Invent help submission and promotion companies typically are not product development firms, as most do not employ product development engineers. Many of these companies try to sell dreams, and finance packages, and often provide little tangible results that can be used to manufacture and bring your new product to market. A web search for any one of these
companies by name, with the keyword "lawsuit", and the results may be surprising.
These types of companies can have impressive office locations, high-end decor, with fancy product renderings on their walls, and often consist of high pressure sales staff with little experience in actual product development, engineering, and manufacturing. These types of companies are concerned with an attempt to impress, sell, and finance the client for a large amount of money, and not necessarily focused on deliverable real world results.
Question: What is the difference between a Product Development Company and a Invention Submission or Promotion Company?
NPDS is a product development company, with our team of highly experienced engineers, developing new products for market from concept to store shelf, and truly focused on your success. Many of our clients after their first successful market product, return to expand their product market offerings.
On the other hand, the typical invention submission companies will try to sell you a finance package for their services, for a typically worthless USPTO Provisional Patent Filing. Additionally, clients of these companies are often sold a worthless "Inventor Packages" of product renderings, faux product ad examples, and lacking in core materials that can be used for prototyping, manufacturing, and bringing your product to market in a profitable way for you.
Frequently new prospective clients contact us, having spent a considerable amount with these types of invention submission companies. Typically these companies have filed for the inventor a provisional patent filing (that is often of little use to the client), and produced an inventor product rendering package, with mechanical drawings of their concept, sell sheets, and faux product ads. Often sadly the product concept or design was not well thought out from an engineering and manufacturing standpoint, and because of this lack of use of experienced professional product development engineers, the product is not able to move forward to prototyping, manufacturing, and market ready status without going back to the drawing board.
The inventor typically becomes aware there is a problem when these companies are asked to construct a prototype for providing proof of concept, and the aproximate manufacturing cost, and the company does not return your calls or emails. These CAD files from these companies are typically created for generating product renderings to impress, and for mockup product models, but do not relate to professional product development, creating no path forward to construct a prototype, or obtain a manufacturing cost.
Generally we find a lack of manufacturable product design intent, from the very start in the CAD design process of these companies, which is a vital starting point for a new product development project to be successful.
