So first lets take a look at each part of this
The United Inventors Association, a 501c3 non profit educational foundation
Invention Home, provides services for inventors
and SMI, a submission software offered to companies to collect ideas from the inventor community.
Here we are going to directly examine the SMI system first. I am going to use direct examples, as I was told by mark to learn what I can about the SMI system to use it as a selling point in memberships,
A company signs up for the SMI system, this submission system is offered FREE to companies who wish to have the ability to recieve Ideas and inventions from inventors, Many companies are currently using this system, a submission comes in and the company reviews the invention or idea, at that point they can move it a few different folders, they can put it in the review Queue, they can put it in the Accept Queue, or they can Reject the idea, Now once an idea is rejected by a company, it drops back into a default email offering services to the inventor from Invention Home, so all the rejected ideas, give Invention home an endless supply of potential customers, how much of your data is actually sent to Invention Home? Good Question, If inventon Home supplies the system, and they have the ability to log into the system, would one wonder, does that mean Invention Home has the opportunity to view all the submissions that ever come in through any company? When an idea is Rejected, Does Invention Home have all of the inventors information that he originally submitted to the company using the software?
Now the owner of this SMI system is on the UIA Board? its quite beneficial to have companies using the system, not just for the company, but for Invention Home as well, considering that Invention home runs the system, and rejected submissions go directly to Invention Home, you can see this when you submit something to ANY of these companies, if the company rejects the idea, you will recieve an email fom invention home offering to help you, meaning offering to sell you services, I dont know for sure if they have your invention idea in front of them, but I would have to assume from what I was told about the system that YES, not just your information is sent to Invention Home, but your actual submission is not sitting in front of a company you never sent it to. Example being Irwin Tools, yousubmit your idea to Irwin Rools using the SMI system, Irwin tools decided they are not interested, now your idea is sitting in front of Invention Home, Think about it, did you say it was okay for Irwin tools to send your idea to another company? they have a check mark that you have to uncheck as default setting is checked to insure peoples ideas will go to Invention Home, Now the only verification of this is what I have been told, and a list of emails from when International Housewares show was going on, the amount of interaction directly with Invention Home the UIA and SMI is astounding, think about it if you participated in International housewares, and you submitted to any of the 3 panels "QVC Sprouts", "Pitch to the Pros" , or the "Rubbermaid Pitch" all 3 of these were setup to use the SMI system, so of all the entries, if yours was rejected, some of your information if not all of your information went to Invention Home, to offer you services, I wonder how many people knew this when they submitted their Ideas or inventions, How many people know the submitmyinvention.com website is directly linked to board member Russ Williams (Invention Home) There is a clear and direct connection, its no wonder when you think back to the tradeshows this year, the primary sponsor has been Invention Home, yet thinking back when I had access to the ledger, I cannot recall a single sponsor payment coming into the UIA, not that they didnt pay in a different way, but it did not reflect in the General ledger of the UIA web management.
Why would the UIA ask me to promote the SMI system as a selling point to Sponsorship? Wouldnt this directly benefit board member Russ Williams?, wouldnt this directly help Invention Home, which offers services to inventors?, Is Invention Home an Invention Promoter or service provider, would that make them fall under the Inventors Rights act of 1999? I am told by Mark Reyland, that NO they are not, but other companies who do the exact same thing are? not really sure how that works, maybe because it does not apply to UIA Board Members Companies?
While I cannot post all of the emails as there are many, I will post more in the comments as needed.
From: Russ Williams
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 11:56 AM
To: 'Joe
Fournier'
Subject: RE: article - info
Joe,
I believe Jessica has
the login to the Housewares Show SMI account.
All you need to do is
go into the account, click on the ACCEPT folder that should be the final list of
inventors who purchased a booth and click the CSV link at the
top.
As you know, the CSV
link is going to download all of the raw data from the accept folder. From
there you can save as an Excel file and delete all the columns you don’t need.
I believe you’re just interested in name and contact
info.
This should give you a
list to email.
Russ
Russell
Williams | PresidentInventionHome
From: Russ
Williams
Sent: Friday, February 15,
2013 8:47 AM
To: joe@uiausa.org
Cc: 'Mark Reyland'
Subject: article - info
Joe,
Here is brief article
we included in our newsletter to companies this
month.
This will give you a
little more info about our system.
Russ
Russell
Williams | PresidentInventionHome
Where did all the rejections from that housewares show go? yeah, Invention Home. Look I know I played a part in this as well, and I am making every effort to right the wrongs I have done in this, I got caught up in the same game, I am guilty of that, and like my first email blast I sent out, I do apologize for my involvement with the United Inventors Association, I was conned by Mark Reyland into believing I was doing what was best forthe inventor, it wasnt till my unjust termination that I realized or finally just opened my own eyes and saw what was going on, I hope people can forgive me for my part in all this, when I started, I just wanted to help people my first "job" with the UIA was Volunteer coordinator, I wanted to help myself with my own ideas as well, I feel Still it is my responsibility to tell people the truths they may not be aware of.
From: Mark Reyland [mailto:mark@uiausa.org]
ReplyDeleteSent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 11:50 AM
To: rwilliams@inventionhome.com; Jessica@uiausa.org; joe@uiausa.org
Cc: ckelly@inventionhome.com
Subject: RE: Getting the word out
Can Jessica or Joe use the SMI software to send those out?
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From: Russ Williams [mailto:rwilliams@inventionhome.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 11:42 AM
To: 'Mark Reyland'; Jessica@uiausa.org; joe@uiausa.org
Cc: ckelly@inventionhome.com
Subject: RE: Getting the word out
Mark,
I would also recommend that you guys craft an email specifically to the booth sales people telling them about the various pitch opportunities.
QVC
Rubbermaid
Pitch to Pros
This way you can give them the submission page links directly in the email for them to submit to the event of their choice.
Russell Williams | President
InventionHome
275 Center Road, Suite 105, Monroeville, PA 15146
P: 412-229-1340 x107 | rwilliams@inventionhome.com
www.inventionhome.com | www.matchproduct.com | www.submitmyinvention.com
Board member Russ Williams has alot to gain when you think about any idea that is rejected, it is reported his email database has over 100,000 members, Now I recieve communications from Invention Home, I get a newsletter, but I never signed up for getting this info from Invention Home, did they take my information from when I submitted an Idea through the SMI system that was rejected and bounced back to Invention Home, so now I get the invention Home Newsletter? have any of you had the same thing happen?
ReplyDeleteIt would appear that the UIA just doesnt care what their executive Director does, I am starting to think that the Executive Director tells the board what to do instead of the Board Directing the executive director, there is definately something wrong here, why does no one do anything about it? why do they allow this to happen when plenty of unethical proof has been presented, with everything I have seen, anyone involved with the UIA has to be a scammer of some sort, there is no benefit to anyone while Mark Reyland is allowed to run the show, plus why has no one ever found any successes he has has (possibly because all he can come up with is something someone else has already made?)
ReplyDeleteSo all these invention submissions eventually went to Invention Home? Now I am pissed off! I was never told that this is what happens to my information, I thought I was submitting it to QVC, how does Invention Home have anything to do with my invention, I didnt submit it to them, I submitted it to QVC. Time to talk to an attorney.
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