-- At our meetings, guest speakers, members, and patent attorneys offer free advice. They will help you by presenting facts needed by you to make your invention a rewarding reality. You will feel comfortable being among your trusting friends and will find the support and information that is surely needed. We will help you to bring your inventive ideas into reality..honestly.

-- Our IASL Website, for one, is the beginning and end-all for creative Intellectual Property information. It is a thousand piece jigsaw puzzle. Each fact was inserted with determined correct fit, which came from literally dozens of 'invention resources' that came from Internet networking.
-- The reader may say that it is a Blog, which it is. It wasn't created as a verbose multi-tasked inventors' encyclopedia, but is set simply as a travel novel: You will find many fine examples/ places/items of interest and then, areas that won't interest or excite you in the least, and will move on.

-- If all that you may want from us at this time is to recommend three books that would be considered the top three for researching intellectual property, then read in order: "Will It Sell?" by James E. White, "Patent It Yourself, Thirteenth Edition" by David Pressman, and "Marketing Your Invention, 2nd Edition" by Thomas E. Mosley, Jr. [Marketing Your Invention is out of print but really worth reading at your library.]

-- -- IASL INVENTOR TOPICS -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- QUALITY RESOURCES -- -- -- -- --

-- For all you "Idea People" -->
Let's start from the beginning: --
-- @ #One --

{:-> Bizarre names not where it's @, China says

-- And to Dan and all those Inventors who can't wait to read it: Patents Inventors Resources and Information
-- "USPTO Products and Services Price List" --

-- NEXT MEETING at St. Louis County's Library Headquarters: --> 1640 South Lindbergh Blvd - this AUGUST in the EAST Meeting Room (on north side of the library,) 6:00 to 9:00 pm on Tuesday evening, August 19th, 2008. -- All are invited.

MEMBERS, we will attempt to begin promptly at 6:00 pm. Please arrive on-time, sign-in, and be seated.

Note the IASL's pattern of Meeting Dates during 2008, when most will fall on the third Tuesdays of the month.
BE CERTAIN - ATTEND MONTHLY MEETINGS ON ------ Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 in the Library's EAST Meeting Room ---- August 19th - September 16th - October 21st - November 18th - December 16th, 2008 --- GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR INVENTION
-- and on into the Future -->
-- Check your calendar: -->

-- The IASL CONTACT HOURS: Voice-mail - 24 hours a day, everyday. Your messages will be responded to promptly, whenever possible.

-- Following a good suggestion,
for our first hour we will recite the basic steps for obtaining a patent, peppered with some 20-minutes of mutual "Brainstorming," followed by our Guest Speaker session at 6:45 pm.

(This gives our steady members time to get through traffic and be on-time ;-)

Intellectual Property Practitioners

-->> Drive to the St. Louis County Public Library Headquarters at 1640 South Lindbergh.

Enter the building using the northern or left entrances. You proceed down the entrance hallway past the doors to the main library to the rear hallway Meeting Rooms. Enter through the middle door, the EAST Meeting Room door.

-- Let’s Play the Patent Legislation Card game

** ** PLEASE SPREAD THE MESSAGE **

-- Teetering in the balance, hanging by the barest of threads, are your inventor rights, and the rights of future generations of inventors and citizens born in the USA, to create, invent and benefit/profit from their/your inventions and intellectual property. This issue is really that serious.....

{{ CONTINUE READING - KILL BILL S. 1145 }}

-- You are welcomed to come, but please leave small children and babies at home. Thank you. -
-- You've done enough inventing for one night romantically creating your best invention.
-- Leave your design & prototype at home. ;-)

-- Arrive here prepared to go back home and work on your invention.

-- "When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth." -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

When you put your mind to attending the IASL Monthly Meeting, you will be there on-time--that is, if you start off [walking] now :-))

-- Smith goes to see his supervisor in the front office. "Boss," he says, "we're doing some heavy house-cleaning at home tomorrow, and my wife needs me to help with the attic and the garage, moving and hauling stuff."
-- "We're short-handed, Smith," the boss replies. "I can't give you the day off."
-- "Thanks, boss," says Smith, "I knew I could count on you!"

-- "Everything is within walking distance, if you start off now." -- Stephen Wright

-- ""To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe." -- Anatole France [When something is repeated to you, at least three times, you tend to remember it.]

-- Third party trademarks, brands and images are the property of their respective owners.

-- There are always those that want everything on a silver platter. -- Inventors, on the other hand, want everything on a golden platter.

-- It's only the beginning of the incipient challenge. You have to know today's basic invention costs. --

ON FEBUARY 14, 2006, THE U.S. REACHED 7-MILLION PATENTS

-- --> New Senate Intellectual Property Subcommittee formed

-- "When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."
-- Alexander Graham Bell

-- The Latest USPTO Update
- August 20, 2007 -- "Claims and Continuations Practice - Final Rule" --

-- "The USPTO receives about 400,000 patent applications a year. The agency publishes patent applications eighteen months after they're filed. It takes about thirty-one months on average to get a patent." Learn how this waiting time may be used to your advantage.

-- "Pity the poor blokes at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. So far this year the USPTO's 5,500 examiners have examined more than 362,000 applications--about 65 applications per head. Size of the backlog: 760,000 applications, and growing. Little surprise a single patent takes 30 months to be thoroughly examined and processed. New technologies have become obsolete in less time." --

--> Patent Reform Act of 2007 --

-- Glossophobics need not apply.
{*one who fears public speaking}

-- INVENTORS and Everyone who attends an Inventors Association of St. Louis Meeting will be given as his and her reward for joining and becoming an IASL Member, a light-bulb-shaped car antenna-topper, that "Lightbulb of Genius" - which will travel with you as you carry the mark of recognition of "The Inventor" --
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-- Think about this: -- In your mind's eye a light flickers on/off; -- turn on this light -- -->

-- Aha! Another brilliant idea. -- Now for the reality check. Ask yourself this: --
"Am I about to re-invent the wheel?"
-- You just better do your research... "Why," you ask?
-- "Because I have seen on tv that Cavemen are still around. They may have thought of your idea eons ago, so, do your research, find them and communicate."

-- Go to the IASL TOPIC INDEX. --
-- Do the developmental research and modification.

-- "It's kind of fun to do the impossible." -- Walt Disney

Could you be an entrepreneur? Here's a list of essential traits, from sba.gov
* Creative
* Innovative
* Driven to achieve
* Persistent
* Energetic
* Inquisitive
* Competitive
* Unafraid to fail
* Hard Worker
* Independent
* Self-confident
* Risk-taker
* Visionary
* Problem-solver
* Organized
* Lucky

-- Please contribute at meetings or mail-in donations to: IASL, PO Box 410111, St. Louis, MO 63141.

-- A patent attorney or two may be in the audience to respond to questions from the participants. It's FREE--No Charges for Legal Advice that will save inventors thousands of future dollars. Therefore, your altruistic donation (which is tax deductible) is greatly appreciated.

-- After our second hour's speaker, a roundtable open discussion and personal help for all our participants is conducted, when all who attend must sign a non-disclosure agreement that binds the secrecy of the group. The IASL Meeting closes at 9:00 pm. -- Often, a few of our members continue networking outside on the library parking lot. They've found a kindred spirit. :-)