Copyright c 1987-2010 Nevada Inventors Association. (NIA) All rights Reserved.  The NIA is a 501(c)(6) MISSION STATEMENT Nevada Inventors Association Founded in 1987 by Don Costar.. Celebrating over 20 years of service to Nevada --- Helping the world and innovation, one inventor at a time... okay maybe more than one...in parallel... not series.. "Education, Assistance, and Networking for the Inventor" -  By helping others with this thing called a "patent", we share and learn, with your ideas and our ideas, we offer privacy, testimony and witness, trust, confidentiality (don't trust anyone), respect, experience, successes and failures, and in turn the result the NIA help's this world one inventor at a time.... At times we can consider ourselves a small think tank and group of pioneers, performers, doers, testers, bit twiddlers, thinkers, engineers, socializers, reporters, farmers, business owners, leaders, and denizens, etc. Our organizational entity status of the Nevada Inventors Association with the IRS is a 501(c)(6).  Come join us each and every 4th Saturday of the month.