Invention Promoter's Name: Invention Technologies Incorporated

Complainant's Name: Richard Dale Saxwold

Response:

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Inventor's Assistance Program
P.O. Box 2327
Arlington, VA. 22202

Dear Sir or Madam:

This letter serves to respond directly to a recent complaint filed with your office by our client, Richard Dale Saxwold, dated March 20, 2006 and received by this office May 31, 2006.

In his complaint, Mr. Saxwold states, rather cryptically, that we have failed to accurately depict his invention during the course of our work together.  He goes on to mention that he is currently working with a patent attorney seeking patent protection and that, presumably, his patent attorney has indicated that the Patent Office has taken issue with his application due to some unnamed “argument” with “what Invent-Tech did”.

While we have no idea what he means by the “argument” the Patent Office has with his patent filings, we can only assume that his application may have been rejected.  Naturally, we suggest that Mr. Saxwold seek clarification from his patent attorney about any matters pertaining to his patent application, as we have no involvement in that whatsoever.

We enclose correspondence from Mr. Saxwold from April of 2004 wherein he notifies us of a similar patent pending product that he believes may be a problem for him.

In that correspondence, he states, “Before I started this idea with you, I had showed it to someone else, he is raising our grandson.  He would see what he could do about getting a patent [sic] on it but he took it from me.  But I am the inventor.  Don’t know what I can do about it they are being manufactured now at the information I am sending you.  This product says patent pending but I had mine registered with the USPTO before he did”.  We would respectfully suggest that this would certainly be the more likely cause of Mr. Saxwold’s stated patent problem.

We will also gladly address the qualitative issue of the graphic illustrations provided to him.  Mr. Saxwold received a hand-drawn illustration in his Invention Research Portfolio and presumably satisfied with it, then hired our company for an additional two-year marketing campaign, clearly not something he would have done if he was dissatisfied with the work.

Attached, please find a signed copy of Mr. Saxwold’s CAD Illustration Approval, indicating his receipt and approval of our CAD Illustration of his Trailer Helper invention.  Clearly, as of June 13, 2003 Mr. Saxwold was satisfied with his illustration.  We can only wonder how he has come to be unsatisfied with it now, three years later and more than a year after the expiration of his contract.

Please be advised that Mr. Saxwold’s Advanced Development Agreement expired on April 8, 2005 though we continued to provide services to him until July of 2005.

We would also like to note that Mr. Saxwold’s invention received considerable interest from a variety of companies under strict terms of confidentiality and non-disclosure and that all services due to him were delivered to Mr. Saxwold in a timely and professional manner pursuant to our contracts.

Very truly yours,

/s/Brian McLeod    
Director, Corporate Communications

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