Inventors
Archimedes’ Offspring (AOS)1 was created to provide new opportunities for those inventors who successfully go through the AOS Vetting Process. Upon successful completion of the process, any inventor can access invention investment funds for development of their idea under one of four scenarios:
- they know they want to license or sell their patent; or
- they’re looking for a bridge loan to get them through to the next level of invention development or commercialization; or
- they’re not sure they want to go through the trouble and aggravation (including potentially losing years of valuable time and buckets full of hard-to-come by cash), involved in creating a startup company, but they don’t want to completely give up on the idea and would like to preserve that option for the future; or
- they already know they want to build a startup eventually, but they’d like to use the funding available from AOS for their first “seed” round.
Do You Have Questions???
First, read to the end of this page. If after reading to the end you still have unanswered questions about applying for funds for your invention, before sending us an e-mail or calling us, please consult the AOS “Inventor FAQs” first. You will find them —> here. PLEASE NOTE: If you send us a question which is answered in the “Inventor FAQs” you will referred back to the “Inventor FAQs” for the answer.
GIVEN THE VOLUME OF TELEPHONE CALLS AND EMAILS WE
RECEIVE, PLEASE READ THE INVENTOR FAQS BEFORE CALLING OR EMAILING US WITH A QUESTION!
Before starting the AOS Vetting Process
First some background.
In the past, American inventors have shown that, provided they can access funds, they know no limits. Inventors of any age, gender or race throughout our history have contributed to the creative genius that is the American inventing process. The technology envisioned by American inventors has improved our standard of living and linked us across both physical and cultural divides.
And, innovation remains the key to continued economic prosperity for the United States in the 21st century. The inventor is an important part of this innovation process; without the inventor, the process, otherwise controlled exclusively by large multinationals with no local allegiance and with a narrow focus on next quarter’s bottom line, withers and dies.
The result is the flight of both capital and prosperity abroad. Accordingly, it is important that the inventor survive and, not only survive, but thrive. To make this a reality, the inventor needs the support of the community. That support will return back dividends many times over. It’s time to do our part to both encourage and support (put our “muscle” where our “mouth” is, so to speak) the inventor, and to inspire profit with a purpose.
The new opportunity afforded by AOS will give all inventors, regardless of their ultimate goals, the ability to secure the capital they need in the beginning to ensure the success of their invention. In addition, for those inventors who know they prefer to license or sell their patent outright (or who are uncertain about pursuing a “startup company” strategy) AOS provides the type of access to financial help that has been denied to them previously. In short, AOS will pursue a strategy of working to offer all of America the opportunity to help inventors (and themselves) by becoming “co-inventors” (through investment and co-ownership) of the very inventions produced by these talented and committed individuals. In short, investors will be the instrument through which an inventor with a great idea, but little in the way of personal resources, will get their product to market. It’s an exciting time in innovation.
AOS is the future of invention funding. Inventors interested in the financial support that AOS can provide will apply and go through the vetting process. If approved, the inventor can receive up to $75,000 in invention investment funds, to cover the expense of patents, engineering, prototypes, trade show attendance and short-run manufacturing. In addition, for inventors who either know they don’t want to be a startup (or who have serious doubts about pursuing one), this is the first time they will have access to financial help, and not by VCs or “angels” but from invention investments provided by “Main Street” America itself.
Anyone who wants to be part of the inventing process can now pick their own “inventing family”. Watch for the launch of the Invention Investment Families on our website in the days and weeks to come.
If you’d like to get started applying for invention investment (and beat the rush that’ll come later), here’s some aids to see you on your way:
- Inventor Galaxy Guide (electronic booklet)
- Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA Form)
- Application for Vetting (form)
First, read the “Inventor Galaxy Guide”. It’s very short and provides some excellent advice on how to move your invention from idea to store shelf.
If you’d prefer to skip the above, you can go right to the vetting process itself by clicking —–> here … but, before you do, make sure you’re prepared beforehand. Here’s what you’ll need:
- An application fee of $25.00;
- The Application for Vetting Form, completed and signed;
- A copy of the written report detailing the results of a patent and product search conducted on your idea by a reputable, professional patent search firm
- A “patentability opinion” / evaluation report from a USPTO-registered patent attorney who’s reviewed the patent search and has concluded that the proposed invention (i) does not infringe any existing patents, and (ii) in such attorney’s professional opinion, the probability of securing patent protection for the invention is extremely high.
Upon receipt of your completed Application for Vetting, along with the accompanying fee and required documents, we’ll begin processing your application. Your application will be submitted to a thorough and rigorous vetting, initially by our internal staff, and if “greenlighted” by our staff, your application will be submitted to one of our external vetting committees for further consideration. After that a recommendation will issue, either to move forward or to end the process.
If the invention is deemed sufficiently viable by the external vetting committee, then, and only then, will your invention be submitted to one of our Invention Families for approval by their Board of Directors.
Once you’ve applied to have your idea or invention be vetted, if at any time during the vetting process you’d like to speak with a representative, feel free to call us at (303) 910-2344.
Ready to start the process? If yes, click —-> here.
———– R.P. Burrasca, President & CEO, Archimedes’ Offspring
1Archimedes’ Offspring (“AOS”) is an unincorporated business organization (commonly referred to as a “Massachusetts Business Trust” or “MBT”) formed pursuant to that certain Trust Agreement dated as of the 31st day of March, 2019 (the “Trust Agreement”), by and between FLC LLC, a Colorado limited liability company doing business as “FLeCusa International,” as Grantor, Windom Peaks Capital, LLC, a Colorado limited liability company, as Trustee, and the Invention Families identified on this website, each of which has been designated a beneficiary / beneficial owner under the terms of the Trust Agreement.