East London Inventors Club Blog

Run by Inventors for Inventors
Inventors Exhibition

Barking Learning Centre
2 Town Square Barking IG11 7NB

Saturday 13th September
9.30am – 1.00pm

Opportunity to see the work of Local Inventors
Gain advice on how to develop and commercialise your own ideas

Terry Jennings, Chairman, 01945 450814
terry_jennings@eastlondoninventorsclub.com

If you wish to book a place on this event please contact:

Karen Wilton, k.wilton@uel.ac.uk, 020 8223 7528

*ELIC is a non-profit making club. Members meet every month at the Knowledge Dock Business Centre, based at the University of East London Docklands campus, to network with other inventors, manufacturers and specialists, and to explore the commercial potential of inventions and innovations. The club also runs a programme of topical presentations.*

*Prize Draw - free membership for 15 people to join the East London Inventors Club*

Below are some videos from members of East London Inventors Club

We were lucky enough to have Steve van Dulken come to speak at this month’s Inventors Club. Steve gave a talk on various aspect of inventing and showed how we can make use of online databases and the facilities at the British Library.

Steve has his own great blog on the internet which can be viewed at the following URL

http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/patentsblog/

Everyday Edisons Casting Call in Providence, R.I. USA, - May 17, 2008
Everyday Edisons is wrapping up its Season 3 casting calls at the
Providence Rhode Island Convention center. This will be the first
casting call of the Northeast. Pull out those sketchbooks,
inventor notebooks and prototypes and see if your idea has what it
takes to be on Everyday Edisons!

Have questions about the casting call? Check out the Chicago Q&A
forum on Edison Nation www.edisonnation.com or visit the
Everyday Edisons Web site.
www.everydayedisons.com/castingCalls.html

Providence Rhode Island Convention Center
One Sabin Street
Providence, RI 02903

Doors open at 7 a.m. As long as you make it to the
registration line by 1 p.m., you will be able to present your
idea. There is no pre-registration and you do not need to RSVP.
The event is free and open to the public. If you have an Edison
Nation Gold Pass, please look for the line specifically for
Edison Nation Gold Members, www.edisonnation.com

Bring prototypes, sketches, pictures, copies of patents, etc.
Or, just your idea!

Invention Intelligence is a new service that has been setup to help would be inventors to understand and apply the principles and strategies for successfully developing a concept and taking it to market.

The service has been setup by Cally Robson (a specialist in helping creative ideas people evolve their concepts for the marketplace) and Deb Leary (an award-winning inventor and entrepreneur who developed her concept for an improved forensic stepping plate used in crime scene investigation into an international company, Forensic Pathways Ltd.)

For more details see the link below:

http://www.inventionintelligence.com

Anyone that is interested in IP & Patents should head to the following link which is maintained by Steve van Dulken from the British Library.

http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/patentsblog/

Steve is an expert in his field and we’ve been lucky enough to have him speak at the club on several occasions. On the site you’ll find many very interesting articles related to Patents & IP.

Last night’s club meeting was very successful - with several new people coming along to the club from all over London as well as further afield.

Last night’s guest speaker was Celia Gates who managed to fit us into her busy schedule. She had just returned from China and talked to us about the pros and cons of product licensing and selling abroad.

She has gained numerous awards including European Female Designer of the year Award and her new packaging design was Awarded the Minds Award by the Malaysian Innovators and design Society.

Having won the Platinum Award for British Consumer Invention of the Year in 2004, Celia put everything on the line to develop her unique range of cookware. “I raised money by selling my house, left work and got fully stuck in to the development of the product.”

Celia has recently returned from exhibiting at the Ambiente Fair in Frankfurt where she launched her range in 2007.  This is one of the largest International Housewares trade fairs and she has been amazed at the response to her new ranges. Hopefully what this means is that her products will start to find their way to a store closer to you in the not too distant future.

Celia was be able to discuss first hand the advantages of exhibiting at Shows and give us an insight into the pros and cons of manufacturing abroad.

http://doctorcookware.com

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