Patents
In Commerce Launches its First Of Its Kind Inventors Training
Program
(Rocklin,
CA — January 27, 2003) Patents in Commerce (PIC),
a private/public partnership announces the launch of its landmark
invention commercialization training program. This process-driven
nationwide program guides innovators and inventors through
all aspects of the invention process — from idea creation,
through successful commercialization of an invention. This
first-of-its-kind training program emphasizes environmentally
sound innovation, and is committed to delivering the best
innovation development training across the entire spectrum
of industries and technologies.
According
to Andy Gibbs of PatentCafe "More than 6 million inventors
and small business innovators visited PatentCafe.com last
year, and the #1 innovator's Question was: "What do I do next?"
What took a full page to explain can now be summed up much
better in just 3 words: "Patents In Commerce"
"The
trap that so many inventors and small business people have
so much passion and energy that they approach development
with a READY-FIRE-AIM approach! What Patents in Commerce can
do is lead them through READY-AIM-FIRE and increase their
chances for success" says Mary Wollesen of the
Sierra College Small Business Development Center.
The Patents
in Commerce Training Series is offered nationwide through
an innovative distance training program that enables inventors
to learn at their own pace and their own site as they step
through a logical, sequential program designed to assist them
in protecting and commercializing their inventions successfully.
Training sessions are filmed once a month before a live-audience
of inventors, for ten consecutive months, and are distributed
to participants on DVD or VHS. Each session provides the information
and materials the inventor needs to reach the next stage of
development of his or her invention.
The series,
which features more than 24 world-class invention and small
business industry leaders as trainers, contains over 30 hours
of training and exposes the would-be inventor or small business
entrepreneur to the various aspects of product development;
patenting, business invention economics, manufacturing, licensing
and product marketing that are needed to effectively develope
and commercialize an invention.
Bob DeMatteis
of From Patents to Profit says, "Patents in
Commerce's training will teach innovators, entrepreneurs and
small businesses how to launch and protect their ideas in
a fraction of the time it takes large corporations, and at
a fraction of the cost."
The PIC
training program will begin filming in February and will be
available to the distance training participants in March 2003.
For more information about Patents in Commerce and its first-of-a-kind
training program go to www.patentsincommerce.org.
About
Patents in Commerce
Patents
in Commerce (PIC) was formed as a collaborative partnership
between public and private sector organizations to provide
a worldwide learning resource for inventors and innovators.
Its primary purpose is to supply logical, process-driven training
to nascent inventors with a goal of increasing their success
and thereby creating a positive impact on the economy. Its
mission is to foster invention and innovation of products
and technologies that will better society, life style, and
the environment.
PIC’s
objective is simple and straightforward. That is … to
train innovators how to successfully develop and commercialize
their new products. Training participants will learn how to
balance their responsibilities to society, the environment
and business stakeholders, while avoiding the hazards, pitfalls,
and questionable invention promoters.
About
the Partners
From Patents
to Profit
IPT Co.
(Inventions, Patents and Trademarks Company) was founded in
1995 and is dedicated to helping educate inventors on the
methods of inventing and patenting. The effort focuses on
ensuring that an inventor is going to make money on his/her
invention...not just spend money "to get a patent".
PatentCafe
PatentCafe.com,
Inc. is a network of information, e-commerce, global patent
data, and enterprise software properties serving the online
Intellectual Property community. Since the launch of its first
property in 1996, it's become the Web's most comprehensive
provider of Web-based legal software solutions (ASP), IP related
news, information, products and services. Recognized worldwide,
it services nearly 3/4 million monthly inventors, patent attorneys,
corporate counsel, intellectual property managers, academia,
and R&D labs through seven Web properties. PatentCafe
provides the largest single database collection of global
patent data, and the broadest collection of news, advice,
software, books, legal, insurance and financial products,
intellectual asset management tools, patent analytics management
tools, and educational support materials, on or off the Web.
Placer
County Office of Economic Development
Placer
County, California is home to one of the fastest growing business
communities in California fostering large corporations, small
innovators and inventors alike. World class recreational opportunities,
available housing from affordable to executive, clean and
safe schools and neighborhoods, an educated workforce, as
well as an international transportation network, with the
choice of rural, urban and suburban living create many unique
lifestyle opportunities for work and play.
Sierra
College Small Business Development Center
The Sierra
College Small Business Development Center offers Free,
confidential, one-on-one counseling, low-cost seminars and
specialized business resources to inventors and small business
owners. Owners of established businesses can contact the SBDC
for assistance and move immediately to one-on-one counseling
or training programs in key business areas. Prospective business
owners are provided with an introductory program that prepares
them to start their businesses.
Sierra
College Small Business Development Center is a partnership
program paid for under a cooperative agreement with the U.S.
Small Business Administration and the California Technology,
Trade and Commerce Agency. www.sbdcsierra.org
Recycling
Market Development Zone (RMDZ)
The Recycling
Market Development Zone (RMDZ) program is a partnership of
local governments and the California Integrated Waste Management
Board, created to provide incentives to businesses that use
secondary materials from the waste stream as feedstock for
their manufacturing processes.
The RMDZs
are geographic areas designated by the California Integrated
Waste Management Board at the request of local governments.
There are 40 zones in California, covering much of the state
from the Oregon border to San Diego. www.ciwmb.ca.gov/RMDZ/
US Bank
U.S. Bancorp
(NYSE: USB), with assets in excess of $174 billion, is the
8th largest financial services holding company in the United
States. We operate 2,133 banking offices and 4,680 ATMs, and
provide a comprehensive line of banking, brokerage, insurance,
investment, mortgage, trust and payment services products
to consumers, businesses and institutions. www.usbank.com
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Fargo Bank
