Ayers Concepts

• Write to the Toy Manufacturers of America, 200 Fifth Avenue, 7th Fl., New York, NY 10010. Ask them for their Toy Industry Fact Book, TMA Guide to Toys and Play, and Toy Inventor Design Guide. They are free, and you may as well order them now.

Toy Industry Periodicals (Go to the Periodical Literature section of the library.)

• Playthings Magazine. 51 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10010. (212) 689-4411. (Geyer-McAllister Publications)
• Playthings Buyers Guide, annual issue put out by Playthings Magazine.
• Toy and Hobby World. 463 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10018. (212) 594-4237  (may be defunct).
• The Toy Book. 1501 Broadway, Suite 500, New York, NY 10036. (212) 575-4510. (Adventure Publishing Group, Inc.)

Other Sources

• Attend the American International Toy Fair in February.
• Toy company annual catalogs.

• National Inventor Fraud Center.  Michael S. Neustel, a Registered Patent Attorney, founded the National Inventor Fraud Center Inc. (NIFC) to provide information to inventors about invention promotion companies (particularly warning you about who to avoid) and how to market their invention themselves.

• Alliance for American Innovation.  The Alliance for American Innovation, Inc. (AAI), a privately held corporation, was recently formed to provide a Washington presence for individuals and organizations across our nation which are interested in the United States entrepreneurial process, and the laws that provide its basis.