INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
International Federation of Inventors’ Associations (IFIA).
A nongovernmental organization created by inventor associations in 1968. Its membership represents some 100 countries.
http://www.invention-ifia.ch
NORTH AMERICA
UNITED STATES
U.S. NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
United Inventors Association of the USA
Carol Oldenburg
P.O. Box 23447
Rochester, NY 14692
Tel: (585) 359-9310
Fax: (585) 359-1132
UIAUSA@aol.com
National Congress of Inventor Organizations
Stephen Gnass
P.O. Box 931881
Los Angeles, CA 90093
Tel: (323) 878-6952
Fax: (213) 947-1079
ncio@inventionconvention.com/ncio
U.S. INVENTOR ORGANIZATIONS BY STATE, DISTRICT, & TERRITORY
ALABAMA
Alabama Inventors Clubs
Francisco Guerra
c/o Snowmasters
3481 County Road 93
Anderson, AL 35610
Tel: (256) 229-5551
Francisco@snowmasters.com
Mike Hubka
Tel: (256) 331-5270
hubka@nwscc.edu
Invent Alabama
Bruce Koppenhoefer
137 Mission Circle
Montevallo, AL 35115
Tel: (866) 745-6319
Fax: (205) 250-8013
bkoppy@hiwaay.net
ALASKA
Alaska Inventors & Entrepreneurs
Pam Middaugh
PO Box 241801
Anchorage, AK 99524-1801
Tel: (907) 563-4337 Fax: same
inventor@arctic.net
http://www.arctic.net/~inventor/
Inventors Institute of Alaska
Al Jorgensen
PO Box 876154
Wasilla, AK 99687
Tel: (907) 376-5114
ARIZONA
Inventors Association of Arizona
Lisa Lloyd
3335 North Manor Drive
Tucson, AZ 85750
Tel: 520-722-9545
Lisa@icaninvent.com
www.azinventors.org
ARKANSAS
Inventors Congress Inc.
Garland Bull
Rt2 – Box 1630
Dandanell, AR 72834
Tel: (501) 229-4515
CALIFORNIA
Inventors Forum
Mike Falley
PO Box 8008
Huntington Beach, CA 92615
Tel: (714) 540-2491
Inventors Alliance
President – Andrew Krauss
PO BOX 390219
Mountain View, CA 94039
Tel: 650-964-1576
Fax: 810-483-6814
president7@InventorsAlliance.org
www.inventorsalliance.org/index.cgi?internet
Inventors Alliance – Sacramento
Ed Silva
(916) 224-9076
www.inventorsalliance.org
Inventors Forum of San Diego
Greg Lauren
11292 Poblado Road
San Diego, CA 92127
Tel: (858) 451-1028
Fax: (858) 451-6154
Enovex@aol.com
Bruce Sawyer Center
Steve Schneider
4261 Brookshire Circle
Santa Rosa, CA 95405
((707) 524-1773
American Inventor Network
Jeff McGrew
1320 High School Rd.
Sebastopol, CA 95472
Tel: (707) 823-3865
Fax: (707) 823-0913
Inventors Alliance of Northern California
Jim DeLang
6514 Elmira Drive
Redding, CA 96001
Tel: (530) 241-5222
sagn@charter.net
Idea to Market Network
Sidnee Cox
P.O. Box 12248, Santa Rosa, CA 95406
1-800-ITM-3210
www.ideatomarket.org
sidnee@ap.net
COLORADO
Rocky Mtn. Inventors Association
1852 S. Cole St.
Lakewood, CO 80228
Tel: (303) 670-3760(answering service)
Fax: (720) 962-5026
RMInventor@yahoo.com
www.RMInventor.org
CONNECTICUT
Christian Inventors Association
Pal Asija
7 Woonsocket Ave.
Shelton, CT 06484
Tel: (203) 924-9538
pal@ourpal.com
Danbury Innovators Guild
Danbury, CT
Tel: (203) 426-4205
iambest2@juno.com
Inventors Assn. of Connecticut
Bob Distinti, Vice President
46 Rutland Ave.
Fairfield, CT 06825
Tel: (203) 331-9696
IACT@inventus.org (John Ruhnke, Pres.)
www.inventus.org
DELAWARE
Early Stage East
3 Mill Road, Ste 201A
Wilmington, DE 19806
Tel: (302) 777-2460
info@earlystageeast.org
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Inventors Network of the Capital Area
Glen Kotapish, President
PO Box 5093
Baltimore, MD 21220
Tel: 410-391-7573
OR
Ray Gilbert
6501 Inwood Drive
Springfield, VA 22150
Tel: (703) 971-7443
Fax: (703) 971-9216
www.dcinventors.org
FLORIDA
Inventors Soc. of South Florida
Leo Mazure
PO Box 6008
Delray Beech, FL 33482
Tel: 973-219-9627
www.InventorsSociety.net
Edison Inventors Association, Inc.
Gary Nelson
P.O. Box 07398
Ft. Myers, FL 33919
Tel: (941) 267-9746
Fax: (239) 267-9746
drghn@aol.com
www.edisoninventors.org
Tampa Bay Inventors’ Council
Jennifer Knoepp
7441 114th Avenue North, Suite 607
Largo, FL 33773-5124
Tel: (727) 548-5083
http://patent-faq.com/tbichome.htm
Inventors Council of Central Florida
David Flinchbaugh
4855 Big Oaks Ln.
Orlando, FL 32806-7826
Tel: (407) 760-7200
Fax: (407) 438-3922
erdavidflinchbaugh@bellsouth.net
Space Coast Inventors Guild
Angel L. Pacheco, Sr.
1221 Pine Tree Dr.
Indian Harbour Beach, FL 32937
Tel: (321) 773-4031
Fax: same
Tampa Bay Inventors Council
Wayne Rasanen
7752 Royal Hart Drive
New Port Ritchey, FL 34653
Tel: (727) 565-2085
www.tbic.us
GEORGIA
Inventor Assoc. of Georgia, Inc.
Ron Reardon
Tel: (770) 241-4907
rreardon@bellsouth.net
jwww.geocities.com/iaggroup
HAWAII
Hawaii-International Inventors Association, Inc.
Richard Sakoda
945 Makaiwa Street
Honolulu, HI 96816
Tel: (808) 523-5555
Fax: (808) 538-3168
sakodaesq@aol.com
IDAHO
ILLINOIS
Inventors’ Council
Don Moyer
431 S. Dearborn #705
Chicago, IL 60605
patent@donmoyer.com
http://www.donmoyer.com
Illinois Innovators & Inventor’s Club
PO Box 623
Edwardsville, IL 62025
Tel: (618) 656-7445
Invent@Charter-IL.com
INDIANA
Indiana Inventors Association
Robert Humbert
5514 So. Adams
Marion, IN 46953
Tel: (765) 674-2845
Fax: (765) 733-0579
arhumbert@bpsinet.com
IOWA
Drake University Inventure Program
Ben Swartz
SBDC-Drake University
2507 University Avenue
Des Moines, IA 50311
Tel: (515) 271-2655
KANSAS
Inventors Assoc. of So. Central Kansas
Richard Freidenberger
2302 No. Amarado St.
Wichita KS, 67205
Tel: (316) 721-1866
richard@inventkansas.com
http://www.inventkansas.com
Kansas Association of Inventors
Clayton Williamson
272 W. 6th St.
Hoisington, KS 67544
(316) 653-2165
clayton@hoisington.com
Mid-America Inventors Association
David Herron
PO Box 2778
Kansas City, KS 66110
(913) 371-7011
midamerica-inventors@kc.rr.com
www.midamerica-inventors.com
KENTUCKY
Central Kentucky Inventors Council, Inc.
Donald L. West, President
3060 Pine Ridge Road
Winchester, KY 40391
Tel: (859) 842-4110
dlwest3@yahoo.com
LOUISIANA
MAINE
Portland Inventors Forum–
Dept Industrial Co-op
Jake Ward
University of Maine
5717 Corbett Hall
Orono, ME 04469-5717
Tel: (207)581-1488
Fax: (207) 581-1479
jsward@maine.edu
www.umaine.edu/DIC
MARYLAND
Inventors Network of the Capital Area
Glen Kotapish, President
PO Box 5093
Baltimore, MD 21220
Tel: 410-391-7573
OR
Ray Gilbert
6501 Inwood Drive
Springfield, VA 22150
Tel: (703) 971-7443
Fax: (703) 971-9216
www.dcinventors.org
MASSACHUSETTS
Cape Cod Inventors Association
Ernest Bauer
Briar Main — P.O. Box 143
Wellfleet, MA 02667
Tel: (508) 349-1628
Greater Boston Inventors Association
Inventors Association of New England
Chris Holt
P.O. Box 577
Pepperal, MA 01463
Phone: (978) 433-2397
Fax: (978) 433-3516
crholt@aol.com
Innovators Resource Network
(Please note that group meets in Springfield, MA)
Dave Cormier and Karyl Lynch
Pelham West Associates
P.O. Box 137
Shutesbury, MA 01072-0137
Tel: (413) 259-2006
info@IRNetwork.org
Worcester Area Inventors
Jeff White
25 Warren Street
Upton, MA 01568
Tel: (508) 529-3552
swcei@aol.com
MICHIGAN
Inventors Association of Metropolitan Detroit
Frank Wales
749 Clairepointe Circle
St. Clair, MI 48081
Inventors’ Council of Mid-Michigan
Tim Langan, President
Cliotech@chartermi.net
Ron Brogquist, Membership Director
ICEI@webtv.net
11403 Bray Road
Clio, MI 48420
Tel: (810) 516-8564
www.flintchamber.org
Inventors Club of Michigan
Carl Preston
524 Curtis Road
E. Lansing, MI 48823
Tel: (517) 332-3561
MINNESOTA
Society of Minnesota Inventors
Paul Paris
13055 Riverdale Drive
Suite 500-236
Coon Rapids, MN
Tel: (763) 753-2766
PGPENT@yahoo.com
Inventors’ Network (Mpls./St.Paul)
Bill Baker
23 Empire Dr., Ste. 105
St. Paul, MN 55103
(651) 602-3175
www.inventorsnetwork.org
Minnesota Inventors Congress
Jennifer Moritz, Coordinator
PO Box 71
Redwood Falls, MN 56283-0071
Tel: (507) 637-2344
Tel: 1-800-468-3681
Fax: (507) 637-8399
mic@invent1.org
www.invent1.org
MISSOURI
Women’s Inventor Project
Betty Rozier
7400 Foxmount
Hazlewood, MO 63042
Mid-America Inventors Association
Carl Minzes
8911 East 29th St.
Kansas City, MO 64129-1502
Tel: (816) 254-9542
Fax: (816) 221-3995
Inventors Association of St. Louis
Robert Scheinkman
P.O. Box 410111
St. Louis, MO 63141
(314) 432-1291
Web site
dayjobIASL@Webtv.net
http://www.communityconnection.org/resource_pages/42646.html
Fourth Thursday of the month
MISSISSIPPI
Mississippi SBDC Inventor Assistance
Bob Lantrip
B 19 Jeanette Phillips Dr.
Tel: (662) 915-5001 or
(800) 725-7232 (for use in MS only)
Fax:(662) 915-5650
blantrip@olemiss.edu
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/mssbdc/invent.html
Society of Mississippi Inventors
Michele Davis
1923 Spillway Rd., #221
Brandon, MS 39047
Tel: (601) 238-2402
Fax: (601) 992-1009
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/mssbdc/invent.html
gwe2121@bellsouth.net
MONTANA
Blue Sky Inventors
Warren George
1200 Blair Lane, Apt. #1
Billings, MT 59102
Tel: (406) 259-9110
Montana Inventors Assn.
Casey Emerson
5350 Love Lane
Bozeman, MT 59715
Tel: (406) 586-1541
Fax: (406) 585-9028
NEBRASKA
Roger Reyda
92 Ideal Way
Brainard, NE 68626
Tel: (402) 545-2179 Fax: Same
NEVADA
Nevada Inventors Association
Vince Chemist
PO Box 11008
Reno, NV 89510-1108
Tel: (775) 677-0123
Fax: (775) 677-1322
infor@nevadainventors.org
www.nevadainventors.org
Inventors Society of Southern Nevada
Penny J. Ballou
3627 Huerta Drive
Las Vegas, NV 89121
Phone/Fax: (702) 435-7741
NEW HAMPSHIRE
NEW JERSEY
Jersey Shore Inventors Club
Bill Hincher
23 Pittenger Pond Rd.
Freehold, NJ 07728
(732) 407-8885
IdeasBiz@aol.com
Kean Univ. SBDC
Mira Kostak
215 North Ave. – Rm 242
Union NJ 07083
Tel: (908) 737-5950
Fax: (908) 737-5955
National Society of Inventors
Shelia Kalisher
94 North Rockledge Dr.
Livingston, NJ 07039-1121
Tel: (973) 994-9282
Fax: (973) 535-0777
http://www.nationalinventors.com/ has a list of inventor groups
New Jersey Entrepreneurs Forum
Jeff Milanette
P.O. Box 313
Westfield, NJ 07091-0313
JMilanette@aol.com
www.njef.org
NEW MEXICO
New Mexico Inventors Club
Albert Goodman
PO Box 30062
Albuquerque, NM 87190
Tel/Fax: (505) 266-3541
NEW YORK
The Aurora Club
Richard Guard
11880 Centerline Road
South Wales, NY 14139 (located Southeast of Buffalo)
Tel: (716) 652-4704
Long Island Forum for Technology, Inc.
Lisa Carter
111 West main Street
Bay Shore, NY 11706
Tel: (631) 969-3700
Fax: (631) 969-4489
NY Society of Professional Inventors
Daniel Weiss
Box 216
Farmingdale, NY 11735-9996
Tel: (516) 798-1490
Fax: (516) 799-1362
Inventors Society of Western New York
Bob Murray
52 Manor Hill Drive.
Fairport, NY 14450
Tel: (585) 223-1225
inventnewyork@aol.com
Binghamton Inventors Network
Mark Pierson
Tel: (607) 648-4626
mvpierson@aol.com
NORTH CAROLINA
NORTH DAKOTA
OHIO
Inventor’s Council of Cincinnati
Andrea Brady, President
121 Bradford Drive
Milford, OH 45150
Tel: (513) 831-0664
Fax: (513) 831-6328
InventorsCouncil@fuse.net
Inventors Connection Greater Cleveland
Bill Bazik
PO Box 360804
Strongville, OH 44136
Tel: (216)226-9681 (Cal Wight)
Fax: (440) 238-1210
icgc@usa.com
http://members.aol.com/icgc/index.htm
Inventors Network, Inc.
Bob Stonecypher
1275 Kinnear Rd.
Columbus, OH 43212
Tel: (614) 470-0144
13832667@msn.com
Inventors Council of Canton
Frank Fleischer
303 55th Street NW
No. Canton, OH 44720
(330) 499-1262
FFleischer@neo.rr.com
Inventors Council of Dayton
George Pierce
PO Box 611
Dayton, OH 45409
Tel: (937) 321-6580
Fax: (413) 208-9155
geopierce@earthlink.net
www.daytoninventors.com
Inventors Council of Greater Lorain
(Group has been disbanded. If you have this organization on your mailing list/database, please delete it)
Youngstown-Warren Inv. Assn.
Robert J. Herberger
rjh@mm-lawyers.com
500 City Center ONe – PO Box 500
Youngstown, OH 44501-0500
Tel: (330) 744-4481
OKLAHOMA
Oklahoma Inventors Congress
William H. Baker
PO Box 57464
Oklahoma City, OK 73157-7464
Tel: (405) 947-5782
Fax: (405) 947-6950
www.oklahomainventors.com
OREGON
So. Oregon Inventors Council
Nancy Hudson
332 W. 6th St.
SBDC@ S. Oregon State
Medford, OR 97501
Tel: (541)772-3478
Fax: (541)734-4813
South Coast Inventors Group
Lori Capps
2455 Maple Leaf Lane
North Bend, OR 97459
Tel: (541) 756-6866
Fax: (541) 756-5735
loribdc@uci.net
PENNSYLVANIA
American Society of Inventors
PO Box 58426
Philadelphia PA 19102-5426)
Tel: (215) 546-6601
hskillman@ddhs.com
Central Pennsylvania Inventors Assn.
Scott Pickford
117 N. 20th Street
Camp Hill, PA 17011
Tel: (717) 763-5742
Pennsylvania Inventors Assn.
Jerry T. Gorniak
2317 East 43rd St., Erie, PA 16510
Tel: (814) 825-5820
RHODE ISLAND
The Center for Design & Business
Cheryl A. Daria, Director
20 Washington Place
Providence, RI 02903
Tel: (401) 454-6108
Fax: (401) 454-6559
cfaria@risd.edu
SOUTH CAROLINA
Carolina Inventors Council
Marion Kobusch
108 Monarch Place
Taylors, SC 29687
Tel: (864) 268-9892
SOUTH DAKOTA
South Dakota Inventors Congress
Kent Rufer
P.O. Box 2220, SDSU-EERC
Brookings, SD 57007
Tel: (605) 688-4184
Fax: (605) 688-5880
TENNESSEE
Tennessee Inventors Assn. (East Tennessee)
Anne Alexeff, President
P.O. Box 11225
Knoxville, TN 37939-1225
Tel: (865) 981-2927
ialexeff@comcast.net
Inventors’ Association of Middle Tennessee
and South Kentucky
Marshal Frazer
3908 Trimble Rd.
Nashville, TN 37215
Tel: (615) 665-1525
timr@dtccom.net
TEXAS
Amarillo Inventors Association
Paul Kiefer, President
7000 West 45th
Amarillo, TX 79109
Tel: (806) 352-6085
Fax: (806) 352-6264
Houston Inventors Association
Ken Roddy
2916 West TC Jester #100
Houston, TX 77018
Tel: (713) 686-7676
Fax: (713) 686-7676
kenroddy@nol.net
Technology Advocates of San Antonio
Inventors &Entrepreneurs SIG
Mr. John Poston
10507 Auldine Drive
San Antonio, TX 78250
Tel: (210) 525-8510
Fax: (210) 525-0940
jposton@jbengineering.com
Texas Inventors Association
Barbara Pitts, Mary Sarao
P.O. Box 251248
Plano, TX 75025
barb@asktheinventors.com
UTAH
University of Utah
Engineering Experiment Station
Janeen Bennion
1495 East 100 South, Room 138
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
(801) 581-6348
VERMONT
Inventors Network of Vermont
Dave Dionne
4 Park Street
Springfield, VT 05156
Tel: (802) 885-5100 or (802) 885-8178
Invent Vermont
Norman Etkind
PO Box 82
Woodbury, VT 05681
Tel: (802) 472-8741
Netkind@att.net
VIRGINIA
Inventors Network of the Capital Area
Glen Kotapish, President
PO Box 5093
Baltimore, MD 21220
Tel: 410-391-7573
OR
Ray Gilbert
6501 Inwood Drive
Springfield, VA 22150
Tel: (703) 971-7443
Fax: (703) 971-9216
Blue Ridge Inventor’s Club
Mac Woodward
P.O. Box 6701
Charlottesville, VA 22906-6701
Tel: (434) 973-3708
Fax: (434) 973-2004
mac@luckycat.com
WASHINGTON
Inventors Network
Rick Aydelott
PO Box 5575
Vancouver, WA 98668
Tel: (503) 239-8299
Whidbey Island Inventor Network
Matthew Swett
P.O. Box 1026
Langley, WA 98260
Tel: (360) 678-0269
wiin@whidbey.com
WEST VIRGINIA
WISCONSIN
Inventors Network of Wisconsin
Jeff Hitzler
1066 Saint Paul Street
Green Bay, WI 54304
Tel: (920) 429-0331
inventorgb@msn.com
PUERTO RICO
Puerto Rico Inventors Association
Bill Diaz
PO Box 1081
Saint Just, PR 00978
Tel: (787) 760-5074
CANADA
Inventors Alliance of Canada
Mark Ellwood
350 Sunnyside Ave.
Toronto, Ontario M6R 2R6
Tel: (416) 410-7792
ellwood@netcom.ca
http://www.inventorsalliance.com
British Columbia Inventors’ Society
Richard Parson
P.O. Box 78055
Vancouver, BC Canada V5N 5W1
Tel: Joann Robertson (604) 707 0250
admin@bcinventor.com
Inter Atlantic Inventors Club
Tomas Romero
28021 Tacoma PO
Dartmouth NS Canada B2W 6E2
Tel: (902) 435-5218
Fax: (902) 434-4221
Inventors Club of Brantford
Les Sutch
73 Palace Street, Brantford, Ontario
Canada N3T 3W8
Tel: (519) 753-7735
Fax: (519) 756-7075
G. Schram: grahamschram@hotmail.com
Women’s Inventor’s Project –
Toronto Canada
107 Holm Crescent
Thornhill, Ontario L3T 5J4
Canada, www.womenip.com
SOUTH AMERICA
Argentina
Brazil
Uruguay
http://www.markspatents.com/inventores
ASIA
Hong Kong
India
Japan
Korea
Kuwait
Malaysia
Russia
Singapore
Taiwan
http://www.inventor.org.tw/html/index.ph
AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND
Inventors Association of Australia
Wellington Inventors Group
John Poppleton
Wellington, New Zealand
EUROPE
Austria
http://www.erfinderverband.at/home.php
Belgium http://www.brussels-eureka.be/common/default.asp?UserLg=EN
Bulgaria
http://www.uib.dir.bg/en/about.htm
Denmark www.daffo.dk
Estonia http://www.hot.ee/estell/
Germany
http://www.deutscher-erfinder-verband.de/index.html
Hungary
Hungarian Inventors, Association of (MAFE) www.inventor.hu
Macedonia http://www.atcm.org.mk/UATIM.htm
Netherlands
Norway
Slovakia
Spain
Sweden
United Kingdom
www.thebis.org
www.birmingham-inventors.org.uk
www.communigate.co.uk/wilts/webmaster
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