Invent Help Invention Solution Seevices Mrs. Gipped Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

Invent Help is a total rip off! This company prays on consumers who don't have knowledge of the invention marketing industry. They tell the public that they can get your invention to store shelves, when really they are padding their pockets. They will not act in the best interest of the client. If theyou secure a deal for you, they charge 20% of what your deal is. The USPTO only recommend you pay 10%. I was an Invent Help Client. Paid almost $400/month, that was automatically debited from my account, after a 1,000 down payment. My total contract was just over $10,000 and was a 2 year contract. I consider myself one of the luck ones, because I got off cheap compared to others. Partly because they couldn't truly protégé my invention, so that was a service I didn't need. The only service that I received that proved to be worth the money, was the independent patent search. Which was done by an independent attorney. I then paid for marketing research. That was later found to be not of any use because it was done "in house".

After being with the company a year, having spent over $5,000, I realized they were doing nothing on my behalf. Invent Help represent their company as if it has many relationships with manufacturers to market your product to. When really, if a manufacturer is not in their database of companies who have signed a non disclosure with them, they will not send or market your invention to them. So you just have to hope they have a vast list of companies in your invention's SIC code or category. When I tried to cancel the services they told me I was out of the 7 day termination period. It literally took more than 7 days to get a completed contract for services. That I could discontinue services but still had to pay. The only thing Invent Help did on my behalf, by way of marketing in a years time, was send out letters to request submission. A 3 page list of companies, in which they state the only received 1 response for more info but that company later declined. I never once saw an official document that they sent out or that they received from that company. I contacted them to cancel in Sept. 2014 and aside from being told I couldn't cancel, I was told they would send out more letters in that coming January. That was supposed to excite me and regain my faith in them. Be very leary of this company. They literally have a .25% success rate.