FTC Warnings on Invention Promotion Firms

You see them on TV advertising services to promote and protect your new idea so that you can leave you current place of employment and move to Tahiti.  Remember that these firms do not hold any ethical duty to you as patent attorneys do.  If a patent attorney breaches their ethical duty to you it may mean a loss of their license and their income.  It takes years of study to become a patent attorney and to lose it all over unethical dealings is just not worth it.  However it is a far different story for Invention Promotion Firms and their craftily worded contracts that you will be signing.  Click here to see a great article at the Federal Trade Commission's website providing some guidance when dealing with these firms.  Click here to see more articles on this topic here on my website.

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