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Alliances
& Partners
The National Education Association (NEA)
The National Education Association is the nation's largest
professional employee organization, representing 2.8 million
elementary and secondary teachers, higher education faculty,
education support professionals, school administrators, retired
educators and students preparing to become teachers.
www.nea.org
PatentCafé®
PatentCafé is the world’s largest Internet portal for
intellectual property information, products, services and data resources
relating to patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets. The
company's global patent database is the largest searchable multi-lingual
patent repository containing more than 20 million patents.
One of the most recognized IP brands, PatentCafe services over 1/2
million inventors, patent attorneys, corporate counsel, intellectual
property managers, and members from academia and government agencies
worldwide. PatentCafe's commercial Internet properties provide valuable IP
data for technology development, litigation support, patent valuation,
licensing and IP management for Fortune 100 companies, as well as
patent and corporate attorneys, engineers, inventors, authors and
entertainers, IP managers and entrepreneurs, educators, technology
licensing professionals, and intellectual property experts. PatentCafe has developed and supported kids invention competition
programs since its founding.
www.IAMcafe.com | www.PatentCafe.com
Kids Invent™
Kids Invent!™ develops and distributes curriculum for one
week summer camps, after school programs, and classroom learning
that foster creative thinking, inventing and entrepreneurial enterprise
among elementary and middle school children. Professors Ed Sobey
and Timothy M. Stearns of the Lyles Center created the curriculum
and design of the programs for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at
California State University, Fresno. They currently reach thousands
of kids across the United States with their programs.
www.kidsinvent.com
National Inventor Fraud Center
The National Inventor Fraud Center, Inc. (NIFC) was founded with
the goal to provide information to consumers about invention promotion
companies and how people can market their ideas. Many inventors
do not realize that some invention marketing companies charge thousands
of dollars, yet have success rates of 0.00. The goal of the NIFC
is to educate and help inventors make the right decisions.
www.inventorfraud.com
Le
Tourneau University
LeTourneau University in Longview, Texas, is named for its founder,
the renowned inventor Robert Gilmore LeTourneau who had over 300
patents and, at the time of his death in 1969, was one of the top
20 most prolific inventors worldwide. Inspired by faith and a spirit
of ingenuity, LeTourneau University integrates learning, living
and Christian leadership in a community of integrity, academic quality
and technological innovation. LeTourneau holds an annual Invention
& Design Contest for inventors from second grade through Adults
that began in 1986.
www.letu.edu
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