--> Yeah, I thought of you, dummy,.. you who think there is an "easy way." If you do, then just send me your money; I can use it--if you are about to throw it away anyway?

--> Let me explain: "A fool and his money are soon parted." -- "Be careful reading the fine print. There's no way you're going to like it." --> "Lessons Learned" :(

-- "Has Your "Idea" Already Been Invented?" --

-- "Who Built it First" --

"PIMP MY INVENTION" -- If It Sounds Too Good to Be True...

-- What can you afford to lose? $295 to $795 to start.

-- Too low?

-- That's only the beginning, "Upfront Money." Then send in $1250, make it $1500, no, send in $2500. Up that to
$3500, $5,000, $10,000, $15,000.

-- I knew of one woman who said that she contracted and agreed to pay her "Idea Developer" to bring her "idea" into the marketplace, with a patent within a year.. She agreed to pay them $20,000!! -- "After all," she said, "it takes time and I don't have time, and they said they could do it in a year.."

-- She had already spent four months with them when she came to one of IASL's meetings. They hadn't even told her about any "prior art" that they should have discovered by their research. -- She didn't know what that was? Poor soul. -- She went away that evening believing that we were wrong and that she was right. She never came back. -->

-- -- Thought of the day --

-- “When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it:
admit it, learn from it, and do not repeat it.” ~
-- Paul “Bear” Bryant
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-- "United States Patent and Trademark Office - A Guide to Filing a Design Application" --
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-- --> "Don't Get A Patent? Plainly Ridiculous! | IPWatchdog.com" --

-- No, she wasn't scared or embarrassed about what she was doing. No, she wasn't even convinced when our patent attorney and inventors at the meeting tried to convince her otherwise.. and I surely tried.. But I'm going to try to convince YOU right now, -- even if I have to beat it into your head :-)

http://www.uspto.gov/main/homepagenews/bak2006fapr20.htm

-- "Man sues company over light-up fishing pole" --

-- -- "NCIO Homepage: Scambusters: Invention Scam Companies" --

-- -- Also read: "Non-Disclosure (Confidentiality) Agreements"

-- "Sample Letter of Agreement or Non-Disclosure Agreement" --

-- "Beware Invention.net | IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Patent Law" --

-- A Victory for Inventors -- Disciplinary Action Affirmed by CAFC
-- Recently the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC), affirmed disciplinary action taken by the USPTO against a registered patent attorney, who became involved in the activities of one invention promotion company and represented more than one thousand inventors. This important decision lends critical support to the USPTO's efforts to protect unsuspecting inventors from unscrupulous invention promoters. If you have questions please call Harry Moatz, Director of the Office of Enrollment and Discipline, 571-272-6069. The USPTO urges all independent inventors to read the court's decision [PDF viewer]

-- "PRODUCT COACH:/ Free Inventor's Guide to Invention Submission Companies" --

-- "Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section United States Department of Justice" --

** "Business Owner's Toolkit: Suspect ID Theft? What to Do Next" --

-- "Most computer users can spot phishing messages. Unfortunately, cybercriminals have become more sophisticated, too. Targeted phishing attacks account for 0.4% of spam. That may seem minor, but it's 800 million messages a day."

-- "For example, you receive a message purportedly from your Internet service provider. It greets you by name and says your billing information is outdated. It says you must click a link to update your information. If you comply, your information will be stolen. This is the type of targeted attack you will see more of in 2012." -- Kim Komando

FOR A BAD EXAMPLE: --> "kahnacademy.com" --

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-- "How to report online fraud, scams and theft - Tips, Reviews and Advice on All Things Digital - The Kim Komando Radio Show" --
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“The Ugly Truth about Innovative New Products”

By Perry Marshall

All my life I've been in the business of selling some kind of new idea or new technology to change-resistant, conservative markets. The proverbial "better mousetrap."

If you've ever done that, you know that the world does NOT beat a path to your door. It's hard work. And I've learned that there's a right way to do it, and a whole bunch of wrong ways.

Today I'm going to give you some bad news – and some good news.

First the bad news:

When I was 9 years old, I learned about Thomas Edison, and I wanted to be an inventor. And by the time I was in college, I actually had some patentable designs. My wife sent in for information from one of those "invention submission" companies.

Have you ever seen those?

Well, to make a long story short, there is a myth that there are companies out there who are hungry for great ideas and will pay you royalties if you give them one.

That is totally untrue. As a matter of fact, some of the large toy manufacturers hire 3rd party companies to sort through their mail and shred product idea submissions, just to be sure that that nobody can ever say they sent in an idea that was used.

The bad news:

Ideas are a dime a dozen. Good ideas are a dollar a dozen. Great ideas are a dollar each. Even if you have truly great ideas, it's not possible to make a living, or build any kind of business, on ideas alone.

The good news:

Well-executed, successfully MARKETED ideas are worth millions. Three years ago I worked at a company where we took an existing product (a very specialized product for computer networking), and built a market for it.

Then we re-invented that product and introduced a new kind of IC chip. We proved that there was an even bigger market for this chip.

We sold that company to a larger NASDAQ company for $18 million in cash and stock.

If you have new ideas, new technology, or any kind of innovative product or service, in order to sell it you need to successfully do what I call "Missionary Work On The Cheap."

Missionary Work on the Cheap is an entire sequence of steps that you use to verify that there is in fact a market for a product, and that you can acquire new customers at a reasonable price. I don't have the space here to go into the full details, here is basic idea of how this works:

1) There is a slew of tools, both online and offline, where you will discover exactly what kinds of needs exist, what real people are searching for, what audiences other marketers are serving, how many customers there, are and how much they spend.

2) In most cases you will be 70-80% certain whether or not an idea will fly, and it will cost you as little as a few hundred dollars to no more than a couple thousand dollars. In some cases, at the end of that process you will have an order in your hand from a prospective customer.

3) First things must come first: I have a member who started an anti-spam service - one that's arguably head and shoulders above all the other ones out there, the proverbial 'better mousetrap.'

He contacted me to get help with a public relations campaign for his company.

Most people would have taken his money and written him some press releases. But I asked him if he could prove that his sales process was already working and he wasn't sure. So I refused to take his money. Instead he started experimenting with pay-per-click search engine traffic, just trying to see if he could GIVE away the service for free.

That was a very good move on his part, because he discovered all kinds of little problems and obstacles. He solved these problems within the context of a controlled environment, and tweaked his process to the point where he started charging money for his service and making a profit.

NOW he's in a position to rub the media genie -- and when he turns on the publicity machine, he'll get a flood of new customers at nearly zero cost.

He's put a lot of sweat equity into this, but not very much money, and no cold calls, no wasted advertising dollars, no MBA's, no Andersen Consulting, none of that.

And he's got a business that runs on autopilot and he's poised for a major success.

There's almost N-E-V-E-R any reason to sink huge sums of money into your projects. There's no reason for companies to spend hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars developing products that fail. It just breaks my heart that so many still do.

Don't make that mistake! You can save yourself lots of money and lots of heartache -- and when the market takes off, the rewards are all yours to keep.

# # #

Perry Marshall, Perry S. Marshall & Associates, 159 N. Marion Street #295, Oak Park, IL 60301 United States (312) 458-9102 www.PerryMarshall.com

-- "Inventor-Friendly Companies | Inventors Digest" --
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-- Fat fingers and phone fraud - How to fight back? --

-- Be careful when you dial a toll-free number. Listen carefully to the message you get when connected. If in doubt, hang up and redial. You can verify the number for free through various phone directory websites.

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-- -- AVOIDING ONLINE SCAMS --
-- "Ripped Off" -- "If you can honestly say you’ve never been duped, even temporarily, by an official-looking email or a website that turns out to be bogus, you’re an extreme rarity." --

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-- -- Thought of the day --

-- "I'd rather be optimistic and a fool, than pessimistic and right." ~ Unknown

- For more advice on avoiding identity theft and fraud, visit www.bbb.org

-- "BBB Lists Top Scams and Rip - Offs of 2009 - BBB News Center" --

-- "ConsumerMan: 'Unfair' piggybacking tactics" --
"As millions have learned the hard way, you can be billed without typing in your credit or debit card information. The third party company may already have it."

-- "A new rogue antivirus scheme has enlisted live "support" personnel to deceive victims." --

-- "Security News for IT Managers" --

-- "Do It Yourself: Invention" --

-- -- Stop and Think: Name the talent or sport activity that is won performing it backwards? ... Answers:
1. Tug-of-war 2. Scull Racing 3. Swimming; backward stroke 4. Pole-vaulting 5. Ballroom Dancing; female partner 6. Luge; a tobogganlike racing sled on which the rider lies face up. (Believe it or not, once tug-of-war and pistol dueling were Olympic Sports.)

- Manchester, NH 03101

--> To "decide." - The term comes from the Latin "decidere," meaning "to cut away," and one method of arriving at a decision is by "cutting away" and eliminating all but one possibility - by "cutting away" all that is worthless.

--> Here's a 'big power hitter' up to bat: -- Go to:
--> "America Invents" -->

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To: dayjobIASL@webtv.net
From: Robert W. Blagg Sr.
Subject: Inventor question
Date: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 11:54 AM

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P.S. -- Missouri inventors could be covered by Missouri law, if they put in all their agreements something to the effect:

1. "The parties further agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of the state and federal courts of the State of Missouri to determine any legal disputes relating to this Agreement."
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-- "Dream job at Microsoft turns out to be too good to be true" --

-- "Don't fall for online job scams" --

-- "Scammer Warning! Government Grant Scams Uncovered!" --

-- "Leamington man loses $150,000 in Nigerian scam"

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-- "All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer."
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-- "Because we will build a fire under you, if you will let us!! -- That's the reason why."
-- As Harry Truman said, "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen!"
-- "The IASL will empower you to work on your great invention."

-- If you like what you hear and believe what you hear, make this your night out and record what you might miss from tv on your tivo or VCR to see later when you come home. ;-)

-- Join IASL for $35.00 the first year and $25.00 renewal. Pay your IASL Dues.

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-- Phishing attacks rely mostly on e-mail and try to trick you into divulging private information that will be used in identity theft. For example, you receive a message purportedly from a bank or a store claiming that there's a problem with your account requiring immediate attention. The e-mail directs you to a malicious website that looks legitimate and appears to have a legitimate Web address. The site is designed to trick you into disclosing sensitive information. Or, it infects your machine with malicious software designed to steal information. Either way, you become a victim of credit card theft or worse.

-- Popular Web browsers incorporate anti-phishing tools. Unfortunately, criminals are one step ahead. They're using the telephone to catch you off guard.

-- How do vishing attacks work?

-- There are several variations of vishing scams. In one attack, a criminal calls via VoIP, spoofing the phone number so your caller ID displays the name and number of a reputable organization, such as a bank, store, government agency or website.

-- When you answer the call, a prerecorded message greets you. It directs you to another phone number. If you call, you're prompted to enter personal information via telephone keypad. The key tones are captured and decoded. The criminals just got your information.

-- Another variation begins with e-mail. Unlike with phishing messages, you're not directed to the Web. Rather, you're instructed to call a telephone number and tricked into revealing personal data when you call.

-- Or, you receive a call from a spoofed number. This time, you speak to a real person. The person requests account numbers and other data.

-- The caller could invite you to join a bogus online research network where you'll be paid to install special software on your computer. The software is spyware that steals sensitive information.

-- Some vishing attacks start with a prerecorded incoming call in which you're directed to a website to supposedly resolve an account problem. The site is a phishing site.

-- How to spot a vishing attack

-- Vishing methods vary, but there are several hallmarks of vishing attacks.

-- First, the information presented in the attack is upsetting or exciting. For example, you could be threatened with a lawsuit over an unpaid bill, although you may never have done business with the company.

-- Vishing attacks usually demand an urgent response, claiming that you run the risk of account closure or credit troubles.

-- The visher may ask you to take a poll and then direct you to install a spyware program.

-- Vishing attacks usually aren't personalized. They probably won't reference a real account number. The visher may not even know your name.

-- How to protect yourself

-- Suspicion and vigilance are your best weapons. Be wary of incoming communications. Do not rely on caller ID to identify callers. E-mail addresses are not trustworthy, either.

-- Never give out personal information in these circumstances. Instead, call the organization to ask if the communication is legitimate. Check your account paperwork for the correct phone number.

-- If you have never done business with an organization, ignore the communication. It's your safest bet. --

-- "Check-cashing scams are pretty simple. Someone sends you a check and asks you to cash it. You are then supposed to wire part of the money elsewhere. You keep the remainder of the money for yourself.

-- This sounds like a great deal; you're basically getting money for nothing! What you don't know is that the check you cashed is bad. It will bounce a few days or weeks later.

-- That means the money you wired was your own money! People have lost hundreds and even thousands of dollars on these scams. And there is no way to recover any of the money." -- Kim Kimando