Inventors Network

Meetings

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Monthly meetings are free and open to the public. Networking starts at 5:30 p.m., introductions and announcements follow at 6:30 p.m. Meetings generally end around 8:30 to 9:00 p.m. Pizza, snacks, soda and juice are available during the meeting.

Let us know what types of speaking topics are of interest to you for upcoming meetings. Private sector speakers at past meetings have included successful inventors, and experts in: marketing, branding, patenting, licensing, prototyping, venture capital, and entrepreneurship. Speakers at past meetings have also included government officials from the US Patent & Trademark Office of Independent Inventors Program and US federal and state government small business assistance programs. See our Past Meetings and Past Newsletters page for more details.

Keep up with future meeting topics and schedules by periodically visiting our website for updates and meeting announcements. For more automated ways of finding out what we have planned for upcoming events you can sign up to our INCA Google Group which functions similarly to an email list serve. If you are not interested in receiving event information via email you can set up our INCA Google Calendar to automatically update your own personal electronic calendar such as Microsoft Outlook, Google Calendar, etc. Also keep track of our occasional posts to  Twitter.

Meeting Schedule for 2012

The January 23,  2012 Inventors Network of the Capital Area meeting is 5:30 pm at the Tysons-Pimmit Regional Library, 7584 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22043-2099. Note that this meeting is on the fourth Monday of the month due to observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day the week before. Networking starts at 5:30 pm and goes until 6:30 pm. Speakers are introduced after announcements at 6:30 pm. Meetings generally go to 8:30 or 9:00 pm.

Mr. Lawnie H. Taylor is the speaker at this month’s meeting. Lawnie is an experience chemist and inventor. Here is an article that shares about some of Mr. Taylor’s inventing adventures: Professional Inventors Alliance Announces: Here It Is, Again — David and Goliath. A brief excerpt from this article reads: “Lawnie Taylor, a noted African American scientist, working in his laundry room laboratory, discovered a way to modify hypochlorite bleach such that it could be used without damaging cotton.” See his patent application US20070287652 and patent US7109157 for more on some of his inventions.

Mr. Taylor will be speaking on a recent patent law and practice related case in which he was involved, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit re Lawnie H. taylor, 2011-1275. Lawnie will be talking about exceptions to the absolutely restricted definition of “consisting of”. “Consisting of” is special patent law and practice language. For more about what “consisting of” means to the US Patent & Trademark Office see MPEP 2111.03 Transitional Phrases [R-3] – 2100 Patentability.

A representative from a brand new African American inventors museum in Washington DC will also be speaking at this month’s meeting.

The February 27,  2012 Inventors Network of the Capital Area meeting is 5:30 pm at the Tysons-Pimmit Regional Library, 7584 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22043-2099. William A. Bonk, III and Scott M. Spanbauer are the speakers for this meeting. Note that this meeting is on the fourth Monday of the month due to observance of George Washington’s Birthday/Presidents’ Day the week before. Networking starts at 5:30 pm and goes until 6:30 pm. Speakers are introduced after announcements at 6:30 pm. Meetings generally go to 8:30 or 9:00 pm.

Mr. Bonk is the founder of Emerging Strategies an intellectual property and business intelligence and marketing strategy firm based in Chase, Maryland. William and Scott will be speaking on IP/Marketing Intelligence-Driven Product Development.

The March 19,  2012 Inventors Network of the Capital Area meeting is 5:30 pm at the Tysons-Pimmit Regional Library, 7584 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22043-2099. John Calvert is this month’s meeting speaker. Mr. Calvert is the Administrator of the Inventors Assistance Program at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Note that this meeting is on the third Monday of the month. Networking starts at 5:30 pm and goes until 6:30 pm. Speakers are introduced after announcements at 6:30 pm. Meetings generally go to 8:30 or 9:00 pm.

Mr. Calvert will be speaking on the implementation of the America Invents Act. Before serving in this role “John was responsible for supervising as many as 25 examiners in the areas of textile technology and absorbent products.” (Source, USPTO.gov website).

This meeting will also feature elections for INCA president, vice-president, and treasurer.

The April 16,  2012 Inventors Network of the Capital Area meeting is 5:30 pm at the Tysons-Pimmit Regional Library, 7584 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22043-2099. Aubrey Scarborough will be this month’s speaker. She will be speaking on her experience as an advisor on the product development websites Quirky.com and Kickstarter.com. Note that this meeting is on the third Monday of the month. Networking starts at 5:30 pm and goes until 6:30 pm. Speakers are introduced after announcements at 6:30 pm. Meetings generally go to 8:30 or 9:00 pm.

For announcements about additional upcoming events visit the INCA Google Group.