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Honestly, I'm beginning to feel as though we should be real explicit about this and just start the lead sentence off with "Davison Design & Development, formerly Davison & Associates and often referred to as simply Davison is an invention promotion scam.". NickCT 20:40, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
Davison Design & Development appealed, and ultimately settled, with the FTC in 2008, agreeing to pay $10.7 million in cash, real estate and investment assets. [12] In keeping with the requirements of the American Inventors Protection Act of 1999, [ 13 ] the judge set out the details of an "affirmative disclosure statement" to be issued to ...
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. [4]
Scams and fraud can come in the forms of phone calls, online links, door-to-door sales and mail. Below are common scams the New Jersey Department of Consumer Affairs warns of. Common phone scams:
Quick Take: List of Scam Area Codes. More than 300 area codes exist in the United States alone which is a target-rich environment for phone scammers.
Acting U.S. attorney general (AG) Matthew G. Whitaker has come under fire for his association with an allegedly fraudulent patent company that involved cryptocurrency, U.S. news journal ...
American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) - Patent Registry Scams; Australian Patent Office - Warning!Unsolicited IP Services; Belgian Patent Office - Warning to inventors about fraudulent registration services, in (in Dutch) or (in French) (with link to a Decision of January 14, 2005 of a Belgian Appeal Court (Brussels, R.G. 2003/AR/2192 and 2003/AR/2356) (pdf) - in French)
Impersonation scams, where someone pretends to be with a popular company or government agency, are getting worse. Scam alert: Report shows which companies are impersonated the most Skip to main ...