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COMPLAINT REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTER

DATE OF CORRESPONDENCE: June 29, 2006

Name of the Invention Promotion Company: Davison Inventegration

Invention Promoter's Address: 595 Alpha Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15238-2911

Complainant's Name: Karen Wellman

Complainant's Address: 2521 West Novak Way, Phoenix, AZ 85041-2396

Customer's Name: Karen Wellman

WHAT IS YOUR COMPLAINT?

Name of mass media invention promoter advertised in: Online through a search with a link to their web site: www.davison54.com.

Invention promotion services offered to be performed: Submit idea and signed “confidentiality agreement” and I will be contacted to discuss it.

Explanation of complaint between customer and invention promoter:

Followed all instructions and submitted paperwork.  Never heard from company.  Phoned and was told employee’s name (redacted) and extension who had my file.  Over next 6 months I called redacted 5 times, left messages, and never got a return call.  3 months in I also began calling a supervisor.  Called him 5 times and received one return call, which I missed.  Also placed a call to the supervisor’s boss.  Eventually came to find that redacted had left the company and no one there could find my paperwork.  Was finally told that my idea was a marketing venture and that redacted had mailed me postcard stating this.  I never received anything.  After being told redacted had left and before resolving this, my son saw an info-mercial selling my confidential idea and advertising a web site for the same.  I strongly suspect redacted left the company with my idea and marketed it, thereby breaking the confidentiality agreement, which the company failed to protect.  My idea is copyright protected via certified mail (done years ago) and this is not just coincidence.  Davidson failed to safeguard my agreement and my idea was taken by an employee when he left the company.

 

 

 

Signed: /s/ Karen Wellman                          Date: June 29, 2006

 

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