| Meetings: 7:00pm - 9:00pm - 2nd Wednesday each month (No meetings in Dec.) Networking ~ 6:30 - 7:00pm and after the speaker (as time permits). "Confidential Special Help Meeting" 3rd Wednesday each month - for paid members only where everyone signs a non-disclosure agreement and attendees can discuss their product/concept openly and receive one-on-one help and advice on the next steps of pursuing their idea, concept or design. |
| Scheduled Speakers and Topics Wednesday January 8, 2020 7:00-9:00 P.M., "HOW TO PROTECT YOUR IDEA IN THE EARLY STAGES, and EVERYTHING WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT PATENTS".presented by Ken Roddy, Registered U.S. Patent Agent.Ken has been practicing patent law for over 35 years and has obtained over 600 patents for many local inventors. Bring Your Questions. Earlier in his career career, before becoming a Patent Agent, Ken was an inventor and product designer and was awarded 5 patents. www.patentstuff.com Wednesday January 15, 2020 7:00-9:00 P.M., "Confidential Special Help Meeting" - for paid members only. This meeting is conducted by Mark Peterson and held in a smaller meeting room with a smaller group of attendees. At this meeting everyone signs a non-disclosure agreement and attendees can discuss their product/concept openly and receive one-on-one help and advice on the next steps of pursuing their idea, concept or design, or how to get through a particular hurdle. (You can also pay your membership at this meeting).Bring us your problem/questions, and we'll try to get you to the next step. Videos of Past Meetings We are making videos of past speakers presentations available upon request for free via email to paid members only, so even if you live too far away to attend our monthly meetings you can benefit by becoming a member. To become a member, download a Membership Form, fill it out, and mail it in. Then contact kevinroddy327@comcast.net and request a video.You will also be added to our email list to receive monthly announcements regarding upcoming meetings and topics. HIA Featured In KPRC Click2 Houston TV News Segment Here is a link to a recent news clip shown on KPRC Click 2 Houston, featuring our own Mark Peterson.
Our motto, "Inventors Helping Inventors", expresses some of the benefits of membership and attending monthly meetings. We provide speakers having first-hand knowledge of the difficulties in getting from raw idea to marketable product that offer their success stories, and share tips on marketing your invention, and speakers that provide valuable information in technical areas, such as: protecting your idea, patent fundamentals, building prototypes, injection molding, manufacturing vs licensing, etc. At our meetings, we often connect inventors having a problem with other members who may be able to help to solve it. We take pride in being a trusted resource, and do our best to protect inventors from invention marketing/development scams. Have you visited our Facebook Group Page?The purpose of the Group Page is to provide an interactive forum or message board where members can comment on speakers, meetings, ask questions, make suggestions, provide feedback, receive help, etc.Bill Kopitzke is the main administrator.The "Group" page is different from a regular Facebook "Page", in that you can't get there by "liking" or being a "friend"; you have to "Join" the group to participate. Group members must be approved or added by other members.To "Join" the group, if you are logged in on facebook, you can click the Facebook logo in the left-hand column.If you are not logged in or if you are NOT already a member of the Facebook Group, click here for instructions on how to join. TX/RX Labs, a Houston non-profit organization is teaching classes for entrepreneurs and makers. Welding, CNC, electronics, laser cutting, 3d printing, cad and cam drafting and more. https://apps.classes.txrxlabs.org.classes/. The HIA was featured in an article titled "Houston Inventors Association Helps Members Bring Inventions to Reality", written by John Calvert, head of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Inventors Assistance Program following his visit to Houston in August, 2010.The article was published online in the "Inventors Eye" -a bi-monthly newsletter for the independent inventor community that covers topics of interest to independent inventors; and stories about people who have become successful inventors. It also includes tips on working with the USPTO; information on events, organizations and meetings of interest to the inventor community. Way back in 2001, the HIA was featured in a TV news segment where they discussed our organzation and warned against inventors being scammed by so-called "Invention Development Companies".Click here to see KHOU TV video segment
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