate the members.

He has also been teaching and coaching inventors for over 10 years through his business inventRight.

Andrew has been featured on NPR (National Public Radio) Science Friday and was asked by the Obama transition team to advise them on potential changes that should be made at the US Patent & Trademark Office to better serve independent inventors.

Andrew is a full time Inventor Educator and coach. He truely enjoys new products and helping inventors bring them to market.

Register To Attend This Event
Membership is optional

$15 - special promotional rate (no membership required)
- Since this is only our third meeting in LA and many LA Inventors don’t know us yet, we are offering a reduced door fee for non-members, so you can check out the meeting without having to join as a member.
- If you do decide to join as a member, the cost is only $13.33 a month ($40) for a three month unlimited access membership to all events as long as your membership is active. The regular one time meeting fee is $30, however we will not be charging this fee for this meeting. The one time meeting fee for this event is only $15.
HOW TO REGISTER
- Register early and online to guarantee your seat.
- Use this link to pay for the Wednesday, October 29th Los Angeles Main Event http://www.InventorsAlliance.org/paymentla.html

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DATE:
Saturday, October 29th, 2011

TIME & Agenda:
9:15 am - 9:45 am - Check In And Networking

9:45 am - 11:30 am - John Calvert's Lecture with Question and Answer
11:30 am - 12:15 pm - Andrew Krauss' Lecture with Question and Answer

12:15 pm - 12:45 pm - Networking

LOCATION:
NEW MEETING LOCATION -
Our new location is just off the freeway. It's a business address, however it is located in a residental area so don't be surprised by the residental location. We can hold up to 150 people at this new location and will not be surprised if that many people attend, since the Patent Office is coming out for this one!

ADDRESS -
19237 Charles St., Tarzana 91356

GOOGLE MAP

PARKING - There is plenty of free street parking available on both sides of the closest cross street, Vanalden Ave. Vanalden is the street you will be on just before you would turn onto Charles St.. Avoid parking on Charles Street given that it is a very narrow street. Please park on Vanalden instead.

Andrew Krauss
Inventors Alliance President

Inventors Alliance
Educating People With Ideas Since 1993