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Inventors Association of St. Louis (IASL) - Marketeers
PO Box 410111
St. Louis, MO   63141
Tel: 314-432-1291
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Contact: Robert Scheinkman, Director
E-mail: Director@inventorsconnection.org
Web Page: www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/speeches/05-40.htm

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Service Name:
Like when you take your dog to the Vet to be "serviced"..
Whose problem did the Vet solve? Yours? Or the dog's? ;-)

-- >> "You gotta be serious!" - R-E-A-L-L-Y

"I'll make it plain-as-day for them to get on with their lives and start over again on something else new and cleverer." -- An inventor is inventive and is always thinking. He is thinking about finding that one 'just right idea' that will be the one that brings him financial success.

-- Like I've long said, "Inventions are simply created by some lazy people" and it hurts me when I discover overly industrious "idea people" wasting their precious laziness on persuing dead-end ventures. "Most of their good efforts for naught." *I can see the folly of their actions, so why don't they? -- They are optimistically blindsighted..*I'll make it plain-as-day for them to get on with their lives and start over again on something else, new and cleverer. *That next brilliant invention which will be 'It!' To help to make them: *Strike-it-Rich!

-- "Capital Connection: Entrepreneur's Resource for Success" --

-- --> "Accelerating the Innovation Cycle" --
- "We can help you commercialize your innovations!"
-- "Years ago, when a company wanted to develop a new product or improve an old one, it turned to its own in-house research and development department. More recently, several companies have slashed their R&D budgets and now look to outside help for product ideas." ... "Patent holders that want to develop new markets for their technology"

-- "INVENTION SECRETS FOR INVENTORS #11: Two Positively Can't-miss Tips for Invention Success -- WorldInventionsCenter.com"

-- -- Thought of the Day --
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own." -- Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881, Former British Prime Minister

~~ ~~ ~~ "For a fin-a-month, join our Association for protection, if you know what I mean?" ~ ~ GULP THIS DOWN ~ ~ ~

-- Maybe it's high-tide to swim with us bigger fish? Usually you itty-bitty fish are eaten-up when you get out of your depth but this bigger IASL fish is here to help you. I'll be trolling out the rules which will be simple and easy for you to follow:
1. Keep your big mouths shut and your eyes wide open. i.e. Don't bite that baited hook that the "Slippery Scammers" throw you. - If it sounds "phishy" & smells fishy - it is.
2. Realize that the monopolizing bigger fish own the pool and are getting to the good stuff first. Watch where you are swimming 'cause they'll drop a lot of good stuff which is too small for them but good for you. Don't flip-er them off! Scavenge around a bit.
3. You little fishees should swim in schools. That way, nobody big will personally pick on you. For a fin-a-month, join our Association for protection, if you know what I mean? This'll increase your chances of living m-u-c-h longer. -- That's it, enough info for now. Splash off into the big swim you bottom feeders. ~~ Robert Scheinkman

-- "Dan Lauer - St. Louis Commerce Magazine" --

-- You are invited to listen to "Entrepreneur Magazine's Inventions, Patents & Beyond.."? live on Thursdays at 11am PST (1pm CST) on wsRadio at: http://www.wsradio.com/internet-talk-radio.cfm/shows/Entrepreneur-Magazines-Inventions-Patents-and-Beyond.html --
This radio show is growing. Take an hour and tune into the show, for it's full of helpful information in all aspects of Intellectual Property, but specifically targets inventions.
-- Have any comments or questions? Want to be on the show? Shoot us an email at Radio@youinventit.com. Happy Listening, Ron Hogsett

-- "The Kim Komando Show" --

-- "Three wise monkeys sitting in a tree, discussing things as they're said to be." Three wise monkeys sitting in a tree,
discussing things as they're said to be.
Says one to the other,
-- "Now listen, you monks, there's a rumor 'round that can't be true. that man descended from me and you.
What an idea, what a disgrace!
No monk deserted a wife,
starved her baby, or ruined its life.
And you've never known a mother monk,
to leave her baby with others to bunk.
Or pass him from one to another,
till he hardly knows who's his mother.
And another thing you'll never see,
a monk who'll build a fence round a tree,
and let the coconuts go to waste,
forbidding others even a taste.

And here's a thing a monk won't do:
Use a gun or club or knife
to take some other monk's dear life.
Yet man descended, the onery cuss,
but, brother, he ain't descended from any one of us!"

This monk grew up and left his home, to observe the world - found freedom to roam.
Seeing the deeds that man had clone:
On the ground, in the air and ocean bound,
most wondrous miracles did astound. --
Tools man wrought had set him apart,
from fish and fowl, beast and machine --
man lorded-over and lead supreme.

Through the heavens, man's spirit rides;
he dreamed..fulfilled, and swept aside
the knowledge deeded by us Monks:
To live and let-live - progress through life.
Learn well mankind - do what is right,
don't tear down with ageless strife..
Uphold what's moral and learn this well,
"The road to Ruin and Perdition leads back
to Monkland Hell." -- Robert Scheinkman

-- Thought of the day: --
-- "The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." -- Michelangelo Buonarroti
1474-1564, Italian Renaissance Painter and Sculptor

-- "When he returned, she warmly greeted him wearing only three strategi-cally placed leaves and smelling faintly of gardenias." -- When he returned, she warmly greeted him wearing only three strategically placed leaves and smelling faintly of gardenias. She then beckoned him to sit down beside her. "Tell me," she cooed, moving much closer to him.. "We've been out here for a very long time without companionship. You've been very lonely, I'm sure.. There must be something you really like doing right now, something you've been longing for all this time, something that can recharge your battery,..isn't that true?"

-- She stared deeply into his eyes. He just couldn't believe what he was hearing. "You m-m-mean--" he flustered and then, with joy, blurted, "I can check my e-mail from here!!"

-- COMPLETE EVALUATION SYSTEM
-- -- "How to Evaluate the Potential for Success of a New Product or Technology" --

-- "Technology Trading Exchange -- Welcome" --

-- Connecting Inventors with Companies Looking for Fresh New Product Ideas --

-- "TEN Articles For Inventors" --

-- "Ironman Inventing Series" --

-- "I Will Teach You To Be Rich: Your College is Not a Technical School"

-- Creating Money and Success from Your Ideas While Cutting Marketing Costs" --

-- "Common Sense Marketing Newsletter" --

-- "There is no security on this earth;
there is only opportunity."
-- General
Douglas MacArthur

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Additional Notes: -- EXPIRED Invention Statistic:
-- In 2007, inventors let 63,617 patents expire early
-- (1,223 per week on average).
-- Source: Product Coach Matt Yubas.

-- What does this statistic mean?
-- After you receive a utility patent, there are maintenance fees due just before years four, eight, and twelve. As of September 30, 2007 the fees are $465, $1,180, and $1,955 respectively. When the inventor does not pay the maintenance fees, the patent expires and is considered abandoned.

-- If someone was making money from their invention, you'd expect they would pay the maintenance fees. Obviously, with over 1,000 patents abandoned on a weekly basis, something is very wrong!

-- Expired Patents Reported Weekly in the 2007 USPTO Official Gazette

Week # Notice Date Expired Patents USPTO Website
1 1/02/2007 1,150 USPTO
2 1/09/2007 1,393 USPTO
3 1/16/2007 1,400 USPTO
4 1/23/2007 1,364 USPTO
5 1/30/2007 1,293 USPTO
6 2/06/2007 1,285 USPTO
7 2/13/2007 1,094 USPTO
8 2/20/2007 1,015 USPTO
9 2/27/2007 1,150 USPTO
10 3/06/2007 1,166 USPTO
11 3/13/2007 1,160 USPTO
12 3/20/2007 1,051 USPTO
13 3/27/2007 1,076 USPTO
14 4/03/2007 1,231 USPTO
15 4/10/2007 1,305 USPTO
16 4/17/2007 1,291 USPTO
17 4/24/2007 1,278 USPTO
18 5/01/2007 1,335 USPTO
19 5/08/2007 1,073 USPTO
20 5/15/2007 1,324 USPTO
21 5/22/2007 1,373 USPTO
22 5/29/2007 1,299 USPTO
23 6/05/2007 1,323 USPTO
24 6/12/2007 1,023 USPTO
25 6/19/2007 1,176 USPTO
26 6/26/2007 1,222 USPTO
27 7/03/2007 1,199 USPTO
28 7/10/2007 1,120 USPTO
29 7/17/2007 1,085 USPTO
30 7/24/2007 1,040 USPTO
31 7/31/2007 1,035 USPTO
32 8/07/2007 1,017 USPTO
33 8/14/2007 1,041 USPTO
34 8/21/2007 1,280 USPTO
35 8/28/2007 1,245 USPTO
36 9/04/2007 1,399 USPTO
37 9/11/2007 1,204 USPTO
38 9/18/2007 1,370 USPTO
39 9/25/2007 1,215 USPTO
40 10/02/2007 1,255 USPTO
41 10/09/2007 1,174 USPTO
42 10/16/2007 1,140 USPTO
43 10/23/2007 1,250 USPTO
44 10/30/2007 1,329 USPTO
45 11/06/2007 1,333 USPTO
46 11/13/2007 1,248 USPTO
47 11/20/2007 1,329 USPTO
48 11/27/2007 1,173 USPTO
49 12/04/2007 1,008 USPTO
50 12/11/2007 1,301 USPTO
51 12/18/2007 1,473 USPTO
52 12/25/2007 1,504 USPTO

TOTALS Year: 63,617
Monthly Average: 5,301
Weekly Average: 1,223
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SMART ASS ANSWER #5
-- A flight attendant was stationed at the departure gate to check tickets. As a man approached, she extended her hand for the ticket and he opened his trench coat and flashed her. Without missing a beat, she said, 'Sir, I need to see your ticket, not your stub.'

SMART ASS ANSWER #4
-- A lady was picking through the frozen turkeys at the grocery store but she couldn't find one big enough for her family. She asked a stock boy, 'Do these turkeys get any bigger?' The stock boy replied, 'No ma'am, they're dead.'

SMART ASS ANSWER #3
-- The cop got out of his car and the kid who was stopped for speeding rolled down his window. 'I've been waiting for you all day,' the cop said. The kid replied, 'Yeah, well I got here as fast as I could.' When the cop finally stopped laughing, he sent the kid on his way without a ticket.

SMART ASS ANSWER #2
-- A truck driver was driving along on the freeway. A sign comes up that reads, 'Low Bridge overhead.' Before he knows it, the bridge is right ahead of him and he gets stuck under it. Cars are backed up for miles. Finally, a police car comes up. The cop gets out of his car and walks to the truck driver, puts his hands on his hips and says, 'Got stuck, huh?' The truck driver says, 'No, I was delivering this bridge and ran out of gas.'

SMART ASS ANSWER OF THE YEAR 2007
-- A college teacher reminds her class of tomorrow's final exam. 'Now class, I won't tolerate any excuses for you not being here tomorrow. I might consider a nuclear attack or a serious personal injury, illness, or a death in your immediate family, but that's it, no other excuses whatsoever!' A smart-ass guy in the back of the room raised his hand and asked, 'What would you say if tomorrow I said I was suffering from complete and utter sexual exhaustion?' The entire class is reduced to laughter and snickering. When silence is restored, the teacher smiles knowingly at the student, shakes her head and sweetly says, 'Well, I guess you'd have to write the exam with your other hand.'

Two bonus extras:
-- A blonde goes to the post office to buy stamps for her Christmas cards. She says to the clerk, 'May I have 50 Christmas stamps?'

-- The clerk says, 'What denomination?'

-- The blonde says, 'God help us. Has it come to this? Give me 6 Catholic, 12 Presbyterian, 10 Lutheran and 22 Baptists.'

-- A woman is standing nude, looking in the bedroom mirror. She is not happy with what she sees and says to her husband, 'I feel horrible; I look old, fat and ugly. I really need you to pay me a compliment.'

-- The husband replies, 'Your eyesight's damn near perfect.'

-- He never heard the shot....