Mark Reyland finally does the right thing and resigns as Executive Director of the UIA, I think its about time! now the UIA has an opportunity to become the organization it promised it would be. Mark Reyland had preyed on inventors for years using his position of trust to take advantage of inventors, He blames the direction of the UIA Board.
see his post here
Joe Fournier
Showing posts with label Invention Home. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Invention Home. Show all posts
Monday, November 25, 2013
Thursday, June 20, 2013
UIAs Favorite Sponsor - Invention Home
So to me this is an interesting story, It involves the relationship between Invention Home (owner Russ Williams, UIA Board Member) SMI (submit My Invention ) software provided by Invention Home, and the UIA (United Inventors Association)
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.
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.
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
UIA Corporate Sponsors
We have to keep in Mind, in many cases, the UIA sponsors are victims here as well, they were being told that they would be researched and if the UIA did not do those checks, thats not the fault of the sponsor, there are some good companies within the UIA, I am not going to get into specifics as I suggest any company you want to deal with its YOUR responsibility to research who they are and what they do, from what I have learned in all this, I dont care whos website say company A is good or bad, I will look for myself, I will do my own background checks and decide for myself who I feel I can or cannot trust.
UIA Sponsors signed up to get access to the UIA members, again they were told the UIA was going to conduct extensive background checks into the companies practices, if the UIA did not do that, its NOT the fault of the sponsor!
I know I have repeated myself, but people need to understand, these are bsuinesses who paid alot of money to access the UIA membership, send out their advertisements or other company information, they too are victims of the UIA. I am urging each and every one of you to do any kind if background checks you can, thinking back even though it wasn't my job I should have done more, I was told by Mark to get the basic information on the companies who showed interest, don't spend lot of time on it because the executive committee will research and if they come back with a no, I would have just wasted time I could be working on another company, I was often told by Mark, "its the quickest trip to the bank". Looking back, I fell right in line, it was my paycheck, it was his I fed my family.
Back to the UIA Sponsors they are also the victims, it was described to them as their company was undergoing an extensive background investigation, by the UIA, once Mark once told me "wait a couple days before you call them back, then you can say it was close but I was able to get you in". He explained how it would make them feel like I really fought for them. I know there are good companies, and good people in the UIA sponsors
Do your research on any company you want to deal with find out who is in charge Google them with the name and "scam" or "ripoff" things like that,
If you know any good ways or tools that can help people with. Please post them so others can use it too.
UIA Sponsors signed up to get access to the UIA members, again they were told the UIA was going to conduct extensive background checks into the companies practices, if the UIA did not do that, its NOT the fault of the sponsor!
I know I have repeated myself, but people need to understand, these are bsuinesses who paid alot of money to access the UIA membership, send out their advertisements or other company information, they too are victims of the UIA. I am urging each and every one of you to do any kind if background checks you can, thinking back even though it wasn't my job I should have done more, I was told by Mark to get the basic information on the companies who showed interest, don't spend lot of time on it because the executive committee will research and if they come back with a no, I would have just wasted time I could be working on another company, I was often told by Mark, "its the quickest trip to the bank". Looking back, I fell right in line, it was my paycheck, it was his I fed my family.
Back to the UIA Sponsors they are also the victims, it was described to them as their company was undergoing an extensive background investigation, by the UIA, once Mark once told me "wait a couple days before you call them back, then you can say it was close but I was able to get you in". He explained how it would make them feel like I really fought for them. I know there are good companies, and good people in the UIA sponsors
Do your research on any company you want to deal with find out who is in charge Google them with the name and "scam" or "ripoff" things like that,
If you know any good ways or tools that can help people with. Please post them so others can use it too.
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