Patenting Your Invention

Okay, so I'm sure you've all seen a commercial or two or even read a magazine ad about patent companies that will patent your invention? I remember the summer of 2005 so well. I was really excited about an invention idea that I had. I contacted one of those so-called patent invention companies to introduce my fabulous idea . The guy on the other end warned me not to tell a soul not even my family. Even my boyfriend couldn't be trusted with this secret information. This guy convinced me for just one second my idea was the next hottest thing on the market. But I should no better. I'm intelligent. I have it together.

Alarms were going off in my head and I began to feel that something just wasn't quite right as this fella segued to his next statement as it rolled off his tongue I asked him to repeat. "Oh," he said, "there will be an initial investment of course but we can make payment arrangements so we can get this ball rolling, if you have credit card, or a banking account, or if you would be interested in setting up a monthly payment plan we can arrange that for you today," "so let's get started!" Whoa! "Just a minute, I said, you haven't even told me how you can help me. All that you have is some pencil drawing I submitted to you with my idea. You haven't had me meet with any of your design team to get my idea or anything. How can I trust that you know what I want before you even try to get your hands in my pocketbook?"

Smartly, I decided to fore-go my dream, because I just didn't trust the company, and anyway the idea came to me in the shower. I didn't make any consorted effort to brainstorm an invention, so "easy come easy go", as they say.

Now the invention that this company didn't want me to share with the world will be revealed now:

I assure you it works. And best of all it's free!!! You will never have to pay a dime or even a dollar to me or some brand like "Goody" hair products.

It actually works both for males and females alike, especially if you want to have shiny, manageable hair; eat your heart out Davison Integration.

1. Take a hairbrush whose bristles are widely seperated and squeeze out a quarter size dopple of conditioner.

2. Run the brush through your hair making sure you cover each section of hair (this will coat the strands individually rather than the inadequate way the palm or finger tips of the hand do)

3. Rinse.

Now my take on the actual brush was that it would have a dispenser that you would press or pump conditioner up through the tops of the bristles instead of having to squeeze out the conditioner on the brush itself.

By brushing conditoner through your hair each strand would be coated and this would produce amazing results. Try it tonight to see the differnece. Make sure you use a product like Pantene.

I had one other idea as well, which I won't consume your time with it. But the gentleman told me that their company had help create almost 100 products that were successfully patented and

were making revenue. But when you go to the website the nasty fact is that most of those products are ones their development team has created and not customers like you and me. I brought

this fact up to the guy as he attempted to lure me in. And he stumbled upon his words attempted to redirect my question by saying, "you have to have a prouduct that solves a problem." Ummmm....

okay, but what does that have to do with the fact that your claim of almost 100 products are making revenue, but most of them are your inventions and do not represent the general public such as

myself. What makes me believe you can do something with my product when you don't even showcase the little joe's product like mine? The guy was befuddled. Maybe he didn't know I had done

a bit of research on the following site created by the government for unknowing customers like myself. Instead of trusting the government on their facts about these types of companies I wasted

my time.

All I can say is do your homework. You can always check out BBB for any company. This company has an unsatisfactory rate with the BBB. I wasn't charged anything for requesting a report on

this company. Today I went back to the BBB to check out any recent stuff about the company which is located in Pennyslyvania and I was astounded at the complaints they have received. I feel

fortunate to have kept my trade secret safe with me along with my pocket book. Ha ha ha (like someone stole it from me) If that guy thought he could make money off my invention a few years ago

when I introduced it, it would have been selling in China, Singapore, Japan and Hong Kong. But such was not the case.

So to commence on the subject, I can only speak about the experience I had with this company and also about their rating with the BBB. I find that complaints of 166 in 36 months, 67 officially

closed., too high for my comfort. That's less than 50% satisfied customers. And of the ones that were officially closed quite a few was because the client just didn't respond.

It also bears notice that the company was in a huge lawsuit in which they had to compensate $26 million dollars for consumer redress. That's a whole lot of money if you ask me. The judge must

have been highly p.o'd that day to assign such a huge compensation.

Are they for real? Are they not for real? Just do your research as with anything and then make an educated, common-sense, gut decision that's all and avoid companies that have a bad reputation

with the BBB.