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GODS PURPLELICIOUS ONE abbasgirl9898	702.995.5714, If u have any q’s. Who We Are: Dave Cormier and Karyl Lynch of Pelham West provide services in two main areas. As product scouts for client companies, Pelham West offers product identification services and consulting to companies recognizing the benefits of adding new products in order to grow their businesses. In addition, Dave and Karyl apply their experience with product review, particularly in terms of market potential and concerns, to an evaluation combining relevant market and manufacturing information. Clients range from privately held to Fortune 500 companies. Pelham West provides consulting to independent inventors making the decision about whether to market a product themselves or to license. Independent inventors also contact Pelham West with the intention of licensing their products to one of their client companies. Dave and Karyl have been judges for major invention competitions, including those sponsored by Proctor and Gamble, Dial Corporation, and CBS (in conjunction with the United Inventors Association). They teach the From Patent to Profit workshops on the East Coast and in Arizona and are frequent speakers at inventor organizations and conferences. Karyl and Dave are partners in a manufacturing company and have recently co-founded a new business, Product Development Group, which offers invention and product evaluation services to its client companies. Pelham West has successfully matched a variety of products to multiple clients. One product won a Best New Product Award at the International Hardware Show. Their experience covers retail as well as commercial and industrial products. Biography Board members: United Inventors Association, 2006-2008 Judges Dial Corporation’s Quest for the Best Contest, 2004 UIA/Inventor’s Digest/Proctor and Gamble’s Hunt for the Hot New Consumer Product, 2003 CBS Morning Show Invention Search, Not So Crazy Ideas, 2002 Business Plan Preliminary Presentation, Entreclub, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2001 Guest Speakers Independent Inventors’ Conference, sponsored by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Alexandria, VA, 2005 Panelists: Dreams Can’t Wait Conference, sponsored by ChangingCourse.com, 2004 Founders Innovators’ Resource Network, 1999-present, a support and networking group for inventors, innovators, and entrepreneurs meeting monthly at the Andrew M. Scibelli Enterprise Center, Springfield Technical Community College Technology Park, Springfield, Massachusetts Inventor Show Workshops/Presentations Yankee Invention Exposition, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007,2008 Licensing or Manufacturing: What is Best for You? Minnesota Inventors Congress, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007,2008 Licensing or Manufacturing; What is Best for You? Preparing to License Your Product Independent Inventors as a Resource for Growing Your Business What to do Before Meeting a Product Scout How a First Impression at a Trade Show Affects the Product Scout Community Development Corporations of western Massachusetts, 2002 – 2005 Ideas, Inventions, and Innovations workshops Inventor Organization Presentations Arizona Inventors’ Association, Tucson and Phoenix, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2006 Inventors’ Association of New England, Boston, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006 Innovators’ Resource Network, 2000, 2004, 2006, 2007 Minnesota Inventors Network, 2004, 2006 Starting a Group for Inventors, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office/United Inventors’ Association Presentation, Syracuse, NY, 2002 Workshop Presentations From Patent to Profit workshops® (based on Bob DeMatteis’ book), offered at a variety of locations, including Catalina Technology Management, Tucson, Arizona, Small Business Development Centers, and the Center for Business and Development, Springfield Technical Community College, Springfield, Massachusetts, 2002- 2005 What to Do When Your Ideas Begin to Go Somewhere, Lemelson Assistive Technology Design Center Forum, Hampshire College, 2002 Intellectual Property: Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights and Trade Secrets, STCC Entrepreneurial Institute, Springfield, Massachusetts, 2001. Valley Entrepreneurs’ Roundtable, Northampton, Massachusetts, 2001 Panel participants: Yankee Invention Exposition, 1999, 2006 Patent Cafe: Tuesday Web Chat “Speakers”, 2000 Patent Cafe: Tuesday Web Chat “Speakers”, 1999 Publications Starting an Inventors’ Group, by Karyl Lynch, published by the United Inventors’ Association, 2001 Building Your Dream: If You Build It, Will They Come?, Inventright, February 2009 A Manufacturer with Smarts by Karyl Lynch, Inventors’ Digest, January/February 2004 Problem Solving for the Disabled by Karyl Lynch, Inventors’ Digest, July/August, 2002 A Three Headed Zform by Karyl Lynch, Inventors’ Digest, March/April, 2002 Life Saver by Karyl Lynch, Inventors’ Digest, January/February 2001 Patent Cafe Magazine: Yankee Invention Exposition: October 1999 The Job Shop Technology Shows: November 1999 Articles about Pelham West Associates A Tale of Two Product Scouts, by Joanne Hayes-Rines, Inventors Digest, September/October, 2001 Scanning the Horizon for Inventions, by Nick Grabbe, Daily Hampshire Gazette, February 26, 2001 The Tinker’s Thinkers by Richie Davis, Greenfield Recorder, April 24, 2000 Article about the Innovators’ Resource Network Innovators lend hand to aspiring inventors, by Nick Grabbe, Daily Hampshire Gazette, February 25, 2002 Web Guides PatentCafe.com, Inventor Groups Section, 1999-2001 Mentors Critical and Creative Thinking courses, University of Massachusetts, Boston, 2001 – 2003 ~ESSENCE posted April 20, 2009 11:52 ( ) Tweet
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joseph jackson joseph 64,750 Insider Points	Delores Hi, you are full of information. keep it coming. posted April 20, 2009 16:13 ( )
dond invents dond 287,750 Insider Points	Hi, Has anyone here worked with Pelham West? posted April 20, 2009 17:23 ( )
Joaco Colmenar vergulito	Hi, Delores: Thanks for the info. Forgive me if I am too inquisitive, but you know, it is a necessary part of this difficult business. 1) Can you mention the clients that you scout for? 2) Has your Co. been involved in bringing specific products to market? 3) Have they been successful? Can you mention them? 4) Has any of the winners of the contests where your Company has been a judge been brought to market? (((These are the contests and hunts that you listed: Dial Corporation’s Quest for the Best Contest, 2004, UIA/Inventor’s Digest*/Proctor and Gamble’s Hunt for the Hot New Consumer Product, 2003, CBS Morning Show Invention Search, Not So Crazy Ideas, 2002))) 5) Can you mention them? I am particularly curiosu about this question. Ability to adequately assess the potential of a concept is the most fundamental trait of a scout or a judge of a contest or a hunt. The potential impact that these veredicts may have in the inventors community and the invention industry is extremely serious and important. Forgive me, but now I need to be blunt. Taking credit for being the judge of something is only meaningful when the judgement was indeed appropriate. Was it? The unfortunate corollary is that for each unfit ‘winner’ many deserving winners are discarded. This is too important to be shy about it. Forgive me please. Can you please, say where the winners of these contests or hunts are as far as product development and marketing, to the best of your knowledge? Thanks again. I believe in 2004, Inventor’s Digest was not yet associated with EN. I am not sure. posted April 20, 2009 21:50 ( )
GODS PURPLELICIOUS ONE abbasgirl9898	JOACO~ I never said I work for the company. I was just posting the article from the company’s swebsite. Lol! I was reading yesterday about Ms. Karyl Lynch & Mr. Dave Cormier on Stephen Key’s website InventRight.Com. I googled them yesterday too ^~. In short I was, (& still am), posting information that others may not be aware of. smiling. ~Essence posted April 21, 2009 15:12 ( )
Joaco Colmenar vergulito	Thanks for the clarification. Your original post started with the title “Who We Are”. Correctly or incorrectly, this statement included you. The post does appear promotional, especially with a telephone number preceding it. You signed the post with your username. I don’t think this is a ‘lol’ issue. Don’t see the humor. Thanks for the clarification. posted April 22, 2009 08:43 ( )
GODS PURPLELICIOUS ONE abbasgirl9898	I know. I always sign with my name on message boards, not just this one smiling. I put the company’s name in the subject/title line so that whoever reads it would know, after reading the company’s statement, that the article is about/by them. It’s not a promotion. It’s just about the company. everyone understood it. As far as lol goes, I use that & do have a sense of humor & don’t take things so seriously. I’m a outgoing & happy person. That’s just my personality. So, i’m lol’n every day all the time, lol!! People have sent me replies & direct emails thanking me for posting information which they may not know about. So, again, others got it. Smiling. My lol wasnt meant as anything towards u. One thing for sure, I’m not a drama girl. I don’t start it & I don’t accept it smiling. U can send the company your q’s by email or call them & i’m sure they will reply back to u. Enjoy your life & don’t take things or yourself so seriously…Have fun while your here smiling, ~ESSENCE posted April 22, 2009 14:30 ( )
Joaco Colmenar vergulito	Dear Delores, I am not who is making a big drama. If you didn’t know it: when you sign a written piece, you claim authorship. You did just that. I have not addressed you or your life at a personal level. I would appreciate the same. You are free to smile and lol all you want about everything and anything if that is how you feel. Please don’t try to impose that on me. Big smile here. I find Spongebob very enjoyable. See my happy avatar. I don’t find self-proclaimed ‘experts’ and ‘gurus’ any laughable matter. They have not only hurt inventors individually but the entire community as a whole. When cartoonish inventions are declared by them ‘winners’ of a contest, we all lose. As a member of this forum, I would respectfully and with a huge, huge smile request that you are more careful in the content and form of delivery of your posts. Simply stated: Whether it was your intention or not, this thread that you initiated clearly purported: 1) That you were acting on their behalf, and 2) That the blurb was promotional. I will not argue here whether or not ‘everybody’ understood your post, as you claim, as that is simply impossible to assess. (Do you even know how many members there are in this list?) And worse yet, many may have ‘understood’ it, but in the wrong way. I ask questions of a company only if I am interested, and I am not interested about the company in the heading of this thread. Now, if they come here to promote themselves, as a member of the forum i feel not only my right but also my duty to question them. And right here. In public, where they are promoting themselves. Again, whether you realize it or not, the way you presented the post, appeared that you were acting on their behalf, and that you were endorsing them. Thanks again, and please be true to your statement. Don’t be a drama girl. Smile and lol. But please, be careful. You may unintentionally cause some damage. I don’t think you want to do that. I don’t think you find that to lol. Do you? Peace. posted April 22, 2009 15:56 ( )

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