OBVIA: Engineering & Manufacturing Solutions Worldwide

1. IP ProtectionProduct Development Engineering Manufacturing OBVIA: Scott Keeley Regina DeAngelo

2. Introduction • Capabilities • Manufacturing in the U.S. vs. Overseas • Wham-O • Plastics and China • India • Next? • Questions

3. Expert Contract Engineering • New & Novel Products • Quality/Our ability to sell • Prototype Process • Patents, Patent Searches • Licensing • Identifying Disruptive, Productive Technology

4. Current Products

5. Manipulated Currency? “The natural physics of exchange makes U.S. goods relatively less expensive for others to buy, but makes foreign goods more expensive for Americans to buy. In a free market for currency, that would help bring accounts back into balance” Eric Lotke, Huffington Post For those currently importing to the US from China….. - Our America Gift Co. -

6. “We’re gonna need a bigger boat.”

8. Novel Medical Products • Patent 1116-0001 – biomaterials and drugs • Acoustic translation in needle • Syringe interior contouring • Some glass/needle interface design • Patent 1116-0002 • In vivo, bubble free cohesive transfer • Patent 1116-0003 • Same as 1116-0003 but only biomaterials • Patent 1116-0004 • Honey comb filters in syringe for internal particle separation

9. Large Injection Molded, Roto-Molded, Thermo-Formed Parts

10. Everyone knows what it costs • --Mitt • Storm Warning

11. Patent Cooperation Treaty • “The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) enables the U.S. applicant to file one application, "an international application," in a standardized format in English in the U.S. Receiving Office (the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office), and have that application acknowledged as a regular national or regional filing in as many Contracting States to the PCT as the applicant "designates" or "elects," that is, names, as countries or regions in which patent protection is desired. “

12. Likely Candidate: Infant and Toddlers

13. A Challenge Mature Aerospace and Green Technology

14. Questions? 14