desa industries

Buyer Beware!! Nothing about my experience with World Patent Marketing leads me to believe they are anything but a very slick scam that has poured big bucks into web presence and fake reviews. I purchased an "intelligence report" from WPM for $995 that was supposed to have researched the market, current patents etc to provide "intelligence" as to the marketability of my idea. As many have stated, this report came back with a glowing prognosis for my product idea, with several very excited calls from Rick encouraging me to take the next step by purchasing "core services". Being a busy guy, and having seen very few negative reports in about 30 min worth of searching, I bit on the core services with the idea that my idea was unique in the market, and that the "core services" would help me put together a strategy and marketing documents to move to the step of pursuing a license agreement. Instead, after paying the $10,000 for "Core services" I am asked by Janice to answer a bunch of questions that had already been answered in the original disclosure. In the mean time I have notified Rick that I would like to not publish anything until I get a provisional patent filed. In the process of completing the provisional application, I find there is another patent filed a couple years ago that very closely describes my product. Turns out there are only a handful of US patents that are even close, and all patents were found by entering just two main key words from my product description. This patent and all the others were omitted from the "intelligence report" thus leading me to believe that the "core services" was a reasonable next step because there was no applicable prior art. While I think there may be a way to take my idea to market, WPM did not provide accurate research in the initial stage and now a month in has not delivered a single item described in the Core services, except to email me and tell me that as soon as I give permission to publish, they will send me a copy of a press release. Of course I do not want a press release published without first seeing it, and my request to review the document has gone unanswered.

I have requested a full refund of the "core services" fee of $10,000 and have gotten nothing but bullying tactics and redirection from Scott Cooper. When I asked for a referral to one of their "contracted patent attorneys" my request was brushed off by sending me to Jerry, some guy in their manufacturing division. Every request for a referral to company or entity that has profited from interaction with WPM has been unanswered or evaded. I can only conclude that the "success stories" are as fake as the rest of their site.