Hello, Juan C. Blanco, Innovation Direct™’s Director of Product Licensing, checking back in with our second and final post for Day 1 of the 2008 edition of the International Home and Housewares Show. Our trade show contingent informs me that the afternoon hours continued to feature brisk traffic at the Innovation Direct™ booth, although there was a noticeable slowdown in the last couple of hours...
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Good afternoon, Juan C. Blanco, Innovation Direct™’s Director of Product Licensing, checking in with our first International Home and Housewares Show update. Innovation Direct™ is pleased to report that the even has gotten off to a productive start, as our trade show contingent has already made what appears to be two solid contacts. The traffic has been steady at the Innovation Direct™ booth, and one...
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Hello, Juan C. Blanco, Innovation Direct™’s Director of Product Licensing, checking in with a preview of Innovation Direct™’s participation in the 2008 edition of the International Home and Housewares Show. This year’s proceedings, which will take place March 16th-18th at the McCormick Place in Chicago, will mark Innovation Direct™’s 5th anniversary of exhibiting at the event, and we can truly state that this show has...
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Hello, Juan C. Blanco, Innovation Direct™’s Director of Product Licensing, checking in with a Monday report. Earlier Monday, Innovation Direct™ received an e-mail response from the director of new products of a world renowned tool company regarding a request that had been made for feedback on the latest batch of inventions they had been reviewing through Innovation Direct™’s Innovation Direct To Industry™ program. The preliminary,...
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Hello, Juan C. Blanco, Innovation Direct™’s Director of Product Licensing, back with a quick update. Earlier this afternoon we had reported that a Florida-based manufacturer had faxed a signed copy of a licensing agreement for an Innovation Direct™ inventor’s apparel product, and that we would be faxing the document over to the inventor later in the day for his review and signature (“Breaking news: Innovation...
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Good afternoon, Juan C. Blanco, Innovation Direct™’s Director of Product Licensing, checking in with a Friday afternoon update. We are pleased to report that a Florida-based manufacturer that has been reviewing the detailed design information on a medical accessory from the Innovation Direct™ roster from several weeks has now indicated they would like to pursue the invention further. The Executive Vice President of the company...
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Good afternoon, Juan C. Blanco, Innovation Direct™’s Director of Product Licensing, chiming in with yet more good news on a busy Friday. We are pleased to report that earlier this morning, we received a faxed copy of a signed licensing agreement from a Florida-based manufacturer for an apparel product from the Innovation Direct™ roster. This company’s interest initiated in early September of last year when...
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Hello, Juan C. Blanco, Innovation Direct™’s Director of Product Licensing, back with another update. We have received word back from our contact at a Massachusetts-based company that had been reviewing preliminary, non-confidential information on 15 Innovation Direct™ inventor ideas in their initial Innovation Direct To Industry™ package. We had previously reported on this situation in one of our entries yesterday (“Innovation Direct™ initiates 128 year-old...
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Good morning, Juan C. Blanco, Innovation Direct™’s Director of Product Licensing, checking in with a Friday morning report. Updating a situation that we had most recently reported on yesterday (“Innovation Direct™ seeks update from Kentucky-based Innovation Direct To Industry™ company on 12 invention package sent last week…“), we have received word back via e-mail from our contact at a Kentucky-based Innovation Direct To Industry™ company...
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Hello, Juan C. Blanco, Innovation Direct™’s Director of Product Licensing, back with more Innovation Direct To Industry™-related news. We are pleased to welcome one of the leading construction and hardware product manufacturers in the world to our dynamic new product idea subscription service for manufacturers, Innovation Direct To Industry™. The Massachusetts-based outfit, which has been in existence for 128 years and counting, is certainly a...
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