July 20, 2000. IFIA Website was one of the recipients of this annual
Excellence Award given for the first time in 2000. In so doing, the United
Inventors Association, which grouped at the time around 50 local American
associations, recognized IFIA's efforts to "inform, educate and connect
independent inventors".

IFIA Website highly ranked

USA
Patent Café, the world's leading gateway on inventions and inventors, has ranked IFIA
web site Top of the list (only website with = BEST) under "National and International
associations supporting Inventors".

Google, considered the best search engine in the world, has ranked IFIA web site Top First
out of a list of about 385,000. searches under "inventors + associations", and again Top First out of a list of 1,570,000 searches under "invention" + "associations"

Google also rated IFIA website, together with two other USA websites, 8th Top of its list of
organizations in the field of invention & innovation.

Some Quotes

A window on the global community of inventors! A great resource for finding international
connections and getting a worldwide perspective on invention and creativity.
(United Inventors Association (UIA-USA))

Great resource for finding useful connections around the world. Humour, cartoons on inventions.
(IP menu Phillips Ormonde & Fitzpatrick, Patent Attorneys, Australia and New Zealand)

A great way to engage students in technological design. (Re IFIA-Youth Page)
(Top list of 5 "first-rate sites", on "inventions", by Cathy Ney for Montgomery County Public
Schools, Virginia, USA.)

(…) is a "must visit". It has links to inventor related resources all over the world.
Now featuring a shop window for new inventions.
(Website of the National Innovation Centre (New Zealand))

Assessments

Argus Insights, Inc., a reputable USA full-service market research firm, published
end of 2000 the first industry white paper on intellectual property (IP) exchange
sites (IP Sites 2000) that serves as a road map for IP professionals.  The updated
version of 2001 (released on March 1, 2001) included detailed information on IFIA's
webpage entitled Inventions Store (IFIS).