- Meetings are held in Bellaire at
Bayland Community Center 6400 Bissonnet Street.
- Houston, TX 77074 (Inside Bayland Park) (1 Blk west of Hillcroft)
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Next Scheduled Presentation Meeting
Wednesday, July 8, 2026, 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Top Dog Direct with Steve Silbiger
Steve will speak about the current state and update of the direct response TV industry, home shopping and the As Seen on TV retail space.
Top Dog Direct is a specialized team focused on rapidly bringing products to market, led by Bill McAlister, who has driven over a billion in retail sales with “As Seen on TV” products. Steve Silbiger and Jackie Bloemker oversee TV, web, and media services for direct-to-consumer efforts, ensuring high success rates. Since 1998, Top Dog Direct has launched notable products including Tan Perfect, Urine Gone, Mighty Putty, Smart Mop, BeActive Brace, and Campbell Posture Cane.
https://www.topdogdirect.com/
Wednesday, June 17, 2026, 7:00 - 9:00 PM
NOTE: Tito Sarkar will join us again to demo his Paseo software
At Bayland Community Center HOUSTON INVENTORS ASSOCIATION CONFIDENTIAL "SPECIAL HELP" MEETING
Confidential "Special Help" Meeting
- 3rd Wednesday of each Month
for members only where everyone signs a non-disclosure agreement and attendees can discuss their product or concept openly and receive one-on-one help and advice on the next steps of pursuing their idea, concept or design, or overcoming a particular hurdle.
(You can also join & become a member at this meeting). The meeting will be moderated by Mark Peterson and held in a smaller room (at the end of the lobby), and will have a smaller group of attendees than our 2nd Wednesday general meetings.
Bring us your problems and questions, and we’ll try to get you to the next step.
- Membership
Join Now or Renew Your HIA Membership For 2026
Cost of Membership is only $50 and and Benefits include:
-Free access to all On-site and Online Open-door Meetings.
-Free access to videos of past On-site Open-door Meeting speaker presentations.
-Free access to On-site and Online “Confidential Special Help Meetings” where everyone signs a non-disclosure agreement and attendees can discuss their product/concept openly and receive one- on-one help and advice.
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OR if you prefer pay by check, print a mail-in Membership Form Click Here. Fill it out and and Mail it in. For questions regarding your membership status contact Kevin
kevinroddy87@gmail.com
Discount on PaseoAI software
Using the discount code HIA members can use the software to get 4 runs at $500 which usually costs $1500.
To get the discount code contact Kevin Roddy (kevinroddy87@gmail.com) so he can verify you are a member and he will provide you the code to use and the Paseo web site
PaseoAI.com empowers individual inventors by rapidly testing ideas against over 220 million patents and journals. In roughly 10 minutes, a plain-English description yields a detailed 16-dimension report covering novelty, obviousness, feasibility, competitive landscape, white-space opportunities, draft claims, and market insights. Users receive ranked prior art links, visualizations, and ready-to-use documents like invention disclosures. Instant iteration allows quick refinement, making professional-grade analysis affordable and accessible compared to slow, costly traditional searches.
Traditional methods rely on attorneys and take weeks while costing thousands, creating high barriers for solo inventors. PaseoAI slashes time and expense, delivering actionable insights that empower the “hidden market” of garage hobbyists and first-timers. Many hesitate due to novelty fears and financial risk; PaseoAI provides objective validation that builds courage. Positive results encourage proceeding with evidence, while gaps highlight cheap pivots. By revealing commercialization paths, it turns inventing into a low-risk, data-driven journey, helping more creators confidently advance their ideas.
Houston Inventors Association
“Inventors Helping Inventors” Since 1983
Houston Inventors Association
“Inventors Helping Inventors” Since 1983
Scheduled Speakers and Events
July 8 – Steve Silbiger from Top Dog Direct
August 12 – Alan Beckley inventor of the Wonder Wallet
September 9 – Edward Ayres from Inventor Process (in person)
Wednesday, June 17, 2026, 7:00 - 9:00 PM
NOTE: Tito Sarkar will join us again to demo his Paseo software
At Bayland Community Center HOUSTON INVENTORS ASSOCIATION CONFIDENTIAL "SPECIAL HELP" MEETING
Videos of Our Past Meetings
We are making videos of our past speakers presentations available upon request for free via email to paid members only, so even if you live too far away to attend our monthly meetings you can benefit by becoming a member. To become a member, Click the link above to pay online or download a Membership Form, fill it out, and mail it in. Then contact kevinroddy87@gmail.com and request a video. You will also be added to our email list to receive monthly announcements regarding upcoming meetings and topics.
Benefits of Attending Meetings
Our motto, “Inventors Helping Inventors“, expresses some of the benefits of membership and attending monthly meetings. We provide speakers having first-hand knowledge of the difficulties in getting from raw idea to marketable product that offer their success stories, and share tips on marketing your invention, and speakers that provide valuable information in technical areas, such as: protecting your idea, patent fundamentals, building prototypes, injection molding, manufacturing vs licensing, etc. At our meetings, we often connect inventors having a problem with other members who may be able to help to solve it. We take pride in being a trusted resource, and do our best to protect inventors from invention marketing/development scams.
Other Local Groups That May Be Of Interest To Inventors
TX/RX Labs, a Houston non-profit organization is teaching classes for entrepreneurs and makers. Welding, CNC, electronics, laser cutting, 3d printing, cad and cam drafting and more. https://apps.classes.txrxlabs.org.classes/.
HIA Facebook Group Page
Have you visited our Facebook Group Page? The purpose of the Group Page is to provide an interactive forum or message board where members can comment on speakers, meetings, ask questions, make suggestions, provide feedback, receive help, etc. Bill Kopitzke is the main administrator. The “Group” page is different from a regular Facebook “Page“, in that you can’t get there by “liking” or being a “friend”; you have to “Join” the group to participate. Group members must be approved or added by other members. To “Join” the group, if you are logged in on facebook, you can click the Facebook logo in the left-hand column. If you are not logged in or if you are NOT already a member of the Facebook Group, click here for instructions on how to join.
HIA Featured In Patent Office Publication
The HIA was featured in an article titled “Houston Inventors Association Helps Members Bring Inventions to Reality”, written by John Calvert, head of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Inventors Assistance Program following his visit to Houston in August, 2010. The article was published online in the “Inventors Eye” -a bi-monthly newsletter for the independent inventor community that covers topics of interest to independent inventors; and stories about people who have become successful inventors. It also includes tips on working with the USPTO; information on events, organizations and meetings of interest to the inventor community.
HIA Featured In KHOU TV News Segment
Back in 2018, the HIA was featured in a TV news segment on inventing.
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