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First went live on the Web in 1999 & Today 3/6/2013
It is no longer updated
update exemption Mick Thomson's Boaters Lockmate
The information is still of use to Inventors click the links
The MISSION
TO REALLY HELP LONE INVENTORS
AND DISCLOSE THE
THAT IS OUT THERE
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Sorry TIFUK never got going - Any ref to www.TIFUK.com replace with
You JOIN or START an Inventors Club (see below)
The First & BEST “No Bullshit” advice is
Join The Inventors Fellowship UK.
It's FREE to join and NO membership fees EVER and you get to use the FREE Forum
www.TIFUK.com
Don't go yet, read and digest the rest of this site first.
This is still true - It may take some time so go get a cup of tea and come back.
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Get to know the
bullshit that is out there by Joining a TIF club and let's cut the crap together.
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E&OE Dyslexic ---
means - Errors & Omissions Excepted -
I CAN’T SPELL
My lovely wife normally checks the spelling but sometimes I get het up, and send or post things thing that are sometimes dramatically wrong.
The spell checker helps a little but also hinders.
E&OE Dyslexic
DYSLEXIC = I R.M.Farwell have been assessed to have a number of dyslexic traits that give rise to problems when compiling letters. Punctuation, spelling words, and selecting the correct words from a spell checker is sometimes a problem and may unintentionally offend. It has been known to give much hilarity in some cases and create problems in others, for example I have dispatched letters using wrong words: - Prepaid / Prepared - Probably / Properly - Suicide/ Subsidised – Weary / Wary,
“I am weary of giving full answers” - “I am wary of giving full answers”
“you Properly think me a dickhead” - you Probably think me a dickhead”
“I have prepaid the patent” – ““I have prepared the patent”
“Exhibition stands at Suicide rates” - “Exhibition stands at Subsidised rates”
“Spiking to stop pigeons Rusting” - “Spiking to stop pigeons Roosting”
So you must allow latitude.
Starting an Inventors' Club
Hints and Tips
- Look at Inventors' clubs to see if there are already any in your area or nearby.
- Contact surrounding clubs to see if they cover your area, know of any that do and/or can provide help/support.
- Pick a suitable location, time and date for an initial meeting.
- Publicise it as much as possible in the target area.
- Hold an informal first meeting to judge level of interest, agree on what prospective members want out of such a club and how it should be run.
- To succeed as an inventor's club, membership should be:
- Informative (general)
- Helpful (specific)
- Fun (sociable and non-bureaucratic)
Here is the start up experience of the Rural Inventors' Club in West Sussex:
Living in a small village, it occurred to me that there is a need to be creative, to use resources well, to find ways of accessing those resources, so we might have all the ingredients for an Inventors Club.
The first step was to find venue. Being a small village, the place to start seemed likely to be the pub! Fortunately the landlady has a daughter who won an inventor's award when at school so that was a good start.
Venue date and time agreed, we then needed a poster to put around the houses and on boards. Writing up what to say was not easy. Mustn't be too formal, too connected to inventions, which may put people off who just want a creativity club or similar. The word and emphasis on club seemed a good idea. First notice went in the pub. A chat to the local shopkeeper resulted in a free place for the poster in the window and on the local notice board. The shop in the next village wanted to charge but that was OK, and then it was a matter of getting some around the houses.
Even in a small village it is interesting how many people do not even see the local notices. So what I learned was to explain to as many people as possible what the club might be about, a club for local people to help with anything to do with inventing, creative ideas for the village and community, anything like that.
Fortunately I managed to get a local newspaper reporter interested and she came to the meeting. That not only helped in getting word out about the meeting but also validated the importance of the event.
The first meeting itself was very informal, if not only because people kept arriving all the time. Slowly an open discussion occurred and clarification came. At the end, someone said, "I just hadn't realised what the meeting would be about!"
So the message there would be, don't make too much of the inventing word, it is likely to put people off. The people who arrived are 'would be inventors', but would not come along to an inventor's meeting because they do not think they qualify. They don't know enough.
The jobs to do now are to elect a committee, write a constitution, agree next steps. If the numbers keep coming then it will be fine. The key will be to keep it very relaxed.
What amazed me was the people resources all around, including two patent attorneys. And using local people including the pub landlady is so useful. Word of mouth is best.
So do we have some inventors around? Yes, including some who have Smart Awards. Do we have a club? I hope so.
Contributed by Graham Rawlinson
E&OE Dyslexic