Good afternoon, Juan C. Blanco, Innovation Direct™’s Director of Product Licensing, back with a second report regarding Day 2 of Licensing International 2008. As expected, I heard back from one of the members of our trade show team a bit ago, who has provided me with details of two additional contacts made today. The first is a company interested specifically in inventions related to cut...
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Good afternoon, Juan C. Blanco, Innovation Direct™’ s Director of Product Licensing, checking in with our first update regarding Day 2 of Licensing International 2008. As those who read our entries here on the Innovation Direct™ Blog yesterday are aware, the first day of the event was very fruitful in terms of the securing of leads for Innovation Direct™ inventors. The early hours of Day...
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Good evening, Juan C. Blanco, Innovation Direct™’ s Director of Product Licensing, checking back in one final time with an update regarding Day 1 of Licensing International 2008. A great first day wrapped up for Innovation Direct™ with the securing of several new leads at the exhibit booth, which experienced a considerable amount of traffic during the afternoon hours. Among the notable companies spoken to...
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Hello, Juan C. Blanco, Innovation Direct™’s Director of Product Licensing, checking back in with a quick update regarding Day 1 of Licensing International 2008. One of my colleagues attending the event has checked in and informed me that he has made a contact with one of the oldest and most established boys’ organizations in the world, and that according to this conversation with them, they...
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Hello, Juan C. Blanco, Innovation Direct™’ s Director of Product Licensing, checking in with our first update regarding Licensing International 2008, taking place today through Thursday at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City. This show has historically been a prolific one for Innovation Direct™, and we are certainly hopeful that the 2008 version of the proceedings will continue this trend. Day 1 certainly...
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Hello, Juan C. Blanco, Innovation Direct™’s Director of Product Licensing, checking in with a quick update to wrap up our Monday. Earlier Monday evening, Innovation Direct™ received a forward of an e-mail exchange between an Innovation Direct™ inventor and the Director of Operations and Product Management at a New Jersey-based company regarding their interest in learning more about his invention. It appears the inventor had...
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Hello, Juan C. Blanco, Innovation Direct™’ s Director of Product Licensing, checking in with an update on the eve of the opening day of the Licensing International 2008 trade show, which will take place tomorrow through Thursday at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City. We begin today with an update on a company met at another trade show earlier in the year, the...
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Good evening, Juan C. Blanco, Innovation Direct™’s Director of Product Licensing, checking in one final time to wrap our busy week. Earlier Friday, the Innovation Direct™ representative managing the Innovation Direct To Industry™ account of a California-based automotive accessories manufacturer requested an update via e-mail from our contact at the company regaring the latest Innovation Direct To Industry™ package they were sent. We had last...
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Hello, Juan C. Blanco, Innovation Direct™’s Director of Product Licensing, chiming in once again with another Innovation Direct To Industry™-related report. Earlier Friday, the Innovation Direct™ representative managing the Innovation Direct To Industry™ account of a Missouri-based lawn and garden products manufacturer received feedback from his contact at the company regarding the latest batch of product ideas they had been sent information on. We had...
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Good afternoon, Juan C. Blanco, Innovation Direct™’s Director of Product Licensing, checking in with our second update on a Friday. This morning, we received a reply from our contact at an Illinois-based manufacturer that had just been sent detailed design information on a food packaging accessory earlier this week. We had most recently reported on this situation in a June 4th entry (“Update: Innovation Direct™...
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