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Invention promotion firm
An invention promotion firm or invention submission corporation provides services to inventors to help them develop or market their inventions.〔(35 USC 297(c) Definitions of invention promoter )〕 These firms may offer to evaluate the patentability of inventions, file patent applications and license them to manufacturers, build prototypes, and market inventions. They are distinguished from more conventional consulting firms and law firms offering the same or similar services in that they market their services primarily to amateur inventors through the mass media.〔(''Contact the USPTO before you get burned!'' Advice from the USPTO concerning Invention promoters )〕
Many inventors have been dissatisfied with the services they have received from invention promotion firms.〔(Invention Submission Companies )〕
==Performance==
Accurate statistics of the success rate of invention promotion firms is difficult to come by. Nonetheless, as a result of certain legal actions taken against some of these firms, overall success rates have come to light. One such firm, Davison Associates, disclosed that of 900 ideas where a client had a prototype built of their invention at an average cost of $11,000, only 30 of those inventions were licensed within 6 months. Of the inventions licensed, only 10 made more in license fees than the cost of the invention promotion services.〔( FEDERAL TRADE COMM v. DAVISON & ASSOCIATES, et al., FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW. Signed by Judge Gary L. Lancaster on 3/17/06. page 8 )〕
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