Avoid Invention Scams - Text Searchable Document
COMPLAINT
REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTER
DATE OF
CORRESPONDENCE:
Name of the
Invention Promotion Company:
I.S.C. (Invention
Submission Corp.)
Invention Promoter’s
Address:
Complainant’s Name:
Mark Traumer
Complainant’s
Address:
<Blank>
Customer’s Name:
Mark Traumer
WHAT IS YOUR
COMPLAINT?
Name of mass
media invention promoter advertised in:
I.S.C. (Invention
Submission Corp.)
Invention promotion
services offered to be performed:
Contacting companies
including manufacturers, marketers, distributors, retailers and sales
reps with
invention with the
help of Intromark Incorp.
Explanation of
complaint between customer and invention promoter:
I.S.C. Reps
states to me that there is no invention company like I.S.C., that they
are the largest and
most experienced in
the business to make my invention successful, tricking me believing in
them because
of their very clever
verbal techniques.
They also stated to
me if I signed up for the stage 3 service kit, that would include above
mentioned
promotion services
plus tradeshow, magazine and internet exposure to make my invention
successful. This
is the most
expensive service package.
I strongly feel that
I.S.C. was only interested in taking my money and had no intentions of
making me
or any other
customers invention successful.
This company is a
large company who is very clever in getting around the law in taking
peoples money
with no intention of
making money for people. They used very sophisticated techniques in
gaining your
trust so time will
pass you by and when 24 months are up, they would simply reply we tried
our best. This
company is not only
incompetent in trying to make your invention successful; they had no
intentions of
making your idea or
invention making any money. I signed the original contract with I.S.C.
on Oct. 10,
1998 and I’m out
$13,097.46 and the only thing I have to show for it is a big pile of
papers.
Signed:
<Blank>
COMPLAINT
REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTER
DATE OF
CORRESPONDENCE:
Name of the
Invention Promotion Company:
Invention Submission
Corporation
Invention Promoter’s
Address:
Complainant’s Name:
Barbara Petrishon
Complainant’s Address:
<Blank>
Customer’s Name:
Barbara Petrishon
WHAT IS YOUR
COMPLAINT?
Name of mass
media invention promoter advertised in:
<Blank>
Invention promotion
services offered to be performed:
<Blank>
Explanation of
complaint between customer and invention promoter:
One the month of
May 28 Year 98, I presented my invention idea to a company called
invention
Submission
Corporation, they examine the material, and assure me that it is a good
choice and <unknown>
to be patented, they
promised to help with a search and provide me with a patent and submit
it to
manufactures. So far
I received I received a patent. The contract is now expired and I am
left with nothing.
Signed:
<Blank>
COMPLAINT
REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTER
DATE OF
CORRESPONDENCE:
Name of the
Invention Promotion Company:
ISC
Invention
Submission Corporation
Invention Promoter’s Address:
Complainant’s Name:
Hector Arvelo
Complainant’s
Address:
<Blank>
Customer’s Name:
Hector Arvelo
WHAT IS YOUR
COMPLAINT?
Name of mass
media invention promoter advertised in:
Trade Shows
Invention
promotion services offered to be performed:
Explanation of
complaint between customer and invention promoter:
I had enlisted
the help of ISC to help get my invention patented and marketed at the
cost of $10,195.
What ISC did was
direct me to a patent lawyer at an additional cost of $1,150 to get my
patents. As far as
marketing goes, I
was supposed to have my invention displayed at the trade show with
myself there, and a
virtual drawing
depicting how
<Blank>
works. This was never done. Many other things that
were promised
to me were never
done. It seems that the only thing I received for my money was a book
with my name on
it and a drawing
which I made myself.
Signed:
<Blank>
COMPLAINT
REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTER
DATE OF
CORRESPONDENCE:
Name of the
Invention Promotion Company:
ISC
Invention
Submission Corporation
Invention Promoter’s Address:
Complainant’s Name:
Aldo Glussich
Complainant’s
Address:
<Blank>
Customer’s Name:
Deidre Glussich (Minor
daughter)
WHAT IS YOUR
COMPLAINT?
Name of mass
media invention promoter advertised in:
<Blank>
Invention
promotion services offered to be performed:
Obtain a patent,
create promotional materials, get in touch with and promote product to
MANY
different companies
via internet, direct mail, invention conventions (world wide), etc. Kept
encouraging us
by exclaiming over
and over “What a great invention” and “was a sure thing”.
Paid $9,250.00
directly to ISC Plus the cost to obtain patent. All we got in return for
this large amount
of money was one
small pamphlet and a bound book with invention information. We saw a
small notice
posted on their
internet site for a short period.
We were not
represented as they promised. We realize now, in hind sight, that we
actually got very
little for the large
amount of monies paid to this company. They cheated us and used our
trust in them to
inflate our hopes of
success. They had us sign papers “as formality” on standard forms while
they were
telling us “this
looks like a sure thing.” And “can’t miss with this”, “I really believe
you’re going to make a
lot of money on this
idea.” We were very naïve and got taken!
Explanation of
complaint between customer and invention promoter:
Signed:
<Blank>
COMPLAINT
REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTER
DATE OF
CORRESPONDENCE:
Name of the
Invention Promotion Company:
ISC
Invention Submission Corporation
Invention Promoter’s
Address:
Complainant’s Name:
David Kirkland
Complainant’s
Address:
<Blank>
Customer’s Name:
David Kirkland
WHAT IS YOUR
COMPLAINT?
Name of mass
media invention promoter advertised in:
Radio, TV, Trade
Magazine
Invention promotion
services offered to be performed:
Obtain a utility
patent and promote my invention.
Explanation of
complaint between customer and invention promoter:
After making a
$1,000 down payment and several payments to this company, all I received
was a 3
ring binder
describing my invention and a patent search. With no follow up I feel
that maybe my invention
cannot be developed
through ISC and therefore I should not be responsible to pay them for no
services
rendered.
Signed:
<Blank>
COMPLAINT
REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTER
DATE OF
CORRESPONDENCE:
Name of the
Invention Promotion Company:
ISC
Invention Submission Corporation
Invention Promoter’s Address:
Complainant’s Name:
Mordena P. Sephus
Complainant’s
Address:
<Blank>
Customer’s Name:
Mordena P. Sephus
WHAT IS YOUR
COMPLAINT?
Name of mass
media invention promoter advertised in:
<Unavailable>
Invention promotion
services offered to be performed:
<Unavailable>
Explanation of
complaint between customer and invention promoter:
I am a victim of
fraud by breach of contract & misconduct. ISC and its affiliation
concocted a
relentless
interdiction, suppressing and supplanting all of my priority patent
application fees causing a 1
year lapse while
re-incorporating money intended for patent app. Adversingly into their
submission
program &
discredited my invention on their website by deprivation.
Signed:
<Blank>
COMPLAINT
REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTER
DATE OF
CORRESPONDENCE:
Name of the
Invention Promotion Company:
Jason Ratcliff
Invention
Promoter’s Address:
Complainant’s Name:
Emma Davis
Complainant’s
Address:
<Blank>
Customer’s Name:
Emma Davis
WHAT IS YOUR
COMPLAINT?
Name of mass
media invention promoter advertised in:
Intromark Incorporated
Invention promotion
services offered to be performed:
Marketing for the
purpose of trying to obtain a sale, <unknown> contracts.
Explanation of
complaint between customer and invention promoter:
I am
dissatisfied with ISC services because I filled out forms for my patent
at the beginning, to also
add my son’s name on
the patent as the second inventor which is not on my original patent
that I received.
I now acknowledge
that during ISC’s marketing process for my patent, their efforts were
unsuccessful
and poor because ISC
sent information of my product to companies not in my patents field not
having any
interest therefore
very much limiting and lowering its success rate.
My representatives
at ISC expressed a lot of enthusiasm and that my product was a good one
and will
work through ISC’s
efforts.
ISC’s
representatives also asked me (Emma Davis), did I know any company
interest in marketing my
product and never
really kept a good open communication with me to let me know how the
product was
doing.
Signed:
<Blank>
COMPLAINT
REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTER
DATE OF
CORRESPONDENCE:
Name of the
Invention Promotion Company:
ISC
Invention
Promoter’s Address:
Complainant’s Name:
Douglas Barnes
Complainant’s
Address:
<Blank>
Customer’s Name:
Douglas Barnes
WHAT IS YOUR
COMPLAINT?
Name of mass
media invention promoter advertised in:
<Unknown>
Invention promotion
services offered to be performed:
Marketing to get
patent, get company to build and sell.
Explanation of
complaint between customer and invention promoter:
Never heard from
ISC after signing papers and giving them a check for $7,500. Only rec’d
updated list
of companies that
pamphlet for <unknown> was sent to.
ISC representative
gave me a speech on how good the <unknown> was and they would have no
problem on getting a
company interested in producing, manufacturing, promoting and selling
it.
Signed:
<Blank>
COMPLAINT
REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTER
DATE OF
CORRESPONDENCE:
Name of the
Invention Promotion Company:
ISC
Invention Submission Corporation
Invention Promoter’s Address:
Complainant’s Name:
Douglas D. Woolley
Complainant’s
Address:
<Blank>
Customer’s Name:
Douglas D. Woolley
WHAT IS YOUR
COMPLAINT?
Name of mass
media invention promoter advertised in:
Invention Submission
Corporation
Invention promotion
services offered to be performed:
To send me an
information package and charge $600.00 for a prepared catalog showing
detailed invention.
For $3990 more to
market invention.
Explanation of
complaint between customer and invention promoter:
I submitted my
invention to ISC about
market. After two
years of me waiting for any reaction from any company listed by ISC, I
get a letter
saying ISC was done.
I called them many times to get my money back without any results. All I
would get
was a pre-recorded
message to leave my name and phone number.
Signed:
<Blank>
COMPLAINT
REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTER
DATE OF
CORRESPONDENCE:
Name of the
Invention Promotion Company:
ISC
Invention Submission Corporation
Invention Promoter’s Address:
Complainant’s Name:
CathyM. Casey
Complainant’s
Address:
<Blank>
Customer’s Name:
CathyM. Casey
WHAT IS YOUR
COMPLAINT?
Name of mass
media invention promoter advertised in:
04-CMB-1017
Invention promotion
services offered to be performed:
Gallaria expedition
– not offered as originally told; Advertise and find company to
manufacture, also get
patent completed.
Explanation of
complaint between customer and invention promoter:
See Attached:
Signed:
<Blank>
COMPLAINT
REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTER
DATE OF
CORRESPONDENCE:
Name of the
Invention Promotion Company:
ISC
Invention Submission Corporation or:
Universal Finance
Invention Promoter’s
Address:
Complainant’s Name:
William S. Ryman &
Diana Crain
Complainant’s
Address:
<Blank>
Customer’s Name:
William S. Ryman &
Diana Crain
WHAT IS YOUR
COMPLAINT?
Name of mass
media invention promoter advertised in:
<Unknown>
Invention promotion
services offered to be performed:
Invention Submission
Explanation of
complaint between customer and invention promoter:
We took an
invention idea to Invention Submission in
Problems we had
were:
1) Invention
classified wrong, the companies we contacted (took upon ISC) produce
household items
not automotive
items.
2) The companies (on
the attached lists) were from their database and we contacted them;
these
companies did not
acknowledge doing business with or hearing of ISC. The numbers were
obtained from the
Thomas Register which lists products, and phone # of companies.
3) Finally, after
several phone calls, the invention was re-classified or so we thought.
Again we made
phone calls and no
acknowledgement of ISC.
4) We feel the whole
scam was just to keep getting our money for a service we were not
getting.
We heard about
Neustel Law Offices and he other problems that ISC has had and we feel
we were
taken and then we
wrote our letter of termination. We sent a copy to universal Finance. We
were advised to
do this by a
attorney
Our other letter
regarding our refund has been ignored.
We feel we didn’t
get the service we were paying for. We did receive one company’s name,
we were
advised not to do
business with them (by ISC). After reading their letter (we got a copy
in October ’98) and
all their rules, we
decided not to deal with them. After all the names we submitted to ISC &
if they
contacted the names
on their lists, why would there be only one letter of interest? This is
another reason we
don’t believe they
did their job.
We feel we are
entitled to our money back because they did not perform the service we
were
paying for.
Universal Finance
continues to call and send letters threatening to ruin our credit by
reporting the
$10,693.90 balance.
We will not pay them any more money and as of 3/01 credit reports, they
have not
done this.We are
sending this whole packet of information to the United States Patent &
Trademark Office
(USPTO) office of
Enrolment & Discipline in
Signed:
<Blank>
COMPLAINT
REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTER
DATE OF
CORRESPONDENCE:
Name of the
Invention Promotion Company:
ISC
Invention Submission Corporation
AKA INTROMARK
INC
AKA UNIVERSAL
FINANCE
Invention Promoter’s
Address:
Complainant’s Name:
Anthony & Joan Repaci
Complainant’s
Address:
<Blank>
Customer’s Name:
Anthony J. Repaci
WHAT IS YOUR
COMPLAINT?
Name of mass
media invention promoter advertised in:
Invention Submission
Corporation (ISC) as seen on TV
Invention promotion
services offered to be performed:
For a fee, to assist
in submitting our product & idea to industry, help in obtaining appetent
and negotiate
with manufacturers
for a sale or license agreement.
Explanation of
complaint between customer and invention promoter:
From
We have proof to
substantiate this amount. And to date these people have done absolutely
nothing to help
us get our idea on
the market, but in fact hindered us (see IPEX below). We received many
patronizing
letters from ISC but
no evidence of help with manufacturers and other promises as outlined in
their
contract. In 1998
ISC invited us to set up a booth at the ISC IPEX convention. We did at
our own expense
(travel, hotel,
etc.) and were aghast to see ISC invited the general public as well as
mass media, who
videotaped a close
up of our invention. Also we were NOT assigned a booth in the
‘Manufacturers Only”
private room. The
complained not only
about non-plus services but also why we were not allowed a booth in the
private room.
He said prior to the
show, ISC Company sent out a list of manufacturers name to his customers
so that we
could contact them
to set up an appointment to visit our booth inside that room. When we
told him we did
NOT receive any such
list he apologized and blamed his Customer Service Manager, Lisa Sweeny.
He
instructed a staff
member at the show to look up on their computer. She told us that they
overlooked
sending us the list
but would mail it out after the show. At this point after noting all the
do nothing attempts
to help us, we told
Mr. Berger we wanted out of his contracts (ISC and Universal Finance).
He said to us,
“My lawyers have you
people wrapped up tight in a contract which you can not so easily get
out of”. I well
needless to say
realized the hopelessness of this situation and that we had been
scammed. This was
confirmed when we
received a last letter dated
Associates, which
informed of us a balance of $2,966.30 left on our loan for a US Patent
Application and
that if we wanted to
“revive” the application we had to pay another $505 fee. At that point,
with a balance
of $2,966.30 left on
our loan, we told Universal Finance that we would pay no more, for all
the above
reasons. We haven’t
heard from ISC or Universal since. However, just this year we were
shocked to find
they had damaged our
credit report with an unfulfilled debt reported of $4,100 (3 major
credit bureaus) WE
WANT THIS REMOVED
IMMEDIATELY WITH CONFIRMATION TO US
REIMBURSMENT.
Signed:
<Blank>
COMPLAINT
REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTER
DATE OF
CORRESPONDENCE:
Name of the
Invention Promotion Company:
ISC
Invention
Submission Corporation
Invention Promoter’s Address:
Complainant’s Name:
Norman Beaver
Complainant’s
Address:
<Blank>
Customer’s Name:
WHAT IS YOUR
COMPLAINT?
Name of mass
media invention promoter advertised in:
Invention
promotion services offered to be performed:
Advertise & Find
company to produce
Explanation of
complaint between customer and invention promoter:
Wrong choice of
manufactures sent material. Very little done to promote. I don’t feel I
got my money’s
worth,
Signed:
<Blank>
COMPLAINT
REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTER
DATE OF
CORRESPONDENCE:
Name of the
Invention Promotion Company:
ISC
Invention
Submission Corporation
Invention Promoter’s Address:
Complainant’s Name:
Sarah B. Rondell
Complainant’s
Address:
Customer’s Name:
Sarah B. Rondell
WHAT IS YOUR
COMPLAINT?
Name of mass
media invention promoter advertised in:
ISC
Invention
promotion services offered to be performed:
Explanation of
complaint between customer and invention promoter:
I, Sarah B.
Rondell had an agreement with ISC. I was told , and led to believe that
everything I was
promised would
happen even before the issue of my patent. I now understand that unless
you actually have
the
I was also told that
my patent invention would be viewed at tradeshows with only a prototype
of my
invention. This was
also a lie.
ISC also claimed
that they would market the product, get it to manufacturers and that the
manufacturer
would get it to the
stores and
one had shown any
interest. I was fooled into believing ISC. As a result, I gave ISC about
$12,000 but no
contract or
licensing with any manufacturers was accomplished. I lost all of my
savings on a promise.
Signed:
<Blank>
COMPLAINT
REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTER
DATE OF
CORRESPONDENCE:
Name of the
Invention Promotion Company:
ISC
Invention Submission Corporation
Invention Promoter’s Address:
Complainant’s Name:
Marc and Berline
Fertil
Complainant’s
Address:
<Blank>
Customer’s Name:
Marc and Berline
Fertil
WHAT IS YOUR
COMPLAINT?
Name of mass
media invention promoter advertised in:
TV / Internet
Invention promotion
services offered to be performed:
To market and patent
number
Explanation of
complaint between customer and invention promoter:
See Attached:
<No attachment or
additional scan provided>
Signed:
<Blank>
COMPLAINT
REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTER
DATE OF
CORRESPONDENCE:
Name of the
Invention Promotion Company:
ISC
Invention Submission Corporation
Invention Promoter’s Address:
Complainant’s Name:
Cammie Wilson
Complainant’s
Address:
<Blank>
Customer’s Name:
Cammie Wilson
WHAT IS YOUR
COMPLAINT?
Name of mass
media invention promoter advertised in:
Invention
promotion services offered to be performed:
Explanation of
complaint between customer and invention promoter:
ISC preys on the
poor, high school educated or less, dreamers like myself. They have an
unfair
advantage over their
targeted potential customers by not telling them the 1 year deadline
after public
exposure law. Now I
have one question. If our business is all they want, why not include the
law giving us
a choice?
Signed:
<Blank>
COMPLAINT
REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTER
DATE OF
CORRESPONDENCE:
Name of the
Invention Promotion Company:
I.S.C. Mel Karpen (
Invention Promoter’s
Address:
Complainant’s Name:
Jeanne Buesing
Complainant’s Address:
N/A
Customer’s Name:
Jeanne Buesing
WHAT IS YOUR
COMPLAINT?
Name of mass
media invention promoter advertised in:
N/A
Invention promotion
services offered to be performed:
They promised
everything – but did nothing. I received a lot of paperwork.
Explanation of
complaint between customer and invention promoter:
They kept asking
for more money to get everything going. I’m out approximately $10,000
and I have
nothing to show for
it.
I truly believe Mr.
Karpen and the patent attorney, Kaardal Assoc.,
recommended to me by
I.S.C.) were involved in stealing my idea. When the patent search was
done –
nothing similar was
on the market. After they received all my money, then all of sudden all
kinds started
showing up on the
market. I have been made a fool of. How can they get away with this?
<Blank>, and this
has hurt quite a
bit.
Signed: <Blank>
COMPLAINT
REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTER
DATE OF
CORRESPONDENCE:
Name of the
Invention Promotion Company:
ISC
Invention Submission Corporation
Invention Promoter’s Address:
Complainant’s Name:
Alvarado Jones - Son
Complainant’s
Address:
<Blank>
Customer’s Name:
Virginia Jones -
Inventor
WHAT IS YOUR
COMPLAINT?
Name of mass
media invention promoter advertised in:
ISC Invention
Submission Corporation
Invention promotion
services offered to be performed:
Submitting idea to
manufacturers for development as and improvement to <Blank>
Explanation of
complaint between customer and invention promoter:
My mother and I
feel the failure of ISC mainly was completing the final step of going
all out to submit
the idea to
manufacturers. We fell that communication came to a stop when we needed
to know what was
going on. They told
us at one time a company would call us. They never called.
Signed:
<Blank>
COMPLAINT
REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTER
DATE OF
CORRESPONDENCE:
Name of the
Invention Promotion Company:
ISC
Invention Submission Corporation
Invention Promoter’s Address:
Complainant’s Name:
Michael Chaput for son
Nathaniel Chaput
Complainant’s
Address:
<Blank>
Customer’s Name:
Michael and Nathaniel
Chaput
WHAT IS YOUR
COMPLAINT?
Name of mass
media invention promoter advertised in:
We saw commercial on
TV
Invention promotion
services offered to be performed:
Background check on
“invention”, Application for patent if patentable, marketing of
invention.
Explanation of
complaint between customer and invention promoter:
My son, Nathaniel
Chaput, was hoping to secure a patent for one of his idea's. We met and
spoke to a rep of
ISC, (Invention Submission Corporation) and decided to pay to have a
patent search
done.
Once the patent
search was completed, we returned to discuss the results of the research
with the rep of
ISC. We were
told
that a patent didn't exist for Nathan's idea. However, this couldn't be
any further from
the truth. Based
on the patent research, presented in the book, (put together by
lSC)
a patent for
an item
closely
resembling Nathan's idea does in fact already exist. And this is
continued by a letter written to us
by Attorney
informed
decision, but it wasn't. Instead we were led to believe that no patent
resembling Nathan's idea
existed, and
that a patent could be obtained for Nathan's idea Based on the
information interpreted by the
representatives
of ISC to us, we decided to proceed with the project. We paid to apply
for an application
and to have the item
marketed.
Had we been
correctly and appropriately informed of all the findings of the
research, favorable and
unfavorable, we
would have never proceeded for the request of patent. And furthermore,
would never have
had the item
marketed.
Signed:
<Blank>
COMPLAINT
REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTER
DATE OF
CORRESPONDENCE:
Name of the
Invention Promotion Company:
ISC
Invention Submission Corporation
Invention Promoter’s Address:
Complainant’s Name:
Laura Stamper
Complainant’s
Address:
<Blank>
Customer’s Name:
Laura Stamper
WHAT IS YOUR
COMPLAINT?
Name of mass
media invention promoter advertised in:
TV / Internet
Invention promotion
services offered to be performed:
To market and get
patent number.
Explanation of
complaint between customer and invention promoter:
I have paid
close to 10,000.00 to Invention Submission Corporation and I am still
not aware of how they
marketed my
invention. They state they submitted my invention to companies however
from my
understandings
the companies they submitted to are no use to my invention. Also they
hired an attorney for
me that allowed my
patent to go abandoned.
I am wanting my contract voided and all monies paid
back.
Signed:
<Blank>
COMPLAINT
REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTER
DATE OF
CORRESPONDENCE:
Name of the
Invention Promotion Company:
ISC
Invention Submission Corporation
Universal
Finance
Intromark
Inpex
Invention Promoter’s
Address:
Complainant’s Name:
John Lobur
Complainant’s
Address:
<Blank>
Customer’s Name:
John Lobur
WHAT IS YOUR
COMPLAINT?
Name of mass
media invention promoter advertised in:
Television
Invention promotion
services offered to be performed:
Patent searches,
press releases, brochures, company submissions, patent applications and
drawings, trade
show, marketing.
Explanation of
complaint between customer and invention promoter:
Drawer full of
useless paperwork as well as 3 boxes for 3 different items that
basically say exactly the
same thing with
slightly different variations to differentiate them. Spent well over
$25,000 to be misled.
One such instance
was that one item had to do with machines manufactured overseas. Someone
mentioned
to me that foreign
patents would have to be applied for in those countries and would be
more money. When
I questioned Chet
Dombrowski (salesman) about this, he told me I didn’t have to worry
about it. Submitted
lists to me about
alleged companies that they supposedly sent my info to. When I gave them
name/contact
info of companies I
knew were relevant to my items, I was ignored. I did not partake in
their “tradeshow”
yet was not returned
any monies that allegedly were to be allotted out of my payment toward
it. I stopped
their “work” on my
items and was not returned any monies since no patent application was
finalized or
submitted, nor did I
request any more work on their end. The final straw that led to this
decision was
calling to talk to a
person being told they no longer work there, yet getting a letter dated
after the phone call
but with their
signature and name on it.
Signed:
<Blank>
COMPLAINT
REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTER
DATE OF
CORRESPONDENCE:
Name of the
Invention Promotion Company:
ISC
Invention Submission Corporation
Invention Promoter’s Address:
Complainant’s Name:
Lester Hicks
Complainant’s
Address:
<Blank>
Customer’s Name:
Lester Hicks
WHAT IS YOUR
COMPLAINT?
Name of mass
media invention promoter advertised in:
Television Ad
Invention promotion
services offered to be performed:
Patent invention to
manufacturers within their industry databank. Manufacturers that they
have done
business with
previously. Total lost over $40,000 for submitting and patenting 3
inventions.
Explanation of
complaint between customer and invention promoter:
The invention
promoter (Invention Submission Corporation) informed me and another
client / coinventor
on one project, Mr.
Hugh Moore, that Invention Submission Corporation had successfully
promoted various
projects he (promoter) showed us pictures of a <blacked out> and a
booklet showing
other inventions
that they have received20% licensing royalties fees. The promoter
informed us that they
would place our
invention in various popular magazines, newspapers, tradeshows, and to
manufacturers to
whom they had a
personal working relationship. The Invention Submission Corporation and
their attorney,
Mr. Edward Campbell,
lost our paperwork as a result, we lost 1 of 2 two years of promotion
that was under
the contractual
agreement. See enclosed supporting documentation.We never saw any
evidence of
promotion that was
promised.
Signed:
<Blank>
COMPLAINT
REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTER
DATE OF
CORRESPONDENCE:
Name of the
Invention Promotion Company:
ISC
Invention Submission Corporation
Invention Promoter’s Address:
Complainant’s Name:
Terrance Simon
Complainant’s
Address:
<Blank>
Customer’s Name:
Terrance Simon
WHAT IS YOUR
COMPLAINT?
Name of mass
media invention promoter advertised in:
ISC & Universal
Finance Company
Invention promotion
services offered to be performed:
Patent search,
patentability recommendation and assistance with manufacture.
Explanation of
complaint between customer and invention promoter:
On
recommendation. I
was told that it would cost $975.00 but I could pay it in installments
of $250.00. I gave
them a check for
$250.00. In April 2004, I was notified that the search was complete and
that they highly
recommend that I go
forward with a patent and copyrights which they could assist me with in
obtaining but
I had to pay the
remainder of the $975 first. I gave them another check for $250 at which
time they told that
they would present
my invention to manufacturers if I paid them another $10,000 dollars.
That was when a
red flag went off
and I began to feel like was conned. Next I received a bill from a
Finance company for a
loan I did not enter
into. I feel I should not pay the balance.
Signed:
<Blank>
COMPLAINT
REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTER
DATE OF
CORRESPONDENCE:
Name of the
Invention Promotion Company:
ISC
Invention Submission Corporation
Jack Armstrong
Invention Promoter’s
Address:
76 N. Broadway suite
2010
Complainant’s Name:
Luigi & Bernadina
Giammatra
Complainant’s
Address:
<Blank>
Customer’s Name:
Luigi & Bernadina
Giammatra
WHAT IS YOUR
COMPLAINT?
Name of mass
media invention promoter advertised in:
Have an Idea? ISC
Invention promotion
services offered to be performed:
To evaluate how
marketable my idea would, also to do a research report, and If my
invention could be
patentable.
Explanation of
complaint between customer and invention promoter:
Jack Armstrong
from ISC told us I had to have this market report that would come in
bound book to
present to
companies. He also said that no companies would look at my idea unless I
had this research
report done. He said
they wouldn’t take my idea seriously. We feel he mislead us to charge us
$925.00 to
have this book made.
Now he says, since the report came back positive to pursue my idea would
cost from
$8,490 to $14,040
for them to present my idea to companies. He also told me it would cost
that much just
to patent my idea if
a lawyer did it. I feel like I was misled.
Signed:
<Blank>
COMPLAINT
REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTER
DATE OF
CORRESPONDENCE:
Name of the
Invention Promotion Company:
ISC
Invention Submission Corporation
Invention Promoter’s Address:
Complainant’s Name:
Brenda J. Ingram
Complainant’s
Address:
<Blank>
Customer’s Name:
Brenda Ingram
WHAT IS YOUR
COMPLAINT?
Name of mass
media invention promoter advertised in:
Television
Invention promotion
services offered to be performed:
To submit invention to
industry such as manufacturers marketers. To help patent and advertise
invention.
Explanation of
complaint between customer and invention promoter:
I was under the
impression that for my $10,000 that my invention would be submitted to
manufacturers and
advertised at trade
shows. I was at least expecting a prototype. I do not to this day know
what
manufacturers, if
any my invention was submitted to. All I got for my ten thousand dollars
was a patent
worth $500. However,
if my product was licensed the company ISC wanted 20% of the royalties.
I
couldn’t understand
why something as simple as a
<Blank>
was
not picked up by a manufacturer since it
cost pennies to
make it. ISC claimed that they had a data bank of over 10,000 companies.
I feel that ISC
only wanted my
money, and did the least that they had to for it. I feel that their
advertisements on TV are
very misleading, and
a rip off. They need to be put out of business. I ended contract in
1999.
Signed:
<Blank>
COMPLAINT
REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTER
DATE OF
CORRESPONDENCE:
Name of the
Invention Promotion Company:
ISC
Invention
Submission Corporation
Invention Promoter’s Address:
Complainant’s Name:
Sherry Uloth
Complainant’s
Address:
<Blank>
Customer’s Name:
Sherry Uloth
WHAT IS YOUR
COMPLAINT?
Name of mass
media invention promoter advertised in:
Invention Submission
Corporation
Invention promotion
services offered to be performed:
They were to send my
invention idea to hundreds of companies so that one might market it.
Explanation of
complaint between customer and invention promoter:
In ’98, I signed
a contract with ISC. Then in 2000, I received a patent on my invention.
I paid out over
$10,000 to them. My
complaint is that they kept sending me lists of companies they were
supposedly
sending a brochure
of my invention to. ISC had told me that in theses brochures were
comment cards that
would state either
“No, I’m not interested or “Yes” I am interested in the product, and
that if any company
responded back I
would be notified. Well, not once did any company respond. So, I called
ISC
“numerous” times
telling them to send me some kind of proof that they are even sending
brochures out.
Well, they never
did!! One employee there even lied to me and said they sent something to
me, but they
never did. I have
just recently seen on the internet that ISC has been sued before and
have given refunds
for the last couple
of years. I have been trying to figure out how to get my $ back like all
of those other
people because I
feel that they haven’t done what they say they are doing. I regret
paying $10,000!! Have
I been scammed and
what can I do to try and get a refund?
Signed:
<Blank>
COMPLAINT
REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTER
DATE OF
CORRESPONDENCE:
Name of the
Invention Promotion Company:
ISC
Invention
Submission Corporation
Invention Promoter’s Address:
Complainant’s Name:
James L. Ketrow
Complainant’s
Address:
<Blank>
Customer’s Name:
James Ketrow
WHAT IS YOUR
COMPLAINT?
Name of mass
media invention promoter advertised in:
TV & brochures were
mailed to me
Invention promotion
services offered to be performed:
Facilitate my
invention (which did receive a patent, Patent# US6818127) to be marketed
and prototype
developed
Explanation of
complaint between customer and invention promoter:
I entered into a
contract with ISC in 2000, (Mar 2002 Patent App. Date) received a patent
(most of which
was problematic in
that Kaardal dropped me just before my patent was in final review) 2004
I asked
immediately what
they (ISC) would do to market, develop and otherwise facilitate the
process. I received
<Unknown>
explanations of all the clients and companies that they (ISC) had
supposedly contacted, and
the trade shows that
they had done. I kept attempting to contact them in 2004-05 and was
notified by mail
that Kaardal had
retired and that Leonard & Proehl would now handle my account. It is a
fact that they
scam people, and do
little or nothing for $13,000 they charge in various stages to make you
believe that if
you don’t hurry and
pay, you will lose your opportunity forever. I called Leonard & Proehl
to ask what
they would do to
help me since Kaardal & ISC were not. And, it was critical to move
forward since I now
had gotten the
patent. They said that they could do nothing.
Signed:
<Blank>
COMPLAINT
REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTER
DATE OF
CORRESPONDENCE:
Name of the
Invention Promotion Company:
ISC
Invention Submission Corporation
Invention Promoter’s Address:
Complainant’s Name:
John Nicholas Burgraff
Complainant’s
Address:
<Blank>
Customer’s Name:
John N. Burgraff
WHAT IS YOUR
COMPLAINT?
Name of mass
media invention promoter advertised in: (i.e., TV, Radio, Newspaper,
Magazine, Other)
All of the above
Invention promotion
services offered to be performed:
Submission and Patent
Services
Explanation of
complaint between customer and invention promoter:
See attached complaint
[No additional info provided]
Signed:
<Blank>
COMPLAINT
REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTER
DATE OF
CORRESPONDENCE:
Name of the
Invention Promotion Company:
ISC
Invention Submission Corporation
Invention Promoter’s Address:
Complainant’s Name:
Craig D. Mueller
Complainant’s
Address:
<Blank>
Customer’s Name:
Craig D. Mueller
WHAT IS YOUR
COMPLAINT?
Name of mass
media invention promoter advertised in:
TV and Yellow Pages
Invention promotion
services offered to be performed:
Artwork, patent
completed, market my invention place in the invention show
Explanation of
complaint between customer and invention promoter:
First, they told
me the time to receive my patent should take 2-3 years. It actually took
5+ years. They
waited 1.5 years to
call me saying I needed to sign the patent app (June ‘03). I received my
patent in May
’04. Second, I
signed up for the optional invention show. They have two rooms, one for
ideas not patented
and one for patented
products. They called me asking if I wanted to put my non-patented idea
in the show,
or wait until it was
patented. I said wait. I found out in 2003 it was entered into the
non-patented room.
Third, I have still
not been notified my product has been patented. They were to resend out
my idea to all
their companies in
their database. They have yet to do this. Fourth, I have not heard from
any company in
their database. The
only time I ever heard from ISC, was if I needed to sign something.
Signed:
<Blank>
COMPLAINT
REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTER
DATE OF
CORRESPONDENCE:
Name of the
Invention Promotion Company:
ISC
Invention
Submission Corporation
Invention Promoter’s Address:
Complainant’s Name:
Richard R. Mercer
Complainant’s
Address:
<Blank>
Customer’s Name:
Richard Mercer
WHAT IS YOUR
COMPLAINT?
Name of mass
media invention promoter advertised in:
<Blank>
Invention promotion
services offered to be performed:
Patent search
695.00, for 9,500.00. They will process patent application. For next 2
years they would
locate a
manufacturer to sign a licensing agreement in which I would receive
royalties.
Explanation of
complaint between customer and invention promoter:
First of their
services was a press release to describe the product, to be published in
some form of
newspaper or
magazine. I did not receive any proof this ever happened. Next was to
produce a color photo
and description to
send to possible manufacturers. I was unhappy with the photo, but was
told it would
take time to change
and should move on. Excited to move on, I approved it. This photo would
be sent to
75 – 80 companies.
They claimed to know all the right manufacturers for my product. I
received a list of
said companies. I
then contacted several of them only to find one to be a logging company,
another made
particle board and
another who made building materials. None of which would be my idea of
possible
candidates. Yet they
claimed to know what they were doing, at my expense. After 2 years and
no luck,
ISC informed me they
were done pursuing the licensing of my idea. All said and done, my cost
was
10,195.00 for a
patent.
Signed:
<Blank>
COMPLAINT
REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTER
DATE OF
CORRESPONDENCE:
Name of the
Invention Promotion Company:
ISC
Invention Submission Corporation
Invention
Promoter’s Address:
<Blank>
Complainant’s
Name:
Paul Neves
Complainant’s
Address:
<Blank>
Customer’s Name:
Paul Neves
WHAT IS YOUR
COMPLAINT?
Name of mass
media invention promoter advertised in:
ISC
Invention promotion
services offered to be performed:
patent invention,
market my product, send product and patent to various manufacturers
Explanation of
complaint between customer and invention promoter:
I paid ISC
approx. $10,000 to patent and market my invention. They did not include
all of my artwork in
their design and
brochure. I had to work directly with a patent attorney, and although I
got a patent, I never
had my product
marketed to different manufacturers. ISC said they sent a brochure of my
invention to
many manufacturers,
but when I called some of the manufacturers, they said they never
received anything
from ISC. ISC
continually gave me the run-around and took all my money in exchange for
nothing! I am
very unhappy and I
want my money back. Please begin an investigation about the crooks at
ISC, so they
don’t do this to
anyone else.
Signed:
<Blank>
COMPLAINT
REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTER
DATE OF
CORRESPONDENCE:
Name of the Invention Promotion Company:
Advent Product
Development Company
Invention Promoter’s
Address:
Complainant’s Name:
Shelley Ann Kerby
Complainant’s
Address:
<Blank>
Customer’s Name:
Shelley Ann Kerby
WHAT IS YOUR
COMPLAINT?
Name of mass
media invention promoter advertised in:
Other. They were taken
to trade shows and sending info various magazines and clothing lines.
Invention promotion
services offered to be performed:
To try and get a
licensing agreement with someone.
Explanation of
complaint between customer and invention promoter:
I paid Advent to
do an initial market analysis and to investigate whether or not they was
a utility patent out
there. Their
investigation proved there was none. They did not properly investigate
and there is a utility
patent already like
the one I wanted on file. I have spent thousands of dollars on this and
the utility patent
already exists. They
misrepresented me and took a lot of money from me.
Signed:
<Blank>
COMPLAINT
REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTER
DATE OF
CORRESPONDENCE:
Name of the Invention Promotion Company:
Davison & Associates
Invention Promoter’s
Address:
Complainant’s Name:
Alan Scoggins
Complainant’s
Address:
<Blank>
Customer’s Name:
Alan Scoggins
WHAT IS YOUR
COMPLAINT?
Name of mass
media invention promoter advertised in:
Internet advertisement
Invention promotion
services offered to be performed:
Research design and
patent search, disclosure document filing, creating presentation
materials, creating a
production sample,
production and executive summary.
Explanation of
complaint between customer and invention promoter:
I contacted
Davison & Associates in good faith to assist me in the patenting and
licensing of a <Blank>. I
have paid Davison &
Associates over $15,000 to date without any results. I feel that Davison
& Associates
misrepresented their
services in exchange for my money. They have directed their marketing
toward
companies that are
not within my target market. They would take my advice when I would
direct them
towards prospective
companies until they marketed the product to their companies. Upon
re-review of the
documents given to
me by Davison & Associates, the agreement with the companies requesting
a product
review have been
back dated up to two year prior to my contact with Davison, indicating
to me that such
requests have never
been made and are alleged presentations have never been given.
Signed:
<Blank>
COMPLAINT
REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTER
DATE OF
CORRESPONDENCE:
Name of the Invention Promotion Company:
Davison (Rep: Steve
Cianflone)
Invention Promoter’s
Address:
Complainant’s Name:
Luigi & Bernadina
Giammalva
Complainant’s
Address:
<Blank>
Customer’s Name:
Luigi & Bernadina
Giammalva
WHAT IS YOUR
COMPLAINT?
Name of mass
media invention promoter advertised in:
Parenting magazine
Invention promotion
services offered to be performed:
To get a major company
to look at my idea, and also develop my idea into a product.
Explanation of
complaint between customer and invention promoter:
I told Stephen
Cianflone <Blank>. He insisted to get a research first to see if we
could even move forward
depending on the
research. I told him I needed to know how much it would cost before I
would get the
research. He went on
to say if my report came back positive, that Mr. Davison would help
finance and
would ask for
additional percentage and royalties. He also said that determining the
price of my idea would
be done later on
again depending on the research report. When he sent my list of fees I
was very
disappointed. He
could have told me from the beginning. Even though Mr. Davison
discounted the fees
they were very
similar to other companies I had called. When I told Stephen that Mr.
Davison contribute
was a lot less than
expected, he told me that it’s the most Mr. Davison would do or seen him
do in the years
he has worked for
him. I wish he would have told me this from the beginning. I would have
not pursued
this. I also think
the fees are told from the beginning even though they have standard
pricing lists.
Signed:
<Blank>
COMPLAINT
REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTER
DATE OF
CORRESPONDENCE:
Name of the Invention Promotion Company:
Davison (Rep: Steve
Cianflone)
Invention Promoter’s
Address:
Complainant’s Name:
Luigi & Bernadina
Giammalva
Complainant’s
Address:
<Blank>
Customer’s Name:
Luigi & Bernadina
Giammalva
WHAT IS YOUR
COMPLAINT?
Name of mass
media invention promoter advertised in:
Parenting magazine
Invention promotion
services offered to be performed:
To do a market
research on my idea, to evaluate how marketable my idea would be, and to
get a major
company to market my
idea.
Explanation of
complaint between customer and invention promoter:
When I spoke to
Mr. Cianflone, I told him I needed to know how much it would cost me. He
continued to
explain that we
would need to do the research first and from there we would know if we
could even go
forward or not
depend on the research. I told him that <Blank> and that is why I needed
to know before
hand. He told me
that in most cases if a major company wanted to look at my idea Mr.
Davison would step
up to the plate.
Meaning that he would pay for the production to market the idea. Then,
he said he would
pay a percentage,
and he wouldn’t be able to tell me that until the research came back
positive. He charged
me $685.00 for the
research, when it came back positive he told me it would cost between
$9,895.00 to
$14,525.00 depending
on royalties Mr. Davison agreed upon. When I specified that I would not
be able to
do this if it costed
in the thousands!
Signed:
<Blank>
COMPLAINT
REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTER
DATE OF
CORRESPONDENCE:
Name of the Invention Promotion Company:
Davison
Invention Promoter’s
Address:
Complainant’s Name:
Margo Hinson
Complainant’s
Address:
<Blank>
Customer’s Name:
Margo Hinson
WHAT IS YOUR
COMPLAINT?
Name of mass
media invention promoter advertised in:
Mail
Invention promotion
services offered to be performed:
Patent research,
prototype, marketing, manufacture, disclosure deposit request
Explanation of
complaint between customer and invention promoter:
Davison, asked
for 685.00. After a few months the conversation started to change. I
kept asking for the
disclosure deposit
request to patent my invention and Daniel Columbus stalled on <Unknown>
request. I
also got information
that my husband received on the computer with regards to Davison and
would-be
victims. Mr. Daniel
Columbus became very aggressive towards the end asking me to pay using
(5) options:
1. Pay 165 an hour
2. 13,000.00 plus
10%
3. 11,000.00 plus an
additional 5% = 15%
4. 9,000.00 plus an
additional 10% = 25%
5. Option I pay 60%
of either options to start w/ 1,000.00 retaining fee 40% of balance due
upon
prototype
Signed:
<Blank>
COMPLAINT
REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTER
DATE OF
CORRESPONDENCE:
Name of the Invention Promotion Company:
Davison Design &
Development Inc.
Invention Promoter’s
Address:
Complainant’s Name:
Lester R. Gotschall
Complainant’s
Address:
<Blank>
Customer’s Name:
Lester R. Gotschall
WHAT IS YOUR
COMPLAINT?
Name of mass
media invention promoter advertised in:
The internet
Invention promotion
services offered to be performed:
Design, develop,
promote and offer for sale my idea of <Blank>
Explanation of
complaint between customer and invention promoter:
Disclosure
document submitted
Production contract
entered into
Cost to me:
Letter I received
from Jeffrey Sawyer on
company for sale.
Contract of
materials prepared
by Davison in regard to development of the invention. I told Mr. Sawyer
that I wanted
to personally
inspect the finished product. He said no one in the seven years he had
been there no one had
made that request.
Two or three times they promised to send, but to this date nothing, and
no word from
them. This is breach
of contract.
P.S. Package came
from Davison
no written word
about above contract.
Signed:
<Blank>
COMPLAINT
REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTER
DATE OF
CORRESPONDENCE:
Name of the Invention Promotion Company:
Davison Inventegration
Invention Promoter’s
Address:
Ride Park
Complainant’s Name:
Charles Merrill
Complainant’s
Address:
<Blank>
Customer’s Name:
Charles Merrill
WHAT IS YOUR
COMPLAINT?
Name of mass
media invention promoter advertised in:
Internet
Invention promotion
services offered to be performed:
Project portfolio &
licensee my invention
Explanation of
complaint between customer and invention promoter:
See typed narrative
[No additional info provided]
Signed:
<Blank>
COMPLAINT
REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTER
DATE OF
CORRESPONDENCE:
Name of the
Invention Promotion Company:
Davison
Invetegration
Invention Promoter’s
Address:
Ride park 595 Alpha
Drive
Complainant’s
Name:
Russell Baker
Complainant’s
Address:
<Blank>
Customer’s Name:
WHAT IS YOUR
COMPLAINT?
Name of mass
media invention promoter advertised in:
www.davison54.com
Invention promotion
services offered to be performed:
Package, presentation,
virtual reality product design, sample, royalty management
Explanation of
complaint between customer and invention promoter:
Downloaded pages of
<Blank>
registered with MN.
A.G. and BBB
Signed:
<Blank>
COMPLAINT
REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTER
DATE OF
CORRESPONDENCE:
Name of the Invention Promotion Company:
Homax Products Inc.
Invention Promoter’s
Address:
Complainant’s Name:
David Prokop
Complainant’s
Address:
<Blank>
Customer’s Name:
David Prokop
WHAT IS YOUR
COMPLAINT?
Name of mass
media invention promoter advertised in:
Homax advertised in:
tradeshows, internet websites, magazines (catalogs)
Invention promotion
services offered to be performed:
Homax promised to
develop additional ‘spin-off’ products, market to retail stores in
Promote the products
at tradeshows and in catalogs to their ‘network’ of buyers.
Explanation of
complaint between customer and invention promoter:
On
Products, Inc. of
patented products
(patent numbers # D486,591 and D443,937) fencepost protectors. A royalty
rate of 4%
of product sales
minus returns or a minimum royalty of $25,000 per year. On
Homax to request a
quarterly payment of the minimum yearly royalty payment. On
received a letter
from Frank Chmelik (Homax’s lawyer) that Homax was terminating the
contract and
would not pay any
royalty payments. In March 2005, I contacted the American Arbitration
Association to
mediate the disputed
contract. On
payment of $25,000
plus expenses from Homax Products, Inc. Since that time, Homax has
refused to pay
the judgment and I
am forced to take additional legal action to recover the
hearing a Homax
representative stated, “they have used this contract many times with
several inventors.” I
feel Homax has
“cheated and used for their own profit” many inventors without due
compensation for their
intellectual
property. Homax is using the strategy to increase profits by exploiting
independent inventors to
bear the cost of
Homax research and development for new products. I feel this is unfair
and in violation of
Federal Laws
including the American Inventors Protection Act of 1999.
Signed:
<Blank>
COMPLAINT
REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTER
DATE OF
CORRESPONDENCE:
Name of the Invention Promotion Company:
Invent Help
Invention Promoter’s
Address:
Complainant’s Name:
Complainant’s
Address:
<Blank>
Customer’s Name:
WHAT IS YOUR
COMPLAINT?
Name of mass
media invention promoter advertised in:
TV and radio stations
Invention promotion
services offered to be performed:
Market product through
conventions
Explanation of
complaint between customer and invention promoter:
Recently moved
to <Blank> was a customer of Invent Help’s when I resided in <Blank>
See attached [No
additional info provided]
Signed:
<Blank>
COMPLAINT
REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTER
DATE OF
CORRESPONDENCE:
Name of the Invention Promotion Company:
Invent Help
Invention Promoter’s
Address:
Complainant’s Name:
Complainant’s
Address:
<Blank>
Customer’s Name:
WHAT IS YOUR
COMPLAINT?
Name of mass
media invention promoter advertised in:
On TV
Invention promotion
services offered to be performed:
Patent attorney was
suppose to call and contact and discuss idea BIP package was received
after I asked for
my money back
Explanation of
complaint between customer and invention promoter:
Company Invent
Help promised a call from a patent attorney, (there disclaimer is ‘it is
up to the patent
attorney to call
you’) But they still charge $205.00 for the service. BIP package which
cost $760.00 was
received after I
asked for my money back. Constantly harassed by their parent company,
Universal
Payment,
irregardless of me telling them services were not performed and the
sales representative Phil
Romo, had the
audacity to proclaim the work was performed and also for $12,000 for the
next step. What a
joke. I have put in
writing I want my money back and magically, the BIP package arrives at
my house. I
sent it back and I
still want the $500.00 back that was paid towards the services that were
not performed.
Signed:
<Blank>
COMPLAINT
REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTER
DATE OF
CORRESPONDENCE:
Name of the Invention Promotion Company:
Invent Help
Invention Promoter’s
Address:
Complainant’s Name:
Sergey Trushkov
Complainant’s
Address:
<Blank>
Customer’s Name:
<Blank>
WHAT IS YOUR
COMPLAINT?
Name of mass
media invention promoter advertised in:
<Blank>
Invention promotion
services offered to be performed:
<Blank>
Explanation of
complaint between customer and invention promoter:
This letter is
to inform you of my effort to get my monies refunded by ISC/Invent Help.
Company
representative Mr.
Jim Folger mislead me about company business. By giving me the false
information
they violated the
consent decree. They company agrees that they have mislead me,
therefore, they agreed
to refund my money.
Provisions of the settlement have been violated. I assure you that many
of them
were.
CC: Enclosed 2
letters
Signed:
<Blank>
COMPLAINT
REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTER
DATE OF
CORRESPONDENCE:
Name of the Invention Promotion Company:
Invent Help
Invention Promoter’s
Address:
Complainant’s Name:
Wesley V. Thomas
Complainant’s
Address:
<Blank>
Customer’s Name:
Wesley V. Thomas
WHAT IS YOUR
COMPLAINT?
Name of mass
media invention promoter advertised in:
TV
Invention promotion
services offered to be performed:
Prepare Basic
Information Package – market idea
Explanation of
complaint between customer and invention promoter:
As of
with one of the
agents that they could help me patent my idea and also market it for
potential assets. After
my initial
consultation I was convinced that this company could assist me with my
idea (I was very
enthusiastic at this
point). After signing papers and agreeing to invest over 900.00, I later
learned from
another source that
there was a class action lawsuit filed against these types of companies
for misleading
people and giving
them false hope. This information is also on the Federal Trade
Commission’s website.
If I had been told
that without having a patent there would be no use in my pursuing a
portfolio in which I
can do nothing with.
Nobody has 900.00 to throw away and these companies need to have
integrity and
morals.
Signed:
<Blank>
COMPLAINT
REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTER
DATE OF
CORRESPONDENCE:
Name of the Invention
Promotion Company:
Jacob Enterprises
Inc.
DBA Invention Home
Invention Promoter’s
Address:
Complainant’s Name:
Jerome W. Smith and La
Tretha E. Stroughter
Complainant’s
Address:
<Blank>
Customer’s Name:
Jerome W. Smith and La
Tretha E. Stroughter
WHAT IS YOUR
COMPLAINT?
Name of mass
media invention promoter advertised in:
Jacob Enterprises Inc.
DBA Invention Home was found on the internet
Invention promotion
services offered to be performed:
Patent assistance –
packaging idea to be licensed – marketing idea to buyers – developing
prototype –
manufacturing
product
Explanation of
complaint between customer and invention promoter:
See attached complaint
letter [No additional info provided]
Signed:
<Blank>
COMPLAINT
REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTER
DATE OF
CORRESPONDENCE:
Name of the Invention
Promotion Company:
Millennium Marketing
Group,
*
www.patentmovers.com
Invention Promoter’s
Address:
10550 Marty, Overland
Park, KS 66212
Complainant’s Name:
Connie L. George
Complainant’s
Address:
<Blank>
Customer’s Name:
Connie L. George
WHAT IS YOUR
COMPLAINT?
Name of mass
media invention promoter advertised in: (i.e., TV, Radio,
Newspaper,Magazine,
Other)
I don’t know!! I’ve
asked again and again for some kind of proof!
Invention promotion
services offered to be performed:
Licensee for my
invention
Explanation of
complaint between customer and invention promoter:
Scott Norman
(President): didn’t comply with the signed contract, to do the “Function
& Duty” or INTENT
to do what it takes
to accomplish the “Job Service Operation”. The contract made him
“Legally &
Morally” to a
Binding Agreement. I feel that Scott Norman & Company has breached the
contract and
failed to give me
“Consideration”.
Signed:
<Blank>
COMPLAINT
REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTER
DATE OF
CORRESPONDENCE:
Name of the Invention Promotion Company:
Millennium Marketing
Group,
Invention Promoter’s
Address:
10550 Marty, Overland
Park, KS 66212
Complainant’s Name:
Gerold Kunkle
Complainant’s
Address:
<Blank>
Customer’s Name:
Gerold Kunkle
WHAT IS YOUR
COMPLAINT?
Name of mass
media invention promoter advertised in: (i.e., TV, Radio,
Newspaper,Magazine,
Other)
US Mail
Invention promotion
services offered to be performed:
Obtain a market for
patented technologies and obtain a licensing arraignment
Explanation of
complaint between customer and invention promoter:
Failure of
inventors’ group, it
was disclosed that
them to enter into
the words of the House Bill 2792, supplement to the Kansas Consumers
Protection Act,
of the contract,
“Agreement” signed into Kansas Law on
American Inventors’
Protection Act of 1999. The omitted disclosures would have resulted in
not entering
into an Agreement
with
ignoring the
requirements of the supplement to the Kansas Consumers Protection Act,
nor can they ignore
the requirements of
the Federal Law, The American Inventors’ Protection Act of 1999, and are
operating in
a deceptive manner.
Signed:
<Blank>
COMPLAINT
REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTER
DATE OF
CORRESPONDENCE:
Name of the
Invention Promotion Company:
ISC
Invention
Submission Corporation
Invention Promoter’s Address:
Complainant’s
Name:
Complainant’s
Address:
<Blank>
Customer’s Name:
WHAT IS YOUR
COMPLAINT?
Name of mass
media invention promoter advertised in:
Invention
promotion services offered to be performed:
Explanation of
complaint between customer and invention promoter:
Signed:
<Blank>
COMPLAINT
REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTER
DATE OF
CORRESPONDENCE:
Acct#:
<Blank>
Name of the
Invention Promotion Company:
Universal Payment
Corp./Universal Finance Company
Invention Promoter’s
Address:
Complainant’s Name:
Deena P.Wilson
Complainant’s
Address:
<Blank>
Customer’s Name:
Deena Wilson
WHAT IS YOUR
COMPLAINT?
Name of mass
media invention promoter advertised in: (i.e., TV, Radio, Newspaper,
Magazine,
Other)
TV, radio
Invention promotion
services offered to be performed:
Invention/Idea
Promotion
Explanation of
complaint between customer and invention promoter:
The company
(Invention Submission Corp./Universal Payment Corp./Universal Finance
Co.)
misrepresented their
services. They did not market my product like they said they would and
they did not
disclose the names
and addresses of the companies they sent my invention information to.
They told me a
patent search was
not necessary, but said they did a patent search. I never received proof
of a patent search.
The company provided
me with a computer-generated book of outdated information alleging that
my
product was
marketable. They made me think my product was marketable, but when I
changed my mind
and asked to cancel
my contract because the results were going no where and <Blank>, Mr.
David Schultz
told me it was
impossible to cancel. Mr. Schultz pretended like his company, Invention
Submission Corp.
was not affiliated
with the finance company, Universal Payment Corp./Universal Finance Co.
Mr. Schultz
advised me to ask
for <Blank>, but did not tell the finance company that he had advised me
to do that.
During my
dissatisfaction with Invention Submission Corp./Universal Payment
Corp./Universal Finance
This company has
been <Unknown> of its clients. This information can be found on the
ftc.gov website.
Signed:
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