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ISC wants Your Business

Fewer Than One in 500 ISC Clients make more money than they paid ISC !!

Invention Submission Corporation

Inventors Beware!!!

Your odds of losing money as an ISC customer are virtually 100%.

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Your odds of making money as an ISC customer are virtually zero. 

# of customers known by ISC to have made more money than they paid ISC

   1995-1997     8/5291

   1996-1998   10/5537

   1998-2000   15/5017

   1996-2000   21/8685

   These are ISC’s own numbers!

“You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.” Abraham Lincoln

At http://www.burdlaw.com/ , ISC  does not fool us.

How Does An Invention Promotion Scam Work

Basically, by telling you what you think you know and what you want to hear, that your invention is great and the potential profit is huge and by pretending to be experts in getting inventions to market.

Is ISC a scam?

Check out Inventor Beware. Excellent 5 minute video clip describes Invention Submission Corporation's failure rate. (From Jan 22, 2002 www.techtv.com)
and then

Check the Feder Trade Commission complaints on ISC[PDF 2.2MB]

It's your money and your decision

Invention Submission Corporation (ISC) is from Pittsburgh and here is what Pittsburgh Channel 4 investigative reprorter Jim Parsons reported http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/News/784972/index.html  http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/News/900840/index.html

Here is what ABC News has to say about Invention Submission Corporation

Special InventorEd page on Invention Submission Corporation  warning extreme caution

Caution List (list of possible scam invention promoters, including Invention Submission Corporation)

Scammed? Here is how to complain

In Missouri, there is a complaint form you can use to alert the Attorney General to scams.

Red Flag List for Inventors

(list of warning signs about scams)

Who is behind Invention Submission Corporation  – MARTIN S BERGER

 Who is behind Universal Finance Corporation? – MARTIN S BERGER

To quote the Federal Trade Commission:

“The FTC's complaint detailing its allegations also names Western Invention Submission Corporation (WISC), Intromark Incorporated, and the parent company of all three, Technosystems Consolidated Corporation (TCC); as well as Martin S. Berger, who is the sole officer and director of the firms (collectively, ISC).  All of the defendants are located in Pittsburgh.” 

To Quote ISC’s hometown TV station

"We made many false promises, many false promises," said Kimberly, another former ISC employee who asked Team 4 to conceal her identity. "I mean, it was common practice on a daily basis for us to let these people keep hoping and wishing and dreaming. We were thriving on their wants. WTAE -Pittsburgh TV Channel 4,

NOTE: We do not assert that the FTC or Pittsburgh Channel 4 statements are accurate, just that they exist, and that their existence should make every inventor very skeptical in dealing with ISC.-burdlaw.com

INVENTOR GROUPS…before sending money to ISC, or any similar company, contact one of these.  Inventor Groups are on your side.

They can help you avoid being scammed.

United Inventors Association of the USA publisher of Inventor Digest and tireless advocate of rights of independent inventor.

National Conference of Inventor Organizations

Illinois Innovators and Inventors, Inc. (meets monthly in Edwardsville, IL)

INTROMARK Affiliated with Invention Submission Corproation – CEO Martin S. Berger

Indicted by the FTC for fraud, now operating under settlement agreement with FTC, see below

TECHNOSYSTEMS CONSOLIDATED CORPORATION CEO - Martin S. Berger, apparently the parent company of Invention Submission Corporation, Intromark, and Western Invention Submission Corporation.

Charged by the FTC for fraud, but paid $1,200,000 and is operating under a Settlement Agreement

Universal Finance Company, Inc. – Secretary & Treasurer Martin S. Berger 

Bob Amic is a former employee of ISC -- the company that said Parsons' phone hat was a good idea.

"It's all about making sure we get the money and keep the money," Amic said. "There were a lot of people who didn't have a lot of education who got talked into doing these kind of things with the hope that they were going to hit it and they didn't hit it, and they couldn't make the mortgage payments and they were worried about paying money to Universal Finance. That's a problem. It was morally repugnant to me, quite frankly." WTAE -Pittsburgh TV Channel 4,  

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TECHNOSERVICE SERVICE CORPORATION another Martin S. Berger corporation

INPEX – Claims itself to be THE WORLD'S LARGEST
 INVENTION/NEW PRODUCT EXPOSITION!

But, alas it is run by Invention Submission Corporation.

ISC says: “INPEX^® provides an ideal forum for inventors, entrepreneurs or intellectual property owners to exhibit their inventions and try to make contacts with companies interested in new products.”  See the other boxes on this page might help you gain an insight as to which companies ISC might mean.and whether they would be of any help to you.

Remember Lincoln?

“You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.” Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was the only President to ever receive a patent.

     “Since 1984, according to the complaint, the defendants have sold a variety of invention promotion services to individual inventors in stages.  First, the defendants allegedly offer to prepare a "Basic Information Package" concerning the idea or product for $395 to $590.  In the second stage, the defendants offer to provide certain marketing and licensing services under a "Submission Agreement" at a cost ranging from $3450 to $4890, the complaint states.  Third, ISC provides any leads it may receive on a client's idea to Intromark, which allegedly attempts to negotiate a license for the idea or invention, with clients agreeing to share a percentage of any payments as a result of ISC's services.  (Additionally, ISC and WISC offer clients with more fully developed ideas a separate service called the "Market Supplement Program," for approximately $12,500.)  The defendants allegedly have promoted and advertised their services on television and radio and in newspapers and magazines across the country, as well as through telephone and in-person sales presentations.

     The FTC charged that the defendants have made numerous false representations in the course of selling these services.  Among them, the complaint alleges, were representations that the defendants' services have resulted in financial gain for their "Basic Information Package" and "Submission Agreement" customers, and that their clients have a reasonable expectation of realizing financial gain as a result of their services.  Neither representation was true, according to the complaint.”

  FTC PRESS RELEASE APRIL 20, 1993

  The Commission vote to file the complaint was 5-0.

What was the result of that FTC Complaint?

     “Invention Submission Corporation of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has agreed to pay $1.2 million for consumer redress as part of a settlement of Federal Trade Commission charges it misrepresented the nature, quality, and success rate of the invention promotion services it sold to consumers.” 

     “The proposed consent decree to settle these charges would permanently prohibit ISC from misrepresenting its background and experience in the invention promotion field, as well as any material aspect of its services or business practices.”

FTC PRESS RELEASE FEBRUARY 7, 1994