FW: Entrepreneurship Majors looking for products to bring to market

[IC...@aol.com]

 

 

In a message dated 9/29/2015 1:56:12 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, GHof...@calltms.com writes:

Are you an inventor with a product ready for market who is willing to work with Kent State University entrepreneurship students who may be able to get that product to market?

 

Denise Easterling is the instructor of a Kent State University class called Entrepreneurial Experience.  The class is made up of entrepreneurship majors who must create and grow a (real) business during their senior year as a graduation requirement.  The only problem with this is:  some of the students do not have an idea for a product or service to sell.

 

Denise is looking for inventors who have a concept ready for market who would be willing to team up  with her students who can hopefully get that product to market.

 

If you would like to throw your product in the hat for consideration by the students, please write a paragraph describing your product, the problem is solves and the customer who would likely purchase it.  If you have photos of a prototype, that would be helpful.

 

Note that if your concept is chosen by a group of her students, Denise will help guide the process of setting up a business arrangement between you and the students such that everyone benefits.  (Note that Denise is a CPA and serial entrepreneur who has co-founded 5 companies.  You can check her out on LinkedIn.  If you are not a member of LinkedIn, you can see part of her profile here:  https://www.linkedin.com/pub/denise-easterling-cpa/b/ba4/47)

 

Please send your paragraph and any applicable photos to Denise Easterling at deas...@kent.edu.

[IC...@aol.com]

Forwarded for your information. We have not investigated this, but one of our correspondents sent this in.

ICGC

 

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From: dennis.da...@temarex.com
To: IC...@aol.com
Sent: 10/7/2015 10:11:39 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time
Subj: Re: FW: Entrepreneurship Majors looking for products to bring to market

 

Hi Derry,

Just wanted to make you aware that there is an Ohio Revised Code (ORC)
provision, not many know about, that states something like anything
developed using State property (aka state University), employees,
resources ... belongs to the State.  So if an inventor goes to an Ohio
based state university without preexisting patent protection, then there
is risk that the State would end up owning 100% of patent rights.  I've
seen a case where a company paid a State University to help them, next
thing you know there is an invention and the State owned the IP and the
company had to take a license from the University to practice the IP, even
when the company's employee was a co-inventor - next thing that happened
was a lawsuit and it got messy and multiple fringe parties got sucked into
the lawsuit.

So inventors going to Kent State with a concept or no patent protection
could be dangerous.

Call if you have any questions.

Dennis

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