On 11/5/2005 3:20 PM simmons.es_at_pg.com wrote:
>
> Further to Nancy Lambert's excellent advice, I have some additional
> thoughts to pass on to Ms Hill:
>
Further to Edlyn's excellent advice and Nancy's excellent advice, I can
offer the one legitimate inventor assistance place of which I am aware:
The Wisconsin Innovation Service Center.
http://academics.uww.edu/business/innovate/
For $595, WISC will evaluate an invention and will tell the inventor
what they think of it. If the invention is worthless they will say so
(which the ripoff late-night-television invention promotion companies
never do). WISC does a bit of patent searching and tries to get a sense
of actual market potential. Their reports are invariably helpful to an
inventor in one way or another.
Importantly, while the ripoff invention promotion companies have every
incentive to lie, so as to manipulate the inventor into handing over
another few thousand dollars for inclusion in a newsletter that nobody
reads, WISC has no incentive to lie. At WISC, there is no "follow-on"
expensive piece of work which WISC would be tempted to try to make the
inventor spend money on.
WISC also does not provide the service of preparing and filing patent
applications, and so has no incentive to manipulate the inventor into
spending money on that.
Received on Sat Nov 05 2005 - 23:50:16
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