I am happy to announce that I will be presenting on What Inventors Should Know about Patents, Trademarks and Copyright at MAKEHAVEN on Monday, September 8, 2025 from noon to 1:30 pm. MakeHaven, Inc. is a not-for-profit, membership-driven organization, gathering place workshop for makers, creators, tinkerers and dreamers. MAKEHAVEN is located at 770 Chapel St, lower level, New Haven, CT 06510. More information can be found here. https://www.makehaven.org/civicrm/event/info?id=545&reset=1
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Tonight’s Inventors Association of Connecticut meeting will be on “Recent Developments in Raising Capital”.
I will be attending tonight’s Inventors Association of Connecticut (IACT) meeting. Attorney Cliff Ennico will present on: “Living in the Wild, Wild West: Recent Developments in Raising Capital”. The meeting will be at the Milford Public Library at 6:30 pm tonight.
The last couple of years have seen several significant developments in private equity, such as: The increasing (albeit slowly) popularity of “crowdfunding” in the U.S.; Opening of venture capital funds to retail investors; Expansion of SEC rules for private placements that involve general solicitation or advertising; Widespread adoption (and abuse) of simple agreements for future equity (SAFEs) in venture capital financings; Streamlined regulation of private offerings at the state level; and Trump Administration initiatives that impact the capital raising process.
Which of these developments will be long-lasting, and which will be “flashes in the pan”? Is it time for you to start investing in crowdfunded startups and alternative currencies? In this exciting, fast-paced program you will learn about the legal and regulatory framework that is evolving for fintech from an attorney and author who has helped shaped the debate in this area.
More information can be found here.
The Inventors Association of Connecticut will be holding its monthly meeting tonight at the Milford Library
The Inventors Association of Connecticut (IACT) will be holding a meeting tonight at 5:30 pm at the Milford Library. It is open to the public. Tonight, David Masa will be presenting. Mr. Maass will provide an overview of Additive Manufacturing (AM), also known as 3D Printing. First introduced about 30 years ago, AM has steadily grown at a compound annual rate of 25% ever since and is now an $18 BB industry. What started as a way to make rapid prototypes from polymers (plastics) now includes a wide range of materials including metals, ceramics, food and even human tissue and organs. There are seven major classes of AM processes and equipment, and many variants of each process type. There is also a very wide range of end-use applications including medical devices, rocket engines, tooling, spare parts and a trend towards serial production use in many industries. David will describe why AM innovation is often in the news today, where and why AM is being used while showing numerous and varied examples.
More information on IACT can be found here.
I attended the Inventors Association of Connecticut Meeting on July 27, 2021
Yesterday, the Inventors Association of Connecticut (IACT) had their monthly meeting which I attended. Bryan Mattimore was the speaker, and his topic was “Ways to Invent and Market Successful New Products”. It was great seeing local inventors at the zoom meeting, and discussing inventing. For more information about IACT go here.
Energy Storage System Patented!
My clients John D. Upperman of Zion Grove,k PA and Ralph Greenberg of Santa Rosa, CA have received a patent on their invention for a System and Method for Liquid Energy Storage. The patent can be seen here.
I will be teaching a class on Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights for individual and small businesses in March!
On March 19, and 26 at 6:30 pm until 8:30 pm each night, I will be offering a course through Milford Adult Education on Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights for individual and small businesses. The class will be held and Jonathan Law High School, Room 101, 20 Lansdale Ave, Milford, CT 06460. If you are a new inventor, or a small business owner who needs to understand about patents, trademarks and copryrights, this class if for you! You can find out more, and sign up here.
INVENTORS ASSOCIATION OF CONNECTICUT HOLIDAY PARTY THIS SUNDAY!
I will be attending the Inventors Association of Connecticut (IACT) Holiday Party this Sunday, Dec 22, 2019 at Fairfield Craft Ales, located in Stratford. It will be great fun seeing local inventors at this festive time of the year. The party is for members of IACT, if you are interested, please join IACT. More information on joining IACT can be found here .
Inventors Association of Connecticut November 26, 2019!
I will be attending the Inventors Association of Connecticut meeting tomorrow night, November 26, 2019 at Fairfield University. Game and Toy inventor Mary Ellroy will be presenting on “Licencing Your Game and Toy Inventions”. Mary will talk about investigating the successful ideation and go-to-market strategy that she used. of a serial inventor and former IACT President, Mary Ellroy. Mary Ellroy has been in the toy business since 1990, and is an inventor of toys and games and an agent for toy and game inventors. She comes to toy invention with a corporate marketing background. She received an MBA from the Boston College School of Management (now the Carroll School of Management at Boston College.) Past positions included a Director position at a Fortune 50 company, a vice presidency/ownership position in a newspaper advertising firm, and various advertising and media positions. Her creative accomplishments in consumer marketing inspired her to turn that creativity to toys and games. More information on the meeting can be found here.
MAKEHAVEN—MAKERSPACE IN NEW HAVEN
Today I made an impromptu trip to MakeHaven in New Haven. A member, John, was working there and gave me a quick tour of their 5000 sqft facility. They have all sorts of tools and machinery that members can use, such as a working kitchen, homebrew area, quilting frame and CNC quilter, GNC router, injection molder, and of course 3D printers, and a bunch of other stuff. It was a very impressive makerspace. The operations manager Kath showed up, and we had a very nice chat. More information can be found here.
Judging at the Milford Invention Convention
On Saturday March 23, 2019 I had the honor to be a judge for the Milford Invention Convention, where students from 3rd through 8th grade presented their inventions. The winners will proceed to the Connecticut Invention Convention at UCONN in Storrs. At the Milford Invention Convention, students think of problems, brainstorm potential solutions, prototype and refine a product, and eventually present their solution at the convention. It was great to see these young minds innovate! Information about the Milford Invention Convention can be found here, and information about the Connecticut Invention Convention can be found here.