Invention Resource International Do not trust Tempe Arizona

What's the number of the "patent" your friend got? Who bought it or licensed it?

Cut through the fluff and pre-printed paperwork, and what you actually get is drawings worth $300, a web page that even Google can't locate, and a $100 provisional application.  For only $8,000. 

How come Advent had to pay tens of thousands to their victims, in a default judgement in the California courts, just last year?

They tell you your invention is worth pursuing, get you to sign on, and eventually take over $9,000 from you. Having gotten your money, their only concern is to stay out of jail by doing the absolute minimum needed to keep you off their backs. They hide behind slick web pages and constantly-changing phone numbers and addresses, which makes it virtually impossible to track them down and confront them. Even your contract with them doesn't have a business address! (Just in case you might ever want to try to take them to court, the contract also waives your right to trial by jury.)

In exchange for your money, you get some slick-looking computer-generated 3D drawings that you could get from any professional draftsman for a few hundred dollars. They put these drawings on web pages with a brief description, which they want you to think are going to be seen by the world. In fact, they don't even bother putting in key words for search engines like Google to latch onto. You'll have a hard time finding those pages yourself, without the links that IRI gives you... there's basically no chance anyone else will ever see them.

They create lists of the inventions that they're "promoting", and send them as unsolicited junk mail to companies all over the country. Chances of anyone with authority paying any attention are very slim. The occasional, very rare success story is fodder for press releases and marketing material.

The "trade shows" they attend are trade shows for investment promomters like themselves (it's a big racket, with lots of players.) Nobody there is going to buy your invention.

I've seen the agreement they have you sign, and the above activities, while pathetically ineffective, do meet the terms of the agreement. Nonetheless, the operators of IRI have been hauled into Federal Court in California for fraud. Google "Denice Thurlow" and "Advent" (the previous name of this operation) to learn who and what you're dealing with.

Bottom line: stay away from these charlatans. What they're peddling is a $9,000 lottery ticket, with vastly longer odds than they lead you to believe.

As, I am sure that phone numbers will quickly be changing for IRI and Desert View Funding as well as addresses, here are a few emails that might help if you wish to contact the company. Denice Hardiman-Thurlow, dh@inventionresource.com, Jeff Mayhall, jmayhall@inventionresource.com, Mary Fullerton (Desert View), DVF@inventionresource.com. Also, wanted to point out a few other facts that makes me know this company lacks something to be desired. If you call the IRI toll free number 1-800-778-8814 and dial ext. 601 for the owner, Denice Hardiman-Thurlow, you will hear a generic recording. However if you dial 1-888-331-0333 (Desert View) you will hear her voice in the recording. This is so the clients will not tie the two companies together. Also, when you dial the IRI toll free number and dial 0 for the operator, you will hear Andrea Peterson's (landlord)voice. Again to detour the clients from asking questions.

It is quite obvious that this person was never a real client of this company.

As a friend of a former client I watched her idea come to life.

This company did everything they said they were going to do. I helped my lady friend with her compliance to the companies marketing staff and found them to be quite proffesional.

She got valuable information about her product in a data concept report, very professional looking drawings and brochures as well as a nice CD prototype and a patent. I tried to help her do this on her own before she went to Invention Resource and after seeing what was involved it would have cost her well over $40,000. 

This is a good company and after readng this report I was reminded of what a company agent said to us about inventions, out of 500 or so million people out there, in most cases someone has come up with something similar to your invention. This person acted like they invented sliced bread or the first tooth brush!

I can only assume that the person who wrote this report has no knowledge of what they were getting into and probably thought eveything was going to be free. Nothing Is Free!  - Stop with the 1-2-3 's and do something about your idea instead of complaining.

Mike