Listed below are links that might be useful to inventors at all stages of the development and marketing process for their invention. Other useful links may be found in the directors and the speakers pages. These links are provided for convenience only, and the B.C. Inventor's Society does not endorse any linked web site or business affiliated with such site.

Angel Forum - Will introduce emerging companies to private equity investors.

Atomica Creative Group Ltd. - Vancouver based product marketing company provides a complete range of strategic product marketing, product management & product design services.

BCIT Technology Centre - Provides BC health related industries with services and facilities to conduct applied research.

Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) - The Business Development Bank of Canada is a financial institution wholly owned by the government of Canada. BDC plays a leadership role in delivering financial and consulting services to Canadian small business, with a particular focus on technology and exporting.

Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) - The Canadian federal department that administers the intellectual property system in Canada and disseminates intellectual property information.

Searchable Canadian Patents Database - CIPO's Canadian Patent Database. This database lets you access over 75 years of patent descriptions and images. You can search, retrieve and study more than 1,500,000 patent documents.

Canadian Standards Association (CSA) - A not-for-profit membership-based association serving business, industry, government and consumers in Canada and the global marketplace.

Hansen Industries - A leading company in metal parts fabrication founded by Bjorn Hansen.

Harvey Cohen Learning Systems Inc. - Providing training services for sales and management personnel.
Topics include how to: overcome objections, prospect for new business, close sales faster, increase customer satisfaction levels, and increase referrals.

Inventive Solutions - Intellectual Property Documentation Services: Reports – Searches – Drawings.
Patent, trademark, industrial design & search documentation for inventors, innovative companies, product developers, venture capitalists, patent attorneys & agents. Website has over 200 innovation related links.

Inventors' Digest, the magazine for idea people. Check out their free "Best of" issue in PDF format.

King Design - A multi-disciplinary design consultancy covering product design & development, graphic design, retail design, point of sale design, Interior design, exhibition/trade show design.

Masterworks - With over two decades of sales and marketing experience, this company brings affordable and effective communication tools to small and medium sized businesses.

National Research Council - Canada's National Research Council (NRC) helps turn ideas and knowledge into new products, processes and services. Outstanding people work hand in hand with partners from industry, government and universities to help ignite the spark of innovation in communities across the land. Explore NRC and get a head start on the future.

Nexus Law Group LLP - Lawyers, Patent and Trademark Agents. Offices in Vancouver and the Fraser Valley.

Pacific Design Engineering (PDE) - A company that offers an integrated suite of product design and development services focused on helping clients get to market quickly with winning products.

patents | oncloud8 - A website offering printable US and international patents for US$0.49/patent. The site uses Paypal for a very simple and inexpensive process. Despite the straight-forward appearance of this site, it actually uses sophisticated software to "stitch" together images and text to produce output exactly like the original patent. The service allows the user to send a list of patent requests that is then processed "in parallel" to produce a zipped PDF files that may be immediately downloaded. Searchable PDFs are in the works.

pat2pdf.org - A website for retrieving free PDF copies of US patents and published applications.

PATEX - Ron Simmer, formerly the founder and manager of PATSCAN at UBC Library, now offers his services for patent and trademark research services as a private company.

Rapid Machining Inc.specializes in helping start-ups and inventors by offering engineering and manufacturing services for manufacturing prototypes. The company has a small workshop with basic machines but has connections for volume manufacturing.

Time Magazines Coolest Inventions 2003 - A colorful summary of last years best gadgets, gizmos, and gear.

US Patent & Trademark Office Disclosure Document Program - A service provided by the USPTO is the acceptance and preservation for two years of "Disclosure Documents" as evidence of the date of conception of an invention. A link to the Disclosure Document Deposit Request form is here.

US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) - For over 200 years, the basic role of the Patent and Trademark Office has remained the same: to promote the progress of science and the useful arts by securing for limited times to inventors the exclusive right to their respective discoveries.

US Patent Search (Free) - Patent Full-Text and Full-Page Image Databases

The Vancouver Electric Vehicle Association (VEVA) promotes the development of clean alternative transportation with a focus on Electric Vehicles. VEVA started in 1985 and formed as a non-profit society in 1987. While their membership is drawn largely from the lower mainland they have members from all over BC as well as other provinces and states. Many members have built electric vehicles including passenger cars and bicycles. VEVA has monthly meetings to discuss current events, projects under development, and to plan for various events which they attend each year to promote the concepts of clean alternative transportation.

Vancouver Enterprise Forum - The Vancouver Enterprise Forum ("VEF") holds monthly events at Science World on the fourth Tuesday of every month. These are dinner events and provide attendees with an opportunity to network with each other prior to the evenings presentations. Events vary in presentation format but are designed to cover topics of interest to the technology community. As an example, the annual "Venture Financing" forum covers fund-raising for technology firms and is nearly always sold-out due to its popularity.

Vancouver Tool Corporation - Canada's largest manufacturer of kitchen and bathroom restoration tools.

Western Economic Diversification - Better known as just WD, our mandate is to promote the development and diversification of the economy of Western Canada and to advance the interests of the West in national economic policy. WD fulfills its mandate through, among others, innovation programs and activities.