Inventor Organizations
The list below is sorted alphabetically by State. If your organization is not listed and you would like to be please email stephen@inventright.com to be added to the list.
Tim Crawley - President
The Inventors Association of Arizona (IAA) is a non-profit organization formed to educate, support and provide a centralized source of information for inventors at all levels. The organization is comprised of inventors and entrepreneurs. The synergy of members' knowledge and experience helps individual, independent inventors navigate the often challenging process of developing their business and/or product idea through education and networking. With the right tools and contacts, inventors improve their prospect of turning an idea into a reality and successfully presenting it to market.
George White - President
Located in Southern California
We are a 20 year old nonprofit corporation entirely operated by volunteers for the benefit of our members and, through our seminars, the general public. We educate and encourage inventors and entrepreneurs.
Excluding late November to mid January we hold two meetings per month in Orange County California. A member's assistance meeting takes place on the last Friday of the month and a speaker series, open to the public, is held on the second Friday of the month.
Adrian Pelkus - President
Are you ready to turn that idea into a product?
I invite you to attend the San Diego Inventors Forum in Del Mar.
Come hear successful local San Diego inventors speak at the SDIF to learn how they developed their marketable products.
Come and get motivated, network in a room filled with helpful people and get guidance and advice on taking your first or next step necessary to turn your ideas into a reality.
At our meetings you can meet our Mentor inventors and professionals in many relative fields.
You can ask financing, business, marketing, legal and engineering questions and present your ideas to private individuals or group review.
Andrew Krauss - President
Inventors Alliance was formed in 1993 solely for educational purposes. The mission of Inventors Alliance is to educate inventors enabling them to sell their ideas. Subscribing to any one of our chapter newsletters is absolutely free and is the best way to get notification of upcoming on and off-line meetings. We are here to support independent inventors, product developers and innovative companies through our educational and networking opportunities.
Glen Kotapish - President
The Inventors Network of the Capital Area is a non-profit educational organization founded in 1993. Our members are interested in patents, the innovation process, product design, marketing, licensing, prototyping and other product development issues.
Every month we host a meeting with a speaker and time for experienced and beginning inventors to network. Private sector speakers at past meetings have included successful inventors, and experts in: marketing, branding, patenting, licensing, prototyping, venture capital, and entrepreneurship. Speakers at previous meetings have also included officials from the US Patent & Trademark Office of Independent Inventor Programs and representatives of government small business assistance programs.
Joseph Gross - President
Edison Inventors Association is dedicated to reinvigorate and advance the inventive and entrepreneurial spirit of Thomas Alva Edison.
We are a diversified group of people sharing time, information, experiences and understanding of the invention and entrepreneurial process.
Leo Mazur - President
The ISSF is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation engaged primarily in the organization of monthly meetings, inventors fairs, and seminars for the purpose of facilitating networking and educating its members and guests. The group's mission is to create a forum that fosters creativity, free thinking and education that will further our members' innovations. Meetings are held the first Saturday of the month (unless otherwise posted) at 1 PM at LIGI TOOL & Engineering, Inc., 3220 SW 15th Street, Deerfield Beach, FL 33442.
Wayne Rasanen - President
The Tampa Bay Inventors council is a group of talented men and women inventors who network and support each other through semi-monthly meetings. Some of our members are professional inventors who have many patents. Some are novices who wish to learn.
We have active members willing to share their expertise and experience with fellow inventors!
Dave Savage
Every month, at our general meeting, 70+ people listen to a presentation from an expert in some area of product development, manufacturing, distribution or business development. Sometimes we have inventor/entrepreneurs, with products on the market, share their journey and we learn their lessons from successes and mistakes. The second half of the meeting includes a Q&A session on a related range of topics.
Gary Franklin - President
Welcome to Hawaii’s home for inventors! The Hawaii Inventors Club’s purpose is to foster education and support for independent inventors and entrepreneurs.
Please see our “News” section on our website for the latest word on events and speakers.
Frank Morosky - President
To assist, disseminate and promote services, education and networking opportunities to independent inventors. Founded in early 2004 our chapter has made continued strides in sharing information resources to both amateur and seasoned inventors and continues promoting individual inventors.
We welcome all individuals and parties whom share the goal in further promoting an Iowa based resource for inventors and product assimilation. Meetings are typically held every 2nd Monday of the month. Meetings are free and dress is casual.
Our typical meeting will include a guest speaker and they will speak on a variety of topics that are of interest to inventors. Past speakers include patent attorneys and prototype makers. After the speaker talks we always open it up for question and answers so the attendees can ask their specific questions. We then have a short business meeting.
Calvin Flowers - President
The Chicago 1st Black Inventors/ Entrepreneurs Organization’s (CFBIEO) goal is to provide its members with exclusive resources that will enable them to bring their invention to fruition and provide ongoing support.
Don Skaggs - President
Imagine being part of a network of inventors, entrepreneurs and other creative people; a non-profit group run by inventors for inventors, and having access to the support, guidance and experience for making your idea a reality.....
The CKIC is that and much more. Our monthly meetings address topics such as patent law, marketing, business plans, prototyping, funding and technologies.
Robert Hausslein - President
IANE, founded on July 28, 1977, is a group of inventors having a common interest in helping fellow inventors get
their inventions moving along the right track. Expert speakers and members are available to provide guidance to inventors in the patent protection area, marketing, product development, prototyping and other topics of interest to inventors. Many IANE members have decades of experience in inventing matters and can provide valuable insight into the often perplexing invention process. Anyone interested in inventing should join IANE.
Carrie Jeske - President
The Inventors Club of Kansas City (ICKC) is a nonprofit organization with about 600 members and a monthly meeting attendance of 50 to 80 people. Recently, we added live web streaming so people from all around the United States and abroad benefit from our efforts. The meetings are free and open to the public, held the third Tuesday of each month at the Kauffman Foundation Conference Center in Kansas City, Missouri. The ICKC Board of Directors firmly believe new inventions, technology and the unique individuals that create them make up our countrys most valuable resources. ICKC provides a learning forum for inventor/entrepreneurs and those in allied fields, benefiting all involved. Our purpose is to provide innovative education and support that will stimulate members to guide their ides through the idea development process from validation, evaluation, competitive analysis, business planning, funding, prototyping, patenting, marketing, distribution and licensing. Our hope is to see innovation thrive and individuals "Soar To Success", benefiting themselves, the community, and the nation.
Chris Wittmann - President
Nevada Inventors Association was Founded in 1987 by Don Costar. Celebrating over 20 years of service to Nevada --- Helping the world and innovation, one inventor at a time... okay maybe more than one...in parallel... not series.. "Education, Assistance, and Networking for the Inventor" - By helping others with this thing called a "patent", we share and learn, with your ideas and our ideas, we offer privacy, testimony and witness, trust, confidentiality (don't trust anyone), respect, experience, successes and failures, and in turn the result the NIA help's this world one inventor at a time.... At times we can consider ourselves a small think tank and group of pioneers, performers, doers, testers, bit twiddlers, thinkers, engineers, socializers, reporters, farmers, business owners, leaders, and denizens, etc. Our organizational entity status of the Nevada Inventors Association with the IRS is a 501(c)(6).
Come join us each and every 4th Saturday of the month.
Meeting Place
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300 East 2nd St., #1405 Reno, NV, 89501
Patrick Raymond - President
Got an invention and want to learn how to license or launch it? Are you an entrepreneur with intellectual property worth protecting? The Inventors Association of Manhattan is for you. Do you offer services to inventors like patenting, prototyping, new product design, licensing, investing, marketing and sales? The IAM is also for you.
Since 2007, we have grown to 600+ members. We meet in a professional, trusting atmosphere every 2nd Monday of the month, featuring an expert guest speaker, lively group discussion and a Peer Review session. See our member reviews. General public welcome. Cost: $15 (seat is guaranteed for us online early birds) or $20 cash at the door (for you last-minute folks).
Brett Strouss - President
The American Society of Inventors (ASI) is a non-profit organization formed in 1953 to bring inventors together and to educate them on protecting, developing, and marketing or licensing their invention.
We have general membership meetings every two months, and the Board meets every month to provide evaluations of inventions presented by our members.
Tom Kulaga - President
The Tennessee Inventors Association is an organization in East Tennessee dedicated to promoting independent inventors. Members are from Knoxville and Oak Ridge and some come from Chattanooga, Cleveland, Bristol, Johnson City, Morristown, and other East Tennessee areas. The TIA also has members from as far away as Ohio and Virginia. The Tennessee Inventors Association is a great resource for inventors, innovators, and entrepreneurs.
George Burkhart
We provide monthly meetings where members can meet and discuss their ideas, problems and solutions, talk with community resource members, and hear guest speakers talk about their real world experiences.
This provides a forum where this information may be shared and discussed to expand and educate the membership of the group.
Additional on-line resources are available to help direct the inventor and entrepreneur to the local and national organizations to help them as their ideas progress from concept to market.
Chris Ritchie - President
The Austin Inventors and Entrepreneurs Association (AIEA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping individual inventors and entrepreneurs get their product to market. We are a member-lead organization motivated by the lack of resources and support encountered while developing and marketing an invention.
Otto Glaser - 713-896-9935
With more than 200 paid-up members, the Houston Inventors Association is by far the largest inventors group in America. Worldwide, the city of Houston ranks fifth in inventiveness, surpassed only by four Japanese cities. Since our beginning in 1983, HIA has become one of the strongest voices in America for the independent inventor, but we also include academic and corporate innovators. Our motto, "Inventors Helping Inventors", expresses our purpose, which we accomplish by sharing our experience in technical areas and our first-hand knowledge of the difficulties in getting from raw idea to marketable product.
Expert speakers at our monthly meetings offer their success stories, give briefings on important technical areas, or share tips for making money from innovation. HIA also helps its members by providing workshops on special topics, such as patent fundamentals, injection molding, etc. At our monthly meetings, we connect inventors having a problem with other members who can help to solve it. We do our best to protect our members from the multifarious scams targeted at them by companies that charge an up-front fee for worthless invention development.
Chief among all of the benefits of membership is conversation with some of the most interesting, well-informed, and positive people in Houston, who are at the frontier of emerging technologies.
Chris Johnson
The Spirit of Renaissance® Foundation is a charitable corporation founded to rekindle the independent creative spirit typified by men like the Wright Brothers, Henry Ford, Philo Farnsworth, etc. As we look around, we see that in every aspect of life we benefit from the efforts of those who have paid the price to create and make new products available. Had they not been motivated to bring those inventions to light, how different our economy - even our world - would be. They have provided us a life of comfort and convenience and have vastly broadened our choices of entertainment and recreation.
AZ: Inventors Association of Arizona
623-680-5192
CA: Inventors Forum : Los Angeles
714-540-2491
CA: San Diego Inventors Forum
760-591-9608
CA: Inventors Alliance, Bay Area Chapter
650-964-1576
DC: Inventors Network of the Capital Area
410-391-7573
FL: Edison Inventors Association - Fort Myers
239-292-0819
FL: Inventors Society of South Florida
FL: Tampa Bay Inventors Council
727-372-0155
GA: Inventors Association of Georgia
404-323-8686
HI: Hawaii Inventors Club
IA: Iowa Inventors Group
206-350-6035
IL: Chicago First Black Inventors & Entrepreneurs Organization
773-729-0364
KY: Central Kentucky Inventors Council
859-201-1311
MA: Inventors' Association of New England
781-274-8500
MO: Inventor's Club of Kansas City
913-322-1895
NV: Nevada Inventors Association
(775) 323-7677 x108
NY: Inventors Association of Manhattan
PA: American Society of Inventors
215-546-6601
TN: Tennessee Inventors Association
865-483-0151
TX: Alamo Inventors - San Antonio
210-240-5011
TX: Austin Inventors and Entrepreneurs Association
512-981-6778
TX: Houston Inventors Association
Ken Roddy - 713-686-7676 
UT: Utah Inventors
(801) 748-1939
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