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Tennessee Inventors Association

Tenn Inventors Assoc TIA meeting at Tech 2020

The Tennessee Inventors Association is an organization in East Tennessee dedicated to supporting and promoting independent inventors. TIA members are from Knoxville and Oak Ridge. Some members come from Chattanooga, Cleveland, Bristol, Johnson City, Morristown, and other East Tennessee areas. The TIA also has members from as far away as Ohio and Virginia. The Tennessee Inventors Association is a great resource for inventors, innovators, and entrepreneurs.

Visitors are always welcome!

Upcoming meeting

The TIA is holding monthly, in-person meetings again, mostly.

The meetings, when held, are the third Saturday of the month at 11 am. We meet for lunch at Hibachi Grill, located at 9645 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37922.

Please visit the other Tennessee Inventors Association website for additional current information. We are having problems with the other website, so the link may not work.

The primary goal of the TIA is the advancement of technology throughout Tennessee with its accompanying economic growth. Toward this end, TIA provides information, guidance, and encouragement to those involved in innovation. It is a chartered non-profit organization in the State of Tennessee composed of inventors and other persons interested in the innovation process.

The TIA membership includes independent inventors, small business developers, engineers, and scientists from state and federal research and educational facilities. The span of technical expertise and inventions ranges from high-tech to low-tech, from lasers to games to cat toys. Other TIA members are from business-related fields and are available as consultants to the other members. For example, we have patent agents and patent attorneys as members, and we frequently have business attorneys and lawyers, model makers, graphic artists, modelers, designers, and others as visitors. Even if you do not have an invention, you are welcome to join the TIA!

News Ticker . . .

2025-01-31 Membership has dropped. As long as there is interest, we will continue with monthly lunch meetings every third Saturday of the month.

04-03-2022 In-person TIA meetings are resuming. Our next meeting is Thursday, April 14, at 6:30 pm. We will be meeting at the Karns Community Club Center at 7708 Oak Ridge Highway, Knoxville, TN 37931.

08-09-2018 The TIA is moving to a new website. Check out: Tennessee Inventors Association.

07-17-2018 US Inventor, an inventor support group, has information on the current Inventor Protection Act that is being introduced in Congress. The IPA seeks to undo much of the damage that has been done with the AIA. But the effort needs public support to convince Members of Congress to Sponsor and support the proposed Bill.

09-21-2017 The date for the TNInventCon is March 3, 2018. The event will be held at the Blount County Public Library in downtown Maryville from 10am to 2pm.

Blogs

02-05-13 First to File Patent Laws effective March 16, 2013
10-31-12 The passing of a great inventor
09-21-11 A first look at the Patent Reform Act or the America Invents Act
07-17-11 2011 Patent Reform: Can Senate reconcile House version?
12-16-10 Invention promotion companies - scam or legit?
07-06-10 A Business Plan for the Inventor
05-03-10 Community & Patriot Express Workshop on May 18
02-07-10 Tennessee Small Business Development Centers On-line Training