-- Sign outside small retail shop in California: Office hours: Open most days about 9 or 10. Occasionally, as early as 7, but some days as late as 12 or 1. We close about 5:30 or 6:00. Occasionally, about 4 or 5, but some times as late as 11 or 12. Some days or afternoons, we aren't here at all. And lately, I've been here just about all the time, except when I'm someplace else.

-- "The easier it is to communicate, the faster change happens." -- James Burke - Note: provisional patent applications have been $105.00 since September 30, 2007

-- Your primary help may also be found @ United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) -
-- At the top of this page, click-on the "Site Overview - New Users" - then on the second line of this next page, click-on "Inventor Resources" which will hold your attention for a good while. :-)

-- Good People with Ideas in their heads - hoping to make it big, in the land of the free and the home of the brave.

-- "I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.
Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

* * * September 11, 2001 * * *

"We will not waver; we will not tire;
we will not falter; and we will not fail.
Peace and freedom will prevail."
President George W. Bush

-- "Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate." -- John F. Kennedy

-- "21st Century Modern Inventions"

-- There are no letters assigned to the numbers 1 and 0 on a phone keypad. These numbers remain unassigned because they are so-called "flag" numbers, kept for special purposes, such as emergency or operator services. -- There are no letters 'Q' or 'Z' on the telephone dial. -- The area-code number 555 is almost always used in theatrical venues because it is useless but serviceable otherwise to illustrate dramatic effect of operating a telephone.

-- "Television once had Channel 1, but lost it in 1945 to people with mobile radios, when the F.C.C. decided that TV was taking up too much of the broadcast spectrum."

-- -- "You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." - Mark Twain

-- "Patent Advice" -- Getting a new product to market usually means developing an overall plan of action and strategies for intellectual property (patents, trademarks, etc.), marketing/evaluation, business planning and technology/prototyping.

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-- --> Having been the forward thrust of inventor/inventing education for over twenty-four years, (since September 8, 1983) --> and moving ahead of the many other Intellectual Property (IP) providers, the IASL will show you the true pathways to follow.

#1. There are many Associations in every field for your endeavor.. so join one or more that can satisfy the time you have to devote to it, that one which will fulfill your needs. - Read its magazines and newsletters, attend its meetings and functions, meet with fellow members and talk and correspond with them.

#2. Get Politically Correct: Register to vote and become a responsible citizen. - You will then get letters from public officials or PAX groups asking you to contribute money to their causes. - This street goes both ways. You can ask them for return favors.

#3. Don't over-expose yourself, for you only have so much time to give away, and "Time is money." - Weigh your outside friendships so that you aren't politically incorrect. (Play it down.) Give charitably and when you 'strike it rich,' you can then push yourself to the forefront.

#4. Keep a scrapbook. You know who you are, but nobody else around does. Keep your life story straight and don't lie. - You can tell a 'fishy story,' but it may come back years later to trip you up and haunt you? (You know; when you run someday for President!)

#5. Don't borrow money if you don't have a need to. - When you do, pay your debts 'on-time' or pay your obligations 'ahead-of-time.' Banks and financial institutions go back at least three years when approving your credit. - Pick a bank that you can put your cash-flow in and start a Savings Account. -- Some will say that it is stupid to let your bank use your money for you to get a low rate of return on it. However, you have created leverage when you want the bank to approve your later loan. - Cover yourself by having more than one bank in your business dealings.

#6. Listen to the experts, but don't believe everything that they may be saying. They'll change their tune and are bound to have losses from time to time. Investigate them thoroughly before you invest.

#7. Keep an address book with those who you can call upon. Keep clippings of 'neat things.' Don't necessarily keep your desk neat; you don't have to impress anybody, you just have to remember where you last put it. And if you do lose it on your desk, you'll find that other thing that you've been looking for and couldn't find. :-)

#8. Have people around that are smarter than you to do it for you. (Like a wife.)- "Honey, where did I put my ...?" And pretty soon they'll feel important. Not that important to take over to 'put you down,' but important enough to never leave you and go off on their own.

#9. Have people around that are dumber than you. - If you can't tell who that is, than it must be you that is the dumb one? - "Dumb people work harder and have the most fun." - That's a generality and I'm stupid for saying it.. There is a difference between dumb and stupid.

#10. And finally #10. Everything ends with ten except the final count-down.

#11. One more for you for"Good Luck." - Keep this in mind: "In a hundred years from now, it won't make any difference to you, but it will make a difference."

-- H. Robert Scheinkman, 10/10/2007
Contact - Robert Scheinkman

-- "One of the major impediments to the success of independent inventors is a total lack of understanding of the difference between an idea and an invention: -- An idea is just a problem statement. An invention is a solution to that problem. Ideas aren't patentable - only inventions are."

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"If you are not your brother's keeper, then there was no reason for the creation of Man."

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-- "Nothing average ever stood as a momument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner, it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever striving to become the best they possibly can. If we seek the average level, we cannot hope to achieve a high level of success. Our only hope is to avoid being a failure." -- A. Lou Vickery

- Our School's Motto: "It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared."
- Whitney Young, Jr.

- "Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other." -- Benjamin Franklin

- "Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."

- "Experience is a tough teacher; she gives the test first and the lesson afterwards."

- "Experience will only carry you so far; then you have to rely on luck. Or is that the other way 'round?" - R.S.

-- "You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough." --
Joe E. Lewis

-- So, with tongue in cheek--for those "idea gamblers"--an old technology
-- "Do you feel lucky..Punk?" --
-- Clint Eastwood, in Dirty Harry
-- "Come up and see me sometime, Big Boy" -- Mae West

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