Scam Prevention

What you'll get

The USPTO's warning about invention-promotion firms says to use only a patent attorney or agent registered to practice before the agency, that a price too good to be true usually is, and that a promotion firm must give you its track record in writing before you sign a contract. It points to the Federal Trade Commission's cases against such firms and to the USPTO's public list of complaints, so check both before you pay anyone who contacts you about your invention.