Davison Inventions (www.InventionConcept.com) is a company that claims to take people’s ideas of new inventions, and turn them into reality. Davison says that it will take your idea through all the steps necessary to get your invention onto the market, from research and development to licensing to getting it onto the shelves.
Davison’s website claims that you have the ability to submit your idea to them knowing that you have full confidentiality and protection. Once your idea is submitted, you will receive a one on one consultation about the viability of your idea, and whether or not you should begin the process to take your idea further.
Davison claims to have a variety of agreements available for potential clients. Some services they offer will require you to pay one time, up front fees, while others will require you to commit to an agreement where Davison receives a percentage of royalties from your invention.
From Dream to Reality
“Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door.” From the time that man created fire, there has been an innate desire to come up with better ways of doing things. If you take a minute to look around you, at the things we take for granted every day, you’ll see the evidence of people’s invention dreams that came to life.
But, unlike the picture painted in Hollywood films, most of these inventions weren’t created in someone’s basement and then magically appeared on the market. Inventions must go through an intense process of research and development – is it truly an original invention? Is there someone else out there with a comparable idea or existing product? Is this invention already in the works?
At times an idea must be patented, which can be an expensive and complicated process. After that, an invention must often be licensed to another company or corporation to produce and distribute, because individuals usually lack the money necessary to fund the actual supply of product needed for the market.
Davison Inventions claims to help you through this long, arduous process, and to get your invention on the shelves of major retailers like Target, WalMart, Home Depot, and others.
Davison Inventions Success Stories?
Well, the truth is that when you research Davison Inventions, you are going to hear much more about heartbreak and failure than you will about success stories. In fact, Davison was ordered to pay $26 million in restitution to former clients after they were sued by the Federal Trade Commission and lost.
The lawsuit determined that clients of Davison would often pay upwards of $10,000 toward costs and services, and that less than 1% of their clients ever saw a return higher than what they invested with Davison.
In addition, they were told to stop promoting themselves as being linked to major retailers. However, if you look at their current website it seems fairly obvious that they are walking a fine line in adhering to this court order.
Their landing page is covered in logos from major retailers, with information offering that inventions processed through Davison are sold at all of these stores. While there is no official statement saying they have a relationship with these companies, the implication is still there.
Finally, the lawsuit ordered that Davison refrain from acting as though their services are selective, since they were found to take anyone’s idea through the research and development process as long as they paid the fees. This is a bad sign for those looking to process an invention, because it means that you can’t trust Davison’s evaluation of your invention’s potential. If they are simply willing to take everyone’s money who comes to them, it’s easy to see how 99+% of their customers never saw a profit from their dealings with Davison.
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DAVIDSON has a good scam going and with the help of their husler, Leo Petrulli, they are getting rich by scamming unsuspected fools like me. I'm not rich. I have to get up everyday to go to work. So I can't just let $10,000 go. Even if I have to borrow money to pursue DAVIDSON in court, I will.
I paid the $795 "30-year Product & Patent Search" and they told me that nothing in the world exists like my invention and that I should move fast, so I did. I gave them more than $10k and what did I just find out today? There are multiple products on the market today selling that are like mine and they have been selling for years.
I'm retaining an Attorney!!!! They are SCAM Artists!!!!!
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B. Mills
This is when I finally woke up and did some research and it didn’t take that long one little google search and here they were; complaint and complaint after complaint not one success story. Next they sent me the letter where they were really going to suck me dry, the contract asking for over 5,000 dollars for something I can build for less than 50 dollars. With over 690 dollars already thrown down the drain I wasn’t quite ready to throw in the towel just yet so I gave my sister the contract to let her boss a patent attorney look it over. Well in so many words he said I would have to be an utter fool to sign it or send them any money.
Steaming mad I didn’t answer any of the Vice President’s calls for the next two weeks, not that I was avoiding him but I was really angry and didn’t need to talk to him being in driving distance of Pittsburgh. Finally he called and I was in a calm state. He told me that he was trying to get in touch me because my invention was about to be on the doorstep of a major corporation. I informed him that I had done some research on the internet and that his company had a bad repetation.
“Internet!” he said.
“Yes, But that really didn’t concern me, but I did have a patent attorney look over the contract and he advised me not to do business with you.” I said.
“How many products has this attorney gotten on shelves!” he asked.
“I don’t know, probably none.” I said
“Well I was going to tell you I was willing to work with you on the funding, but if you are going to take advice from the internet and patent attorney that don’t know anything about the industry I’m to close your case.” He said.
“Thank you.” I said calmly.
“We will keep your information confidential. Good luck with your patent attorney and I hope you don’t see your idea introduced by someone else.”
“Thank you very much.” I said very calmly.
These guys are very smooth talkers and very good at what they do, which is con you out of your money. Even though I knew after reading all these complaints and the patent attorney advising on how one- sided their contract was a part of me wanted to say. “You know maybe we can work something out.”
If you signed their contract, you're screwed! It is designed to allow them to rip you off and prevent you from EVER being able to do anything about it. As a matter of fact, just posting this comment about their company is a breach of that contract which they actually have the right to sue you for now. So you CAN sue them and get your money back, but they will counter sue you for FAR more...........They would take everything you have with a smile on their face, they are a cancer on this world!
B. Mills