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Products & Services The Shoe & Boot Valet™: URL: http://www.shoebootvalet.com  Scope: The ability to put on and take off footwear using only one hand. Does not require strong grip strength.Clinical Advantages: Designed for easy use in the home, in outpatient rehabilitation clinics, and in assisted-living settings, this nonprescription breakthrough device represents a significant advance for people with difficulty putting on and taking off their footwear due to either acute or chronic pain conditions that arise from illness, inflammation, injury or surgery or as a result of aging. Current State of the Art Technology: Weighs just one pound and is made of High-Grade Aluminum and Market-leading polymers. Current inventory was molded of blended DuPont glass filled nylon materials. Summary of advantages over currently available products: No Comparable Products Currently Available. The Sock Valet™: URL: website not developed Scope: The ability to put on and take off socks/hosiery using only one hand. Does not require strong grip strength. Clinical Advantages: Designed for easy use in the home, in outpatient rehabilitation clinics, and in assisted-living settings, this nonprescription breakthrough device represents a significant advance for people with difficulty putting on and taking off their socks and/or hosiery due to either acute or chronic pain conditions that arise from illness, inflammation, injury or surgery or as a result of aging. Current State of the Art Technology: Weighs just one pound and is made of High-Grade Aluminum and Market-leading polymers. Current inventory was molded of blended Dupont glass filled nylon materials. Advantages over currently available products: Products in current market contain subpar material. These are typically rope/cord and foam construction. Note: A variety of medical journal articles and research studies are available that cover both potential product areas. Sales Literature Sales literature for Sock Valet remains to be developed. Sourcing Primary raw materials needed for IDL, Inc. products are as follows: Molded plastic parts. The tooling and molds (capital expenditure). DuPont Nylon material (polymer). High Grade Aluminum. All of these components are easily sourced and multiple suppliers have been identified. In addition, injection molders have been identified to manufacture the molded components for IDL, Inc. products. There are multiple potential sources. IDL, Inc. will perform final assembly and distribution from PhilMark in Hong Kong and/or utilizing contract manufacturing in North America at a later date. Technology Molly D. McKay, P.C. is the patent attorney for IDL, Inc. Three patents have been authored and filed. All patents take into account both offensive and defensive postures in their claims. Opinion of legal counsel is strong and firm that all of IDL Inc.'s patent applications are enforceable and defensible. Care has been taken to take into account all potential claims of the inventions as well as to protect them from possible competition from other technologies (including inferior ones). All patent application documents are available for examination by potential investors. Future Products Plans for future development by IDL, Inc. include additional ideas and technologies to be created by Steven Swisher as Sr. Engineer of R&D for IDL, Inc. In addition IDL, Inc. may seek to acquire technologies developed by others once it attains sufficient capitalization to do so. It is the objective of IDL, Inc. to both innovate and market its products. Once an industry reputation has been achieved and marketing channels opened expansion into other medical device areas becomes potentially rewarding. |