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COMPLAINT REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTERDATE OF CORRESPONDENCE: March 21, 2006 Name of the Invention Promotion Company: Invention Technologies Incorporated Invention Promoter's Address: 2655 Lejeune Road, Suite 550, Coral Gables, FL 33134-5846 Complainant's Name: La Tretha E. Stroughter and Jerome W. Smith Complainant's Address: 2201 Sycamore Dr. #287, Antioch, CA 94509 Customer's Name: La Tretha E. Stroughter and Jerome W. Smith WHAT IS YOUR COMPLAINT?Name of mass media invention promoter advertised in: Invention promotion service offered to be performed: Advanced development Invention promotion services offered to be performed: Advanced development Explanation of complaint between customer and invention promoter: This letter is to complain about Invention Technologies DBA Invent-Tech. We have requested our money back and they have not complied so please file this as a formal complaint. We were encouraged by We understand by the agreement we signed that Invent-tech does not render patent advice but if that’s the case why did they advise us not to get patent protection? Our contract ended with Invent-tech on November 19, 2005. Our document disclosure with the USPTO expired on December 16, 2005, which, they failed to inform us that we needed to file a provisional patent before December 16, 2005 or we would not be protected in any way, which we understand NOW (information we had to find out on our own) that a document disclosure doesn’t protect you in any way as well. Invent-Tech will in fact state, “We could’ve filed for patent protection at any time”. They will especially enforce this statement after they see this complaint. But on more than one occasion they told us we should wait to file for patent protection and don’t do that. It was if they were trying to get us to lose our rights on purpose and after WE the inventors filed our patent application, Invent-Tech then in urn shut down the web site they created for us that we only had access to and not anyone else. We still haven’t received our money back and right now all we want to hear form them is “You’re money is on it’s way.” Because we’re not interested in anything else they may have to say to us at this time. We had to apply for patent protection ourselves because for one, all of a sudden we started seeing our concepts on web sites, television commercials, infomercials and public forums. Is that our fault too? Or is our fault that we trusted them and dealt with them in the first place? True we promoted ourselves but only with a very general description of ourselves but only with a very general description of ourselves with an interest letter of our projects, not with any given detailed inside information about our inventions. Only Invent-Tech knew what was the inside, detailed information about the TNT Data Master that we sent to them directly and only to their office in Coral Gables, Florida. So in order for anyone to know exactly what was inside the invention, they had to tell someone because we are seeing our concepts before we filed our patent protection and every time we talked with Client Relations Department at Invent-Tech they would tell us “There is no interest at all”. If there was no interest then how could they get a hold of our concepts? Of course in recourse of this complaint Invent-Tech will state that they told us in our contract that “We should understand that others will come out with similar products”. Our invention is a one of a kind so how could someone come out with a similar product if no one is interested and no one is suppose to know about it because according to them they have not showed it to anyone. Invent-Tech knew that our document disclosure was ending and they also knew our contract was ending with them. First of all they never applied for patent protection on our behalf and they never informed us that if we didn’t file patent protection and someone started to sell our invention publicly we could lose our patent protection rights. Something of this magnitude, if they were a company in our corner, after companies all over the world has been inquiring, why would we have to file ourselves? It’s a scam for the inventor to fail as sources have told us and a lot of Invent-Tech staff come across so smooth I conversation and show much innocence like they don’t have an idea of what you’re talking about. We had to hurry up and file for patent protection ourselves, which costs us some more money out of our pockets, before the end of the document disclosure, or someone could’ve stolen our invention they are actually trying to match similarities in concepts as we speak today. Right today the invention promotion firms, use a code of silence and they feel personally all companies are silent but there are many, many important people in this field of technology that would like to see us make it and can’t wait to see what we have next and the way we look at it, that’s business. They have on their current website “One of the first services an Invent-Tech client receives is an Invention Research Portfolio, which complies the details about their product and highlights considerations for future development of the project. The portfolio’s purpose is two-fold: it helps an inventor judge the invention’s potential, and it provides a professional tool when presenting an invention o investors or manufactures”. Although parts of an IRP naturally contain information that relates to inventors and their inventions in a general sense, ours is far from the boiler-plate document full of useless information that industry critics often allege. As the employees responsible for creating the portfolio can attest, a great deal of work goes into this valuable tool. We paid over $800.00 for this useless information and they do not use this information as a professional tool when presenting to an investor or manufacture because they sent the information directly to us and told us in our contract that we personally could not contact anyone without going through them first and like we said before whenever we called Invent-Tech they would tell us “no one is interested in our invention” so how is this tool helpful? So this information is useless to us and it sits in my room right now collecting dust. We paid them $8450 to make sure they promoted our invention and get protection; they did nothing of the sort but lied to us. We promoted our own invention and paid for patent protection ourselves. We have proof of all the letters that we have sent to Gary Kooritzsky the president, We find it utterly revolting that Invent-Tech would not answer and of the correspondences that we have written requesting our money back for dissatisfied services since the end of our contract with them in November 2005, but, they in turn answered us with another Manufacturer contact kit which we felt was a slap in the face and another way for them to say to us “We’re taking our one year extension whether you want us to or not” and way after the end of our contract knowing we have families in distress from the Katrina Catastrophe and also a dying relative with terminal cancer, which leads us to believe they were trying to continue to make a profit off of us (Which we can bet is millions of dollars) with their subscription services among all other underground techniques they use. We always felt they were making side money off of our inventions and possibly signed some kind of contract with a manufacturers to tie up our names and not our inventions so that no one would or could communicate directly with us or make a deal with us unless they have to go through Invent-Tech first. Also from a disappointed source has informed us time and time again, that these invention promotion companies have been working on deals, have arranged deals but they’re only to work if we fail at getting patent numbers on our inventions, but if that’s not true why after so many companies showed interest, personally we know that, they never wanted us to know that, but we still don’t have a deal and we’re set up to fail from the beginning. They’ve designed this scam for you to fail, no customers in these invention companies history has pushed forward for results like we have and have put in their own extra time and extra money and extra marketing outside of the money we sent them to promote ourselves. But of course in a re-course of his complaint they will state “We’re not sure where this complaint is coming from because it’s 5 months after the end of their contract”. If they state that we have never complained to them or about them that’s not true because we refused to fill out one of their customer satisfaction questionnaires with positive answers because we were not satisfied and So at this point we have requested our funds back, all of it and they have not answered ever. We have been requesting our funds back two out of three years we’ve been dealing with them. How can someone do two people like this when we just want to do the world of technology some good and bring forth amazing inventions, applications and concepts to keep technology current? Signed: /s/La Tretha E. Stroughter and Jerome W. Smith Date: March 21, 2006 |
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to get in our payment of $8450.00 in March of 2004 and he called several times, because per his words, “There is an interested company ready to make a deal with us in the next two months”. We paid the $8450 for the advanced development and we were told not to apply for patent protection because it would be hard for a manufacturer to make changes once the deal was made.
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