Private Inventor Membership

Any person at any stage of an 'Invention' is eligible to join by completing and returning the Enrolment form and Confidential Invention Disclosure form together with 1st year's annual subscription, and after receipt of their membership card is entitled to  free advice at personal interviews, or on the phone, plus other services  as listed.

Non-members are not given interviews, nor appointments, nor advice.

PRIVATE INVENTOR'S SERVICES:     *PTFD = Please Telephone For Details

The Institute provides the following services for Inventor Members only:-

  • SERVICES
    Free Evaluation     of 1st Invention - use Confidential Invention Disclosure form.
  • Patent Searches  £60 - US & Japan Search. £220 - Derwent World Patent Search.
    Product Search £80 - Database search to check if Invention is already on sale.
  • Subsidised Patenting Service - Please Telephone For Details
  • CAD Service for Patent, Prototype & Production Drawings - Please Telephone For Details 
  • Information Technology retrieval service using World   Databases - Please Telephone For Details 
  • Prototype Design, Development and Construction Service - Please Telephone For Details 
  • PR service for publicising inventions for sale and/or licence - Please Telephone For Details 
  • Free Internet  Publicity of members' inventions on IoI web site.
    Free TV publicity Radio and TV regularly contact us seeking Inventions & Inventors. 
  • Financial Advice to obtain funding to back inventions - Please Telephone For Details 
  • Business Start-Up Advice - Please Telephone For Details  
  • Membership Contacts for beneficial advice, deals and backing
  • Licence Agreement Drafting service - Please Telephone For Details
    Educational Courses
    Patents     - Preparation of Patent Specification, Patent Drawings & Filing Patents - *PTFD.
    Professional Drawings Preparation of Drawings for Prototypes and   Production - *PTFD.

  • CONFIDENTIALITY: The Institute of Inventors undertakes to treat invention information and attachments disclosed by Inventor Members as confidential and never to misuse or disclose it without express written consent of the Inventor Member. Historically, there are no known cases of inventions having been stolen before they were financially successful. Any person paranoid about their Invention being stolen is not eligible for membership. One cannot help someone who is not prepared to reveal what they require help for.

    CONDITION OF MEMBERSHIP: It is a condition of membership that Members have complete confidence in the Honesty and Integrity of the Founder President, and all Staff and Committees appointed by him. Without this condition it is difficult to address Member's needs. 

SUCCESSFUL INVENTIONS: To be financially successful, it is not enough that an invention is novel, workable and commercially viable; often successful inventors are required to manufacture, publicise and market the invention themselves, and the Institute can guide and help.However if an Inventor does not believe enough in his own invention to put in a great deal of hard work and effort nobody else will.

N.B. Membership of the Institute is not an automatic guarantee for success or fortune.