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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I was almost convinced myself....
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whom can we trust with ideas without having to invest! It should be if the idea is worth it; have the company patent & license it and pay you for the idea/invention; am I right?
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So, it was helpful information I found in your comments! Too many people with so much disappointment. I'm truly sorry you were led to believe they could help in your endeavors, and thank all of you for telling your story alerting others. Nix on Davidson. What's it going to take to shut these opportunistic thieves down? Along with the courts, maybe a format such as this?
Why did you request your money be returned? Did you think they were a scam?
Dear Davison,
To begin, I wrote a letter to Davison to them know how disappointed I was with the sorry results of their company's efforts to get my product licensed in a timely manner. At that time I had spent close to $15,000 dollars of my retirement money to invest in a product that had at that time (3 years from inception) given me nothing monetarily in return. I also contended that the product that they decided was the best rendition for marketing and sales, was not at all what I had in mind when I submitted my idea to them. In fact I told the man in charge of new products (Jason), that the product that he presented to me as a prototype was very similar to one that was already on the market and sold by a distributor in Florida and possibly a few more channels out there. So much for their patent and product search to make sure your product is unique. It was as though it was made as an almost exact copy of that existing product (in a general sense) with only a few cosmetic differences. Honestly anyone could see that the product basically did the same thing as my product as presented to me by Davison. So much for the engineering they supposedly do to come up with something they can charge you thousands of dollars for. The new products person in charge (Jason) assured me it was “different enough” to not matter.
I then told them that their company claims to be the expert on what is marketable and what is not, and also what is unique,… and what is not. The prototype of my idea wasn’t my original idea and my intended product rendering at all. Jason told me that he and his companion employees “know best” the particular rendition, packaging, and presentation that would be favorable to present to manufacturers. So as a newbie client in the field of ideas and invention, had to place a degree of reliance and trust on their corporate strengths and experience to get me licensed. I mean why would anyone pay $10,000 to $15,000 dollars “up front” to get their idea fabricated and to market in the first place if they did not intend to make some money? Right? Wrong! But it seemed it didn’t matter anyway since no one company among all their “trusted” manufacturers (that they had in their pocket) showed any interest in licensing my product. This happened time and time again. So they would routinely call you each time with the predictable bad news, and try to cheer you up by smooth assurances from licensing, and of course they topped it off by soliciting more money from you. IT was always $800 more in order to present it to yet another “really big” manufacturer. They put all the risk on your shoulders and you bear it all as you travel the empty road of false hope to license a product (that imply to have they have put their seal of approval on), and yet they stand to make royalties if it is successful, and ONLY you lose if it is not. Their investment is really “zilch”. It is my opinion based upon dealings with and my experience with this company, that they really make most of their money off of the “initial costs” that you being excited to get you product accepted are glad to pay “up front” plus the so called attempts to present your product to manufacturers. It appears that they give many clients a lot of HYPE to goad them on and then it is they and only they who reap the ACTUAL profit from your idea. There appeared to be no genuine effort or intention to get your product to market from my own experience. How many times does one have to get burnt before they want to turn off the fire.
So I again appealed to them and told them to check my files for them to SEE FOR THEMSELVES, that the product that I originally submitted was to be a bit more complex, (definitely not a copy of another product), yet not so costly that it would require any more than the $14,000 plus dollars that I put up. They surely could still make a profit; and besides they were to get royalties should the product get licensed. In fact the product sample that they sent me looked as though it couldn’t have cost more than a hundred dollars to fabricate. This I say because the engineering must have been little or no cost since it was a near replica of another such product. It certainly looked like they had downgraded my initial idea to something that was a NO BRAINER to come up with since it appeared to be a duplication of someone other company’s product.
It surely appears that their company did some cursory minimal research to see the possibilities of infringing on someone’s patent. So eventually they sent some rendition from their search that were similar, but not exactly the same as my initial idea, yet they chose to make a sample of one that was (not along the same lines, yet different) but one that was “almost identical” to a product that was already on the market. This would be a slam dunk profit for them since it required very little in the way of engineering. Honestly the product is almost the same, with the exception of small cosmetic differences.
My complaint fell on deaf ears and to this day I haven’t heard a word. Their advice after submitting this letter? Give us $800 more dollars and we will continue to pro-actively submit your product to key manufacturers. If you don’t want to pay we will show them your product if they “call us” and request a product rendering like yours. This after paying their $800 fee 3 times. I am stuck with what looks like a $10.00 maybe $20.00 sample product that cost me OVER $15,000. The sample didn’t even work like it was supposed to. One electronic part, a remote, was defective and a proximity “adjustment wheel” sunk into the body of the remote. Good luck if you choose this company. They create a reliance upon them as being perceived experts in their field; this reliance is unjustified in my opinion, yet they continue to operate by another name now, and many are continuing to use them because they are really not aware of the potential unfavorable possibilities that await them.